News: Augmenting its operational strength, the IAF is in the process of inducting additional Su-30 MKI aircraft manufactured under licence by HAL and Light Combat Aircraft, which is manufactured indigenously by HAL. India has informed France that it would like to acquire 36 Rafale jets in fly-away condition as quickly as possible in view ...
Read More »Railways ‘Dedicated Freight Corridor’ project to be completed by 2019
News: Railways today assured the industry that the ambitious Rs 81,459 cr worth ‘Dedicated Freight Corridor’ (DFC) project, meant for faster goods movement, will be completed by 2019. Currently goods trains are moving at 25/26 km per hour speed. The speed will go up to 100 km per hour on ...
Read More »30 percent of Indian lawyers are fake
News: The Bar Council of India’s Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra, declares that over 30 per cent of all of India’s lawyers are fake or non-practising persons who misuse their certificates of practice. This statement comes hardly three months after the State Bar Council unearthed a massive fake law degree racket and ...
Read More »First phase construction of Jagdishpur – Haldia gas pipeline phase inaugurated
News: With the new vision of gas-based economy of central government, Eastern India is all set to get a lion’s share in the country’s growth story, as PM inaugurates the first phase construction of the Jagdishpur Haldia pipeline. Bihar now gets connected to the natural gas pipeline network of India. ...
Read More »DIPP to rank states on ‘ease of doing business
News: The Centre will soon come out with a list of states ranked on the basis of ease of doing business. Department of Industrial Policy has received responses from all the state governments and a study is currently on to evaluate and rank the business-friendliness of the states. Regarding acquisition ...
Read More »Foreign banks except Deutsche stay away from Rs 42,000 crore divestment plan
News: The government’s ambitious disinvestment plan for 2015-16 has run into an unusual hurdle, with its first call for bankers to advise it on the state-run firms’ shares sales eliciting a tepid response, especially from foreign banks that used to vigorously jostle for these mandates in earlier years. Barring Deutsche, no foreign ...
Read More »NITI Aayog to hire seven consultants
News: Niti Aayog wants to hire seven consultants as officers on special duty (OSD) at a monthly remuneration of Rs 1.55 lakh each, a move that will reduce the workload. The consultants, who are expected to be experts in areas of economics and social issues, IT, transportation, legal issues and ...
Read More »Govt to amend Land Bill, plans to remove sticky clauses
News: The Centre is likely to work out the contours of the reworked land acquisition bill by next week amid indications that it may be purged of all the politically unpopular provisions. Government may allow states to draft their own acquisition laws with the frame of reference being the central ...
Read More »Draft Bill to stop attacks on scribes to be ready soon
News: Maharashtra CM has declared that the first draft of the Bill will be ready in a month’s time and will be available for suggestions and objections. Opinion of senior lawyers would be taken to make the proposed law foolproof. The special Act will make attack on journalists a non-bailable and cognisable offence. Source: ...
Read More »India to manufacture shipping container under “Make in India” campaign
News: India wants to manufacture shipping containers instead of relying on imports as part of a plan aimed at promoting the ‘Make in India’ campaign. India will appoint consultants to conduct a study into the capacity available within the country to take up container manufacturing. It will also approach foreign ...
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