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Hours after India and Iran signed the Chabahar port agreement, US said that countries doing business deals with iran should be aware of the potential risk of sanctions. Without naming India, the US issued a warning to anyone considering business deals with Iran - and said that this deal was not an exemption. Now, Chabahar holds big importance for India - and India has managed to convinced the US on a number of occasions. Will this case be the same?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi renewed his attack on the Congress over partition of India, and also said it was the Indira Gandhi government which gave the Katchatheevu Island to Sri Lanka in 1974. The prime minister said the DMK government in Tamil Nadu keeps writing to him urging to bring Katchatheevu back to India. Today, the Foreign Minister S Jaishankar also spoke on the Katchatheevu controversy. While referring to the Katchatheevu island’s history, the FM blamed PM Nehru for ceding control to Sri Lanka. Watch this video to find out what’s the Katchatheevu island controversy.

The India And The Us Have Been Coming Closer, No Doubt, But There Are Still A Few Differences That Have Proven Hard To Resolve And Held Back Ground-Level Engagement. It Is These Gaps That India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi And Us President Joe Biden Will Try To Narrow During The Former’s State Visit To America. Areas Of Business Interest Can Serve As Easily Grabbed Fruit To Offset Differences On The Geopolitical Front, Where New Delhi’s Refusal To Align Itself With The Western Compact, Its Neutral Stance On The Russia-Ukraine War, And Increased Purchases Of Russian Crude Oil May Have Let The West Down.

India Is Preparing The Groundwork For Its Own Carbon Border Tax To Strike Back Against A Similar Move By The European Union (Eu), Two People Aware Of The Discussions In The Government Said. New Delhi Is Peeved By The Eu’s Move To Link The Environment With Trade, Though There Were No Such Considerations While Europe Industrialised. The Finance And Commerce Ministries Are Discussing The Contours Of Such A Mechanism, Particularly About Measuring The Carbon Content In Products Imported From Europe, Said One Of The People Cited Above, Both Of Whom Spoke On Condition Of Anonymity.

India is ranked 1st in milk production contributing 23 per cent of global milk production. But now India now faces a unique challenge: considering imports due to a combination of factors, including high feed costs, inclement weather, disease outbreaks, and demand-supply imbalances. In this video, we’ll delve into how India’s milk output growth has stalled, and how retail milk prices have surged by about 15% in the past year, contributing to high food inflation. In this video, let us Discover the immediate and long-term factors behind this phenomenon and how they are affecting consumers, especially those in low-income households.

Under the Foreign Trade Development and Regulation Act, 1992, the government is required to formulate, implement and monitor trade policies to boost exports, facilitate imports and maintain a favourable balance of payments. The government has finally unveiled its new Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) which came into force on 1 April.

Air India is close to placing landmark orders for as many as 500 jetliners worth tens of billions of dollars from both Airbus and Boeing as it carves out an ambitious renaissance under the Tata Group conglomerate, industry sources said on Sunday. The orders include as many as 400 narrow-body jets and 100 or more wide-bodies, including dozens of Airbus A350s and Boeing 787s and 777s, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity as finishing touches are placed on the mammoth deal in coming days. In the video, let’s have a detailed conversation about this agreement and the influence it would have on the aviation business in India. #airindia #airbusa350 #aircraft #mint Subscribe Now For Latest Updates- https://tinyurl.com/lbw8nze

In April 2022, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launched the standing deposit facility (SDF) as a mechanism to curb inflation by absorbing liquidity. The ‘Expert Committee to Revise and Strengthen the Monetary Policy Framework’ advocated the SDF as a liquidity management tool in January 2014. However, Section 17 of the RBI Act of 1934 was modified in 2018 to allow the RBI to introduce this instrument, which was now brought into action in 2022. The central bank’s decision to deploy SDF raises a significant dilemma, though, as the reverse repo rate can also be used to absorb liquidity. Let us start this discussion by explaining what is a SDF and how it is different from a reverse repo facility. #reversereporate #standingdepositfacility #rbi #finance #mint Subscribe Now For Latest Updates- https://tinyurl.com/lbw8nze

The RBI has been keeping a strict eye on the situation at the Dhanlaxmi bank after the bank delayed capital raising plans and a section of shareholders of the bank has called for an extraordinary general meeting to suspend the powers of the managing director and CEO of the bank. In order to address substantial deteriorations in its financial status, Dhanlaxmi Bank was even included in the RBI’s prompt corrective action framework (PCA) since its capital adequacy had previously dropped below necessary levels. However, a major question arises with this, when is a bank placed under supervision? Watch this video to know when RBI decides to intervene in a Bank’s business. #rbi #bank #finance #mint Subscribe Now For Latest Updates- https://tinyurl.com/lbw8nze

The UPSC civil services main examinations will be held on 7, 8,9, 15 and 16 January 2022