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Indian government is planning to introduce a river information system (RIS) similar to air traffic control for the real time monitoring of ships shuttling in the inland waters network. It will provide real time metrological data and real time data of vessels moving around the water. The online availability will ...

Union Minister Gadkari on Sunday while pitching for the Make in India drive, called upon automakers to develop indigenous technologies to build environment-friendly car engines. Indian car-manufactures still pay a huge amount of royalty cost to foreign companies and by developing their own, they would be able to save a ...

Startups are the new future. The Indian startup market in recent times has exponentially boomed and lots of young people are now driven towards the very idea of ‘starting something new’.  But just having s dream is not enough, materializing that very dream of yours into reality cones the hardest ...

Indian government is working on a law in consultation with various agencies and state governments that will enable malls, restaurants, theatres and local markets to remain open whole night – to level the playfield between online sellers and retailers. According to ET, the labor ministry will hold the first round ...

At the inaugural session of Indian Science Congress, PM Modi said the government is committed to make scientific research easier and the administration would be improved too. The focus for research should be on five Es, he further emphasized during his speech. The 5Es stand for economy, energy, environment, empathy ...

Research and innovation is all set to take a new turn with the Prime Minister’s office directing the Ministry of HRD to fast track the framework for setting up 10 private autonomous universities. The agenda is to invite world-class private institutions for higher studies to set up in the country ...

In a major diplomatic behaviour, Qatar has halved the price of the selling gas under a 25 year contract and has also relinquished a payment responsibility of Rs. 12,000 crore since India refused to import the committed number of shipments in the year 2015 under its ‘take-or-pay’ clause. India’s largest ...

The central government in the next two weeks will be launching a new blueprint for startups called ‘Start Up India’ to make the process for setting-up businesses more lenient. The blue print of this policy may have a Startups and Entrepreneurship Law to make it easier for the startups to ...

After the success of LPG subsidy directly transferring into user’s bank account, the government is all set to launch a similar scheme for kerosene from April 1. Now, users will buy the cooking fuel at the market prices but the subsidy will directly get transferred into their bank accounts. The ...

Maharashtra has emerged as the top player in luring global and domestic investment by attracting 15L crore in 5 years, while Gujarat at the second place. According to a recently publish report of Assocham, Gujarat secured a mere 2% growth in investments among 21 states in past 5 years. Gujarat, ...