New Delhi: Gopal K Pillai, IAS, succeeds S N Menon, who retired today as secretary, ministry of commerce and industry.
Pillai, a 1972-batch officer of Kerala cadre, was earlier special secretary in the commerce ministry and is India's chief negotiator at WTO, and chairman, Board of Approvals for Special Economic Zones in the ministry.
He has worked in the ministries of defence, home affairs and shipping and transport.
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The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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