India will sign an agreement with Bangladesh for selling 100 MW power from Tripura’s Palatana power project in Gomati district, a Tripura minister said. The 100 MW power will be in addition to the 500 MW Bangladesh already receives from the West Bengal and a like amount that is on ...

Highlights India’s major imports from Africa are resources and minerals, including crude oil, coal, gemstones and gold. African countries are a big market for Indian-made pharmaceuticals, motor vehicles and processed petroleum products, with trade growing quickly. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking out for a change to the Security Council to ...

The Centre gave the nod for development of Rs 3,000 crore international airport project at the Mopa village in Goa. The Mopa village is located in North Goa near Maharashtra border, approximately 35 kilometres north of Goa’s capital city Panaji. The greenfield airport, to be developed in four phases, will ...

With an objective to ensure that every household in the state has internet, video and telephone services at doorstep, by March 2016, chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu has directed the officials of fibre grid, Infrastructure Corporation of Andhra Pradesh Ltd (INCAP) to lay 30,000 km of cable network in the state. ...

The NITI Aayog panel was led by noted academician Tarun Khanna to suggest ways to promote innovation and build an entrepreneur-friendly ecosystem to drive job growth. The panel will soon submit the detailed report of recommendations for promoting innovation and entrepreneurship and contours of Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) and Self-Employment ...

Handset makers are looking to tap the multi-billion dollar opportunity in India, which is one of the fastest growing smartphone markets in the world. It currently has a software R&D unit in Bengaluru and a hardware unit in Shenzhen. In line with ‘Make in India’ initiative, domestic handset vendor Lava ...

India is Africa’s fourth-largest trading partner after China, the US and the EU. South Africa is already a major coal supplier to India. India’s current trade with Africa is around USD 75 billion dollar and it has granted a whopping USD 7.4 billion for various developmental and capacity building projects ...

The AMRUT scheme envisages infrastructure development in 500 cities across the country. The Telangana government has proposed to enhance water supply in all the 11 mission cities in the state since water supply in all these cities at present is below the prescribed norm of 135 liters per capita per ...

In 2005, Government merged all the State sponsored housing schemes, Rural Permanent Housing, Urban Permanent Housing and Flood Housing and formulated INDIRAMMA scheme. It covers people living in rural areas in the state of Andhra Pradesh. INDIRAMMA housing is a flagship scheme of the State Government and was launched in 2006 ...

Pulses have taken a hit for the last couple of months on the back of a weak monsoon that has hit kharif crop across the country. Dal prices have risen across the country due to a shortfall in domestic output by 2 million tonnes in 2014-15 hit by poor rains and ...