“India presents a wonderful opportunity for us. They share our values and our norms. One of my objectives is to improve that relationship with India,” Admiral Harry B Harris, Commander of the US Pacific Command (PACOM) told members of Senate Armed Services Committee during a hearing on maritime security strategy in ...

PMEGP: Prime Minister Employment Generation Program The program has been launched to provide financial assistance to set up new enterprises. Implementation: At the national Level: Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) At the state level: State KVIC Directorates State Khadi and Village Industries Boards (KVIBs), District Industries Centres (DICs) Authorized Banks ...

India will be able to weather the impact of any increase in interest rates by the US Federal Reserve with its “multiple layers of defence”, minister of state for finance Jayant Sinha has said. Sinha said the goal of policymakers in India is to strengthen economy to ensure that asset ...

The efforts by Accredited social health activists (ASHA), Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM) and anganwadi workers will now be supervised through multimedia-enabled ‘m-sakhi’ application and the ‘m-sehat’ programme. The move is aimed to front line health workers in improving maternal, neonatal and child health. Qualcomm, providing technical support to the project, ...

The two sides of the unique Challenge Coin created by the India-US Joint Working Group on Aircraft Career after their first meeting in United States from August 12-14 to symbolize their partnership. One side of the coin reads “Forward Together We Go” and “Chale Chale Saath Saath” in Hindi; which ...

India-Vietnam are pushing to broadbase their relations to encompass all possible areas of cooperation and deepen their strategic partnership building on exceptionally close ties since their foundations were laid more than 50 years ago. India’s relations with Vietnam are marked by growing economic and commercial engagement. India is now among ...

United States Ambassador to India, Richard Verma, has said that his nation is looking to make significant contributions to India’s strategic capabilities, such as the anti-surface warfare capabilities of the Indian Navy’s submarine fleet. “In a few weeks the USS Theodore Roosevelt will visit the Indian Ocean to take part ...

Telecom minister has said that, call drop issue would be resolved within a month, even as he termed the protest against tower radiation a ‘sinister’ campaign hampering network functioning. The call drop problem during peak hours in one year has almost doubled, as per a report of telecom regulator Trai. ...

As many as 15 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) for projects worth $590 million (approximately Rs 3,900 crore) were signed between Gujarat and the Guangdong province of China at the China (Guangdong)-India (Gujarat) Economic and Trade Cooperation Conference-2015 held in Ahmedabad. The deals inked covered important sectors such as infrastructure, energy, ...

Rattled by a spate of train accidents in which several lives were lost, Railways today said “enough is enough” and any “laxity on safety front is not acceptable” as it decided to seek Rs 1 lakh crore funds from the Finance ministry for safety upgrade. Railway minister has shown serious concern ...