News: Tokyo is likely to change its policy to allow reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel from Japanese-made reactors. Since the 2011 Fukushima tragedy, Japan had concluded civil pacts with six countries including Jordan, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam, but has not approved reprocessing of spent fuel generated by Japanese-made nuclear reactors. ...

News: In what is being seen as a furtherance to India’s ‘Act East’ policy and more specifically, a strategically operational deployment in the crucial South China Sea, Indian Navy warships have  reached Malaysia. The Navy’s Eastern Fleet includes INS Ranvir, a guided missile destroyer, INS Satpura, the indigenously built guided missile stealth ...

News: India sought French investment in its aviation sector while asking aerospace companies from France and other nations to manufacture their products in the country. Minister state for defence also held a series of meetings with the companies present in the defence sector, including Dassault, from which India has decided to ...

News: The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) and cyber security firm Symantec, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for ‘Building cyber security skills. The MoU was signed between R. Chandrashekhar, president, Nasscom and Michael Brown, president and CEO, Symantec. Nasscom stated that the Sector Skill Council, Nasscom ...

News: Pakistan has released 113 Indian fishermen following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to his Pakistani counterpart  to offer Ramazan wishes. The fishermen were in a jail in Karachi for nine months to a year. Now, they  were put on a train from Karachi to Lahore from where they will cross ...

News: Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has declared that the state would do well to tap crop, post-harvest technologies and water management from a nation known for world class agri-technology. While former chief minister Manohar Parrikar’s has made a Make in India contract to a central government-operated shipyard ...

News: New project, e Basta and DigiLocker portal to be launched by PM Narendra Modi on July 1, 2015. Government of India is planning to launch under ‘Digital India’ a number of ambitious projects like eBasta on which all NCERT text books as well as some State Boards’ textbooks will ...

News:  Money held by Indians in Swiss banks fell by over 10 per cent last year to 1.8 billion Swiss franc (about Rs 12,615 crore), amid an enhanced clampdown against the famed secrecy wall of Switzerland’s banking system by Indian and other governments. This is the second lowest amount of ...

News: Based on the recommendations of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), government has approved 16 proposals of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) amounting to Rs 6,750.86 crore. The government has approved Torrent Pharmaceuticals’ proposal for increasing FII investment from 13.09 per cent to 35 per cent. While, Syngene International has been allowed ...

News: Maharashtra government will soon appoint a regulatory body to safeguard interests of home buyers after the centre gave a go ahead to the state to frame rules to implement the Housing Regulatory Bill passed by the legislature and approved by the President. The Maharashtra Housing (Regulation and development) 2012 was passed two years ago ...