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Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), an R&D wing of Ministry of Defence (MoD), is mandate to design and develop strategic, complex and security sensitive systems in the fields of missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, radars, electronic warfare systems, sonars combat vehicles, combat aircraft, sensors, etc. for the Armed Forces as per their specific Qualitative Requirements for enhancing the national security ...

Foreign direct Investment (FDI) received in the agriculture sector during the last three years and the current year is given below: Sl. No. Year (Apr-Mar) FDI Equity in (Rs crore) 1 2014-15 365.31 2 2015-16 553.14 3 2016-17 515.49 4 2017-18 (Up to May, 2017) 354.77   S.S. Ahluwalia, the Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, informed the ...

140 research / studies on medicinal values of plants are being carried out by various government as well as private universities / research institutions/ organizations in India. Presently, research projects on various aspects (viz. literary research, survey, identification, documentation, micropropagation, agrotechnology, drug standardization, pharmacological and clinical research etc.) of medicinal plants are being supported by different Ministries/Departments of Government of ...

For the development of Biofuels, a National Policy on Biofuels has been announced in the year 2009. The Government, is implementing the Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme under which, Oil Marketing Companies sell ethanol blended petrol with percentage of ethanol up to 10% as per BIS specifications, depending upon its availability. This was stated by Piyush Goyal, Minister of State ...

World Bank financing of USD 100 Million for development of internal infrastructure of solar parks has been planned by Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) under the aegis of Ministry of New & Renewable Energy. The World Bank loan is proposed to flow to the interested Solar Power Park Developers (SPPDs) through IREDA. This was stated by Piyush Goyal, ...

The Retail Portion of the National Fertilizers Ltd (NFL) OFS has been oversubscribed by the retail investors. Against the 20% portion amounting to Rs. 107.14 crore reserved for retail investors, the total bids of Rs.178.67 crore has been received, thus the Retail Portion got oversubscribed approximately by 1.66 times. The Non Retail portion of the OFS opened on 26th July, ...

Dr. Harshvardhan, Minister of Science & Technology, Earth Sciences and Environment, Forests & Climate Change, has launched an app “Sagar Vani” on the occasion of Foundation Day of Ministry of Earth Sciences in New Delhi on July 27. ESSO-Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) under Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) provides ocean information services for the benefit of ...

A policy on “Signing of Fuel Supply Agreements (FSA) with Letter of Assurance (LoA) holders of Thermal Power Plants (TPPs) – Fading Away of the existing LoA-FSA Regime and Introduction of a New More Transparent Coal Allocation Policy for Power Sector, 2017 – SHAKTI (Scheme for Harnessing the and Allocating Koyala (Coal) Transparently in India)” has been issued on 22.05.2017. ...

Coal imports have fallen from 217.78 Mte in 2014-15 to 203.95 Mte in 2015-16 and further to 190.95 Mte. in 2016-17. The trend of fall in import of coal has continued in 2017-18. This was stated by Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy and Mines in a written reply to a question ...

The Government of India has awarded 128 routes connecting 43 unserved and under-served airports to 5 selected airlines for commencing operations under Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) – UDAN in the 1st round of bidding. RCS flights from six RCS airports – Shimla, Nanded, Kandla, Porbandar Gwalior& Bhatinda – have already commenced. The 2nd round of bidding under RCS-UDAN is likely ...