The year 2016 started with a negative growth prospective for the Indian market, and the wisdom behind “India is immune to Chinese slowdown” felt flat on Monday. Many experts believe (to some extent it’s true) India is an exception to global economic crises at least among emerging economies. And the ...

On the line with its commitments to fight against curbing carbon emissions, Union Budget 2016 may have India’s first vehicle scrapping policy to get rid of old and polluting vehicles off the country road – Vijay Chhibber, who retired as secretary, ministry of road transport and highways, on 31 December. ...

Indian government is planning to introduce a river information system (RIS) similar to air traffic control for the real time monitoring of ships shuttling in the inland waters network. It will provide real time metrological data and real time data of vessels moving around the water. The online availability will ...

Union Minister Gadkari on Sunday while pitching for the Make in India drive, called upon automakers to develop indigenous technologies to build environment-friendly car engines. Indian car-manufactures still pay a huge amount of royalty cost to foreign companies and by developing their own, they would be able to save a ...

Arunachal Pradesh has launched the Arunachal Pradesh Public Private Partnership Policy- 2011 with the PPP (Public-Private Partnership) approach. The PPP approach is best suited for the infrastructure sector as it supplements scarce public resources. The approach creates a more competitive environment and helps to improve efficiencies and reduce costs. Objectives: ...

Startups are the new future. The Indian startup market in recent times has exponentially boomed and lots of young people are now driven towards the very idea of ‘starting something new’.  But just having s dream is not enough, materializing that very dream of yours into reality cones the hardest ...

Despite having vast potential in tourism sector, the state is not in a position to explore and exploit its potentiality to the expectation due to resource crunch. There is vast scope in cultural tourism, adventure tourism, wild life tourism and eco-tourism. The creation of infrastructure like tourist lodges, tourist hut, ...

Indian government is working on a law in consultation with various agencies and state governments that will enable malls, restaurants, theatres and local markets to remain open whole night – to level the playfield between online sellers and retailers. According to ET, the labor ministry will hold the first round ...

At the inaugural session of Indian Science Congress, PM Modi said the government is committed to make scientific research easier and the administration would be improved too. The focus for research should be on five Es, he further emphasized during his speech. The 5Es stand for economy, energy, environment, empathy ...

Research and innovation is all set to take a new turn with the Prime Minister’s office directing the Ministry of HRD to fast track the framework for setting up 10 private autonomous universities. The agenda is to invite world-class private institutions for higher studies to set up in the country ...