News: Union Communications and IT Minister Ravishankar Prasad called on the postal department employees to aggressively market its products, including postal services, e-commerce, banking and insurance. Prasad said he wants to make a turnaround and aggressively market the products like e-commerce, banking and insurance apart from the core postal services. He has assured that there ...

News: The world’s leading aircraft maker Airbus has said that India’s aviation market will grow at over 10 per cent annually in next ten years, which would be double the average global growth rate. Airbus has already committed to source products worth $2 billion cumulatively over the next five years ...

News: India to be ranked in the top rankings of space-faring nations , as it is the only Asian country to send a spacecraft to Mars. India became the first Asian country to successfully send a probe to Mars in 2014, marking a breakthrough in its space capability. The Beijing institute ...

News: The Haryana Government has launched a Village Mentoring Project (VMP) to improve healthcare and education of the villagers with a special emphasis on girl child. The project would create awareness among the villagers about various issues including educating girl child, health, financial matters. The project has been commenced in the state from Panchkula district ...

News: India’s nuclear programme is set to get huge boost through three big changes. First, Japan has asked India, for a dedicated nuclear reactor site, signaling that not only is it willing to shed all inhibitions of doing nuclear commerce with India but is also keen to be counted with the ...

News: Airbus has begun sourcing components for almost all its jets from the country and aims to take its cumulative sourcing from there to $2 billion in the next five years. Airbus is making a large number of products either directly or through its supply partners, where collectively more than ...

News: West Bengal government has decided to infuse Rs 2,600 crore to add 17,000 more hospital beds in 2015-16. In the government sector, the total number of hospital beds in the West Bengal currently is 63,000 and it would become 80,000 after addition of the proposed 17,000 beds. Taking into ...

News:  India continues to be the most favoured destination despite global investors reducing their exposure to emerging market equities, said Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoF-ML). India topped the global emerging market investors’ country preference chart followed by China and Poland in the second and third place, respectively as Asia Pacific ...

News: In search of cooperation for withdrawing pre-2005 currency notes from circulation, the RBI has requested the general public to deposit in their bank accounts or exchange for their full value at the bank branch which is convenient to them. As the notes issued pre-2005 have fewer security features compared ...

News: In a series of meetings with US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and US Trade Representative Mike Froman, Mr Jaitley who is on a nine day US tour discussed bilateral issues of mutual interests and concerns. He flagged off some of the issues including totalisation agreement, ...