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CAG raps Maharashtra as Rs 82.78 cr helicopter lay idle for 17 months, flags Rs 2 cr avoidable cost

Mumbai:  The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has criticised the Maharashtra government for the delay in appointing a maintenance agency for a Rs 82.78‑crore helicopter bought for anti‑Naxalite operations, leaving it grounded for 17 months and causing an avoidable expense of Rs 2.07 crore. The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report for 2024-25 exposed failures…

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India, New Zealand elevate ties to strategic partnership; target Rs 35,000 cr trade by 2030

Auckland: India and New Zealand on Saturday elevated their ties to a strategic partnership and set a five-year target to double their annual bilateral trade in goods and services to Rs 35,000 crore by 2030 following talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Kiwi counterpart Christopher Luxon. The meeting yielded 18 concrete outcomes, including…

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Hydrogen future of transportation industry; trials underway on 10 routes in country: Gadkari

Gandhinagar:  Hydrogen is the future of the transportation industry, and the government is conducting trials on 10 routes across the country on its use as fuel, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said. The trials are underway on Greater Noida-Delhi-Agra, Bhubaneshwar-Konark-Puri, Ahmedabad-Vadodara-Surat, Sahibabad-Faridabad-Delhi, Pune-Mumbai, Jamshedpur-Kalinga Nagar, Thiruvananthapuram-Kochi, Kochi-Edappally, Jamnagar-Ahmedabad, and NH-16 Visakhapatnam-Bayyavaram routes, the minister said….

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TN govt signs MoU with Vikram Solar to set up Rs 15,037 cr BESS plant in Tirunelveli

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday signed an MoU with solar energy solutions provider Vikram Solar to set up a Battery Energy Storage Systems manufacturing plant at an investment of Rs 15,037 crore at SIPCOT Industrial Park in Gangaikondan, Tirunelveli district. The mega project will create direct and indirect employment opportunities to 2,670 people,…

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Govt has done its part on GCC, industry must build capabilities to meet AI challenge: CEA

New Delhi:  Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran on Thursday said the government has done its part by announcing several measures in Budget to support Global Capability Centres (GCCs), and called on industry to invest in skilling, capability development and innovation to address the challenges posed by artificial intelligence. Observing that AI has exposed old…

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