News: Visiting Chief of Navy Staff Admiral R K Dhowan, visit at the invitation of Admiral Kraison Chansuwanit, Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Navy, held high level talks with senior Thai government and armed forces officials, agreed to explore bilateral cooperation in shipbuilding projects. The two sides identified exchange of white ...

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: Niti Aayog wants to hire seven consultants as officers on special duty (OSD) at a monthly remuneration of Rs 1.55 lakh each, a move that will reduce the workload. The consultants, who are expected to be experts in areas of economics and social issues, IT, transportation, legal issues and ...