News: The first stage of the city challenge competition for inclusion of cities and towns in the government’s Smart cities mission got underway. States have to nominate the assigned number of cities and towns from each state based on four broad criteria and a total of 13 sub-criteria. The four broad ...

News: Government schemes for skill development and housing are ready to be checked on the high number of landless casual labourers struggling with poverty. Plan is to massively scale up the skilling programme to address the widespread income deprivation. Every third of India’s rural households are landless and depend on ...

News: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has adopted Pachgaon village in Umrer taluka, about 15 kms from Nagpur city, under the ‘Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojna’ in November 2014. And today Panchgaon becomes the 1st Wi-Fi village. Source: Twitter

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 ...