News: India, China and Bangladesh are among the top recyclers of the world’s waste and the environment ministry had all these years generously permitted import of PET bottles by licensed recycling units in India. The ministry of environment, forests & climate change, issued order, banned import of all used plastic ...

News: A three-storey building on the sprawling campus of Krishna Teja Group of Educational Institutions on Renigunta Road has been allocated to IIT-T. “We are bringing some senior faculty members from IIT-Madras to train students here,” K.N. Satyanarayana, Professor in charge of IIT-Tirupati said. Source: TH

News: The amendments in the Negotiable Instruments Act will have implications for over 18 lakh cheque bounce cases pending in various courts, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha said while piloting the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Bill 2015 in the House. It will help small traders, large corporates especially telecom ...

News: The home ministry’s proposal before the Union Cabinet on extending the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) till 2017 involves preparation of analytical reports for the first time to understand pattern of crime taking place in different parts of India. The proposal also involves integrating CCTNS applications ...

News: NAT SAR is an enterprise that will digest information from databases like banking information, railways, telephone records and airlines and would be able to pass smart, actionable inputs to investigative agencies. NAT SAR as a complex system that will be at the heart of the national policing and intelligence ...

News: India, at present, has only five National Waterways and many of the stretches are not functional. Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari called on his Egyptian counterpart to discuss ways to improve bilateral ties in the waterways and ports sectors. The talks to enhance cooperation in the area ...

News: For easy access between Visakhapatnam and Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur, the Central Government has taken up the four-laning of National Highway 43 (NH-43) which is now renumbered as NH-26. While Visakhapatnam would get fresh business opportunities, Chhattisgarh will get access to the port and the international airport in Andhra Pradesh. ...

News: The Deputy Commissioners (DCs) of all districts will publish a draft list of persons, dead or alive, who had suffered during the Emergency days of 1970’s period. They (the DCs) will prepare the photo identity cards, along with Aadhaar number, for every such individual who is alive and is ...

News: The Educational Consultants India Limited (EdCIL), a public sector unit of the Human Resource Development ministry is finalising the project and university will have its main campus at the National Academy of Indian Railways at Vadodar. The academy provides training to all levels of Indian Railway officers, from probationers ...

News: Isro has a track record of launching satellites for 19 countries including space-faring nations, but this is the first time the US would be using an Indian vehicle, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, to put one of its satellite in orbit. Having successfully launched a Mars mission, India is ...