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Female participation in skill training rises as govt expands outreach

July 22, 2025 revoi editor 0

The Centre is expanding its efforts to improve employability among Indian youth—particularly women—through focused skill development programmes under the Skill India Mission (SIM), the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) informed the Lok Sabha on Monday. As part of SIM, the government is providing training through schemes such as Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana […]

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South Korea finance minister, trade envoy to hold tariff talks with US counterparts

July 22, 2025 revoi editor 0

South Korea’s new finance minister and the country’s top trade envoy will meet in Washington with U.S. counterparts on Friday for talks on U.S. tariffs, Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said on Tuesday. The country’s foreign and industry ministers will also visit the U.S. for trade discussions as early as this week, Koo told reporters after […]

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Meri Panchayat App secures WSIS Champion Award 2025 for Digital Governance Excellence

July 22, 2025 revoi editor 0

The “Meri Panchayat” mobile application, a transformative digital governance initiative by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj and the National Informatics Centre (NIC), has been honoured with the prestigious World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes 2025 Champion Award. The accolade, awarded under the Action Line Category for Cultural Diversity and Identity, Linguistic Diversity, and […]

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Trump releases Martin Luther King assassination files

July 22, 2025 revoi editor 0

The U.S. Justice Department on Monday released more than 240,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, including records from the FBI, which had surveilled the civil rights leader as part of an effort to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize winner and his civil rights movement. Files were posted on […]

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Death toll rises to 27 in Bangladesh air force jet crash, official says

July 22, 2025 revoi editor 0

At least 27 people were killed after a Bangladesh Air Force training jet crashed into a college and school campus in Dhaka, officials said on Tuesday, with 88 people, including children, being treated in hospital. The F-7 BGI aircraft crashed soon after it took off at 1:06 p.m. (0706 GMT) on Monday from the airbase […]

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IMF’s Gita Gopinath to step down in August, return to Harvard University

July 22, 2025 revoi editor 0

Gita Gopinath, the No. 2 official at the International Monetary Fund, will leave her post at the end of August to return to Harvard University, the IMF said in a statement on Monday. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will name a successor to Gopinath in “due course, ”the IMF said. Gopinath joined the fund in […]

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Sensex, Nifty open higher as banking stocks continue to gain

July 22, 2025 revoi editor 0

The Indian stock market opened in the green on Tuesday as heavyweight banking stocks continued to lead amid mixed global cues. At 9.23 am, Sensex was up 152 points, or 0.19 per cent, at 82,359, and Nifty was up 38 points, or 0.15 per cent, at 25,129. Banking stocks were leading the market. Nifty Bank […]

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Amarnath Yatra sees huge rush of pilgrims, 3.21 lakh had ‘darshan’ in 19 days

July 22, 2025 revoi editor 0

The ongoing Amarnath Yatra has witnessed an overwhelming turnout, with more than 3.21 lakh devotees having undertaken the pilgrimage in the last 19 days since it commenced on July 3. On Tuesday, another batch of 3,536 pilgrims departed from Jammu for the holy cave in Kashmir. According to officials, “A fresh batch of 3,536 Yatris […]

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PM Modi extends birthday greetings to Maha CM Fadnavis, Deputy CM Ajit Pawar

July 22, 2025 revoi editor 0

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday extended warm birthday wishes to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, lauding their contributions to the state and wishing them long and healthy lives. Fadnavis, born on July 22, 1970, in Nagpur, and Pawar, born on the same date in 1959 in Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar […]

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GST at Eight Years: Report Highlights Growth in Revenue and growing Women’s Inclusion in Formal Economy

July 22, 2025 revoi editor 0

There are over 1.52 crore active Goods and Services Tax (GST) registrations, and one-fifth of registered GST taxpayers in India now have at least one woman, and 14 per cent of registered taxpayers have all female members (on the basis of the constitution of business), an SBI report revealed on Tuesday. This representation is substantially […]