Ministries

News: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that the Cabinet has approved funds amounting to Rs 50,000 crore over the five years to ensure that the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana is a success. The major objective of tthis irrigation scheme is to achieve convergence of investments in irrigation at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

News: “India is back on the priority list of CEOs after Narendra Modi came to power and the government seems serious,” McKinsey CEO Dominic Barton has said and is advising his client to bet big on India once again because “India is right in the centre”. PM Narendra Modi’s high profile, the ...

News: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA),  has given its approval to a Central Sector Scheme for Promotion of National Agricultural Market through Agri-Tech Infrastructure Fund (ATIF). They will set it up through the Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium (SFAC) by creation of a common electronic platform deployable in selected ...

News: The central government wants to build capacity of local contractors, engineers and other stakeholders for participation in construction of highways and infrastructure in the North-East. The involvement of local stakeholders would result in inclusive development of the region through creation of jobs and opening up of avenues. The Centre has decided to award contractors ...

News: Central government employees going abroad need to disclose estimated expenditure and source of funds prior to their visits, according to a draft policy formed by the centre. They also need to give details of such trips taken by them during the past four years. Employees need to give details of period of travel, name ...

News: The supercomputer would have a capacity (speed) of half petaflop to 20 petaflop and can help in defence simulation, computing, biology and material science and earth science, Ashutosh Sharma, secretary of DST, said that these computers will enable high-level research in different fields and government has formed modalities to discuss ...

News: “We have addressed underlying macroeconomic instability that we had, despite global volatility. Government will focus on banking reforms, GST and macro-economic stability in the remaining 3-4 years” minister of state for Finance Jayant Sinha said at an IVCA (Indian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association) event. Sinha said the finance ...