Ministries

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 ...

News: More than 30 hardcore rebels of anti-talk faction of NDFB, including its military commander B. Bidai, are running for shelter in the Manas Tiger Reserve of Assam. They could not sustain the mounting pressure of the security forces and surrendered before the Army in two separate batches. Army had ...

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 ...

News: Telecom Minister said, “A committee on internet governance was formed under Chairmanship of Finance Minister and has decided India should support a multi-stakeholder approach in matter of Internet governance”. The members of the committee include Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu and Prasad. The committee thinks that government should ...

News: Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to South Asia rose to $41 billion in 2014, primarily the inflows surged by 22 per cent to about $34 billion owing to good performance by India. The top five recipients in South Asia of FDI inflows were India, followed by Iran, Pakistan and Bangladesh ...

News: Ministry of Railways has started a passenger friendly measure on pilot basis, under which SMS would be sent to passengers informing about train cancellation in case the train in which they have booked their tickets for is cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances. The SMS will be sent to their ...

News: India has pledged $1 billion in assistance to quake-ravaged Nepal for its massive reconstruction programme. One fourth of the $1 billion assistance will be granted and it will be over and above India’s existing bilateral developmental assistance of another $1 billion over the next five years which takes the ...

News: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday has approved a slew of projects. The proposals that were cleared include : 1) Rs 81,459 crore revised estimate for East-West freight corridor The Cabinet gave its approval for the revised cost estimate of Rs 81,459 crore for the Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridor ...

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 ...

News: HRD Minister Smriti Irani has announced the launch of a new app which will offer books to the students for free to up the education of the country. Under the banner of NCERT, a mobile app will be enabled to the students for downloading NCERT books from class 1 ...