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Andhra Pradesh became the first state in the country to announce its retail policy – offering a much greater relaxation in labour laws in working hours for ease of doing business in the retail sector. The state has also moved a step ahead by including food and grocery retail enterprises ...

The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu has revealed that the state government is soon going to establish a fibre grid (broadband) in order to connect every household by coming March.  Mr. Naidu revealed the proposal of connecting homes in his keynote address during the second day session ...

India is going to get her first space park in the IT capital of India- Bengaluru. The park will be set up by Indian Space Research organization (ISRO) in the Whitefield area of the city and private industries will be permitted to use the park for manufacturing facilities and satellite ...

The state government of Andhra Pradesh on Monday revealed that Microsoft India will soon be setting up a Centre of Excellence in Visakhapatnam as part of its digital insertion project in the state. Earlier that day, Microsoft CEO Mr. Satya Nadella signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the state ...

The CEO of software giant Microsoft Mr. Satya Nadella signs a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Andhra Pradesh Government today towards establishing a technologically advanced economy and better the usage of ICT. Microsoft will support AP in building up to three proof-of-concept (POC) solutions in the fields of education, ...

The historic Chennai Central railway station is probably to become the first station in Tamil Nadu to get Google’s Wi-Fi network coverage. Officials of RailTel Corporation have said that plans are already ongoing to make the railway station Wi-Fi covered by March, 2016. This is part of Google’s initiative along ...

Telangana has become the sixth State in the country to sign up for ‘Power for All’ scheme. Under the scheme, an investment of Rs 18,983 crore and Rs 23,817 crore has been planned for 2018-19 for strengthening and augmenting transmission and distribution network respectively in the State. In addition to ...

Objective of the scheme: To encourage admission and active participation in skill training programme and to help the poor and downtrodden youth, tuition fee is waived by the Government and free training is offered to all the trainees of Government ITIs.  Concessions to the Government ITI and Government aided Private ITI trainees:- 1. Bus pass ...

About the scheme: To encourage the workers who suggest useful and outstanding improvements in productivity better working environments and improvement in Safety Standards “Tamilaga Arasin Uyarntha Uzhaipalar Virudhu” are awarded every year. The scheme was launched to enhance and motivate the participation of more workers.  Due to this enhancement for the year 2012, the number of applications ...

Objective of the Scheme: In order to motivate the management for better safety performance, State Safety Awards are presented to the management every year based on their performance in reducing accidents in their Factories. Key Highlights: Under the scheme, every year 90 first prizes are awarded to the managements besides 90 second prizes and 90 third ...