Accra, New Delhi, June 14th (News Agency) – On Monday 13th June, while President Pranab Mukherjee was on visit to Ghana, India and Ghana entered into three important pacts. President Mukherjee then left for the Ivory Coast following which he was to visit Namibia. It is believed that the visit to these three African countries will […]
Delhi, 14 June, PTI – A new proposal of Goods and Service Tax (GST bill) has been put forward which is considered to bring unprecedented changes in the indirect taxation of the country. Except Tamil Nadu which has some reservations on GST provisions, majority of the states have approved the new proposal of GST, which is […]
New Delhi, dt. 12 (PTI) – Serious efforts are being taken for the indigenization of defense equipment manufacturing. Considering the limitations of the Government mechanism and the opportunity for business growth, Central Government is stressing to have defense related equipment manufactured in India, by formalizing a Government & Private sector partnership. Consequently Defense Minister Manohar […]
Central Government recently allowed permission to induct women fighter pilots in Indian Air Force. With this background, first batch of women fighter pilots were given special training. Three women fighter pilots who have completed this training successfully will be joining the IAF on 18th June. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar might be present for this historical […]
7th June 2016, Geneva (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi today successfully completed a bilateral discussion with Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann. Post this discussion Switzerland has declared its support for India’s membership to the Nuclear Supplies Group (NSG). At the same time president Ammann has also declared Switzerland’s full support to India for tracking the trail […]
After the Afghanistan tour, Prime Minster Narendra Modi has arrived in Qatar. About seven bilateral Memoranda of Understanding(MoU) agreements were signed between two countries in this Qatar visit. There are abundant opportunities for Qatar industries to invest in India. PM, thus invited industrialist and entrepreneurs of Qatar to invest more in India. Indian PM met Qatar’s […]
Mumbai – Having secured the development project of the strategically vital ‘Chahbahar’ Port in South-eastern Iran, India is keenly eyeing the Payra Port project in Bangladesh. China’s aggressive posturing in the Indian Ocean has been a matter of grave concern and India is actively working on countering same. China is currently developing Colombo Port in […]
The names of 13 gymnasts who are a part of the Indian team are declared for the 14th World Aerobic Gymnastic Championship to be held at Incheon, South Korea. Especially, this includes the participation of 11 players from Aurangabad. Amongst them, Rugved Joshi, Mayur Vondhare, Isha Mahajan and Rohan Shriramvar were placed in 2012 in […]
The National Disaster Management Plan (NDMP) was officially released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. The Plan has been prepared following the UN guidelines. The stated objective of the Central Government is to stay well prepared to face any natural or man-made exigency and minimize the loss of life. And post disasters, arrange speedy […]
The Union Cabinet has cleared the proposal of granting the payment bank status to the post office. This historic decision was taken by the cabinet committee on economic affairs chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This bank of the postal department, to be known as the ‘India Post Payment Bank’ will, apart from making available […]