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Ajay Banga, Yellen hail Gujarat's education 'control and command centre'

Banga said he will be visiting Delhi and will tell PM Modi during their meeting that he thinks this control and command centre is a great idea that can be put in other places in India and abroad

Foxconn's change of heart on semiconductor factory a warning to India

Even if the government's targets for export growth are met, we will still be some distance behind smaller countries such as Vietnam

G20: FMs and Central Bank Governors meeting to be held in Gandhinagar

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Dr Shaktikanta Das will jointly chair a meeting of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) to be held on July 17-18 in Gandhinagar where 66 delegations will be in attendance, officials said on Thursday. The meeting, where a range of issues related to global economy and international financial architecture will come up for discussion, will be preceded by a conclave of G20 Finance and Central Bank Deputies (FCBDs) in the Gujarat capital from July 14 to 15. These meetings are being held under India's presidency of Group of Twenty or G20, an influential bloc that comprises 19 countries and the European Union. Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Sitharaman and RBI Governor Das will jointly chair the third G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBGs) meeting. The 3rd meeting will mark the culmination of the work on many of the key deliverables from the G20 Finance

Gujarat govt, Centre sign MoU for PM MITRA textile park in Navsari

The Gujarat government and the Centre on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a PM MITRA textile park on a 462-hectare plot in Navsari district. The PM Mega Integrated Textile Regions and Apparel (PM MITRA) Park will come in Vansi-Borsi village and will help the circular economy of the region, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said after the MOU was signed here in the presence of Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. "This will be a unique industrial model for the country. It will help increase investment in the textile sector, create job opportunities and make India a hub for textile manufacturing and export. It will create modern plug and play infrastructure in Navsari district, which will help the circular economy to grow," Goyal said. Such textile parks were being established in seven states and the sites were selected without any prejudice and in a transparent manner, he added. The park will play a crucial role in developing the textile sector as p

Gujarat holds talk with Foxconn for its semiconductor plant: Official

Foxconn this week exited its project with Vedanta, which was also planned for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat, citing issues such as slow progress

Adani aims to close planned $4 bn fundraising by end-December: Report

The Adani Group is aiming to close the fundraising before end 2023, said the source, who declined to be named as the discussions are private

Gujarat govt launches revamped PMJAY-MA scheme with Rs 10 lakh health cover

The Gujarat Government on Tuesday launched the revamped Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana-Mukhyamantri Amrutam (PMJAY-MA) scheme, under which people can avail free medical treatment up to Rs 10 lakh instead of the previous limit of Rs 5 lakh. Gujarat Health Minister Rushikesh Patel on Tuesday officially launched the revised health insurance scheme from his office in the presence of health department officials, a state government release said. Starting Tuesday, beneficiaries of the PMJAY-MA in Gujarat will receive an insurance cover of Rs 10 lakh, which is a two-fold rise from the previous cover of Rs 5 lakh, it stated. While the Centre's PMJAY is popularly known as Ayushman Bharat, MA stands for the state government's Mukhyamantri Amrutam (MA) scheme, which was merged with the central health scheme. In the state budget presented in February, state Finance Minister Kanubhai Desai had announced the doubling of insurance cover under PMJAY-MA scheme from Rs 10 lakh from Rs 5 lakh. Now,

$7.5 bn SGX-traded futures has tepid start after shifting to India

The average number of open contracts for NSE International Exchange's key product GIFT Nifty was 32,934 in the week to July 7, according to data compiled by Bloomberg

EAM Jaishankar files Rajya Sabha nomination from Gujarat's Gandhinagar

The Election Commission of India (ECI) earlier announced the schedule for the election across 10 Rajya Sabha seats in Goa, Gujarat and West Bengal to be held on July 24

