News: A crisis response campaigner Aaron Gray-Block, with Greenpeace International was denied entry into India as its name is figured in a Home Ministry “black list”. Greenpeace India, which was under the government’s scanner for allegedly violating various provisions of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act . Gray-Block had earlier campaigned ...

News: 20 insurgents were killed in the operation conducted by the Indian Army in pursuit of terrorists behind ambush and enters Myanmar. PM has ordered hot pursuit for these terrorists. The Manipur Ambush Two rebel camps belonging to Northeast insurgent groups who had ambushed a convoy of 6 Dogra Regiment ...

News: The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has reviewed the progress of the Swachh Vidyalaya Programme at a high level meeting comprising top officials from the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the NITI Aayog and the PMO. Earlier the current status of construction of toilets in schools across various states was ...

News: India is mulling the possibility of joint naval exercises with Japan and Australia to further strengthen the blossoming military relationship between the three countries.  India had received a strong protest from China the last time when it had carried out such joint talks with the US in 2007. But ...

News The government will start keeping a strategic oil reserve from this month, which would be located at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. India had no strategic oil reserve till now and the initiative would help it tide over any crisis on the oil front. The plan is to build a ...

The Union minister had assured that the construction of the Expressway between Delhi and Jaipur will be over by next three months. In the same respect he added that the seaplane facility in the lakes of Rajasthan on the lines of Goa and Mumbai will be initiated soon. This will ...

News: Tax authorities will be able to initiate action against those having undeclared overseas assets even after a change in residency if these were held while being an Indian resident. New Regulations: Under the Black money and Imposition of Tax Bill, 2015, which came into effect on April 1, all ‘resident’ ...

News: India’s long-pending request for transit rights have been met through several transport agreements and framework arrangements signed between PM Narendra Modi and Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina. Agreement: The erstwhile Khaleda Zia regime had strong reservations against granting such rights to Delhi and as a result, access to landlocked Northeast ...

News: The central government is stepping to revive the investment climate, facilitating clearances for 42 stalled projects worth Rs 1.15 lakh crore since it presented the Budget for 2015-16. Description: In last nine months only 50 pending investment plans worth Rs 1.45 lakh crore were granted green signals through the ...

News: Dharmendra Pradhan, has pushed for a reduction in liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices by Qatar, to be in sync with the decline in global rates over the past one year. India buys 7.5 million tonnes a year of LNG on a long-term 25-year contract. Qatar sells LNG at a ...