News: IIT Tirupati will start functioning from August 5 in a temporary campus housed at Krishna Theja Educational Institutions in Chadalawada Nagar on the outskirts of the temple city. The new institution, would be mentored by IIT Madras, will have some of the most experienced and senior faculty from here. ...

News: The Prime Minister has handpicked Kruti Tiwari, an IIT-JEE topper Kruti Tiwari as the band ambassador for the project Digital India. Kruti will be spreading knowledge about the project which includes array of products such as Bharat Net, Digital locker and National Scholarship Portal. The government initiative will ensure ...

News: Power Grid Corporation of India has approved Rs 2,247.37 crore investment plan for the third part of the inter-state electricity transmission project. PGCI has approved investment for Green Energy Corridors: Inter-State Transmission Scheme-Part A and B at an estimated cost of Rs 1,479.30 crore and Rs 3,705.61 crore, respectively. ...

News: According to the World Bank Doing Business Report 2015, India occupies the 142nd position and the government aims to improve the business investment climate in the country in shortest possible time. Russian companies have felt echoes of the “Make in India” concept. Alexey Ulyukaev, Russia’s Minister for Economic Development, talked ...

News: The Excalibur is an improved version of the INSAS rifle and fires 5.56×45 mm ammunition. It has full-automatic capability over the INSAS. barrel is shorter by 4 mm, has a side folding butt stock and features a Picatinny rail, a universal mount that allows a range of weapon sights ...

News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for a 6-nation tour on Monday to attend the BRICS summit in Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, with focus on enhancing strategic, economic and energy ties. The Summit of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), the important economies across the world, ...

News: Corporation Bank is the first bank to launch the MUDRA card based on the RuPay platform. MUDRA card is a part of the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana which aims to fund the unfunded under non-farm micro units in manufacturing, trading and services with affordable credit up to Rs 10 ...

News: The first stage of the city challenge competition for inclusion of cities and towns in the government’s Smart cities mission got underway. States have to nominate the assigned number of cities and towns from each state based on four broad criteria and a total of 13 sub-criteria. The four broad ...

News: Government schemes for skill development and housing are ready to be checked on the high number of landless casual labourers struggling with poverty. Plan is to massively scale up the skilling programme to address the widespread income deprivation. Every third of India’s rural households are landless and depend on ...

News: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has adopted Pachgaon village in Umrer taluka, about 15 kms from Nagpur city, under the ‘Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna’ in November 2014. And today Panchgaon becomes the 1st Wi-Fi village. Source: Twitter