News: Railways will be setting up first-of-its-kind plants at New Delhi and Jaipur stations for disposal of solid waste in environmental-friendly manner and generation of energy from the garbage. The plants are proposed to be set up under the Waste to Energy Project of the Railways. There will be two plants, first-of-its-kind in ...

News: Foreign Partners in insurance companies in India will have no final say on decisions pertaining to strategy and produ-cts, as the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) has decided not to give them any additional rights when their they increase their stake from 26 per cent to ...

News: The government has scrapped the privatisation of four major airports, those at Chennai, Kolkata, Jaipur and Ahmedabad. While the airports at Chennai and Kolkata will continue to remain under the complete control of the Airports Authority of India (AAI), fresh bids for the Jaipur and Ahmedabad airports will be ...

News: The central government has written to chief ministers of all states to allow mobile towers on government buildings within their jurisdiction to check the problem of ‘call drop’ plaguing mobile communication networks. Certain protests against construction of mobile towers in residential areas at many places citing harmful effects of ...

News: To attract talent, the government think-tank NITI Aayog has proposed paying over 30 per cent more than the pay scale offered by the erstwhile Planning Commission to young professionals on its payrolls. NITI Aayog has replaced the decades-old Planning Commission and is being seen as one of the most ambitious ...

News: IAS officers of the 2013 batch reporting for a 3-month training module in Delhi before joining their respective state cadres have been told not to take any leave during the training period and informed that Joint Secretary level officers in 39 Ministries will be their “mentors” during the special ...

News: With India renovating Jewish heritage sites in the country, India’s envoy to Israel has appealed to young Jews of Indian origin to utilise the ease of travelling to the land of their forefathers and to contribute in strengthening bilateral ties by connecting to their roots. Earlier this year, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis ...

News: Accessible India, the next sweeping initiative bearing the stamp of the Prime Minister’s Office, will introduce landmark initiatives over the next five years to make the country disabled-friendly. For starters, the government is working to introduce set-top boxes that will make TV programmes more useful for the visually impaired. Officials ...

News: Chief Minister, Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa said that her government will continue to strive to achieve the goal of all round development and inclusive growth. The State will attract investments worth Rs. 1 lakh crore from the Global Investors Meet to be held next month. She said her government has ...

News: The Minster of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry AYUSH,  has said that the Government is taking the AYUSH system of medicines to the grass root through the network of Primary Health Centers (PHCs) under the National AYUSH Mission (NAM). AYUSH Ministry is setting up an All India Institute ...