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News: According to the World Bank Doing Business Report 2015, India occupies the 142nd position and the government aims to improve the business investment climate in the country in shortest possible time. Russian companies have felt echoes of the “Make in India” concept. Alexey Ulyukaev, Russia’s Minister for Economic Development, talked ...

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: India is abstained from voting on a Palestine-backed United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution condemning Israel for its Gaza offensive.  41 countries voted in favour, only the US voted against the resolution in UNHRC in Geneva . The resolution calls upon the parties concerned to cooperate fully with ...

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 Aadhaar card is a Unique Identification (UID) number, which would serve as proof of identity and address all over India and are saved in a central database. The aim is to prove the successful use of the Aadhaar APIs (Application Program Interface), which were already provided to the ...

News: Pakistan’s enforcement on UN financial sanctions against terrorism will be closely monitored by Financial Action Task Force (FATF), through its associate body, the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering . FATF is a policy-making body whose objectives include setting standards to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism and ...

News: The Ministry External Affairs, has put in place a mechanism for stricter vigilance of erring officers posted in various Indian diplomatic missions across continents and act fast on complaints and allegations leveled against any diplomat. Over 20 officers with diplomatic passports from different background across missions are under scanner. MEA ...

News: The Indian Prime Minister has launched Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS) on  28th June 2015 at Varanasi. Government of India will provide budgetary support of Rs. 45,800 crore over the entire implementation period of IPDS. Benefits : It aims at strengthening of sub-transmission network, Metering, IT application, Customer Care ...

Bio toilets to be installed on trains marking completion of the first year of the launch of Swachh Bharat Campaign by Prime Minister. Indian Railway has undertaken an initiative to make 367 km of tracks free from discharge of human waste from toilets on trains in the current fiscal. To begin ...

News: India has pledged $1 billion in assistance to quake-ravaged Nepal for its massive reconstruction programme. One fourth of the $1 billion assistance will be granted and it will be over and above India’s existing bilateral developmental assistance of another $1 billion over the next five years which takes the ...