Initiatives

News: Bharati Vidya Scheme is to ensure poor brahmins are educated and protected. Under this scheme financial aid is provided of Rs. 10,000 for inter and polytechnic students, Rs. 15,000 for degree students and Rs. 20,000 for engineering, medical, BL and PG students. Source: TDPOfficial Also Read: Where to Register for ...

News: Airbus, one of the world’s leading commercial aircraft manufacturers, it is reliably learnt, is looking to set up shop in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. The site is on the Hyderabad- Bengaluru National Highway, 80 km from Anantapur town and about 90 km from the Bengaluru. But the proposal ...

News: Bharat Forge Chairman and Managing Director Babasaheb Kalyani, said India will make us third-largest economy after China. “Through the ‘Make-in-India’ campaign, our Prime Minister has envisaged to take the contribution of manufacturing sector in the GDP to 25 per cent in the next 10 to 15 years, which will ...

News: Under the ‘Pension at Doorstep’ scheme, 44,750 beneficiaries from the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC), three other municipalities in the district, 49 mandals and 291 places would be given pension for August. Addressing the beneficiaries at Leprosy Colony in Gannavaram mandal in the city, the Collector said “The scheme would ...

News: Pasighat is the only city in Arunachal Pradesh which fulfills the condition of having an existing master plan or a proposed one for being selected as a smart city under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme, launched by Union government. Basic objective of this mission ...

Blog: What if India had not invented the zero? Perhaps computers would not have seen the light of the day and the world would not be connected through information technology. With the Digital India programme, India may have an opportunity to inspire and transform the world yet again. Sixty years ...

News: Data analytics is an emerging technology used in business intelligence. State IT minister K T Rama Rao said the Telangana government is mulling setting up a ‘Data Analytics Park’ and a tower to house SMEs in the information technology sector. Source: ET

News: The website “airmenselection.gov.in” was launched by Air Officer-in-Charge Personnel (AOP), Air Marshal S Neelakantan in tune with the national policy Digital India. Aspiring candidates for airmen selection would be able to apply online for all recruitment tests. Source: DefenceNews

News: Over 38 lakh urban poor have been provided with skill development training with assistance from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. Skill development of urban poor to enable either self- employment or salaried employment was undertaken under the ‘Skill Training for Employment Promotion Amongst Urban Poor (STEP-UP)’ ...

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 ...