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7 July

Power Grid Corporation approves Rs 2,247.37 Cr for its Green Energy Corridors project

News: Power Grid Corporation of India has approved Rs 2,247.37 crore investment plan for the third part of the inter-state electricity transmission project. PGCI has approved investment for Green Energy Corridors: Inter-State Transmission Scheme-Part A and B at an estimated cost of Rs 1,479.30 crore and Rs 3,705.61 crore, respectively. ...

6 July

Civil aviation, railways potential growth areas for Russia – India cooperation

News: According to the World Bank Doing Business Report 2015, India occupies the 142nd position and the government aims to improve the business investment climate in the country in shortest possible time. Russian companies have felt echoes of the “Make in India” concept. Alexey Ulyukaev, Russia’s Minister for Economic Development, talked ...

6 July

Made in India rifle to replace INSAS

News: The Excalibur is an improved version of the INSAS rifle and fires 5.56×45 mm ammunition. It has full-automatic capability over the INSAS. barrel is shorter by 4 mm, has a side folding butt stock and features a Picatinny rail, a universal mount that allows a range of weapon sights ...

6 July

Modi leaves on 6-nation visit, to attend BRICS. SCO summits

News: Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for a 6-nation tour on Monday to attend the BRICS summit in Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, with focus on enhancing strategic, economic and energy ties. The Summit of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), the important economies across the world, ...

6 July

Corporation Bank launches MUDRA card

News: Corporation Bank is the first bank to launch the MUDRA card based on the RuPay platform. MUDRA card is a part of the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana which aims to fund the unfunded under non-farm micro units in manufacturing, trading and services with affordable credit up to Rs 10 ...

6 July

First stage of smart cities mission starts

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 ...

6 July

Government plans to scale up skill development programs

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 ...

4 July

Panchgaon becomes 1st Wi-Fi village

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

4 July

Adani to set up 650 MW solar power plant in Tamil Nadu

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 ...

4 July

‘Make in India’ reviving the indigenous fabrics

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 ...

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July, 2015