Policy that Matters

New Delhi: A group of CEOs including Shri Anshu Jain of Deutsche Bank AG, Dr. Dieter Zetsche of Daimler AG, Dr. Kurt Bock of BASF, Dr. Heinrich Biersinger of Thyssen Krupp, Mr. Yngve Slyngstad of Norgos, and Dr. Feffrey Jaensubhakiji of GIC AM; called on the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra …

New Delhi: The Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, and Information and Broadcasting, Shri Arun Jaitley said, as technology influenced change in the communication landscape, the future belonged to digital media due to its reach, scale, variety and accessibility. The technological thrust also impacted the nature of information dissemination in view …

New Delhi: The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North-Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh has stated that the Indian Space Scientists are working on exciting new breakthroughs and innovative methodologies in the …

By ANANT MISHRA [Former Youth Representative to United Nations] New Delhi: The People’s Republic of China has always gained too much attention in the media because of its unique choice of policies, be it, one child policy or their ignorance towards human rights, their policies on censorship or their unconditional …

New Delhi: A first of its kind event  “Raahgiri day for the persons with disabilities” was organized as a unique initiative this morning at the Connaught place here today by the Department of Empowerment of persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India. Raahgiri Day   provides …

New Delhi: Disinvestment of Coal India Ltd (CIL) through OFS was successfully completed. An amount of Rs 22557.63 crore was realized through the CIL disinvestment process. This is the largest ever disinvestment among Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) which involved disinvestment of 5% of the paid-up equity of Government of …

Gandhinagar: The Income Tax Department has been awarded GOLD by the Government of India under category “Cat-I-Excellence in Government Process Re-engineering” for National Award on e-governance 2014-15. The award has been conferred for “TDS Reconciliation Analysis & Correction Enabling System (TRACES)” project launched by the Department. The Project marks a …

New Delhi: Ministry of Urban Development Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu has plainly asked the states if they were ready to make their cities and towns smart under the centre’s initiative of building 100 smart cities. He posed this straight question during his inaugural address here today at the ‘Consultation Workshop with …

New Delhi: A delegation under the leadership of Dr. (Mrs.) Barbara Hendricks, Minister of Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Federal Republic of Germany today met Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Sushri Uma Bharti here in New Delhi. The focus of talks was works …

Davos: Following are the highlights of the key bilateral meetings held in Davos. 1.       Handed over land allotment letter to Cognizant for their planned expansion in Pune. This will add 20,000 jobs over the next few years. The reason why Cognizant zeroed in on Pune is because the quality of …