Five years ago, when the Congress had finalised Pranab Mukherjee as its choice for the 13th president of India, the news-hungry media was eager to know if he had agreed. One day, he gave in to the persistent queries, saying, “I am a diabetic
“If India has to grow rapidly, it cannot grow without exports. We still import a lot of raw material like laces, buttons, elastics etc, which makes production expensive for the (clothing) manufacturers,” noted NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Ka
Narendra Modi is all set to become the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel where he lands on July 4 and leaves for home on July 6. It will also be the first time that an Indian leader visiting the West Asian nation will not visit Palestine
Outgoing vice president Hamid Ansari has batted for tolerance and the spirit of pluralism and called for the need to accommodate cultural diversity in his speeches that he has made over the years. The election of t
Till late evening of July 2, hash tags like #Worldsno1greendriveinMP and #MPplants6croretrees were popular on Twitter’s trend list. There were plenty of tweets appreciating Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s bi
An agreement was signed between Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA), an institution under Ministry of Railways, and National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC), an urban development PSU, for implementation of station redevelopment p
The retail portion of Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd (RCFL), a Miniratna category one CPSE, offer for sale (OFS) got an overwhelming response from retail investors. Against the 20 percent portion amounting to Rs 40.96 cr
In order to promote increased participation of SC/ST entrepreneurs in the ship building sector, Goa Shipyard Limited organized its first National Vendor Development Program exclusively for micro and small industries (MSEs) owned by SC/ST ent
Ram Nath Kovind, whom the BJP has chosen as its candidate for India’s next president, was a prime dalit face of the party in Uttar Pradesh during the time of LK Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Indeed, it’s in central Uttar Pradesh &nd
After KR Narayanan, India will have a second ‘dalit’ president. Will it change the condition of one-sixth of India’s population that still suffers caste slurs and discriminations at social and economic levels? Narayanan’s
At the stroke of midnight hour, India got converted into one seamless market, with multiple taxes being replaced with singular Goods and Service Tax (GST). GST was rolled out in an event held at the parliament&rsqu
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is expected to be a game changer. According to the
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has entered into a Technology Collaboration Agreement with Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (KHI), Japan for the manufacture of stainless steel coaches and bogies for metros. The agreement co
"There is a demand for products with zero carbon footprint,” said prime minister Narendra Modi who inaugurated a mega-trade fair and exhibition: Textiles India 2017 in Gandhinagar on Friday. Modi emphasised on the
Prime minister Narendra Modi finally broke his silence, once again, and denounced the spate of lynching in the name of cow protection. As he visited the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad, he also said Gandhiji would not have approved of this way of
Army chief General Bipin Rawat personally oversaw the defence preparedness in Sikkim, amid Chinese media’s vituperative comment on India and escalating tension between the two countries over the Doklam plateau where Chinese army’s effo
The election of the vice president will take place on August 5, said the Election Commission of India on Thursday. The term of vice president Hamid Ansari ends on August 11. "The
It was big. It was energetic. It was emotional and soul awakening. It was the need of the hour. Its message was loud and clear. But #NotInMyName cannot be in my name. The #NotInMyName protest is a demonstration that was scheduled i
Darjeeling and the neighbouring areas are burning once again after the fire of the demand for Gorkhaland state was ignited by the West Bengal government’s provocative action in trying to impose Bengali language on the Gorkhali speaking major
India is increasingly turning to defence diplomacy to gain strategic depth in its neighbourhood and beyond, a move that is expected to checkmate China’s muscular domination. Defence as a tool of diplomacy is helping India to win ov
