The Chevening Gurukul Leadership Programme is the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s flagship fellowship for India and has run for almost 19 years. The fellowship address various issues faced by leaders in all fields and it tends to explore ever-changing ideas of leadership and implications of globalisation for Indian leaders. The details of this ...

In order to bring more transparency and efficiency in its infra development programs, the central government will launch two portals named ‘Infracon’ and ‘ePace’  – proving all the details related to highway projects. Infracon: Information about individual consultants and consultant firms ePace: Know about highway projects status, funding and other ...

Start Up India, Stand Up India which will be announced on January 16 by PM Modi, the government will probably come up with a strict of very precise definition of ‘startup’ to make sure that benefits go to companies that are engaged in innovation. Probably, the new definition may exclude ...

Two and half years back, when Raghuram Rajan after taking post as RBI governor said that promoters have ‘no divine right’ to run the business after messing it up, nobody noticed he was serious and he would deliver what he would say. But now some of them, who are feeling ...

Indian software industry body, NASSCOM (The National Association for Software and Services Companies) has made a proposition to Ministry of Finance that in the budget of 2016, startups be exempted from all direct and indirect taxes including minimum alternative tax to reduce their cash outflow and to help them sustain. ...

A Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) has been launched for the holistic development of horticulture in the country during XII plan. The scheme integrates the ongoing schemes of National Horticulture Mission, Horticulture Mission for North East & Himalayan States, National Bamboo Mission, National Horticulture ...

Last month, Martin Feldstein (professor of economics at Harvard University) predicted that the growth of global economy will be threatened more by the geographical risks. He listed four major threats which include Russia, China, the Middle East and Cyberspace. The Chinese economy has lost its momentum, conflict continuing in the ...

National Bamboo Mission (NBM) is being implemented as a sub scheme under a 100% Centrally Sponsored Scheme called Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH). The Mission envisages promoting holistic growth of bamboo and to increase the area under bamboo cultivation and marketing. Objective: To promote the growth of the ...

India is going to get her first space park in the IT capital of India- Bengaluru. The park will be set up by Indian Space Research organization (ISRO) in the Whitefield area of the city and private industries will be permitted to use the park for manufacturing facilities and satellite ...

Charpak Scholarship is scholarship program run by the French Embassy in India and offers various range of funding to study in Bachelor’s as well as Master’s level in France. They also offer a research internship program for students from Economics, Engineering and/or Science background. Below is given the full details ...