Initiatives

News: Government’s ‘Make in India‘ initiative seems to have giving good results as 24.8% of the smartphones shipped in the country during the June quarter were made locally compared with 19.9% in preceding quarter. According to the research firm CyberMedia Research, a total of 56.6 million handsets were shipped during the ...

News: World Bank will look into investment opportunities in Haryana’s key infrastructure sectors like smart cities, energy and mass rapid transit systems. It also evinced keen interest in deepening the engagement with the state government in the field of cutting down losses in transmission and distribution of power, and in ...

News: The Centre is proposing to create two National Investment & Manufacturing Zones (NIMZ) in Andhra Pradesh to give a fillip to the manufacturing sector in the State. APIIC has announced that the land for the Rs. 10,899 crore National Investment and Manufacturing Zone had been identified in Pamarru and ...

News: Maharashtra government is mulling its own ‘Smart City’ project with an aim to provide development opportunities to cities that have not been selected by the Centre under its ambitious programme. The project is at a nascent stage for now and nothing has been finalised on paper as yet. Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan-Dombivli, Nagpur and ...

News: Accessible India, the next sweeping initiative bearing the stamp of the Prime Minister’s Office, will introduce landmark initiatives over the next five years to make the country disabled-friendly. For starters, the government is working to introduce set-top boxes that will make TV programmes more useful for the visually impaired. Officials ...

News: Low-cost mobile device maker, Datawind will add two more manufacturing units in the country within next six months to meet its local requirements as the company has stopped importing finished products from China. “The new schemes and taxes now in place have made it beneficial for mobile devices companies ...

News: Hyderabad has a stronger missile base and its foundation was laid after the 1962 Sino-Indian border war. The cabin of the Sikorsky S-92 chopper that ferries the US President Barack Obama is made in Hyderabad, as also some crucial components powering Isro’s inter-planetary craft to Mars, Mangalyaan. Hyderabad’s aerospace ...

News: Chief Minister, Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa said that her government will continue to strive to achieve the goal of all round development and inclusive growth. The State will attract investments worth Rs. 1 lakh crore from the Global Investors Meet to be held next month. She said her government has ...

News: Fitted with powerful cameras, Special Purpose Aircraft may soon fly over the Ganga to survey the river as it courses through five states for a geospatial mapping of its basin to rid it off the pollution and encroachment. The survey would be conducted under the ambitious ‘Namami Gange’ programme of the ...

News: Declaration of Kerala as a ‘complete digital state’ and announcement of a new youth programme in memory of former President, the late APJ Abdul Kalam marked Independence Day celebrations in the state. “The implementation of e-district programmes in all districts and linking of Aadhaar and bank accounts have laid ...