News Tebma Shipyards said its indigenously built dredger is ready to be inducted in the Indian Navy. The dredger sailed out on March 25, 2015, after successfully completing all the trials in ship builders yard to Mumbai for its formal induction to the Naval fleet under Western naval command. The ...
Read More »ISRO Working on Satellite for SAARC Countries
News Indian space agency ISRO is working with SAARC countries for setting up a dedicated satellite for them as mooted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Speaking after the succesful launch of navigational satellite IRNSS-1D , ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar expressed confidence that once the project gets approved, significant development would ...
Read More »Project for Next-Generation Airborne Warning System: Defence
News The government sanctioned a Rs 5,113 crore project to develop a next-generation Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), which will act as a 360-degree ‘Eye in the Sky’, and also approved purchase of two Airbus A330 aircraft for the same. The eventual plan is to induct eight such aircraft ...
Read More »$10-billion Push for Chip Manufacturing: Make In India
News The Centre plans to pump $10 billion into facilities in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, where a consortium of firms have come up as production bases. India would also be investing $400 million in developing an Indian version of micro-processor. Infrastructure for chip manufacturing and designing will be considerably strengthened ...
Read More »Delhi-Jaipur Expressway to be Completed by June
News The much-delayed Delhi-Jaipur Expressway would be completed by June, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said today. Centre is ready to build four bypasses by December for important towns if Rajasthan government offers land. Out of 57 structures to be completed which include flyovers, vehicle underpasses and pedestrian ...
Read More »PRAGATI- To Lay a Heavy Hand on Corruption
News PMO announced the launching of a new public grievance cell, PRAGATI or Pro-Active Governance And Timely Implementation, which is a unique integrative and interactive platform. The PRAGATI platform uniquely bundles three latest technologies: Digital data management, video-conferencing and geo-spatial technology. This new portal will replace the portal PMO CPGRAMS which ...
Read More »Spectrum Auction Fetches a Record Rs 109,874 Crore
Past Sibal, as Telecom and IT Minister in the previous UPA government, in January 2011 had stated that there was zero loss to the Government as a result of giving away second generation or 2G telecom licences to new players on first-come-first-serve basis in 2008. News In the auction that ...
Read More »Land Customs Station at Indo-Myanmar border
News Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated a land customs station at the Indo-Myanmar border trade centre at Zokhawthar in Champhai district of Mizoram. The Centre has been taking up development in the North East on a mission mode and arrangements were made for expeditious completion of pending projects in the region. ...
Read More »You don’t need a Silver Fork to eat Good Food: 17 Food Parks
News The Centre allocated the development of 17 mega food parks across the country to state governments and private firms envisaging an investment of over Rs 6,000 crore. The project cost to set up these 17 mega food parks would be Rs 2,030 crore, of which the central grant would ...
Read More »The MUDRA Bank: Micro Unit’s Fuel
News MUDRA- Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch on April 8 the Rs 20,000 crore MUDRA Bank, an agency to refinance micro-finance institutions which will also act as regulator for the sector. This bank would be responsible for regulating and refinancing all MFIs which ...
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