The Union Cabinet approved a pact between India and Russia regarding cooperation on coking coal, a key steelmaking raw material, for which domestic players remain dependent on imports from a select group of countries.
The Bilateral trade between China-India in the first half of 2021 rose by a record 62.7%, the highest increase among China's major trade partners with total two-way trade surpassing the pre-pandemic levels.
The Union Cabinet has approved the continuation of the Centrally Sponsored Scheme for Development of Infrastructure Facilities for Judiciary at a total cost of Rs.9000 crore.
The National Commission for Women has signed an MoU with the Bureau of Police Research and Development for gender sensitization of police personnel across the country.
China has begun the construction of the world's first commercial modular small reactor 'Linglong One' at the Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant in the country's Hainan Province.