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ramnath kovind The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind , graced and addressed the 34 th  annual session of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) today (April 5, 2018) in New Delhi. Speaking on the occasion, the President said that women constitute half our country. They contribute to our economy at work and at home, in many diverse ways. Yet, when it comes to business and commerce, it is regrettable that women have not been given their due. We need to create conditions for more and more of our daughters and sisters to come into the workforce. We need to push harder to ensure appropriate, encouraging and safe conditions at home, in society and at the work-place to enhance the percentage of working women. The President said that if more women become part of the workforce, both household incomes and our GDP will rise. We will become a more prosperous nation. Much greater than that, we will become a more equal society. The President said that we need to take the ...

The Union Minister for Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Shri Suresh Prabhu, delivering the inaugural address at the Global Logistics Summit, in New Delhi Efficient logistics is critical for countries like India to harness trade and facilitate greater & faster integration with both the domestic as well as world economy. Keeping this in mind 56 new airports will become functional in the next few years, Union Minister for Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Shri Suresh Prabhu said at the two days Global Logistics Summit being held in New Delhi. The Minister further said that by bringing all the stakeholders together it will create the right platform to improve logistics and connectivity which are vital for increasing intra-state and international trade flows. Indian logistics industry is estimated at around US $ 215 billion in 2019-20, growing at over 10 % annually. In the last decade or so, significant improvements in Railways, Roads, Highways, Inland ...

Raksha Mantri Smt Nirmala Sitharaman , who is on three-day visit to Russia to attend ‘VII Moscow Conference on International Security’ from 03 to 05 April 2018, addressed the II Plenary Session of the Conference on the theme titled ‘Global Security in a Polycentric World’ covering aspects related to current global defence, security and strategic scenario on April 4 in the Russian capital.  Raksha Mantri stated that for India, cooperation with Russia is vital in ensuring stability and security in our shared Eurasian neighbourhood, especially in addressing the menace of terrorism. She also spoke about terrorism in the region, persistence of instability in Afghanistan, rising threats to security in the wider Asia Pacific region, non-traditional security challenges such as climate change, food and energy insecurity, financial instability and the need for cooperation amongst the countries to address these issues. Following is the full text of the address delivered by Rak...

A number of activities related to strengthening of existing as well as new transport infrastructure works have been undertaken for the purpose of coal evacuation. Details of activities and amount of funds sanctioned for up-gradation of transport infrastructure during each of the last five years, year-wise, coal-mines area-wise and State-wise are at Annexure I.             Coal field wise, state wise dispatch from CIL subsidiaries for the last 4 years and current fiscal (till Feb.2017-18) is annexed herewith as Annexure.  ( in lakh tonnes) Coalfields (Company) Name of State 2017-18 (Apr-Feb) 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013-14 RANIGUNJ (ECL) West Bengal 201.46 209.32 189.77 173.98 165.22 MUG /SLN /SPM (ECL) West Bengal/ Jharkhand 56.50 49.22 52.31 54.75 48.98 RAJMAHAL (ECL) Jharkhand 125.40 168.82 141.72 152.91 145.59 Jharia (BCCL) Jharkhand/ West Bengal 298.70 348.47 ...