By Rajesh K Rajan Journalists take up the cudgels on behalf of the victims of injustice, bureaucratic red-tape and systemic lacunae, yet ironically, sometimes they too fall victims to the same sad state of affairs. The case in point is veteran TV journalist Sudhanshu Ranjan who had to wage a protracted legal battle in the…
In last seven years India has successfully recorded 572 per cent growth in grant of Patents. As informed by Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry, informed, “In 2020-21 over 28,391 patents granted in comparison to 4,227 patents granted in 2013-14.” He said that technology and ideas are twin engines of growth. Goyal was speaking at a virtual…
Ministry of Food Processing Industries has informed that currently 19 mega food parks in the country are under various completion stages. Pashupati Kumar Paras, Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, said this scheme has the primary objective of providing modern infrastructure facilities for food processing together with the farm to market value chain. Out of…
India’s largest integrated power generating company, NTPC Limited has come out with a global expression of interest (EOI) for a pilot project on hydrogen blending with natural gas in city gas distribution. Recently, the NTPC has also issued a tender for green hydrogen fuelling station in LEH, besides a tender by NTPC Vidut Vyapar Nigam…
Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav has informed that Sultanpur and Bhindawas in Haryana and Thol and Wadhwana in Gujarat are four more wetlands included in Ramsar sites. With this, India now have 46 Ramsar sites with the covered surface area of 1,083,322 hectares. Haryana has got its first Ramsar sites while Gujarat has got three…
A virtual media roundtable was organised featuring expert discussions and presentations on current situation in Indian real estate sector amid the health crisis.
Pankaj Chaudhary, Minister of State for Finance, informed that total volume of digital payments have increased to 4371.18 crore in January 2021 from Rs 1459.02 crore in 2017-18 due to the government’s continuous efforts towards digitalisation. The minister informed, in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha, that the quantum of the bank…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi while interacting with the leaders and the heads of Indian Missions abroad from the trade world on the theme Local Goes Global-Make in India said it is due to technological, financial and physical connectivity that the world is getting smaller day by day. He said new possibilities for the expansion of…
Rapidly spreading Delta variant of coronavirus in top oil consuming countries has become a cause of concern for Brent crude oil producing countries. According to the analysts it will limit the demand for fuel. Hence the Brent crude oil future has declined 67 cents reaching to 71.74 dollars per barrel while US crude fell 86…
Power Minister R.K. Singh informed direct employment to 30,000 people and indirect jobs to 1.2 lakh people has been targeted by the ‘National Programme on High Efficiency Solar PV Modules’. A production linked incentive scheme (PLI)for solar energy sector has been approved by the union cabinet. The scheme has the investment outlay of about Rs…
