News: Modi is targeting India’s $10 billion import bill for edible oils, its third-highest overseas spend after oil and gold, and has already been considering buying oilseeds directly from farmers and boosting government support for growing rapeseed, soybeans and peanuts. A successful Indian push into palm cultivation would drag on ...

News: As of today, India puts marshals on flights to SAARC nations and various destinations within the country. India puts sky marshals on a minimum of 1,200 flights a month. After the United States, Germany and Canada too want to sign agreements with India allowing them to have their own ...

News: The home ministry has decided to establish a national fingerprint database of nearly 28 lakh convicts and those arrested for criminal offences, by collating records from all the states. The National Informatics Centre is creating a ‘cloud’ for this integration. Central Finger Print Bureau (CPFB) has data of over 9.7 lakh finger ...

News: Low-cost mobile device maker, Datawind will add two more manufacturing units in the country within next six months to meet its local requirements as the company has stopped importing finished products from China. “The new schemes and taxes now in place have made it beneficial for mobile devices companies ...

News: Hyderabad has a stronger missile base and its foundation was laid after the 1962 Sino-Indian border war. The cabin of the Sikorsky S-92 chopper that ferries the US President Barack Obama is made in Hyderabad, as also some crucial components powering Isro’s inter-planetary craft to Mars, Mangalyaan. Hyderabad’s aerospace ...

News: India and China opertionalised new Border Personal Meeting (BPM) point on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) near Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) in cold desert of Ladakh. Defence spokesperson of army’s Northern Command, Colonel S D Goswami, said country’s 69th Independence Day marked a momentous occasion in India-China relation. ...

News: A large part of the PM’s speech focused on the government drive to tackle corruption. Modi also referred to the functioning of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team to crack down on black money. New schemes to link all public and private investments to additional creation of jobs and ...

News: According to data from the department of agriculture, the area covered under kharif crops in 2015 is now three per cent more than that of last year. Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in its forecast said that Central India might get another spell of rains around August 25. ...

News: Fuel retailers review petrol and diesel prices every fortnight and make adjustments based on the global rates of the products. Since last price change, there has been a decrease in international prices of both petrol and diesel, exchange rate depreciated. “Combined impact of these factors warrants a downward revision ...

News: Switzerland based organisation International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) published the names of ten countries listed according to the the number of nuclear arsenal they possess. Russia and United States topped the list with 7,500 and 7,200 nuclear weapons respectively, Pakistan came sixth with 100-120 and India came ...