Tag: Gujarat

India’s G20 presidency: B20 meet in Gujarat to discuss climate, innovation

AHMEDABAD: The Business 20 (B20) inception meeting being organised in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar city from Sunday as part of India’s G20 presidency will deliberate on issues ranging from climate change, innovation, global digital cooperation and resilient global value chains, officials said here. As part of the three-day meeting, delegates will be taken for a visit to […]

Billionaire Anil Agarwal struggles to get backers for $19 billion chip unit in Gujarat

NEW DELHI: Billionaire Anil Agarwal is struggling to find financial backers for a planned semiconductor factory in India’s Gujarat with an investment of as much as Rs 1.54 trillion ($18.6 billion), according to people familiar with the matter. Agarwal’s representatives met with large funds from the Middle East, Singapore, and the US over the past […]

Gujarat records 60 per cent turnout in Phase 1 covering 83 Assembly seats; Congress alleges booth capturing, bogus voting

AHMEDABAD: A moderate voter turnout of 60.23 per cent was recorded in the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections covering 89 seats across 19 districts of Saurashtra-Kutch and southern regions of the state on Thursday with the polling ending on by and large peaceful note, officials said. The electoral fate of 788 candidates who […]

Pact to set up Tata-Airbus project in Gujarat inked under MVA rule: Maharashtra minister

MUMBAI: Maharashtra minister Uday Samant on Friday claimed that the deal to set up the Tata-Airbus C-295 transport aircraft project in Gujarat had been signed by the Centre in September last year when the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government was in power in the state. The state Industries Minister also slammed the opposition for creating […]

Hybrid seminars to be held during DefExpo 2022 in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar

NEW DELHI: India’s Ministry of Defence is organising the 12th edition of the prestigious biennial defence exhibition – DefExpo 2022 – in Gandhinagar, Gujarat between October 18-22, 2022. This mega defence exhibition is focusing on Land, Air, Naval and Homeland Security systems. The Government of India, with policy initiative of ‘Make in India’ and ‘Aatmanirbhar […]

Narendra Modi flags off new Vande Bharat Express in Gujarat

NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi flagged off Gandhinagar- Mumbai Vande Bharat Express at Gandhinagar station and travelled on the train from there to Kalupur Railway Station. When he arrived at Gandhinagar station, the Prime Minister was accompanied by Chief Minister of Gujarat, Bhupendra Patel, Governor of Gujarat, Acharya Devvrat, Union Minister of […]

Gujarat has country’s longest coastline, but not efforts made for decades to develop it: Narendra Modi

BHAVNAGAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said although Gujarat has the longest coastline in the country, no attention was paid for its development for decades post-Independence, but ”honest attempts” were made in the last 20 years by the BJP government to turn it into the country’s ”door of prosperity”. He said the Bharatiya Janata […]

Gujarat gets over Rs 2,800 crore loan from World Bank for health care

NEW DELHI: The World Bank on Thursday said it has approved a USD 350 million (over Rs 2,832 crore) loan to Gujarat for spending towards public healthcare services, focussed specially on adolescent girls and disease surveillance. The World Bank’s Executive Board of Directors approved the USD 350 million loan to the state, the multilateral funding […]

Vedanta-Foxconn plant site in Gujarat to be finalised in 2 weeks: Official

NEW DELHI: Vedanta and Foxconn have hired experts who are evaluating possible locations for their upcoming semiconductor plant in Gujarat and a site may be finalised in the next couple of weeks, Gujarat Science and Technology Department Secretary Vijay Nehra said. So far, the joint venture company has not finalised the location as they are […]

Reliance Industries​ to invest Rs 6 lakh crore in green energy, other projects in Gujarat

NEW DELHI: Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries will invest Rs 5.95 lakh crore in green energy and other projects in Gujarat over the next 10-15 years as it looks to accelerate the clean energy business by building giga-factories. The oil-to-telecom conglomerate will invest Rs 5 lakh crore in the state to set up 100 gigawatts […]

POSCO, Adani Group sign pact to set up steel plant in Gujarat

NEW DELHI: Industrialist Gautam Adani-led Adani Group has signed a pact with South Korea’s POSCO to explore business opportunities in sectors like steel, renewable energy among others. Both the entities have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect. In a statement, Adani Group said the investment under the MoU is estimated to be […]

Nirmala Sitharaman to lead a team of Secretaries for discussions at GIFT City

NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman will lead a team of seven Secretaries from the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Corporate Affairs to discuss matters of development and growth of India’s maiden International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) at GIFT City, Gandhinagar on 20th November, 2021. The Ministers of State […]

Bihar-born Pankaj Kumar appointed as new chief secretary of Gujarat

AHMEDABAD: Odisha-born senior IAS officer Pankaj Kumar has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary to the Gujarat government, an official from the state General Administration department said on Friday. A 1986-batch IAS officer, Kumar (59) will replace Anil Mukim, who is retiring from service on August 31, and will take charge on the same […]

Inviting applications to set up International Trade Financing Services Platform at GIFT IFSC

The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) has been established as a unified regulator to develop and regulate financial products, financial services, and financial institutions in the International Financial Services Centres (IFSCs) in India. IFSCA vide circular dated 9th July 2021 issued the framework for setting up of International Trade Financing Services Platform (“ITFS”) at […]

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