Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled an electronic trading platform for the National Agricultural Market on Thursday called eNAM for farmers to sell their products. He called this new scheme to be “the turning point” for the agriculture sector of the country. This new scheme was launched on the occasion ...
Read More »PM Modi to Talk about Nukes and Counter-Terrorism at Nuclear Security Summit in Washington
India will push forward the agenda for a much stronger and collective global mechanism to prevent the situation of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of deadly terrorists like the Islamic State as well as to combat the growing presence of ISIS and other extremist groups in specially the Afghanistan-Pakistan ...
Read More »PM Modi inaugurated Krishi Unnati Mela: Things you need to know
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the three-day ‘Krishi Unnati Mela’- the National Level Agriculture Fair-cum-Exhibition at the Pusa Campus of New Delhi. The prime focus of this mela or fair is to provide information on new farms, technologies and schemes/ policies of government including crop insurance scheme to ...
Read More »PM Modi’s New Mantra for Rural Development: Just Add Water
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised to a slew of new initiatives in the 2016-2017 budget presented on 29th February, giving special focus on addressing rural stress with the PM pledging for nearly $13 billion on Rural Development to double farmers’ incomes by 2022. Irrigation or rather ‘just adding water’ ...
Read More »India-Us Jointly Launch Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship for Indian Scholars
India and the United States have launched the Fulbright-Kalam Climate Fellowship with an aim to improve bilateral ties on climate change. This fellowship will facilitate Indian scholars to work with American institutes in the same field. The application has now been opened for Indian scholars from Friday. The fellowship is ...
Read More »Advancing Asia Summit-Economic Reforms part of Govt. Agenda: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today in the “Advancing Asia” summit co-hosted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that even though India is the world’s fastest growing economy and at the same time is one of the most favoured destinations for business and investment, the government will continue to ...
Read More »Rural India Mission: PM Modi launches new scheme for Rural development
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has flattered the rural part of India on Sunday by inaugurating a Rural-Urban or Rurban Mission in Chhattisgarh as well as urging farmers in Orissa to register for the National Crop Insurance Scheme. The scheme known as Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Scheme aims to improve basic ...
Read More »Smart Cities Mission-A Smart India Awaits
The Minister for Urban Development Mr. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday has announced the list of names of the first 20 cities to be funded to develop them as Smart Cities under PM Mr. Narendra Modi’s ambitious initiative ‘Smart Cities Mission’. These first 20 cities have been selected out of the ...
Read More »Start-Up India Hub-All You need to know about it!
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday unveiled the Action Plan for his pet project Start-Up India with a slew of incentives for startups in the country. One of the key areas that came from the action plan was the proposal to establish a Startup India Hub. Objective: The main objective ...
Read More »PM Unveils Action Plan for Startup India-Startup Friendly Tax Regulation Soon Coming
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled the action plan for his most ambitious ‘Startup India’ initiative today at Vigyan Bhawan. One of the major reliefs for startups is that the government will move for startup-friendly tax regime in 2016 Budget. Some other important steps that are included in the action ...
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