TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANUARY 14, 2022 Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday called upon the Global Venture Capital (VC) Funds to focus more on startups from tier 2 and 3 cities of the country and explore new sectors for investing. Chairing a roundtable with global venture capital (VC) funds, organised by the Department for Promotion of ...
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Vice President calls for improving financial literacy in India
TBB BUREAU ERNAKULAM, JANUARY 3, 2022 Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Monday stressed the need to improve financial literacy among the masses and urged the professionals like Charted Accounts to work in this direction by explaining financial rules and regulations in simple and easy language for the larger benefit of the public. Addressing the gathering at the foundation stone ...
Read More »NEAT will be a game-changer in bridging the digital divide and fulfilling the knowledge-based requirement of the world: Pradhan
TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANUARY 3, 2022 Union Education Minister and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched NEAT 3.0, a single platform to provide the best-developed ed-tech solutions and courses to students of the country. The Minister also launched AICTE prescribed technical books in regional languages. Speaking on the occasion, Pradhan said that NEAT will be a game-changer in bridging ...
Read More »Mines Ministry creates KABIL to attain self-reliance in critical & strategic mineral requirements
TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANAUARY 3, 2022 With an aim to ensure mineral security of the nation and to attain self-reliance in the area of critical & strategic minerals, the Union Ministry of Mines has created a Joint Venture company namely Khanij Bidesh India Ltd (KABIL) with participating interest of National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO), Hindustan Copper Ltd (HCL) and ...
Read More »VP calls for making India self-reliant in all areas
TBB BUREAU KOCHI, JANUARY 2, 2022 Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday called for making India fully self-reliant in all areas, including strategic domains. Addressing scientists and staff of the Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory at Kochi, the Vice President stressed the need for increasing indigenous content in the defence sector and cutting down on imports. “To achieve that, ...
Read More »PM releases 10th instalment of PM-KISAN to 10 crore beneficiary farmer families
TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANUARY 1, 2022 In line with the continued commitment and resolve to empower grassroot level farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the 10th instalment of financial benefit under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme on Saturday via videoconferencing. This enabled the transfer of an amount of more than Rs. 20,000 crore to more than 10 ...
Read More »Pradhan launched ‘Padhe Bharat’ reading campaign
TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANUARY 1, 2022 Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday launched a 100-day reading campaign ‘Padhe Bharat’. The launch of 100 Days Reading Campaign is in alignment with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 which emphasises on promotion of joyful reading culture for children by ensuring availability of age appropriate reading books for children in local/mother ...
Read More »Dec YoY GST collection rises 13pc to over Rs 1.29 lakh crore
TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, JANUARY 1, 2022 India’s GST collection rose 13 per cent in December 2021 on a year-on-year (YoY) basis to Rs 1,29,780 crore. “The revenues for the month of December 2021 are 13 per cent higher than the GST revenues in the same month last year and 26 per cent higher than the GST revenues in December ...
Read More »Rs 1,31,526 crore gross GST revenue collected in November
TBB BUREAU NEW DELHI, DEC 1, 2021 The gross GST revenue collected in the month of November 2021 is Rs 1,31,526 crore of which CGST is Rs 23,978 crore, SGST is Rs 31,127 crore, IGST is Rs 66,815 crore (including Rs 32,165 crore collected on import of goods) and Cess is Rs 9,606 crore (including Rs 653 crore collected on ...
Read More »UNESCO-ABU Peace Media Awards 2021 – Doordarshan and All India Radio win big
TBB BUREAU BHUBANESWAR, NOV 22, 2021 In yet another remarkable feat which has showcased the world Prasar Bharati’s excellence in quality content creation, TV and Radio shows produced by Doordarshan and All India Radio respectively got multiple awards at the recently held ABU – UNESCO Peace Media Awards 2021 at Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Doordarshan’s programme ‘DEAFinitely Leading the Way’ ...
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