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The Shipping Minister told Indians working at Samsung Heavy Industries, Hanwha Ocean and HD Hyundai that India needs shipbuilders, engineers and welders as it chases a top-five place by 2047.
The two-day National Urban Conclave in Bhubaneswar closed on Sunday with a call for performance-based services, reliable water and stronger municipal finances. HUDCO launched a portal for urban challenge funds.
Visiting the Dutch port, the Commerce Minister said capacity had doubled in a decade but was still not enough, and pointed to carbon capture and green energy as areas to work on with the Dutch.
Liechtenstein's acting head of state was due in Mumbai on Sunday night for a four-day visit that the MEA links to the India-EFTA trade pact now in force.
C P Radhakrishnan begins a two-day visit on Monday. He is chief guest at Dr NTR University of Health Sciences in Vijayawada and will pray at the Tirupati and Tiruchanur temples.
Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio announced the assent on Sunday. The Act creates a 62-member authority with powers over 46 subjects, but it comes into force only when the state notifies a date.
The Central Consumer Protection Authority has found more than 16,000 online listings of walkie-talkies that left out operating frequencies and licensing rules.
Amit Shah said the raids at 38 places in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur were 'another lethal blow against drugs'. The Enforcement Directorate says a single mini-ATM counter in Churachandpur moved ₹175 crore.
The Union Agriculture Minister said the families moving out of the Raisen district village to make room for forests and wildlife were making a sacrifice, and that he would attend their farewell.
Speaking at the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan in New Delhi, the External Affairs Minister said terror survives because not all states show zero tolerance, and warned against a world 'half prosperous and half denied'.
In Sunday's broadcast the Prime Minister moved from e-Sanjeevani's 50 crore consultations and a brain-mapping project at IIT Madras to Punjab's organic cotton weavers, and asked people to join the Run for Unity on 31 October.
Investigators say the 52-year-old, who left the Army's equipment division last year, rang Army offices for details he did not have and sent them to a contact who has not been identified.
Answering Pakistan at a General Assembly dialogue on minority rights, Indian diplomat Raghoo Puri said Islamabad had misused the forum for propaganda, the third such clash at the UN this week.
Responding to a UN report on justice systems and the climate crisis, an MEA official said India's approach rests on equity, climate justice and common but differentiated responsibilities.
Air India and Air India Express also kept Jeddah off their schedules until the end of October, while the consulate in Jeddah runs round-the-clock control rooms for stranded Umrah pilgrims.
The Defence Minister was in Varanasi on Saturday, a day before Prime Minister Modi watches the Air Force Day aerial display at Namo Ghat to mark the IAF's 94th anniversary.
The agency says the High Court ran a 'mini-trial' at the writ stage and ignored emails and statements it says show pre-planned foreign funding of the news portal.
The External Affairs Minister said the India-Africa partnership rests on shared histories and South-South solidarity, and that the talks covered Africa's rise in a multipolar world.
The Home Minister's meeting with the Chief Minister and senior officers came as protests against the Election Commission continue and the INDIA bloc prepares for a 1 November rally at Ramlila Maidan.
The Directorate General of Health Services says some private and corporate hospitals are sterilising and reusing items meant for one procedure, in cardiology, nephrology, oncology and neurosurgery.
The Ministry of External Affairs called Friday's shooting at a funeral in southern Jordan heinous and restated India's commitment to fighting terrorism in all its forms.
Deputy Industry Minister Chathuranga Abeysinghe said ties were strengthening and asked for Indian investment in manufacturing, ports, energy and technology, and closer links between start-ups.
The eighth conference of Government Railway Police chiefs, hosted by the RPF in New Delhi, pressed for tighter coordination between railway, state and metro police as festival crowds build.
The two-day state-level programme with the Uttar Pradesh government will cover the codes, labour welfare and social protection, days before the Centre's deadline for states to finish their rules.
Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the target was met on Friday night. The digital IDs are meant to become the single key to loans, crop insurance, relief and MSP sales.
The two-day visit to Rairangpur and nearby temples, due on 28 and 29 October, has been moved to 4 and 5 November because of the weather system forming over the Bay of Bengal.
Health Minister J P Nadda said the Centre will give about ₹415 crore for the expansion, with Shimla's college getting the largest share, and urged the state to fill every seat.
The Prime Minister's Office has set out a one-day, two-state itinerary: a women-led factory in his constituency, the IAF's display over the Ganga, then the central bank's new computing hub in Odisha.
Rajesh Kumar Singh credited European rearmament and demand for Indian ammunition and artillery shells, with defence exports at a record ₹38,424 crore.
The Prime Minister is expected to open a factory at Sevapuri in his constituency and watch the IAF's air show over the Ganga before reviewing work at the Himalayan shrine.
Days before he retires, Director General Shatrujeet Singh Kapur has set out plans for a Shaurya commando battalion, a mountain fighting force and strike training across the force by 2027.
India's first non-banking finance company for the maritime sector has sanctioned ₹11,563 crore so far, the shipping ministry said, with a new maritime fund due to register with SEBI next month.
Solar Defence and Aerospace says the drone completed technical trials at the Mahajan range in August and can strike armour up to 50 km away.
Randhir Jaiswal said India and China are using diplomatic and military channels to avoid miscalculation, as Congress demanded that the Prime Minister take Parliament into confidence.
Responding at a UN dialogue on funeral rights, an Indian diplomat said a state that would not accept its war dead had no standing to lecture India on Jammu and Kashmir.
A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran framed six questions for the Delhi government and its recruitment board, and gave them 15 days to answer on affidavit.
The foreign ministry said it was working with airlines and tour operators to bring the rest home, and that India was still getting life-saving medicines to Iran despite disrupted flights.
The Air Force's request for proposals covers its ATCR-33S radars bought between 2003 and 2017 and newer Mk XII(S) friend-or-foe systems, with Bharat Electronics named for the tender.
At a fisheries investment conclave with Mohan Yadav, the Union minister cleared a ₹87.56 crore plan to develop 49 reservoirs in Madhya Pradesh and set out five export priorities.
The Home Ministry's first joint pilot with the Army will cover drones, air raids and chemical threats, and is meant to reach 60,000 civil defence volunteers through a cascade of training.
The telecom ministry's research arm has signed up IIT (BHU) as the home of its sixth centre of excellence, which will work on 5G Advanced, 6G, AI networks and post-quantum security.
The government computing centre and the public sector bank will run joint research and proofs of concept in quantum, AI and blockchain technology for banking.
At Bharat Mandapam, the Prime Minister said the mission's centenary and the 2047 goal of a developed India would move together, and called for uniting society against divisive forces.
Justice Dinesh Bhatt declined urgent interim relief on Thursday and kept the former India captain's personality-rights suit for further hearing on Friday, the film's release day.
The Home Minister opened or laid foundation stones for 43 Delhi Jal Board projects in Najafgarh and set May 2029 as the target to clean the river.
The External Affairs Ministry called the strikes on Dammam's airport and the Shaybah oil field 'completely unacceptable' after one Indian national died and three were injured.
The seat fell vacant when L Murugan quit the Union ministry and the Upper House on 14 October to return to Tamil Nadu politics.
After talks at Hyderabad House, the Prime Minister invited Polish companies to co-develop and co-produce in strategic sectors, and the two sides set up a startup bridge and youth hackathons.
The CBIC's GST policy chief said the revised return forms, cleared by the GST Council this month, aim to cut mismatches with GSTR-3B and the notices that follow. Audits are next in line for a look.
Startups, companies and researchers can now trial new telecom services on real users with exemptions from parts of the Telecommunications Act and the TRAI Act, but cannot charge them or sell the product.
