The Union Cabinet has approved the Alliance Air, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Air India, to fly on international sectors between India and Sri Lanka.
Union Cabinet has given approval for bringing Cooperative banks under the regulatory mechanism of Reserve Bank of India.
Union Cabinet approves to set up a new major port at Vadhavan in Maharashtra. The total cost of the project is likely to be almost 65 thousand crore rupees. Vadhavan port will be developed on land lord model.
The Bhutan government passed legislation imposing an entry fee on visiters from India, Bangladesh and Maldives.The fee will be charged from July 2020.
The Union Cabinet allotted its approval to confer the status of Institution of National Importance to Indian Institutes of Information Technology, IIITs of Surat, Bhopal, Bhagalpur, Agartala and Raichur.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stated that his government has set a defence export aim of 5 billion dollars in the upcoming five years.
The four-day mega event ‘National Horticultural Fair 2020’ at Indian Institute of Horticultural Research(ICAR) began in Bengaluru.
India is set to organize an East Asia Summit conference in Chennai with a concentration on maritime security cooperation and tackling challenges in the maritime domain.
The prestigious Golden Conch Award for Best Documentary Film at 16th edition of Mumbai International Film Festival 2020 has been given to Babenco: Tell Me When I Die, directed by Barbara Paz.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das has been selected as the Central Banker of the Year, Asia-Pacific 2020, by the Banker magazine, a unit of Financial Times (FT).