News: Indian Railways has modified rules on identity proof of passengers travelling on tickets issued under its Tatkal Scheme. As per modified rules, there won’t be any need to mention or furnish photocopy of proof of identity, while booking a Tatkal ticket or indicate the same while booking tickets through ...

News: After implementing Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) on Delhi-Mumbai corridor of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ), the system was today launched on the Chennai – Bengaluru corridor aiming to help road-users save time and money. The Centre had introduced ETC for payment of user fee on National Highways through inter-operable system with the ...

News:  The government will take a view on the draft Indian Financial Code, which proposes to dilute powers of the RBI chief, after receiving comments from stakeholders. FSLRC has made its recommendations, which have been made public for comments. After the comments are received, it is only then that the government will take a view. ...

News: Army has acknowledged that there was a shortage of ammunition, but said the government was seized of the matter and attempts were being made to address the issue. The day-to-day operations of the army would not be affected by the shortage, there needs to be a huge build up ...

News: Insight the Finance ministry’s flagship project, aimed at widening the tax base by catching tax evaders using technology. The ministry has floated a tender worth over Rs 150 crore to buy data analytics software and the infrastructure that goes along with it. The ministry has also attached a non-disclosure ...

News: The Ministry of Defence(MoD) had taken the call to relax certain norms for the recruitment of women to the Armed Forces and a final decision in this regard was expected  within the next two months. There are as many as 3,298 lady officers working in the armed forces and the ...

News: The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigative Team has submitted its report on black money in which it has recommended crackdown on money laundering through stock exchange platform and Participatory notes (P-notes). Some salient recommendations are: SEBI needs to have an effective monitoring mechanism to study unusual rise of stock prices of firms while such ...

News: Four heavily armed terrorists wearing army uniform, went on a rampage attacking a bus and a police station complex, leaving five persons, including a policeman, dead and several injured in Gurdaspur district bordering Pakistan. The terrorists struck a moving bus at Dinanagar area at 5 AM, spraying bullets at ...

News: Guwahati and five other cities in the northeast will be developed as solar cities to reduce dependency on conventional energy. The six cities – Guwahati and Jorhat in Assam, Kohima and Dimapur in Nagaland, Itanagar n Arunachal Pradesh and Agartala in Tripura – will be developed under the Development of ...

News: State-owned defence manufacturing firm Bharat Dynamics Ltd (BDL) will invest an additional Rs300-400 crore in modernization and ramping up its missile production facility in Hyderabad. The missile-system manufacturer has already invested about Rs. 500 crore for various missile systems as well as ramping up the anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) ...