Jaishankar arrives in Ahmedabad, to file nomination for Rajya Sabha polls

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has arrived here to file his nomination papers on Monday for the Rajya Sabha elections from Gujarat, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) official said. Gujarat BJP general secretary Pradeepsinh Vaghela on Sunday said Jaishankar, whose term ends on August 18 along with two other Rajya Sabha members from the state, is scheduled to file his nomination form at around noon on Monday. Jaishankar landed at the Ahmedabad airport on Sunday and was received by Gujarat minister Raghavji Patel, Ahmedabad Mayor Kirit Parmar and other BJP functionaries. While the BJP has not officially declared the names of candidates for the three Rajya Sabha seats for which the elections are scheduled to be held on July 24, Jaishankar's nomination was certain. The Congress on Friday said it would not field candidates for polls to the three Rajya Sabha seats from Gujarat as it did not have enough MLAs in the 182-member state Assembly. The BJP won a record 156 seats in the Guja

Jaishankar to file Rajya Sabha nomination from Gujarat's Gandhinagar on Mon

Election Commission said that 10 members from Goa, Gujarat and West Bengal are scheduled to retire in the months of July and August

PM to inaugurate Amritsar-Jamnagar Expressway; check route, other details

The whole project is being built at a cost of Rs 80,000 crore and is part of the Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase I programme

Gujarat HC refuses to stay Rahul Gandhi's conviction in defamation case

While dismissing the plea, Justice Hemant Prachchhak noted that Gandhi is already facing 10 cases across India, adding order of the lower court was "just, proper and legal" in convicting Cong leader

Guj HC to deliver verdict on Rahul Gandhi's plea seeking stay on conviction

The Gujarat High Court will deliver on Friday its verdict on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's plea seeking a stay on his conviction in a criminal defamation case over his Modi surname remark. As per the cause list issued by the HC on Thursday, the court of Justice Hemant Prachchhak will deliver the verdict at 11 am. A stay on conviction would pave the way for Gandhi's reinstatement as a Member of Parliament (MP). In May, Justice Prachchhak, while hearing Gandhi's plea, had refused to grant any interim relief saying it will pass a final order after the summer vacation, which ended three weeks back. During a hearing on April 29, Gandhi's lawyer had argued that a maximum punishment of two years for a bailable, non-cognisable offence meant his client could lose his Lok Sabha seat "permanently and irreversibly", which was a "very serious additional irreversible consequence to the person and the constituency he represents". A metropolitan magistrate's court in Surat sentenced the former .

India has devised unique biodiversity conservation model: Bhupender Yadav

The Minister stressed the need for ecological conservation of critical ecosystems through conserving the food chain of the ecosystem and ensuring the well-being of the topmost predator

Mission Hydrogen: Gujarat, Tamil Nadu ports to develop green fuel hubs

The Centre also aims to have two Indian ships that will be powered by green hydrogen or its derivative fuels by 2027

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SC extends Teesta Setalvad's interim protection, next hearing on July 19

The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended interim protection from arrest to activist Teesta Setalvad in a case linked to the 2002 post-Godhra riots. The next hearing will be on July 19. A bench of Justices B R Gavai, A S Bopanna and Dipankar Datta issued notice to the Gujarat government on the appeal filed by Setalvad against the Gujarat high court order. At the outset, Additional Solicitor General SV Raju sought time from the top court, saying he needs time to translate documents. The bench agreed to his request and posted the matter for hearing on July 19. The apex court on July 1 protected Setalvad from arrest and stayed for a week the high court order rejecting her plea for regular bail and asking her to surrender immediately in a case of alleged fabrication of evidence to frame innocent people in the post-Godhra riot cases.

PM Modi has done politics of development: Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel

"PM has done the politics of development," Bhupendra Patel said at the inauguration of Shri Motibhai R Choudhury Sagar Sainik School in Gujarat's Mehsana

Construction of Micron's chip factory to begin in 4-6 weeks: Vaishnaw

The Micron facility has been approved by the Centre's Modified Assembly, Testing, Marking, and Packaging (ATMP) Scheme