Hacking scare leads to norms for smartphones Amid attempts of hacking and data theft by Pakistan and China, the government has com...

E uropean Space Agency discovers chemical building blocks for signs of life Scientists have discovered ingredients regarded...

Twitter Seva Micro-blogging platform Twitter is now considering the roll-out of the Twitter Seva service in other countries such as ...

Land-attack version of  BrahMos The Indian Air Force successfully test-fired a land-attack version of the supersonic cruise missil...

Neeranchal Project Neeranchal is a Rs.2,142-crore World Bank-aided project of the Union Government that supports the watershed devel...

Bharatavani Portal and App The Union HRD Minister, Smriti  Irani has launched the  multilingual  knowledge portal  www.bharatavani...

India signs $100 mn loan agreement with World Bank Indian government has signed a   $ 100 million loan a greement   with   multila...

‘Adopting BS-VI norms will make diesel vehicles costlier’ According to a statement issued by ICRA Ratings, “Indian government’s deci...

Water staircases in seas Scientists have proposed a possible mechanism by which the upper layers of the Arctic Ocean warm up, causin...

Centre sets up panel to relook defence spend The government has appointed a committee of experts to recommend measures to enhance th...

Sebi tightens norms to curb black money inflow Tightening the rules governing issuance of participatory notes (P-Notes) by foreign p...

Services corner bulk of FDI inflows According to an analysis of the official data by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promoti...

Ancient Buddhist site found in Amaravati Archaeologists have found an ancient Buddhist site at Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh. What h...

INFRACON, ePACE and up-Scaled INAM PRO launched The government has launched ePACE, INFRACON and an updated version of INAMPRO, three...

Centre sets into motion second phase of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana The Centre has launched the second phase of Pradhan Mantri ...

SC upholds law on criminal defamation   Dismissing a batch of petitions, the Supreme Court has upheld the law on criminal defamatio...

Nehru’s 5-year plans to make way for 15-year ‘vision’ The Centre has decided to discontinue five-year plans after the current one, whi...

SC quashes TRAI’s call drop rules The Supreme Court has provided massive relief to the telecom service providers by quashing   Tel...

Capital gains on FDI from Mauritius to be taxed India and Mauritius have signed a landmark   protocol to amend the Double Taxation...

Annual core sector growth at decade low According to latest government statistics, India’s annual core sector growth has slowed to a...