News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for a 6-nation tour on Monday to attend the BRICS summit in Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, with focus on enhancing strategic, economic and energy ties. The Summit of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), the important economies across the world, ...

News: Corporation Bank is the first bank to launch the MUDRA card based on the RuPay platform. MUDRA card is a part of the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana which aims to fund the unfunded under non-farm micro units in manufacturing, trading and services with affordable credit up to Rs 10 ...

News: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has adopted Pachgaon village in Umrer taluka, about 15 kms from Nagpur city, under the ‘Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna’ in November 2014. And today Panchgaon becomes the 1st Wi-Fi village. Source: Twitter

News: The Adani group signed a MoU with the Tamil Nadu government for setting up five solar power plants, with a total capacity of 648-Mw, at a cost of Rs 4,536 crore in Ramanathapuram district, where around 70 per cent of the investment in the project would be met through internal accruals, the balance ...

News: The government had issued 73 industrial licences to the defence sector since June 2014, against 50 such licences granted between 2011 and May 2014. These include 16 proposals with a proposed investment of Rs.613 crore, cleared at a licensing committee meeting chaired by the secretary of the Department of ...

News: For transforming India’s 90,000 kms of national highways into green corridors, the government will soon implement an ambitious policy under which one per cent of the road construction cost will go towards planting trees, by creating a brigade of 1,000 contractors for this task. Nitin Gadkari said if the cost of road ...

News:  HRD Ministry would soon come out with a set of four key parameters, expected to be ‘teaching-learning’, ‘academic performance’, ‘outreach’ and ‘impact’ of the institute nationally and globally, for ranking of Indian institutes across streams. It was chaired by both higher education and school education secretaries and attended by ...

News: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that the Cabinet has approved funds amounting to Rs 50,000 crore over the five years to ensure that the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana is a success. The major objective of tthis irrigation scheme is to achieve convergence of investments in irrigation at ...

News: Five girl students from Bengaluru, made India proud by becoming world-beaters at the Technovation Challenge 2015 held at San Francisco on June 24, for developing mobile app named Sellixo. Team Pentechan,  all 9th standard students (14 years old), from the New Horizon Public School (NHPS) reached the summit at the ...

News: The Maharashtra government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with global technology major, Cisco for making Nagpur a smart and safe city and the first Indian Institute of Information and Technology has been approved to Nagpur. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis says, “it was a proud moment to witness the ...