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, ...

News: Government plans to launch the new cashless transactions without any extra cost for debit card holders Measures include compulsory use of credit cards for high-value payments, petrol pumps not to impose surcharge on debit card payments, forcing banks to install payment terminals in proportion to the number of cards ...

News: Road transport and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari has given permission for Green Highways Policy, which makes agencies mandatory in planting trees on highways and maintain them too. Road ministry official put forward the history of road building by rulers, who preferred planting fruit and shade bearing trees for the ...

News: Surprise inspections, by the divisional railway manager of the Delhi division of Northern Railways, hefty fines and strict vigil have ensured that New Delhi railway station looks clean and tidy and meets commuters’ expectations. The Delhi division is now planning to launch a massive Swachh drive at the station ...

News: Congressman, George Holding, Co-Chair of the powerful Congressional Caucus in India and Indian-Americans, at a discussion held on “Is India Open for Business” organised by the CQ Roll Call and Economist, said in his key-note address that corruption is on retreat in India and referred to the series of ...

News: HRD Minister Smriti Irani today announced that IIT admission fees of Pratapgarh brothers, Raju and Brijesh, sons of daily wager, Dharamraj Saroj, would be waived. A daily wager’s sons – Raju (18) ranked 167 and Brijesh (19) ranked 410, made it to top 500 positions in IIT entrance examination ...

News: Taiwan’s Quanta Computer the world’s top contract PC manufacturer which makes laptops and assembles watches for Apple, is considering to establish a manufacturing base in India. Quanta’s move comes after its rival Foxconn, announced that it will likely plow billions of dollars into establishing 10 to 12 facilities in India ...

News: LG is looking to start manufacturing of smartphones in India once it gets to a 10% market share, which it estimates could be achieved by December 2015 on the back of the just-launched G4 model. it is also planning to invest Rs 1,000 crore in 2015 on research and ...

News: Tokyo is likely to change its policy to allow reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel from Japanese-made reactors. Since the 2011 Fukushima tragedy, Japan had concluded civil pacts with six countries including Jordan, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam, but has not approved reprocessing of spent fuel generated by Japanese-made nuclear reactors. ...

News: In what is being seen as a furtherance to India’s ‘Act East’ policy and more specifically, a strategically operational deployment in the crucial South China Sea, Indian Navy warships have  reached Malaysia. The Navy’s Eastern Fleet includes INS Ranvir, a guided missile destroyer, INS Satpura, the indigenously built guided missile stealth ...