News: Department of Industrial Policy has come up with a multi-pronged strategy to develop innovation and creativity. The government, for a more refined and developed intellectual property regime in order to boost its ‘Make in India’ campaign, has announced a slew of measures to promote homegrown talent. The measures are listed below: ...

News: Use of the Ayni airbase for the Indian Air Force, tops the agenda for discussion with Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Ayni airbase near Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe has long been key to expanding India’s strategic footprint in Central Asia. The origins of the airbase ...

News: The Indian Railway has witnessed a negative growth of over 8 per cent in the passenger segment for June this year as compared to the corresponding period last year due to improved condition of roads. Barring coal, the loading of iron ore, cement and foodgrains was negative as compared ...

News: Memorandum of understanding on supply of chemical products between the Indian Public Sector undertaking ‘Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited’ and the Turkmen State concern ‘Turkmenhimiya’. Memorandum of understanding between the Foreign Service Institute of the Ministry of External Affairs of the Republic of India and the Institute of International ...

News: Nuclear submarines are strategic assets and typically stay deep inside the sea ready to launch in case of nuclear strike. The indigenously made nuclear submarine – INS Arihant – will fire its first missile, also made in India, this year to formally complete the nuclear triad for India. The ...

News: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav announced that the Lucknow Metro will begin running before the 2017 state assembly elections. He announced, the state government proposed to run metro rail in Kanpur, Agra, Varanasi and Meerut. Source: ET

News: The Prime Minister electronically unveiled a plaque commemorating the inauguration of the extreme high altitude test laboratory, Phase 2 of the Kyrgyz-India Mountain Biomedical Research Centre project and situated in the Syok Pass at an altitude of 4000 metres. Modi said that the research done at this Centre will ...

News: The Department of Personnel and Training has issued a notification asking all public servants, who have filed their annual property returns to file the revised declarations and information by October 15, 2015. All Group A, B and C employees are supposed to file a declaration under the new rules. ...

News: Haryana government will promote farmhouses during the annual Surajkund International Crafts Mela next year with a view to attracting Indians and foreigners to the concept of ‘Farm Tourism’. At present, 14 farmhouses, located mostly in the National Capital Region and a few along a National Highway, are registered with the ...

News: The Centre has collected Rs 57,357 crore from indirect taxes in June this year, up 37.4 per cent compared to Rs 43,025 crore a year earlier. This was aided by a 67.4 per cent increase in excise duty collections. Various additional measures played a role in the rise in ...