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 ...

News:  HRD Ministry would soon come out with a set of four key parameters, expected to be ‘teaching-learning’, ‘academic performance’, ‘outreach’ and ‘impact’ of the institute nationally and globally, for ranking of Indian institutes across streams. It was chaired by both higher education and school education secretaries and attended by ...

News: In regard to the ongoing ‘Digital India Week’, Union Rural Development Minister has launched an online mobile application for better planning of Panchayat assets and the official Twitter handle of the Ministry of Panchayat Raj. The mobile app “m-asset” can be used by citizens to capture photographs and geographical coordinates of various assets available ...

News: Mobile phone users will be able to retain their numbers when they relocate to any part of the country even if they change operators as full mobile number portability (MNP) comes into effect. MNP has been available within circles since 2011, this is the first time it will be ...

News: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that the Cabinet has approved funds amounting to Rs 50,000 crore over the five years to ensure that the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana is a success. The major objective of tthis irrigation scheme is to achieve convergence of investments in irrigation at ...

News: Five girl students from Bengaluru, made India proud by becoming world-beaters at the Technovation Challenge 2015 held at San Francisco on June 24, for developing mobile app named Sellixo. Team Pentechan,  all 9th standard students (14 years old), from the New Horizon Public School (NHPS) reached the summit at the ...

News: The Maharashtra government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with global technology major, Cisco for making Nagpur a smart and safe city and the first Indian Institute of Information and Technology has been approved to Nagpur. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis says, “it was a proud moment to witness the ...

News: An official handling a large amount of cash or having access to government secrets could face a hurdle in getting permission for a private trip overseas. The new format of draft instructions prepared by Department of Personnel and Training ( DoPT) says While granting such permission, many factors are required ...

News: The Aadhaar card is a Unique Identification (UID) number, which would serve as proof of identity and address all over India and are saved in a central database. The aim is to prove the successful use of the Aadhaar APIs (Application Program Interface), which were already provided to the ...

News: “India is back on the priority list of CEOs after Narendra Modi came to power and the government seems serious,” McKinsey CEO Dominic Barton has said and is advising his client to bet big on India once again because “India is right in the centre”. PM Narendra Modi’s high profile, the ...