News: The joint venture, between India’s oldest and largest stock exchange and a global giant with both having parentage of over 100 years each, has already launched a large number of index products here and is now looking at opportunities in neighboring countries. Leading index provider Asia Index Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between ...

News: As per the government’s order, PWD have taken up cleaning of a 400-metre stretch of Cauvery river and its banks to ensure hastle-free celebration of August 3 Aadi Perukku festival, at a cost of Rs five lakh from Mela Cauvery to Old Palakkarai. The steps in the banks would be renovated and ...

News: The administration is set to launch a special programme, Operation Blue Moon, in Maoist-hit Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks of Odisha’s Koraput district, would be launched on August 4 and will span over eight weeks, Collector of Koraput district Jaya Kumar V said. During the period, people’s grievances will be addressed, surprise inspection of government ...

News: The Ministry of Defence(MoD) had taken the call to relax certain norms for the recruitment of women to the Armed Forces and a final decision in this regard was expected  within the next two months. There are as many as 3,298 lady officers working in the armed forces and the ...

News: The Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigative Team has submitted its report on black money in which it has recommended crackdown on money laundering through stock exchange platform and Participatory notes (P-notes). Some salient recommendations are: SEBI needs to have an effective monitoring mechanism to study unusual rise of stock prices of firms while such ...

News: Four heavily armed terrorists wearing army uniform, went on a rampage attacking a bus and a police station complex, leaving five persons, including a policeman, dead and several injured in Gurdaspur district bordering Pakistan. The terrorists struck a moving bus at Dinanagar area at 5 AM, spraying bullets at ...

News: Guwahati and five other cities in the northeast will be developed as solar cities to reduce dependency on conventional energy. The six cities – Guwahati and Jorhat in Assam, Kohima and Dimapur in Nagaland, Itanagar n Arunachal Pradesh and Agartala in Tripura – will be developed under the Development of ...

News: State-owned defence manufacturing firm Bharat Dynamics Ltd (BDL) will invest an additional Rs300-400 crore in modernization and ramping up its missile production facility in Hyderabad. The missile-system manufacturer has already invested about Rs. 500 crore for various missile systems as well as ramping up the anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) ...

News: Augmenting its operational strength, the IAF is in the process of inducting additional Su-30 MKI aircraft manufactured under licence by HAL and Light Combat Aircraft, which is manufactured indigenously by HAL. India has informed France that it would like to acquire 36 Rafale jets in fly-away condition as quickly as possible in view ...

News: The government is mulling setting up a Finance Corporation to utilise around Rs 2 lakh crore surplus cash of state-owned enterprises lying idle in banks, said Union Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises Minister Anant Geete. The funds may be used for purposes like reviving sick PSUs and investment in ...