News: The recent amendment brought to the compensation guidelines in carrying out clinical trials in the country has cleared “major hurdles” for testing of new drugs, especially for those diseases for which cure is not yet available in India. The revised regulations are balanced and will address various issues, because of which sponsors have earlier been ...

News: Clearing the way for Indian private firms to enter the global defence supply chain on a large scale, the government has eased several bureaucratic hurdles in export regulations. The defence ministry has come up with a new set of rules for exports for both the private and public sector ...

News: The Election commission of India is keen on drafting a model code of conduct for the media to ensure some norms are adhered to during coverage of elections, a proposal which if implemented will mark the first formal code of its kind in the country. The election commissioners want ...

News: India’s 12 major ports added more capacity in the first year of the government than they did in any single year over nearly a decade before that. This includes the attempts of Jawaharlal Nehru port trust India’s largest container facility, to tap into its dollar denominated income to raise ...

News: Consumers of BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) and BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) can now register ‘no supply’ complaints through a newly-launched app, and need not call the discoms call centre for the purpose. Using the ‘BSES App’, the consumers can easily register complaints related to no supply, street-lights and those related to emergency ...

News: The Indian Navy has sent requests for proposals to four potential foreign contractors to assist it in constructing its second indigenous aircraft carrier. The four companies that received the letter are the US-based Lockheed Martin; Britain’s BAE Systems, French shipbuilder, DCNS; and Russia’s Rosoboronexport state arms exporter. Unlike India’s ...

News: Ministry of Power has asked LED bulb producers to bring down prices of LED bulbs. Center  allow “indiscriminate imports” to increase competition in case any cartelisation is found in the segment. He emphasized that the competition should be healthy and on quality and margins. The recent price discovery of Led ...

News: Union road transport minister Nitin Gadkari has laid the foundation stones for two road projects worth Rs 1821.20 crore at Saha in Ambala district and in Sirsa. In next five years, national highway works spending Rs 5 lakh crore would be undertaken and it would generate employment opportunities for 50 ...

News: Cabinet has approved a proposal to extend a three per cent interest subvention scheme to banks to ensure farmers get crop loans up to Rs 3 lakh at seven per cent a year interest. An additional subvention of three per cent would be given to those who pay loans ...

News: The government has given final approval to 13 proposals for setting up of mega food parks in various parts of the country including rural areas during the current Five Year Plan period. The states where these mega food parks will come up are Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, ...