Ministries

News: The government has proposed to make the drugs used to treat AIDS and other diseases cheaper. The drugs and equipment will be exempted from custom duty. In a notification issued by the Central Board of Excise and Customs it has been stated that this exemption will be effective from March 31, ...

News: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering revising regulations that would allow Foreign Students on F1 visas to work in the United States for upto six years Jobs/Employment under the Optimal Practical Training Program. Optional Practical Training (OPT) and Curricular Practical Training are two employment options available to students on an F1 ...

News:  Central railways has started with the I.C.U facility on rails. Benefits: Train accident victims can expect faster treatment in case of accidents. The fully air-conditioned van offers all the facilities, including medical professionals and equipment, that one needs in an Intensive Care Unit.  The van has an ambulance on ...

News: Service Tax will not be levied on customers dining in restaurants without air conditioning facility or central heating. Even the restaurants that have ACs or central heating will levy service tax only on 40% of the total bill amount. Finance ministry also specified, “In case of air-conditioned or air-heated ...

News: The railway ministry has decided to do away with these chains. An official said railways had incurred a loss of Rs 3000 crore because trains ran late with the indiscriminate chain-pulling for no good reason. The alternative arrangement for this, the mobile phone number of the driver and assistant ...

News: A crisis response campaigner Aaron Gray-Block, with Greenpeace International was denied entry into India as its name is figured in a Home Ministry “black list”. Greenpeace India, which was under the government’s scanner for allegedly violating various provisions of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act . Gray-Block had earlier campaigned ...

News: 20 insurgents were killed in the operation conducted by the Indian Army in pursuit of terrorists behind ambush and enters Myanmar. PM has ordered hot pursuit for these terrorists. The Manipur Ambush Two rebel camps belonging to Northeast insurgent groups who had ambushed a convoy of 6 Dogra Regiment ...

News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is preparing to launch India’s biggest overhaul of labour laws since independence in a bid to create millions of manufacturing jobs, at the risk of stirring up a political backlash that could block other critical reforms. The ministry is drafting a bill for the upcoming parliamentary ...

News: Germany-based Henkel AG will invest about 30 million euro (around Rs 210 crore) to set up an adhesives plant near Pune in Maharashtra, having an annual capacity of about 80,000 tonnes of adhesives and surface treatments, through its subsidiary Henkel Adhesive Technologies India Pvt Ltd. The new plant is expected ...

News: According to a consulting and research firm, Bridge to India, India could become one of the largest solar markets in the world in the next three years. Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, set a target of 100 GW of solar generation capacity by 2022, a nearly 33-fold increase from the ...