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News: Manufacturing in India now is cheaper by 11 per cent compared to imports, considering incentives for local manufacturing offered by the government. While Japan’s Sony and China’s Xiaomi are evaluating options to source from India, Foxconn is in the process of setting up factories in the country. “India is ...

News: The government’s ambitious disinvestment plan for 2015-16 has run into an unusual hurdle, with its first call for bankers to advise it on the state-run firms’ shares sales eliciting a tepid response, especially from foreign banks that used to vigorously jostle for these mandates in earlier years. Barring Deutsche, no foreign ...

News: Maharashtra CM has declared that the first draft of the Bill will be ready in a month’s time and will be available for suggestions and objections. Opinion of senior lawyers would be taken to make the proposed law foolproof. The special Act will make attack on journalists a non-bailable and cognisable offence. Source: ...

News: The framework agreement between P5+1 States and Iran ended up in the following way: The ‘great powers’ finally reconciled to an Iranian bomb, albeit making it tougher for Iran to make the N-bomb in the future. In return, Iran was assured that it would be freed from the burdens ...

News: National Career Counselling Portal aims to create marketplace for workers and employers and as part of an endeavor to modernize all government-run employment exchanges across India. The facility, which is part of the government’s focus on skilling have the facilities like job posting, career counselling, aptitude tests, skill courses, ...

News: July 14, after marathon negotiations, the world finally welcomed the nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the six world powers. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is set to tear down the walls of almost a decade old sanctions on Iran, in a graded manner. Although ...

News: Myanmar, considered one of India’s strategic neighbours, shares a 1,640-km-long border with a number of northeastern states including insurgency hit Manipur. Myanmar is India’s gateway to Southeast Asia and key to Modi government’s Act East policy, under which India now wants to conclude the pending development projects at a ...

News: TCS had earmarked a budget of ₹ 100 crore for building dedicated sanitation facilities for girls in selected schools. The initiative aims to boost the enrollment rate and reduce the dropout rate of girl students in the adopted schools, and in turn, improve learning outcomes. Under the fist phase of ...

News: Huawei would become the first big-name Chinese phone maker to manufacture hardware in India’s growing market to helping compensate for slowing growth at home. “India is an important overseas market for Huawei. We aim to become a top three brand in India within three years. ,” says Allen Wang, president ...

News: Centre announced that it will approach Assam, West Bengal and Bihar states, take up the task of connecting Manas-Sankosh-Teesta-Ganga in Assam, West Bengal and Bihar and preparing a detailed project report. The Manas-Sankosh-Teesta-Ganga link will be the fifth interstate project. The government believes this river-linking project, if implemented, will not only ...