News: The government has assigned number of cities each state/union territory can nominate under the 100 Smart Cities project as well as those to be developed under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation scheme (AMRUT). UP leads the pack as it has been given the opportunity to nominate ...

News: Ministry of external affairs decided to rely on Aadhaar card for identification of the applicant for passport and on the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) database for validation of his/her criminal antecedents with the simplified police verification system. The home and law ministries, and the Intelligence Bureau, the government, on the ...

News: Irrigation fee will be waived for farmers living in 563 villages of Rajasthan’s 12 districts, whose crop was lost above 50% due to untimely hailstorm and rainfall. The Calamity and Relief department had declared 563 villages of the state under scarcity hit, and this order would be effective till ...

News: In 2012-13, when Maharashtra state faced a severe drought-like situation, Prabhakar Deshmukh, the then Pune Municipal Commissioner, conceptualized a Jalyukta Gaon Abhiyan in five districts of Pune division: Pune, Satara, Sangli, Kolhapur and Solapur. The programme was funded by Integrated Watershed Management Programme of 2008 and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment ...

News: The Indian Government has said that it has asked for the information to check the accuracy of telecom operators’ claim that the scarcity of mobile towers has led to frequent call drops. The Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has asked tower operators to share details of the number of ...

News: Taiwan’s Foxconn will lead the new joint venture while SoftBank will support the former for the same, said Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO of SoftBank. Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and maker of the iconic iPhones and its Chairman Terry Gou said that the company was aiming to ...

News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch digital locker facility on July 1 that helps citizens to digitally store important documents like PAN card, passport, mark sheets and degree certificates. Digital Locker will provide secure access to Government issued documents which is shared electronically and uses authenticity services provided by ...

News: Sources from government had informed that highly educated youth from age 18-27 are actively taking interest in joining Intelligence Bureau for national security. IB is the most essential arm in India for gathering information and intelligence assessment for the government. But from the past few years the quality has ...

News: The government proposed income tax benefits to remove transaction charges on card payments at petrol pumps, gas agencies, and for railway tickets. It also proposed to make it mandatory to settle high value transactions of more than Rs 1 lakh through electronic mode to reduce tax avoidance, tax rebate ...

News:  Japan’s SoftBank Corp, together with Bharti Enterprises and Taiwan’s Foxconn, will invest about $20 billion in solar projects in India, in one of the biggest investment pledges to date in the country’s renewable energy sector. SoftBank will hold majority control in the joint venture, SBG Cleantech Ltd, while Bharti Enterprises Ltd and ...