Rajasthan the state known for its handicrafts and royal forts, is expected to announce its first ever Startup Policy under which it plans to set up about 500 startups by 2020 in the state. With the Startup Policy 2015, Rajasthan will soon become the first amongst India’s northern states to ...

Around 37 consulting firms have been assigned work for preparing action plans for the 88 cities proposed to be developed as Smart Cities. The remaining 10 cities in north-eastern states and Union Territories will do so by this week end. While KPMG will prepare the action plan for New Delhi Municipal ...

Kalbelia, a folk dancer who entertains tourists for a living, had vowed to cut half of his moustache if people in his village did not build toilets by the first anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His pledge, in a land where a man’s ...

PM Narendra Modi has said that Germany will provide India more than 2 billion euros ($2.25 billion) for developing a clean energy corridor and solar projects. PM has made ambitious renewable energy targets a key part of his development agenda and climate change mitigation commitments ahead of a landmark international ...

Vision : The Industrial Development Policy 2015-20 aims to promote manufacturing, enhance inclusivity, foster innovation and create employment opportunities across sectors. Various best-in-class policy instruments and fiscal incentives have been offered to spur industrial growth. Under the new “Industrial Development Policy (IDP) 2015-2020”, the Government approved the following fiscal benefits ...

The US Treasury Department has issued a list of 34 countries which includes India with whom it would share information under FATCA (foreign account tax compliance act) regulations. The pact aims to cover automatic sharing of information on bank accounts and other instruments like mitual funds, insurance and equities with each ...

Rural households may get cooking gas cylinders delivered at their doorsteps soon as part of Prime Minister’s push to take cleaner fuels to more homes. The government is looking for ways to make it viable for rural dealers to home deliver cylinders, the lack of which makes consumption of cleaner ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi thundered in an address to a crowd of 18,500 Indian-Americans at the SAP Center in San Jose, which is the hub of Silicon Valley that the 21st century is India’s century and attributed the sudden change in India’s fortune to the commitment, strength and pledge of the 125 ...

The cabinet committee on security, apart from the $3 billion purchase of Apache and Chinook helicopters from the US, also cleared an amount of Rs 8000 crore project for extension, of the IAF’s fully automated air surveillance and defence network to the entire country. The IAF has already established five ...

A consortium of Chinese and Indian companies will conduct a feasibility study for the 1,200 km high-speed rail link between New Delhi and Mumbai. The Third Railway Survey and Design Institute Group Corporation, a subsidiary of the China Railway Corporation (CRC), will work with Indian firms, dispatching rail experts to ...