The Polish Prime Minister arrived on Wednesday night with his finance minister and a large business delegation. Rajghat, Hyderabad House and a business forum fill his day before he flies to Bengaluru.
The advisory asks Indian nationals and travellers to avoid crowds, follow French authorities and check with airlines, with fresh demonstrations planned for Saturday.
The commerce minister discussed openings under the India-UK trade agreement with Scotland's First Minister, and a pending trade pact with a Chilean delegation led by the former president.
The food regulator sent fresh notices on Wednesday to infant food makers and a social media influencer, questioning claims about digestion, immunity and brain development.
An advisory to private satellite channels on Wednesday flags breaches found by an inter-departmental committee and tells broadcasters to keep generative AI away from the editorial core of news.
The certifying authority says a flaw generated weak cryptographic keys in a small part of its international business. Its Indian digital signature and eSign services are said to be unaffected.
The Finance Ministry's saturation drive, which began on Wednesday and runs until 31 December, also targets unclaimed deposits and Kisan Credit Cards ahead of the rabi season.
The three-day conference chaired by Army chief Gen Dhiraj Seth opened on Wednesday. The defence minister will unveil a doctrine meant to prepare the force for changing warfare.
The Air Force's five-helicopter display team practised at Namo Ghat ahead of a 25 October show marking the IAF's 94th anniversary.
The Commerce Department is running outreach with state governments so that MSMEs, farmers and small businesses can use India's free trade agreements, the minister said.
Home Secretary Govind Mohan said the 31 October celebrations would mark the end of Left-wing extremism, with a drug-free India as a key message.
Presenting awards at the 65th National Exhibition of Art, the President said creative opportunity means little without economic support.
The Dehradun institute will start with sloth bears and their clashes with people in protected areas; full population figures are about five years away.
On Police Commemoration Day, the Home Minister recalled the 1959 Hot Springs ambush and credited the central forces with a Bengal election held without a single death.
Speaking in a General Assembly debate on enforced disappearances, an MEA official set out India's legal safeguards and warned against unverified allegations.
The US Secretary of State says Washington will talk to Reliance Industries about refining more Venezuelan crude and producing oil in Venezuela, as he tours the world's largest refining complex.
The Home Minister will review a joint parade of the central armed police forces and Delhi Police, lay a wreath for the Hot Springs martyrs of 1959 and flag off a 90-rider motorcycle rally against drugs.
The US Secretary of State and the External Affairs Minister covered trade, energy, technology and defence in Mumbai on Tuesday, then sat down with the UAE's foreign minister for a three-way meeting on energy security.
The Land and Development Office says the mosque stands on government land and is unauthorised. It is on the NDMC's heritage list, and Owaisi and the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind have asked Kiren Rijiju to step in.
The US Secretary of State began a three-day visit on Tuesday, with a 26/11 memorial tribute, talks at the Taj and an energy stop in Jamnagar ahead, as both sides say a trade pact is near.
The External Affairs Minister held talks with the UAE's Deputy Prime Minister on Tuesday, citing trade of more than $100 billion since the two countries' free trade pact.
At the SCO heads of government meeting in Dushanbe, the Defence Minister said connectivity projects must respect sovereignty and announced that India will host the bloc's first civilisational dialogue forum this year.
Speaking for India at the UN General Assembly's disarmament committee, Congress MP Manish Tewari also said decisions on nuclear use must stay under human control as AI enters command systems.
The Polish Prime Minister's three-day visit, his first to India as premier since 2010, will cover trade, defence, technology and space, with business forums in New Delhi and Bengaluru.
The India-New Zealand free trade agreement took effect on Vijayadashami, removing duties on every New Zealand tariff line for Indian goods while India keeps dairy protected.
The 61st meeting of the International Committee of Legal Metrology, which sets global rules for weights, measures and measuring instruments, will be held in the capital from 26 to 28 October.
