TCIL signs MoUs with Benin, Guinea

Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd, a PSU below Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, has entered right into a strategic alliance with the African countries of Benin and the Republic of Guinea, as a part of a larger pan-African e-community undertaking on education and medication.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect become signed by using President Ram Nath Kovind during the first-ever kingdom go to from India to Benin, Gambia and Guinea lately.
The MoU is for putting in place of thee-VBAB Network as a part of a bigger pan African e-network undertaking on education and medication. The e-VBAB is e-Vidhya Bharti and e-arogyabharti (e-VBAB) network.
Under those projects, TCIL will, to begin with, increase loose tele-education publications to approximately 15,000 African students and tele-remedy courses to 5,000 docs and paramedics in Africa, which may be extended more on a self-sustainable version later after searching at its success.
The PAN African e-community undertaking has been now renamed as e-Vidya Bharati and e-Arogya Bharati (e-VBAB) Network Project.

TCIL’s Director (Technical) Kamendra Kumar signed the agreements along with his counterparts. E-VBAB, the flagship project of the Ministry of External Affairs, is a step towards capability constructing inside the area of university training and clinical technological know-how.
It gives a possibility for local employment and opens the door for access to education and medical information from India to African students, doctors, nurses, and paramedical personnel.
The Ministry of External Affairs has initially proposed to start a pilot mission with 14 African countries particularly Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Zambia, Uganda, South Sudan, Liberia, Benin, Republic of Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, and Sudan.
Out of these 14 international locations, TCIL has, first of all, signed an MoU with nations — Benin and The Republic of Guinea — all through the President’s latest go-to West Africa.

New Delhi: Seven of the ten maximum valued Indian corporations together added ₹87,965.88 crore in marketplace valuation closing week, with HUL and HDFC Bank topping the chart.
While Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), HDFC, Infosys, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and ICICI Bank have been the opposite companies which noticed a rise in their market capitalization (m-cap) for the week ended Friday, RIL, ITC and SBI suffered losses.
The m-cap of Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) zoomed ₹22, one hundred forty-five. Ninety-two crore to ₹3, ninety-eight,290. Ninety-two crores and that of HDFC Bank jumped ₹18,264.Ninety-three crore to ₹6,23,892.08 crore.
HDFC’s valuation advanced ₹15,148.15 crore to ₹three,eighty one,619.34 crore and that of TCS rallied ₹14,840.Sixty eight crore to ₹eight,42,635.Fifty one crore.
Infosys won ₹6,335.19 crore to attain ₹3,39,372.78 crore in market valuation, even as that of ICICI Bank went up via ₹6,237.72 crore to ₹2, seventy-one,360.08 crores.
The valuation of Kotak Mahindra Bank rose by means of ₹four,993.29 crore to ₹2, ninety-two,866.47 crores.
In evaluation, the m-cap of State Bank of India (SBI) dropped ₹15,261.1 crore to ₹2,60,018.fifty-six crore and that of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) tumbled ₹14,072.8 crore to ₹7,36,602.08 crore.

New Delhi: Continuing with their selling spree, foreign traders pulled out a net amount of ₹9,197 crore in only seven buying and selling periods in August because of unconducive domestic and global elements.
However, analysts stated the fashion may additionally opposite if the authorities addresses the tax worries of remote places investors.
According to latest depositories information, foreign portfolio buyers (FPIs) withdrew a net quantity of ₹11,134.60 from equities even as pumping in ₹1,937.54 into the debt segment throughout 1-9 August, taking the entire net withdrawal to ₹9,197.06 crore.
In the preceding month, FPIs had been net sellers within the Indian capital markets (equity and debt) to the tune of ₹2,985.88 crore.
Overseas buyers had been on a selling spree ever on account that better tax on FPIs registered as trusts and affiliation of persons became introduced in the Union Budget for 2019-20, specialists said.
According to Vinod Nair, head of studies at Geojit Financial Services, FPIs had been careful because of sa lowdown within the global economy, with the US, Euro economies and China posting muted GDP boom numbers. There are fears that this slowdown can get prolonged given the uncertainty on the US-China trade agreement, Brexit and different geopolitical issues.