News: India sought French investment in its aviation sector while asking aerospace companies from France and other nations to manufacture their products in the country. Minister state for defence also held a series of meetings with the companies present in the defence sector, including Dassault, from which India has decided to ...
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Nasscom signs MOU with Symantec for building skilled cyber security professionals
News: The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) and cyber security firm Symantec, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for ‘Building cyber security skills. The MoU was signed between R. Chandrashekhar, president, Nasscom and Michael Brown, president and CEO, Symantec. Nasscom stated that the Sector Skill Council, Nasscom ...
Read More »Pakistan govt releases 113 Indian fishermen
News: Pakistan has released 113 Indian fishermen following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to his Pakistani counterpart to offer Ramazan wishes. The fishermen were in a jail in Karachi for nine months to a year. Now, they were put on a train from Karachi to Lahore from where they will cross ...
Read More »Agriculture to be the next Make in India initiative for Goa
News: Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has declared that the state would do well to tap crop, post-harvest technologies and water management from a nation known for world class agri-technology. While former chief minister Manohar Parrikar’s has made a Make in India contract to a central government-operated shipyard ...
Read More »Two new projects to be launched under Digital India initiative
News: New project, e Basta and DigiLocker portal to be launched by PM Narendra Modi on July 1, 2015. Government of India is planning to launch under ‘Digital India’ a number of ambitious projects like eBasta on which all NCERT text books as well as some State Boards’ textbooks will ...
Read More »Make India Your Home: PM Modi to Cisco Head John Chambers
News: US technology giant Cisco today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to discuss the company’s manufacturing and business commitment for India under ‘Digital India’ programme. Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John T Chambers said that they will invest big, about $1.74 billion, in the country ...
Read More »Indian money in Swiss banks falls over by 10%
News: Money held by Indians in Swiss banks fell by over 10 per cent last year to 1.8 billion Swiss franc (about Rs 12,615 crore), amid an enhanced clampdown against the famed secrecy wall of Switzerland’s banking system by Indian and other governments. This is the second lowest amount of ...
Read More »Govt approves 16 foreign investment proposals amounting Rs 6,750.86 Cr
News: Based on the recommendations of Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), government has approved 16 proposals of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) amounting to Rs 6,750.86 crore. The government has approved Torrent Pharmaceuticals’ proposal for increasing FII investment from 13.09 per cent to 35 per cent. While, Syngene International has been allowed ...
Read More »A regulatory body to safeguard home buyers: Maharashtra govt
News: Maharashtra government will soon appoint a regulatory body to safeguard interests of home buyers after the centre gave a go ahead to the state to frame rules to implement the Housing Regulatory Bill passed by the legislature and approved by the President. The Maharashtra Housing (Regulation and development) 2012 was passed two years ago ...
Read More »MGNEGRA workdays increased from 100 to 150 in drought hit areas
News: Battling opposition charge of pursuing “anti-poor” policies, the NDA government has decided to increase the number of workdays under MGNEGRA from 100 days to 150 days in drought-hit areas. A policy decision has been taken that if a family requires 150 days of work under MNREGA in a drought affected ...
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