The Maharashtra government’s Energy department on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Adani Green Energy Group Ltd (AGEL) to generate 11000 MW green power in the next five years.It would entail an investment of Rs 60,000 crore and provide employment to 30,000 persons, a statement from the government said.

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman chaired the 47th GST Council Meeting in Chandigarh. On the beginning day of the two-day meeting today, the interim report on rate rationalisation, submitted by the Group of Ministers, was accepted by the Council. The representatives of all States and UTs attended the meeting.

India sent the next shipment of 3,000 Metric Tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan. So far, India has successfully completed shipment of 33 thousand 500 MTs of wheat to Afghanistan in partnership with World Food Programme.

Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport has switched to hydro and solar power for its consumption needs from June 1, making it India’s first airport to run entirely on a combination of these forms of green energy, operator Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) said.

Jammu and Kashmir will host the 2023 meetings of the G20, an influential group of the world's major economies. J&K government has set up a five-member high-level committee for overall coordination of G20 meetings to be held in the Union Territory.

Assam has finally operationalised the ration card portability service. Assam has become the 36th state/UT to implement ONORC. With this, the ONORC programme has been successfully implemented in all states and Union Territories, making food security portable throughout the country.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the new premises of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Vanijya Bhawan in New Delhi. Mr. Modi also launched National Import-Export Record for Yearly Analysis of Trade NIRYAT Portal.

Union science and technology minister Jitendra Singh inaugurated a seismological observatory in Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir. Udhampur district lies between the two major seismogenic faults, namely Main Frontal Thrust (MFT) and Main Boundary Thrust (MBT), which are among the potential factors for generating earthquakes in the J&K region.

The Centre's Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare (DoPPW) will collaborate with the State Bank of India (SBI) to create an integrated pension portal to enhance ease of living of pensioners.

The State government of Andhra Pradesh signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with education technology major BYJU's to impart quality education to government school students.

A bird or any airborne animal (bats) striking a plane refers to bird hit. A bird hit can be dangerous as it can damage the plane’s turbine and can cause fire if the bird gets stuck in the engine.

The Centre has banned the use of ‘single-use plastic’ from July 1. The Ministry for Environment, Forest and Climate Change had issued a gazette notification last year announcing the ban, and has now defined a list of items that will be banned from next month.The manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale and use of following single-use plastic, including polystyrene and expanded polystyrene, commodities shall be prohibited with effect from the 1st July, 2022.

The government’s Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) is working to bring ecommerce to agriculture with the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). The Indian government has been working on ONDC since July 2021, aiming to promote open networks developed on open-sourced methodology, using open specifications and open network protocols independent of any specific platform.

The government has declared the IT resources of ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) as ‘critical information infrastructure’.

India’s unemployment rate fell further to 4.2% in 2020-21 despite this period witnessing two waves of the pandemic which had left millions of workers without work and resulted in suspension of field work, shows the periodic labour force survey by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation released.

Israel and the Haryana government signed a joint declaration in integrated water resources management and capacity building.

Inaugurating Industrial Decarbonization Summit 2022 in New Delhi, Mr Gadkari said, in the coming days, we have to strengthen the country's economy and at the same time save the environment.