News India meets more than three fourths of its energy requirements through imports. The imports, worth around $150 billion annually, is expected to double by 2030 unless a planned strategy to reduce demand for fossil fuel is put in place at the earliest. “We are exploring the possibility of a ...

News The process of preparing a master plan to scale up LPG (gas supplied in cylinders to households and commercial establishments) coverage in the next three years  has been initiated by the centre. The proposed master plan will revolve around a marketing strategy with options of providing cylinders of different ...

News The government on Tuesday approved  19 foreign direct investment (FDI) proposals involving an amount of Rs 2,165.04 crore. Investments AXA’s FDI in Bharti group will be worth Rs 1,290 crore. Mylan Laboratories Rs 128.77 crore Par Formulations Rs 124 crore Touchstone Trust Rs 29 crore Augure Wireless Broadband Rs ...

News Although US was not quite happy , India went ahead with the signing of an agreement with Iran for the development of the strategically important Chabahar port. The MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) was signed after the talks between the two sides. India intends to lease two berths at Chabahar for 10 ...

News India said it agrees with the assessment that it is “presumptuous” of the five permanent members to claim responsibility for global security when they represent only 1.9 billion of the world’s seven billion population. Prakash Gupta, the Counsellor at the Indian mission at UN said there is a structural ...

News Government has developed a ‘Track and Trace’ mechanism to check the authenticity of medicines being sold and stored in the country, Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda today informed Rajya Sabha. The primary, secondary and tertiary packs of medicines will have a unique bar code allotted to a ...

News Government has approved the National Agro Forestry Policy, 2014 that will help natural resource management and improve forest cover. Features Encouraging and expanding tree plantation in complementary and integrated manner with crops and livestock to improve productivity, employment, income and livelihoods of rural households. Stabilisation of ecosystems and increasing forest ...

News The Lok Sabha on Wednesday gave its consent to a far-reaching amendment to the Constitution to pave the way for a pan-India goods and services tax regime and create a unified market across the country, doing away with multiplicity of central and state levies. A government think-tank proposed the ...

News The Bill to operationalise the Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh was today cleared by theUnion Cabinet and now includes territories in Assam along with those in West Bengal, Tripura and Meghalaya. Bill is likely to come up in Rajya Sabha tomorrow. The inclusion of Assam territories in the Bill ...

News Union HRD minister Smriti Irani on Monday made a second visit to Maghrol village in Anand district, which she adopted under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, Irani laid the foundations stone for 21 developmental projects in the village that will come up at the cost of Rs 7.14 crore. ...