News: The Union Steel & Mines Minister Narendra Singh said Indian steel industry is growing at a reasonably good pace and last year the growth in crude steel production in India was more than 8%. He added India is working towards achieving 300 million tonnes (MT) target in the next 10 ...
Read More »Tata Trust, Google India team up to bring rural women online
News: Google India, in partnership with Tata Trust announced the launch of an initiative named ‘Internet Saathi’ which aims to impart Internet literacy to women in rural India and help them use the technology in their daily lives. With this joint venture, Anandan,VP and MD of Google Southeast Asia and ...
Read More »Government clears 16 defence licence proposals
News: The government had issued 73 industrial licences to the defence sector since June 2014, against 50 such licences granted between 2011 and May 2014. These include 16 proposals with a proposed investment of Rs.613 crore, cleared at a licensing committee meeting chaired by the secretary of the Department of ...
Read More »Bengaluru schoolgirls develop Sellixo android app
News: Five girl students from Bengaluru, made India proud by becoming world-beaters at the Technovation Challenge 2015 held at San Francisco on June 24, for developing mobile app named Sellixo. Team Pentechan, all 9th standard students (14 years old), from the New Horizon Public School (NHPS) reached the summit at the ...
Read More »Access to secrets may block private foreign trip
News: An official handling a large amount of cash or having access to government secrets could face a hurdle in getting permission for a private trip overseas. The new format of draft instructions prepared by Department of Personnel and Training ( DoPT) says While granting such permission, many factors are required ...
Read More »How does Aadhaar card work?
News: The Aadhaar card is a Unique Identification (UID) number, which would serve as proof of identity and address all over India and are saved in a central database. The aim is to prove the successful use of the Aadhaar APIs (Application Program Interface), which were already provided to the ...
Read More »Centre to bring four labour codes to protect workers
News: The union labour ministry proposes to come out with four labour codes in the areas of wages, industrial relations, social security and working conditions to strengthen safety and social security of workers. The Government is holding tri-partite meetings with representatives of trade unions, employers and Central and State governments ...
Read More »Centre to provide assistance to promote tourism in Uttarakhand
News: Uttarakhand state government wishes to develop tourism through an ambitious project of ropeways. The Union Minister of State for Tourism (Independent Charge), Culture (Independent Charge) and Civil Aviation, Dr. Mahesh Sharma held a meeting with Tourism Minister of Uttarakhand, Dinesh Dhanai in New Delhi . State government wishes to ...
Read More »India’s Mahindra aerospace and GE aviation to collaborate on aerostructure manufacturing
News: Both the companies, Mahindra and GE aviation, had an existing initial MoU which enabled them to work together on potential opportunities in manufacture of aerostructures. The new pact, signed here at Paris International Air Show, will see both the companies collaborate to produce small, metallic complex structural sheet details and assemblies ...
Read More »Indian postal department should aggresively market its products: Ravishankar Prasad
News: Union Communications and IT Minister Ravishankar Prasad called on the postal department employees to aggressively market its products, including postal services, e-commerce, banking and insurance. Prasad said he wants to make a turnaround and aggressively market the products like e-commerce, banking and insurance apart from the core postal services. He has assured that there ...
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