Prime Minister has announced an ex-gratia relief of Rs 2 lakh from the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund for the next of kins of each of victims who lost their lives in the fire and Rs 50 thousand to burn victims. Read More
Opening of 36 new CNG outlets in Delhi and NCR will considerably reduce the waiting period at CNG pumps. More than two third of these three dozen CNG pumps are located in Delhi and remaining 11 pumps are located in other cities in NCR region. Read More
Indian companies were required to follow a long tendering process that curtailed their ability to procure cheap crude in case of a distress sale in international market. Read More
The 10 day long expedition was organized by the Indian Navy with the aim to introduce its women officers to the extreme adventure sport of mountaineering. Read More
Today, during the first Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement for 2016 -17, RBI Governor Dr. Raghuram Rajan announced a 25 basis point cut in the policy repo rate bringing it down to 6.50%. Dr. Rajan emphasized that the intention behind rate cut is to pass the benefits to borrowing rates. In the news conference following policy... Read More
An agreement in this regard was signed in New Delhi by Joint Secretary in Department of Economic Affairs S Selvaraj and Director General of KfW Roland Siller. Read More
Information & Broadcasting Secretary Sunil Arora today said that his ministry was driven by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s philosophy of minimum government maximum governance. He asserted that information and broadcasting ministry was committeed to promote ease of doing business in media and entertainment sector. Speaking at an event organised by industry chamber FICCI in Mumbai... Read More
Lamenting on the double standards of some countries with regard to terrorism, Prime Minister Modi said that terrorism has acquired global dimensions but countries are still trying to deal with this threat at an individual level. Read More
Before reaching USA, Prime Minister participated in the 9th India-EU summit in Belgian capital Brussels and also paid homage to terror victims. Read More