News: According to the Revenue Department, at present, there is no online property registration, rent agreement and power of attorney facility in India and Delhi will be first state to launch the project, said Divisional Commissioner Ashwani Kumar. The government has started a trial run of the software and within ...
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Spain is set to carry out a feasibility study for Mumbai-Howrah bullet train route
News: Railway has undertaken feasibility study for high-speed rail corridors between Delhi and Mumbai, Mumbai and Chennai, and New Delhi and Kolkata, which are part of the Diamond Quadrilateral project. China is undertaking feasibility study of the Delhi-Chennai route, also a part of the Diamond Quadrilateral project. Spain is likely ...
Read More »Railways ‘Dedicated Freight Corridor’ project to be completed by 2019
News: Railways today assured the industry that the ambitious Rs 81,459 cr worth ‘Dedicated Freight Corridor’ (DFC) project, meant for faster goods movement, will be completed by 2019. Currently goods trains are moving at 25/26 km per hour speed. The speed will go up to 100 km per hour on ...
Read More »30 percent of Indian lawyers are fake
News: The Bar Council of India’s Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra, declares that over 30 per cent of all of India’s lawyers are fake or non-practising persons who misuse their certificates of practice. This statement comes hardly three months after the State Bar Council unearthed a massive fake law degree racket and ...
Read More »First phase construction of Jagdishpur – Haldia gas pipeline phase inaugurated
News: With the new vision of gas-based economy of central government, Eastern India is all set to get a lion’s share in the country’s growth story, as PM inaugurates the first phase construction of the Jagdishpur Haldia pipeline. Bihar now gets connected to the natural gas pipeline network of India. ...
Read More »DIPP to rank states on ‘ease of doing business
News: The Centre will soon come out with a list of states ranked on the basis of ease of doing business. Department of Industrial Policy has received responses from all the state governments and a study is currently on to evaluate and rank the business-friendliness of the states. Regarding acquisition ...
Read More »eHealth: Digital India’s Way to Better Health Services
Author – Amitesh Tyagi, Alumni IIM Ahmedabad and Co-Founder IndiaLetsPlay One of the key initiatives of Digital India is e-Health – to unleash the power of technology for better health, better medication, better facilities and so better lives and to make it available to the farthest corner of ...
Read More »Corrupt practices: Louis Berger’s airport assignments under government’s scanner
News: News Jersey based Louis Berger announced self-reported findings of misconduct in Vietnam, Kuwait, Indonesia and India. The findings entailed various instances of misconduct between between 1998 and 2010 totalling $3.9 million. In India, it is said to have paid bribes to be appointed as consultants for water projects in ...
Read More »Power to decide on rates should remain with RBI governor: C Rangarajan
News: The government issued a revised draft of the Indian Financial Code (IFC) to propose a monetary policy committee headed by RBI ‘chairperson’ to decide on key interest rates by a majority vote. The draft has sought to take away the veto power of the RBI governor while taking rate-related ...
Read More »OROP to be implemented after approval of modalities: Manohar Parrikar
News: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar told parliament that the ‘One Rank One Pension’ was discussed with stakeholders, and it will be implemented once its “modalities” are approved. He also added the principle of ‘One Rank One Pension’ for the armed forces has been accepted by the government. Source: ET
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