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Andhra Pradesh is set to house India’s first national investment and manufacturing zone after the state assured the Centre of availability of 10 sq km of land in one place in Prakasham district. The NIMZ will comprise a special purpose vehicle and a developer, along with the state and the ...

Union minister of Law has said, a total of Rs 21,586 crore has been disbursed under it so far benefiting over 33 lakh people under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana. Reserve Bank of India had issued necessary circular that no collateral security should be insisted for loans up to Rs 10 ...

Government has placed defence order of Rs 2 lakh crore under buy and Make in India category to boost local manufacturing sector. DIPP Joint Secretary Shubhra Singh said that among 25 sectors identified for Make in India campaign, defence and aerospace are being increasingly looked upon as one of the most promising ...

Even as the corporate sector has failed in its target of building toilets in schools across the country – one of the important announcements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech last year – a 102-year-old woman in a remote village in Chhattisgarh is in the vanguard of a ...

News:  Sony plans to assemble its Xperia smartphones in India and manufacture a couple of sub-. `10,000 models, specifically designed for the local market. Sony plans to increasing revenue by boosting mobile phone sales, with the country poised to become the world’s second largest smartphone market by 2017. Sony has globally ...

News: Union Minister of Urban Development, Venkaiah Naidu declared nominations of 98 cities for NDA government’s flagship program. Centre has earmarked Rs 48,000 crore for development of 100 smart cities. The cities were selected through intra-city competition evaluated on parameters such as service levels, financial and institutional capacity, past track ...

News: Germany has offered to rejuvenate a segment of the river in Uttarakhand by using technology it had employed to clean the Rhine, said External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. Calling Indian embassies “home-away-from-home” for the diaspora community,the External Affairs Minister said approach of Indian missions towards the citizens have changed ...

News: Very soon, customers will be able to order a new cooking gas connection online. State-run fuel retailers are joining the e-tail bandwagon with a web-based system for selling new LPG connections and cooking hobs (stoves) as part of the Modi government’s ‘Digital India’ dream. The retailers are also set to ...

News: Government’s ‘Make in India‘ initiative seems to have giving good results as 24.8% of the smartphones shipped in the country during the June quarter were made locally compared with 19.9% in preceding quarter. According to the research firm CyberMedia Research, a total of 56.6 million handsets were shipped during the ...