Waiting time at toll plazas is likely to come down as FASTags will now be fitted in all four wheel motor vehicles sold on or after December 1, 2017. The ministry of road transport & highways has issued a gazette notification and
India has one of the highest numbers of TB cases in the world, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report has said. An estimated 10.4 million people fell ill with TB in 2016: 90% were adults, 65% were male, 10% were people living with
Over about a year, the number of telecom operators in India has effectively shrunk from 14 to three: Idea Cellular-Vodafone; Bharti Airtel and Mukesh Ambani-owned behemoth Reliance Jio – apart from the state-run BSNL/MTNL. Virtually every ot
India has slipped in the Global Gender Gap Index ranking of the World Economic Forum, just days after it did so well in World Bank’s ease of doing business. It now stands at 108th position.
The government has revised the price of ethanol at Rs 40.85 per litre under ethanol blended petrol (EBP) programme for supply to the public sector oil marketing companies—Indian oil corporation ltd (IOCL), Hindustan petroleum corporation lim
In the not too distant future, the package you ordered from an e-commerce website may well be delivered at your doorstep by a drone. The draft norms for drones have been finalised, which is expected to give a huge push to drones rev
Recognising India’s efforts to have a low emission-economy, the global environment facility (GEF) has partnered with Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture of ministry of power’s PSUs for creating and sustaini
Aadhaar was supposed to make life convenient. Its architects and backers, however, had some other plans. You just don’t have to enrol for it and use it as it suits. As asked in several government’s dictatorial sermons, a person has no
An enquiry has been ordered after at least 18 people were killed and dozens were injured when a boiler exploded on Wednesday afternoon in the power generating unit at NTPC Unchahar plant at Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh. The boiler pi
The Gita Press is synonymous with Hindu religious texts: its cheap editions of the Bhagwad Gita, and equally its Hanuman Chalisa, have reinforced the piety of devout Hindus. Many use them in daily prayers or to seek religious wisdom. The press als
Pakistani experts and commentators seem rattled by India’s rather swift move to operationalise the seat route to the landlocked Afghanistan via the Iranian port of Chabahar, ending, for all times, the war-ravaged country’s dependence o
61 out of 338 candidates who are contesting polls in Himachal Pradesh have declared criminal cases against them, 158 are crorepatis. The Himachal Pradesh Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affi
The cabinet on Wednesday approved Special Banking Arrangement (SBA) for payment of outstanding subsidy to fertilizer companies. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by prime minister Narendra Modi has accorded approval
Union minister RK Singh has laid emphasis on clean power for economic development. Singh, during a consultative committee meeting, reviewed the functioning of NHPC Ltd and implementation of the solar rooftop and pumps programme.
India carried out a number of reforms that helped the country dramatically improve its rankings by 30 spots to 100th position in the
Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) – Indian oil corporation ltd (IOCL), Hindustan petroleum corporation limited (HPCL) and Bharat petroleum corporation limited (BPCL) have decided to open over 6,000 new LPG distributorships, primarily in r
Ministry of steel’s joint secretary Ruchika Chaudhry has advised Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited, a Navratna PSU, to cash in on the huge infrastructure funding by the government to build the infrastructure projects like the national high
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has rolled out 4G feature phone that is bundled with mobile services. The miniratna enterprise has also entered into an agreement with Extramarks India Private Limited to provide online edu
India alone has a little less than one-third of the global deficit (270 million for electricity), followed by Nigeria and Ethiopia for electricity—and the 20 highest access-deficit countries for electricity account for 80 percent of the glob
If the change of perception for PSU banks, post the mega capital infusion scheme is any indication, dilution of government equity up to 52 percent in the state-owned lenders can fetch valuation much higher than the estimated potential of Rs 58,000
