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News: Several international luxury brands  are making a return to India with reworked strategies, after failing to make a mark in this high potential market in their first outings. British luxury menswear and accessories brand Alfred Dunhill, which brought the shutters down on its stores in India in 2012, is busy ...

News: The Centre has invested Rs 4.85 lakh crore in big infrastructure projects, costing over Rs 150 crore, as of June 1 in the current fiscal. These projects are related to civil aviation, petroleum, power, railways, road transport and highways, steel, urban development, coal, atomic energy, shipping and ports, heavy, industry, fertiliser ...

News: India’s postal department is set to launch a pilot programme that seeks to help farmers sell their produce over the Internet, that too without spending a paisa on transport. The plan is to deploy postmasters in villages to collate details from farmers on their produce and upload the data ...

News: Cleaning of sewers, descending into manholes, removing night-soil (human excreta) using a broom find a place in the National Career Services portal that was launched recently as a part of Skill India. Modi government seems to now promote and allow the hiring of the prohibited act of manual scavenging ...

News: The government is planning to train some 3,000 beggars to sing much like the bards of yore about the signature plans like Beti Bachao Beti Padao, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and many other initiatives on local trains in major cities with a view to popularise them among urban commuter folk. ...

News: To boost coal production, the government is working on a methodology for allocation of coal mines for commercial mining. In order to augment production of coal to meet the demand in the country especially of the medium and small scale enterprises, the government is considering allocation of coal mines ...

News: The government’s ambitious disinvestment plan for 2015-16 has run into an unusual hurdle, with its first call for bankers to advise it on the state-run firms’ shares sales eliciting a tepid response, especially from foreign banks that used to vigorously jostle for these mandates in earlier years. Barring Deutsche, no foreign ...

News: Maharashtra CM has declared that the first draft of the Bill will be ready in a month’s time and will be available for suggestions and objections. Opinion of senior lawyers would be taken to make the proposed law foolproof. The special Act will make attack on journalists a non-bailable and cognisable offence. Source: ...

News: The Election commission of India is keen on drafting a model code of conduct for the media to ensure some norms are adhered to during coverage of elections, a proposal which if implemented will mark the first formal code of its kind in the country. The election commissioners want ...

News: July 14, after marathon negotiations, the world finally welcomed the nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the six world powers. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is set to tear down the walls of almost a decade old sanctions on Iran, in a graded manner. Although ...