The AP Gas Development Corporation, Gas Authority of India, GDF Suez and Shell signed two MoUs for seting up an Rs 1800 crore floating LNG terminal at Kakinada deep water port. This would be the first LNG terminal on the East Coast of India when ready. The Kakinada LNG terminal ...

The government said it will provide a special assistance of Rs 1,000 crore during the current financial year for development of Andhra Pradesh. This will include Rs 350 crore for development of seven backward districts covering Rayalaseema and North Coastal region, Rs 350 crore for the new capital and Rs ...

Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa announced that a slew of projects will be taken up at an estimated Rs 1855.36 crore in order to ensure safe transportation and economic growth. She further said that new road over bridges and road under bridges at railway crossings will be constructed at Salem, Vellore, ...

India has decided to reduce visa fees for tourists arriving under the highly successful Electronic Tourist Visa (ETV) scheme. India’s fee for ETV is USD 60 and the facility extends to 113 countries. Under the ETV scheme, an applicant receives an email authorising him or her to travel to India ...

The first fleet of the Swiss made flight training aircraft Pilatus PC-7 is expected to arrive at the Tambaram Indian Air-Force station within two months. The aircrafts, which have propeller type engines, are already in operation at the Dundigal training station near Hyderabad for the past one year. Pilatus has ...

Kolkata class stealth destroyer INS Kochi is all set to be commissioned in the Indian Navy by the end of September of this year. Designed by the Directorate of Naval Design and built at the Mazgaon Dock in Mumbai, the 163-metre-long and 6,800-tonne stealth destroyer has land attack capability and ...

Andhra Pradesh Government has inked an MoU with China’s XI’AN LONGi Silicon Materials Corp for setting up Rs.1,500-crore solar module and cell manufacturing plant at Sri City, in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh. The Chinese company will invest in a facility for manufacturing solar cells and modules with the capacity ...

Three key roads in Ladakh which give access to security forces to several strategic locations, including Siachen, will soon be constructed, said Home Minister Rajnath Singh. The roads connecting Leh-Demchok, Chuchul-Luma and Durbuk-Trijunction, which leads to the Siachen base camp has the inhospitable terrain in the icy heights of Himalayas ...

The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, N Chandrababu Naidu, has invited Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong for the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the capital city Amaravati to be held on October 22. Chief Minister explained the historical significance of Amaravati and outlined how he plans to transform AP into a ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a Renewable Energy Roundtable with the US department of commerce and Stanford University on 26 September. Solar electricity can only be generated during daytime, and to use it at night, an effective storage solution is required. India is fit for solar power generation given ...