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 ...

News: According to a study by Pew Research Center, 74 per cent of Indians currently think the economy is doing well, compared with 64 per cent a year ago. In India, 74 per cent today believe their children will have a better future than they did, against from 67 per ...

News: The ministries of water resources, environment and power are in discussions to ensure “uninterrupted” higher e-flow from any hydro-power projects such that river Ganga neither gets fragmented nor loses its character throughout its length. E-flow is the quantum of water that must uninterruptedly flow in the river in all ...

News: Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS) will establish the university campus in Chennai with an investment of over Rs 46 crore with the collaboration of India’s Vels Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies. The Chennai University will be the third overseas campus for the Singapore-based private educational institution ...

News: Information and Public Relations Minister Palle Raghunatha Reddy said the Andhra Pradesh government had planned Deeparadhana in every household on the last day of 12-day river festival. A Kuchipudi ballet with 1,000 artistes would be a cultural extravaganza and there would be fire works show, laser show are  some ...

News: The Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO’s) proposal to set up a Rs 10,000 crore product development and assembling unit near Orvakal in Kurnool district allocating 2200 acres of land. The unit would offer employment to about 4,000 people. Source: TheHindu

News: The largest transport network in the world has just decided to buy insurance cover for its passengers against possible baggage loss, and death. State-run New India Assurance is the frontrunner for a tie-up with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), a unit of the Indian Railways which ...

News:  The Centre is likely to work out the contours of the reworked land acquisition bill by next week amid indications that it may be purged of all the politically unpopular provisions. Government may allow states to draft their own acquisition laws with the frame of reference being the central ...

News: Maharashtra CM has declared that the first draft of the Bill will be ready in a month’s time and will be available for suggestions and objections. Opinion of senior lawyers would be taken to make the proposed law foolproof. The special Act will make attack on journalists a non-bailable and cognisable offence. Source: ...