The United Forum of IDBI Officers and Employees has served a strike notice on the bank's management for 2 and 3 November, days after the Cabinet cleared the transfer of control to the Canadian group.
West Asia will dominate two days of talks in Mumbai before the US Secretary of State arrives, while Rajnath Singh represents India at the SCO heads of government meeting in Dushanbe.
The advisory asks Indians in Saudi Arabia to follow local safety alerts, avoid filming incidents and keep away from bridges and tall buildings when driving.
The short-notice evacuation was flown in darkness and bad weather, the Defence Ministry said, as the Navy's Indra exercise with Russia wrapped up in Vladivostok.
The Housing and Urban Affairs Minister marked Namo Bharat Diwas as the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut rapid rail corridor completed three years of service.
The CID will file appeals against the Gauhati High Court's orders freeing band member Amritprava Mahanta and the singer's cousin Sandipan Garg as soon as the court reopens, officials said.
Lawyers in Leh and Kargil will be able to argue before the Supreme Court by video link, the Chief Justice said, as the region got a high court bench of its own after close to a century.
The Italian Navy's newest class of multi-purpose combat ship is in Mumbai from 18 to 22 October on an Indo-Pacific deployment, with a defence industry showcase planned on board.
Sheep meat comes in duty free and kiwi fruit priced above $2.50 a kg pays 15%, under a Finance Ministry notification that opens the first stage of the India-New Zealand free trade agreement.
Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy threw out a DMK candidate's petition against the TVK's win in Salem North, saying adult voters still made their own choice.
The nine-aircraft aerobatic team is flying over Bannimantap Grounds for the festival, a display arranged after Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar wrote to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
Captain Smit Machchhar, recovering in an Abu Dhabi military hospital, described being struck from behind on a Dubai to Tel Aviv flight and said he hopes to fly again soon.
Two voters who moved house and missed the enumeration wanted their old entries restored. The court closed their case, telling them their fear of a false declaration was misplaced.
The Home Ministry has approved the biggest overhaul of the industrial security force's structure in decades, replacing eight regional commands with sectors for power, coal, steel, oil and gas, ports and the capital's public buildings.
The Defence Minister will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's council of heads of government in the Tajik capital on Monday and Tuesday, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday.
Ravneet Singh Bittu announced the Home Minister's second trip to the state in a month, framing it around the BJP's push for a drug-free Punjab.
Mansoor Ali Khan says flight cancellations after Houthi strikes have left Indian pilgrims, many elderly or ill, without help as some tour operators run out of money.
India's High Commission in Ottawa has announced the Canada leg. A US visit for the G20 summit and a stop in Brussels are expected to make it a three-nation tour.
Odisha's Chief Secretary reviewed security and logistics on Saturday for the Prime Minister's visit to Khordha and the President's two-day tour of Rairangpur from 28 October.
Ashish Kundra said Leh and Kargil leaders threw out a 32-page Home Ministry framework within two hours. The two sides meet again in New Delhi on 22 October.
Govind Mohan told the 78th IPS batch in Hyderabad that drugs, cybercrime and illegal immigration are now the big tests, and that the North East's trouble is ethnic conflict, not insurgency.
The amended regulation also allows up to four nominated members from women and unrepresented communities, and lets a council's term be extended if polls are impracticable.
The amendment comes after two High Courts shielded private school teachers from census duty. Congress says it will turn Census 2027 into a jobs scheme for RSS and BJP workers.
The committee headed by former judge R Subhash Reddy will look first at the use of pellet guns, attacks on women protesters and damage to property on either side.
The farm outreach drive runs from 22 October to 30 November, with 4,150 teams of scientists and extension workers aiming to reach one crore participants.
The environment minister set out problem statements in nine areas, from tamper-proof emission monitors to dust control and paddy straw, and asked innovators how their technology could work on the ground.
A draft amendment to the infant nutrition rules would end the use of the two sugars in products for the youngest infants. The public has 60 days to respond.
