News: Congressman, George Holding, Co-Chair of the powerful Congressional Caucus in India and Indian-Americans, at a discussion held on “Is India Open for Business” organised by the CQ Roll Call and Economist, said in his key-note address that corruption is on retreat in India and referred to the series of ...

News: HRD Minister Smriti Irani today announced that IIT admission fees of Pratapgarh brothers, Raju and Brijesh, sons of daily wager, Dharamraj Saroj, would be waived. A daily wager’s sons – Raju (18) ranked 167 and Brijesh (19) ranked 410, made it to top 500 positions in IIT entrance examination ...

News: US technology giant Cisco today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to discuss the company’s manufacturing and business commitment for India under ‘Digital India’ programme. Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John T Chambers said that they will invest big, about $1.74 billion, in the country ...

News: India’s ties with the US have been “completely transformed” with setting of new parameters in bilateral engagement during the first year under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and there is more to come in, all the areas. In one year, India under Modi, government has been used effectively to lay the foundation ...

News: The Railways on Friday signed an MoU with the Commerce and Industry Ministry for setting up Railway Design Centre at National Institute of Design(NID) campus in Ahmedabad. NID will design coaches, toilets, platform sheds, pantry cars, ladder for upper berths, lighting arrangements at stations and circulating areas to give ...

News: Diversified conglomerate ITC Ltd will invest Rs 8,000 crore in greenfield and brownfield projects in the country’s newest state of Telangana. Half of the said investment would go to the ITC Bhadrachlam Paper Board’s expansion. Rs 1,000 crore will be invested in a second-star hotel in the city’s information ...

News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is preparing to launch India’s biggest overhaul of labour laws since independence in a bid to create millions of manufacturing jobs, at the risk of stirring up a political backlash that could block other critical reforms. The ministry is drafting a bill for the upcoming parliamentary ...

News: Germany-based Henkel AG will invest about 30 million euro (around Rs 210 crore) to set up an adhesives plant near Pune in Maharashtra, having an annual capacity of about 80,000 tonnes of adhesives and surface treatments, through its subsidiary Henkel Adhesive Technologies India Pvt Ltd. The new plant is expected ...

News: According to a consulting and research firm, Bridge to India, India could become one of the largest solar markets in the world in the next three years. Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, set a target of 100 GW of solar generation capacity by 2022, a nearly 33-fold increase from the ...

News: Shell, an Anglo–Dutch multinational oil and gas company is setting up its largest offshore delivery centre globally in Bengaluru. This unit will lead to generation of more than 5,000 jobs in the city. The company has decided to move its IT set-up in Malaysia, US and UK to Bengaluru. Shell has signed ...