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Saudi Arabia announces $100 billion investment in India

News Network
February 21, 2019

New Delhi, Feb 21: Saudi Arabia announced its plan to invest $ 100 billion in India, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted the Crown Prince of the kingdom, Mohammad bin Salman, in New Delhi on Wednesday.

A meeting between Modi and Mohammad bin Salman, a.k.a MbS, at Hyderabad House in New Delhi was followed by signing of five pacts.

“Prime Minister welcomed the announcement of HRH the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia to invest $ 100 billion in India,” T S Tirumurti, Secretary (Economic Relations) at the Ministry of External Affairs, tweeted after the meeting between the two leaders. New Delhi highlighted the Saudi Arabia's announcement as a “huge vote of confidence” on economy of India.

“This is a clear reflection of the confidence of Saudi Arabia in the vibrancy of the Indian economy and the tremendous opportunities available for investment,” Tirumurti posted on Twitter.

Saudi Arabian investment in India will spread over areas like agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing and energy, including in crude oil refineries and petrochemical industries.

MbS commenced his tour to Asia with a visit to Pakistan on Sunday and Monday. He pledged an investment of $ 20 billion by Saudi Arabia in Pakistan, which has been desperately looking for support from the kingdom to boost its fragile economy.

After Modi and MbS held the bilateral dialogue at Hyderabad House, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Saudi Arabian Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources, Khalid Al Falih, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which would pave the way for the government of the kingdom to invest in the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund of India.

New Delhi's envoy to Riyadh, Ahmad Javed, and Saudi Arabia's Commerce and Investment minister Majid bin Abdullah Al-Qasabi, also signed a “Framework Cooperation Program” between Invest India and the kingdom's General Investment Authority on enhancing bilateral investment relations.

They also signed an MoU between the Government of India and the Government of Saudi Arabia for Cooperation in the field of housing.

Javed and Media Minister of Saudi Arabia Turki Abdullah Al-Shabanah signed an MoU for cooperation on broadcasting between Prasar Bharati and Saudi Broadcasting Corporation for Exchange of audio-visual programme.

An MoU for cooperation in the field of tourism between the Ministry of Tourism of India and the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage was also inked.

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Bloomberg
July 27,2020

New Delhi, Jul 27: India’s coronavirus epidemic is now growing at the fastest in the world, increasing 20% over the last week to more than 14 lakh confirmed cases, according to Bloomberg’s Coronavirus Tracker.

Infections in the South Asian nation of 130 crore people have reached 14.3 lakh, including 32,771 deaths, India’s health ministry said, with daily cases close to a record 50,000 on Monday. India is only trailing the US and Brazil now in the number of confirmed infections, but its growth in new cases is the fastest.

Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are among the states where the maximum number of daily cares are being reported. The world’s second-most populous country has been ramping up testing, with 515,472 samples taken on Sunday, according to the Indian Council of Medical Research.

Still, India and Brazil have some of the world’s lowest testing rates, with 11.8 tests and 11.93 tests per 1,000 people respectively, compared to the US with 152.98 tests per 1,000 and Russia with 184.34, according to Our World in Data, a project based at the University of Oxford in the UK.

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Agencies
March 6,2020

New Delhi, Mar 6: After Yes Bank was placed under moratorium, digital payments were impacted as PhonePe, which depends on the cash-strapped lender for its transactions, could not operate.

It can be noted that the bank's own net banking facilities have not been operational since last evening. Other fintech operators who rely on Yes Bank to settle their transactions are also down.  “We sincerely regret the long outage. Our partner bank (Yes Bank) was placed under moratorium by RBI. Entire team's been working all night to get services back up asap (as soon as possible),” the app's chief executive Sameer Nigam tweeted early in the morning.

PhonePe, one of the country's largest digital payment platforms, is dependent on Yes Bank to process its transactions.

He added that the app hopes to be live in a “few hours”.

Yes Bank placed under a moratorium Thursday evening, with the RBI capping deposit withdrawals at Rs 50,000 per account for a month and superseding its board.

Yes Bank will not be able to grant or renew any loan or advance, make any investment, incur any liability or agree to disburse any payment.

For the next month, Yes Bank will led by the RBI-appointed administrator Prashant Kumar, an ex-chief financial officer of SBI.

He added that the app - one of the most popular interfaces for UPI transactions - hopes to be live in a “few hours”.

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News Network
June 12,2020

An Indian national was killed and four others injured in alleged firing by Nepal police personnel along the India-Nepal border in Bihar's Sitamarhi district today.

Sources said the firing took place after a clash between the Indians and personnel of Nepal police at the Lalbandi-Janki Nagar border in Pipra Parsain panchayat under Sonebarsha police station of the district.

Jitendra Kumar, the additional director general of police (headquarters), confirmed the death and injuries. The place of firing falls under Nepal jurisdiction.

Locals said Vikesh Kumar Rai, 25, died on the spot and Umesh Ram and Uday Thakur received bullet injuries when they were working in an agricultural field. Another person, Lagan Rai, is said to have been detained by the Nepali police.

Injured persons were rushed to Sitamarhi Sadar Hospital for better treatment.

Vikesh Kumar Rai’s father, Nageshwar Rai, said that his agriculture land falls under Narayanpur in Nepal where his son was working.

On May 17, Nepal police had fired blank rounds to disperse dozens of Indians trying to cross the border. It was not clear if they were also farmers.

The district magistrate and the superintendent of police of Sitamarhi have rushed to the spot.

Nepal shares a 1,850-kilometre (1,150-mile) open border with India and people travel across it for work and to visit family. It had closed its international borders on March 22 amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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