The ceremony went ahead in Bengaluru on Saturday, five weeks after the university called off its September date amid student objections to the Chief Justice's presence.
At the UN General Assembly's Third Committee, India rejected Gina Romero's finding that young Indians face retaliation for speaking on mental health and gender justice.
The relief covers students admitted from 2019-20 onwards whose cases were pending, many of them hit by the Covid-19 disruption. There will be no sixth chance.
Platforms' failure to remove abuse material cannot be a reason to keep children offline, the court said, ordering a national hash database and stiffer duties on social media companies.
Speaking on Women Farmers' Day, the Agriculture Minister also laid foundation stones for 46 rural roads and announced a livelihood pilot for Raisen and Vidisha.
The US Secretary of State visits India from 17 to 22 October with energy on the agenda, but will not come to Delhi. The MEA says leaders have often been hosted outside the capital.
Jayapal said she was deeply concerned about what she called a purge of 130 million voters. India's ambassador in Washington called it unacceptable interference.
The onion train is due on 18 October. The Centre is releasing buffer stock in the Northeast to keep prices in check before the festive season.
Five ITI clusters, each with a hub and four spokes and an industry partner, were approved under PM-SETU. Total approvals under the scheme now reach ₹3,687 crore.
The 14th Joint Working Group looked at training, exercises and cyber security. Indian officials visited the cyber training centre set up with Indian help.
The Home Minister cited the shooting of anti-drug activist Parvinder Singh Jhota in Mansa and a father's suicide in Dirba, and asked who was responsible for Punjab's safety.
Built by L&T at Kattupalli with over 75% indigenous content, Samarthak is the first major warship built by a private yard to join the Navy.
At the Development Committee in Bangkok, the Finance Minister also asked for a full review of the World Bank's governance indicators, which India has long disputed.
Sukhna becomes Chandigarh's first wetland of international importance. Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav announced both additions on Thursday evening.
A ban first ordered for Ganeshotsav now covers public streets, lanes and footpaths across Maharashtra all year. Sale and manufacture are not affected.
The Home Minister praised Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the state police for the 12 October operation, which also covered 703 drug hotspots.
The full YES Bank judgment faults the regulator, the bank and the 2020 administrator, and says the ₹8,415 crore write-down was ordered by someone with no power to order it.
The consignment was declared as PU tubes. Officers at the IGI air cargo complex broke open 120 spools to find the cannabis, valued at about ₹52 crore.
A compilation filed in an insolvency appeal contained judgments the other side said do not exist. The court dropped costs only because the lead appellant had died.
The National Strategic Trade Command Centre puts DGFT schemes, licences and pending applications on interactive dashboards. The minister wants weekly meetings to clear the SCOMET licence backlog.
NHAI's new policy covers big river bridges, viaducts and spans of 40 metres or more on all new highway projects, and on those where design checks have not yet begun.
The interim order takes all fuel-powered boats off Srinagar's best-known lake until further orders, and asks the administration to look at solar and electric engines.
The MEA said the case adds to growing concern over racist hostility and anti-India hate in the US, and asked American authorities to bring those responsible to justice.
The court dismissed Tamil Nadu's appeal and upheld the Madras High Court's ruling striking down a 2024 order that let converts claim Backward Class Muslim certificates.
Policymakers, military officers and researchers from India and all 11 ASEAN countries met at MP-IDSA for two days to talk maritime security, defence technology and joint production.
The external affairs minister said India and China still have no agreed border, while Piyush Goyal said India is open to doing business with Beijing on fair terms.
The Centre has approved accession to SIOFA, which would let Indian-flagged vessels fish for squid, toothfish and alfonsino on the high seas under the agreement's rules.
Companies working on new chemicals, petrochemicals and materials can now seek long-term funding from the Research, Development and Innovation scheme.
Students and researchers from 19 NLUs will study pending criminal cases in the districts with the heaviest load and propose ways to clear them.
