Commerce and Industry

News FAME-India or Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric vehicles in India as part of the National Mission for Electric Mobility has been launched. Government launched this scheme that envisages to provide Rs 795 crore support till 2020 for the manufacturing and sale of electric and hybrid vehicles. The ...

News Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government’s new Foreign Trade Policy (2015-2020). The government’s new foreign trade policy (2014-19) to rev up exports is expected to be put in place by October-end and will have a strong thrust on manufacturing to bring it ...

News Nuclear energy production in India is set to get a major boost with the department of atomic energy (DAE) giving nod to set up the country’s own thermo-nuclear fusion reactor India is presently one of the seven partner countries in world’s biggest energy research project – the ITER – ...

News The Centre plans to pump $10 billion into facilities in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, where a consortium of firms have come up as production bases. India would also be investing $400 million in developing an Indian version of micro-processor. Infrastructure for chip manufacturing and designing will be considerably strengthened ...

News Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated a land customs station at the Indo-Myanmar border trade centre at Zokhawthar in Champhai district of Mizoram. The Centre has been taking up development in the North East on a mission mode and arrangements were made for expeditious completion of pending projects in the region. ...