News: Under the Passport Seva Project, out of 728 police districts in the country, 654 districts have already been integrated with Passport Seva system for online police verification for issuing fresh passports and renewal of passports. As per January – June, 2015 passport services data, the average time taken by ...

News: West Bengal aims to generate about 100 MW from rooftop solar units over the next two to three years. West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission (WBERC) has decided to appoint an ombudsman for each district to allow power consumers to get their grievances redressed at the local level. WBERC chairman ...

News: Iran has promised India the licence to develop ONGC-discovered Farzad-B gas field in the Persian Gulf. A consortium of ONGC Videsh Ltd (the overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corp), Oil India Ltd and Indian Oil Corp had discovered the 12.8 Trillion cubic feet of gas reserves in ...