Speaking at the launch of the institute's $1 billion fundraising drive, the defence minister urged the forces, DRDO, academia and start-ups to work together on home-grown technology.
Canada's foreign minister met the Prime Minister and S. Jaishankar on Wednesday. Both sides said they wanted to turn a year of thawing ties into concrete results, starting with a trade pact.
The government and LIC will sell control of the bank to a Fairfax unit at ₹81 a share. The Centre calls it the largest foreign investment yet in India's financial sector.
Police had sought three months of account data from before an alleged road-rage incident. The court called it excessive and barred any use of what was collected.
The committee will look at calls for a higher cane price and a higher minimum selling price for sugar, and at how mills weigh cane and measure recovery.
The committee set up by the Home Ministry in May is asking governments, institutions and individuals to send data on population shifts and settlement patterns.
The two prime ministers spoke on Tuesday as Canada's foreign minister Anita Anand arrived in New Delhi, with a trade agreement targeted for the end of the year.
Opening the North East Bankers' Conclave in Aizawl, the DoNER minister called for state-wise credit targets and a credit-risk framework suited to community-owned land.
The blocks, covering 1,632 sq km, hold polymetallic nodules and crusts with nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese. Bids are due by 28 December.
On a visit to the NCPCR, the Women and Child Development Minister also asked the commission to finalise social media guidelines for tech companies and clear all pending files by 31 December.
ADR says Section 16 of the 2023 law puts the CEC and election commissioners beyond the reach of courts for life. It was added late and passed without debate, the petition says.
At its first meeting as a statutory body, the Maritime State Development Council asked coastal states to draw up master plans for their smaller ports and notify new rules within three months.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Bhupender Yadav told state agriculture ministers that machines must work in fields, not on paper, as most of the paddy harvest is still to come.
At the bloc's first meeting of home ministers, chaired by Amit Shah, the seven members approved a convention against human trafficking and plans on drugs, illicit money and disasters.
The year-round centre in Lahaul and Spiti will study how thin air and extreme cold affect soldiers and the people who live in the Himalaya.
The Cochin Shipyard-built craft, with over 80% indigenous content, is designed to hunt submarines in coastal and shallow waters.
At the first trade committee meeting since the India-UK trade agreement took effect, the two governments agreed to track how much business actually uses it.
The Chief Justice said the court would not hurt religious sentiments and favoured awareness over bans. Suggestions go to the air quality commission and the case returns on 15 October.
Prices could fall by 20% to 70%, the government says. The bench pressed it on why the cap stops at cancer medicines when stents and saline lines carry huge mark-ups too.
A public interest petition says people can write any caste on the census form. The bench wants the Solicitor General to explain the procedure and whether certificates are verified.
The lawyers had sought a CBI probe, alleging they were beaten at the Bar Council of India's office. The court asked for a team led by a DCP-rank officer instead.
The Integrated Transport and Logistics Authority will draw up a national transport master plan and vet every central infrastructure project of ₹500 crore or more.
New regulations replace the 2018 framework. Wrongful gains will be recovered separately from the settlement amount, and firms get 90 days instead of 60 to apply after a show-cause notice.
The Ministry of Steel's draft would replace the 2017 policy. It plans for nearly three times today's capacity, triple the coking coal and a 39% cut in emissions per tonne.
House listing was scheduled to wrap up by September. Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa and most of Uttarakhand will be counted from 1 December, ahead of the rest of India.
The second phase of India's data protection rules begins next month. The regulator meant to oversee it still has no chairperson or members, five months after the government invited applications.
Ten states have final rules and the rest have drafts, the Labour Secretary says. Nearly 11 months after the codes took effect, many of their provisions still depend on state rules.
Wheat's support price moves to ₹2,610, a rise of under 1%. Pulses and oilseeds get larger increases, which the Centre says will encourage crop diversification.
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