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News: Defence ministry is expected to sign an agreement with US government to  assemble 145 BAE Systems M777 155mm/39mm calibre lightweight howitzers in India. The deal is estimated to be worth $700 million. The M777 gun is a lightweight howitzer which can be carried via a sling on the Chinook helicopters. ...

News: Government of India is leveraging the research potential of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to meet industry demands for innovative solutions for the “Make in India” initiative. It has created a corpus of Rs 250 crore annually with an aim of giving an impetus to the ‘Make In ...

3 city-based colleges have decided to adopt Matunga railway station here in a bid to covert it into a ‘world class station with the most modern facilities’. WeSchool Group Director Dr Uday Salunkhe said the aim of the project is to go beyond the basics and use thinking and intelligence ...

Around 37 consulting firms have been assigned work for preparing action plans for the 88 cities proposed to be developed as Smart Cities. The remaining 10 cities in north-eastern states and Union Territories will do so by this week end. While KPMG will prepare the action plan for New Delhi Municipal ...

Kalbelia, a folk dancer who entertains tourists for a living, had vowed to cut half of his moustache if people in his village did not build toilets by the first anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His pledge, in a land where a man’s ...

The government of India has set a target to increase the share of processed food in Indian food basket – 25% by 2025. The Vision 2015 of the Central Government aims to invest 1, 10,000 Cr in the food processing sector. In line with that Kerala government has setup ‘State ...

FMCG firm Dabur India said that it will adopt five villages in Uttar Pradesh and make them “Open-Defecation Free” within the current fiscal. The five villages to be adopted by Dabur India are Nandpur, Nagla Gajju, Naraina, Nidhawali, and Domatkri. “Our idea is to turn these villages into model villages ...

The internet was one of the most important innovation in 20th century changing the way of human interaction. It has now become an important element of everyone’s life and no longer are days when people may start asking ‘Right to Internet’. However, more than 60% of the world’s population still ...

According to the survey conducted by citizen engagement platform Local Circles, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh have shown significant improvement. The survey got responses from over 40,000 citizens and 73% of them were from tier-I and tier-II cities in the age group of 18-50 years. The ...

The San Diego based chip-maker made the announcement after its executive chairman Paul Jacobs met the Indian prime minister at the Digital Economy event in San Jose and said the venture fund was in support of the government’s Digital India and Make-in-India initiatives. The new venture fund, which will be ...