Union Minister for Steel and Petroleum & Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan, met the Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik, along with the Ambassador of Japan to India, Satoshi Suzuki. With the abundance of raw materials, strategic geographical location and strong and developing connectivity, Odisha is well composed to be the heart of this eastern steel hub.
HDFC Bank tied hands with the country’s largest airline IndiGo to start a co-branded credit card, which will effectively work like a loyalty programme for the carrier. Its first travel credit card named ‘Ka-ching’- powered by Mastercard.
The National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC Ltd) has signed an agreement with the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). According to an agreement, NTPC Ltd will give financial aid of Rs 80 Crore for installation and commissioning of Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS).
Chinese tech major Xiaomi will bring ISRO’s Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, NavIC technology to its smartphones. The capability has been presently enabled by Qualcomm Technologies Inc on several of their Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile Platforms and will be made accessible across multiple Xiaomi smartphones in India.
India and the United States signed defence deals worth 3 billion dollars. India has agreed to purchase USD 3 billion worth upgraded American military equipment including Apache and MH-60 Romeo helicopters, which are the finest in the world.
Microsoft declared a partnership with State Bank of India to train differently-abled people to search jobs in the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector.
The government of Gujarat has signed an MoU with State Bank of India (SBI) which targets to facilitate approval of loans to entrepreneurs in the MSME sector with ease and within a short time-frame.
The Goverment of India has signed USD 450 million loan agreement with the World Bank. The loan agreement of USD 450 million targets to aid the national programme “Atal Bhujal Yojana (ABHY): National Groundwater Management Improvement Programme”.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed by CSIR-CFTRI with APEDA in Guwahati, Assam to give technical support to the food industries in the North East region.
Mangalore University has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, for carrying out joint research in the field of radio ecology.