India, July 24 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Weather Information Network and Data System (WINDS) is an initiative of Government aimed at developing a national level network of Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) and Automatic Rain Gauges (ARGs) for generation of long term hyperlocal weather data for crop insurance, agriculture advisories and disaster risk resilience needs of different sectors. WINDS has been adopted by 7 States/UTs (Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Odisha, Puduc...
India, July 24 -- The Government of India has issued a release: S. No. State/UT Clusters formed Number of Farmers enrolled Area in Hectare 1 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 2 250 100 2 Andhra Pradesh 5002 650163 425912.564 3 Arunachal Pradesh 108 2982 705.316 4 Assam 32 3721 2584.596 5 Bihar 450 50065 21155.308 6 Chhattisgarh 467 57590 25605.416 7 Delhi 6 375 150 8 Goa 13 1623 630.888 9 Gujarat 1033 117108 48740.94 10 Haryana 194 11288 9307.212 1...
India, July 24 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) and Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (RWBCIS) is mainly implemented on 'Area Approach' basis wherein claims are worked out on the area of the land parcel based on the shortfall in actual yield of the crop insured, submitted by the State Government concerned, on the basis of Crop Cutting Experiment (CCE) as well as technology based yield estimated under YES-TECH (wherever ...
India, July 24 -- The Government of India has issued a release: State Name Number of Farmer ID generated Andhra Pradesh 5042388 Assam 1335174 Bihar 5531133 Chhattisgarh 3513508 Gujarat 6225462 Haryana 1205181 Himachal Pradesh 595485 Karnataka 6443972 Kerala 2557460 Madhya Pradesh 11353326 Maharashtra 13505033 Odisha 2020174 Punjab 352049 Rajasthan 8723010 Sikkim 28885 Tamil Nadu 3648841 Telangana 5002227 Tripura 81433 Uttar Pradesh 24352649 Uttarakhand 3...
India, July 24 -- The Government of India has issued a release: One District One Product (ODOP) is an initiative by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) with the aim of selecting, branding, and promoting at least one product from each district of the country to enable holistic growth across all regions. The selection of ODOP products is undertaken by the respective State/UT Governments. As of date, 1,244 products have been identified across 773 districts in the co...
India, July 24 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The trend in India's services exports over the last five years from 2021-22 to 2025-26, along with the major sectors driving this growth are: Share in Total Services exports (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (FY26) Total Services 254.5 325.3 341.1 387.5 421.3 100.0% Sub-sectors contributing to major share of services exports Telecommunications, computer and information services 125.6 152.3 163.6 183.3 206.6 49.03% Business...
India, July 24 -- The Government of India has issued a release: India and Israel concluded the second round of negotiations for the proposed India-Israel Free Trade Agreement (FTA), held from 20 to 23 July 2026 at Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi. During the four-day negotiations, both sides held detailed discussions across all areas of the proposed Agreement and continued to make progress towards a balanced, comprehensive and mutually beneficial FTA. The Terms of Reference (ToR), signed in November ...
India, July 24 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has taken immediate and proactive measures to ensure the continuity of essential communication services across disaster-affected regions in Nagaland, Gujarat and the Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu. Continuous heavy rainfall, landslides, flash floods, and severe inundation have caused extensive damage to critical telecom infrastructure, leading to large-scale networ...
India, July 23 -- The Government of India has issued a release: serial number Name of the Court civil cases criminal cases Total pending 1. Supreme Court 74339 21685 96024 2. High Court 4513738 1958798 6472536 3. District and Subordinate Courts 11333509 38512029 49845538 The Central Government is committed to speedy disposal of cases and reduction of pendency of cases as mandated under Article 21 of the Constitution and has taken several initiatives to provide a conducive en...
MUMBAI, India, July 27 -- Reserve Bank of India issued the following speech: Mr. C.S. Setty, Chairman, State Bank of India, Mr P D Singh, CEO, Standard Chartered Bank, India & South Asia, distinguished guests, senior leaders from across the financial sector, ladies and gentlemen. 2. It is a pleasure to join you this evening. I thank Standard Chartered Bank for the invitation extended to me and for bringing together such a wide cross-section of institutions that participate in, intermediate, an...