News: India is abstained from voting on a Palestine-backed United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution condemning Israel for its Gaza offensive.  41 countries voted in favour, only the US voted against the resolution in UNHRC in Geneva . The resolution calls upon the parties concerned to cooperate fully with ...

News: The government had issued 73 industrial licences to the defence sector since June 2014, against 50 such licences granted between 2011 and May 2014. These include 16 proposals with a proposed investment of Rs.613 crore, cleared at a licensing committee meeting chaired by the secretary of the Department of ...

News: For transforming India’s 90,000 kms of national highways into green corridors, the government will soon implement an ambitious policy under which one per cent of the road construction cost will go towards planting trees, by creating a brigade of 1,000 contractors for this task. Nitin Gadkari said if the cost of road ...