The Union Minister of Commerce, Industry and Textiles, Shri Anand Sharma informed here today that India’s bilateral trade with Malaysia stood at nearly USD 13 billion last year registering a growth of 34% over the previous year. Addressing the members of India-Malaysia CEO Forum, Shri Sharma said, “while we had set a trade target of

• India’s national brand increased in value by 31.6%, the second fastest growth of any nation on the Brand Finance Nation Brand 100
• India is now ranked the 9th most valuable brand in the world, and the third in Asia after only China and Japan
• India’s national brand is rated A+, with especially high marks

The partnership between India and Russia in the defence sector is long standing and continues to be progressed on the basis of the mutual interests of both sides.
The proposed joint development and production of the Multi Role Transport Aircraft is one of the joint projects currently under progress for which an InterGovernmental Agreement was signed

India and Bulgaria today signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Health & Medicines to usher in new era of cooperation in health and medicines between the two countries. The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad signed the MoU today in New Delhi with the Minister of Health of the Republic

Ministry of Environment and Forests provides funds to the States under the three major Centrally Sponsored Schemes for development of forests namely (i) National Afforestation Programme, (ii) Intensification of Forest Management Scheme and (iii) Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats. The details of funds released State – wise during the Current Financial Year are given in

Operational long range forecasts issued for south west monsoon by IMD and other agencies have underestimated the realized seasonal quantum of rainfall for the period June-September, 2011and hence the seasonal forecast assessments went wrong. However, forecast of the onset of monsoon over the south Kerala coast, that signifies the beginning of the principal rainfall season

During last three years, electricity generated from wind and solar power projects is estimated at about 50.3 billion units. This corresponds to about 2.14% of the total electricity production of 2346 BU during this period. No geothermal power project has been set up in the country.
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has stepped up

The World of Work Report, 2011 (ILO) cautions that the Global Community needs to put job back on the global agenda.
As far as Ministry of Labour & Employment is concerned, Labour Bureau conducts quarterly surveys on Employment. Our Tenth Quarterly Quick Employment Survey of 2,406 sample units for the period January-March, 2011 shows that at

The Central Government today released the sixth report pertaining to the quarter July-September 2011on Public Debt Management.  Since September 2010, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance is bringing out a quarterly report on debt management.
The report is divided into five sections. Section 1 briefly describes the macroeconomic environment during the quarter – growth, inflation,

Here are the opening remarks of the Finance Minister:
‘It is an honour and a privilege to be in this beautiful city, the capital of Nepal. It brought back fond memories of my previous visits. It has been a very busy but most useful visit to Kathmandu.
During the visit, I called on the Prime Minister Rt