News: The Adani group signed a MoU with the Tamil Nadu government for setting up five solar power plants, with a total capacity of 648-Mw, at a cost of Rs 4,536 crore in Ramanathapuram district, where around 70 per cent of the investment in the project would be met through internal accruals, the balance ...

News: The ‘Make in India’ initiative is giving a new lease of life to some relatively-unknown varieties of indigenous fabrics. Fabrics like Ikkats and Uppada silk are being adopted and revived. Mumbai-based fashion designer Anita Dongre has made an initiative which takes craftsmanship to the cities from the rural areas so that unemployed ...

News: Steps have been taken to overhaul the highways sector, including a Rs. 4,000-crore Metrino pilot project to decongest Delhi. Under the project, fully automatic and driverless small vehicles known as pods will travel suspended under an overhead network. The ring road work from Manesar to Eastern pass, worth Rs. 6,000-crore, will ...

News: CMIE has reported a 8.4% rise in projects under implementation in the quarter ended June 30, the fastest since the September 2012 quarter. Private sector projects under implementation have risen by 0.8% in the June quarter. Since March 2014, projects worth about 2% of GDP have been unstalled. Progressing steadily, they ...

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 ...

News:  HRD Ministry would soon come out with a set of four key parameters, expected to be ‘teaching-learning’, ‘academic performance’, ‘outreach’ and ‘impact’ of the institute nationally and globally, for ranking of Indian institutes across streams. It was chaired by both higher education and school education secretaries and attended by ...

News: In regard to the ongoing ‘Digital India Week’, Union Rural Development Minister has launched an online mobile application for better planning of Panchayat assets and the official Twitter handle of the Ministry of Panchayat Raj. The mobile app “m-asset” can be used by citizens to capture photographs and geographical coordinates of various assets available ...

News: Mobile phone users will be able to retain their numbers when they relocate to any part of the country even if they change operators as full mobile number portability (MNP) comes into effect. MNP has been available within circles since 2011, this is the first time it will be ...