The ministry of environment, forest and climate change said it has issued detailed ‘terms of reference’ or ToR for the upcoming Satellite Town Ring Road or STTR connecting towns around Bangalore. There has been a lot of controversy over the impact of the 180 km road — which will connect surrounding areas like Krishnagiri, Hosur, […]
‘How to get a job’ may be the most pressing question for youngsters in India today, and going by PMKVY data, the best courses for getting a job today are electronics and hardware, apparel, retail, telecom and logistics. This insight is based on the placement and salary data collected by National Skill Development Corporation, the […]
Bharatiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (BJP) will increase the number of medicines supplied via its outlets to 738 in the next two months, minister Sadananda Gowda said. At present, the scheme has only been able to source and supply only 713 medicines out of a targeted 900 due to a lack of interest among suppliers. Bharatiya Janaushadhi […]
The new TV tariff system introduced by TRAI, which gives channel owners the full power to price their channels, does not seem to have hurt the earnings of cable networks as much as feared. It was feared that because the pricing power over channels was taken away from distributors like cable and DTH operators and […]
Ministry of Civil Aviation, India said US airplane manufacturer Boeing is yet to submit a solution to enable its 737 Max aircraft to take to the skies again, and that the grounded aircraft will remain so until a certified fix is provided. A total of 18 Boeing 737 Max aircraft, comprising 13 of SpiceJet and […]
The Uttar Pradesh government has awarded compensation of Rs 951.44 cr for the acquisition of 1,238 hectares required for the construction of the new NOIDA airport at Jewar on the outskirts of Delhi, Union Civil Aviation Ministry said. The land for which compensation has been declared comes to 99.8% of the private land that has […]
Haryana, home to Gurgaon — the prosperous suburb of Delhi — has emerged as the unlikely champion of e-commerce in India, beating back heavyweights such as Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi. According to tax numbers — which reflect all e-commerce transactions for which payment is made online — Haryana accounted for a whopping 19.29% of all […]
The ‘Law Reforms Commission’ set up by the Kerala government two years ago has come up with a draft anti-superstition bill that will target those superstitions that cause ‘bodily harm’ and are not part of an established religion. The draft was prepared on the request of the Kerala government. The draft law will target ‘freelance’ […]
A group of 105 people from Delhi are likely to have left for Australia in a fishing boat from Munambam harbor near Kochi in January, according to new information released by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Though the ministry did not confirm the destination of the suspected illegal emigrants, it put the number of people […]
The Central government can no longer find two centrally protected monuments in Delhi, junior tourism minister Prahland Singh Patel said in parliament today. There are 174 monuments/sites that enjoy protection from the central government in Delhi. These have been declared as monument of national importance in the Delhi under Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and […]
Union Health Ministry today announced that 18 out of 141 bats that were tested for Nipah Virus following last months’ outbreak in Kerala tested positive for the presence of Nipah virus as well as for relevant antibodies. About ten days ago, the ministry had said that the National Institute of Virology at Pune had found […]
India has missed its solar power target by a whopping 58% in the year gone by, according to the latest numbers from the ministry of renewable energy or MNRE. India was supposed to add about 16,000 megawatt (16 gigawatt) of fresh solar power generation capacity in the year ended March 2019. However, it added only […]
Shripad Naik, junior minister of defence with Government of India, has denied that his ministry has any plans to admit girls to Sainik Schools, contrary to claims made by predecessor Subhash Bhamre last year. “Presently there is no proposal to admit girls in Sainik Schools,” Naik said today in parliament. Sainik Schools were established in […]
Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have the dubious distinction of being the worst states for H1N1 patients in India. Not only do they have relatively high number of patients, but your chances of making it alive as an H1N1 patient are also the lowest in India in these states. Other states — Gujarat, Rajasthan and […]
The government of India is exploring legal options to see if it can get back the spectrum assigned to bankrupt telecom operator Reliance Communications, telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Communications has three types of spectrum — GSM spectrum in the 1800 MHz band that it got along with its license, spectrum […]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, the state-owned telecom operator, is likely to take loans of around Rs 6,100 cr this year, on top of the Rs 6,500 cr it took in the year ended March. According to the ministry of communications, BSNL has sought permission to borrow Rs 3,306 cr from the market to buy equipment […]
The total number of 4G base stations in India has more or less doubled in the last 18 months to 1.26 million, according to numbers from the Department of Telecom. Against 6,76,462 4G base stations as of December 1, 2017, India had 12,62,841 (1.26 million) 4G base stations as of June 1, 2019. During the same […]
A study by the Central Ground Water Board has revealed that India’s Ganga-Yamuna plain is rapidly running out of ground water. Despite isolated cases like that of Chennai and Bangalore, the study also revealed that other areas of the country, including the east and the south, are better placed as far as ground water depletion […]
Indian Railways booking clerks have been asked to double check all suspicious requests for VIP quota tickets after incidents of forged letters of ‘dignitaries’ have come to light. “Some instances of attempts to get accommodation released out of Emergency Quota on the authority of fake letter heads of high dignitaries and some Railway Officers have […]
At a time when a conflict between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran threaten to not only plunge West Asia into a deep turmoil but also let loose economic chaos in the wider world, the Muslim community of the tiny Himalayan region of Ladakh held a conference in Delhi on Saturday titled “Celebrating Diversity in […]
