Cabinet approves Three crucial Metro Rail projects

❇️ Bengaluru Metro Phase 3: 45 KM at ₹15,611 crores

❇️ Thane Ring Metro: 29 KM at ₹12,200 crores

❇️ Pune Metro Line 1 extension (Swargate - Katraj) - 5.5 KM at ₹3000 crores

#Infra

Home Ministry issues notification to all Police Forces in India - all states/UTs to send state/UT law & order situation report to centre every 2 hours via email/fax/whatsapp. Step taken to monitor security and not let things go out of hand.

#NationalSecurity

Under the program nine world class state-of-the-art Clean Plant Centres (CPCs), equipped with advanced diagnostic therapeutics and tissue culture labs, will be established across India.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2024/Aug/09/cabinet-approves-rs-1765-crore-for-clean-plant-programme

The job posting, with a compensation of ₹2.52 lakh annually, was only for candidates with a three-year undergraduate degree and not for engineering graduates - Cognizant.

Engineering Graduates will get 3.34 LPA

#Jobs

The Director General of Indian Coast Guard dies of heart attack.

#Defence

रक्षा बंधन की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं।

Government asks UPSC to remove the advertisement of lateral entry.

#Policy

Odisha government plans to build 75,000km of world-class roads in 5 years.

#Infra

Govt invites Malaysian businesses to invest in India's oil, gas, and electronics sectors

#Investment

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das has received an "A+" rating for the 2nd consecutive year in the Global Finance Central Banker Report Cards.

#Meme of the day

PM Modi to lay foundation stone for India's biggest port project with a cost of Rs 76,220 crore at Vadhavan in Maharashtra on August 30

#Infra

Indian Railways has decided to go with 80 Vande Bharat trains with 24 coaches instead of 120 train sets with 16 coaches.

#Railways

Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a letter to the Chief Secretary of West Bengal about the deployment of CISF personnel in the state in response to the rising protests.

#Policy

Tata Steel wants to go nuclear for green steel, mulling 200 BSRs.

#Environment #Steel

Yes, India’s #defence #exports are booming, but guess who’s the biggest importer

“….the biggest importer of Indian defence goods is the US, which accounts for nearly 50 percent of India’s total defence exports.”

https://t.co/pi7ODwyXfX