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7 May

Modi’s new Group Think: Secretaries get more power

News There will be eight working groups Each group will have 9-11 members It will cover the following areas: industry; skill development; infrastructure relating to rail, road & air; urban development; rural infrastructure and human resource management; agriculture and agro processing; financial services; health and social issues. Task The government’s ...

7 May

NITI Aayog prepared a background paper for setting up National Energy Commission

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 ...

7 May

Centre plans LPG refills from 2kg to 14kg

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 ...

7 May

19 FDIs Worth Rs 2,165 crore: Cleared

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 ...

7 May

India-Iran-Chabahar :: China-Pakistan-Gwadar

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 ...

6 May

India insists on urgent reforms in UNSC

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 ...

6 May

‘Track and Trace’ mechanism to check authenticity of medicines

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 ...

6 May

National Agro Forestry Policy: Approved

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 ...

6 May

GST bill passed in LokSabha

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 ...

5 May

Bill to operationalise Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh: Cleared

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 ...

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May, 2015