Indian fintech firms looking overseas: BCG-FICCI survey

This March gear up for Construct Maharashtra, an international exhibition and conference on construction, infrastructure and technology.

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) voted unanimously to leave the policy repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent. At the same time, the marginal standing facility and bank rate also remained unchanged at 4.25 per cent, while the reverse repo rate too remained unchanged at 3.35 per cent.

Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Minister of Science & Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan has said that as the world raced to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, India was looking to become self-reliant in both development of the vaccine and its mass production.

Minister of State for Steel, Faggan Singh Kulaste has said that the secondary steel sector will play an important role in achieving the 300 million tonne (MT) target of steel capacity by 2030-31, as laid out in the National Steel Policy-2017.

Secretary, Ministry of Coal, Anil Kumar Jain has indicated that as per the discussion report and recommendations made by a high-level committee, the ministry was likely to announce new mining reforms in the next few weeks.

With an eye on qualitatively improving the ease of doing business of the IT industry, particularly the business process outsourcing (BPO) and IT-enabled services (ITES) segments, the Central Government has drastically simplified the other service provider (OSP) guidelines of the Department of Telecom.

Dr. Ashish Kumar Bhutani, CEO, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) and Joint Secretary (Credit), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare on Thursday said that the government was putting up a common data infrastructure of all farmers in the country.

Director-General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), SCL Das has urged the exploration & production (E&P) sector to mainstream the agenda of digitisation as part of their core corporate agenda.