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Index of Eight Core Industries (Base: 2011-12=100) September, 2018 

1.       The summary of the Index of Eight Core Industries (base: 2011-12) is given at the Annexure. 2.       The Eight Core Industries comprise 40.27 per cent of the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP).  The combined Index of Eight Core Industries stood at 127.2 in September, 2018, which was 4.3per centhigheras compared to the index of September, ...

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India Improves Rank by 23 Positions in Ease of Doing Business 

The World Bank released its latest Doing Business Report(DBR, 2019) todayin New Delhi. India has recorded a jump of 23 positions against its rank of 100 in 2017 to be placed now at 77thrank among 190 countries assessed by the World Bank. India’sleap of23 ranks in the Ease of Doing Business ranking is significant considering that last year India had ...

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CSIR develops Less Polluting Firecrackers named – SWAS, SAFAL and STAR 

CSIR develops Less Polluting Firecrackers named – SWAS, SAFAL and STAR These crackers are 15-20 % cheaper than conventional onesand NEERI team involved in the project has 80 % women scientists E-crackers also being developed with products like E-Ladi, E-Anar, E-cracker show For the first time an Emission Testing Facility established in India for sound and emission testing of crackers  ...

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Commerce Ministry Strategizing To Make Indian Exports More Competitive: Suresh Prabhu  India’s exports rose by 9.8%, in financial year 2017-18, which is the highest rate of growth in six years. This positive growth in exports has taken place at a time when there is a lot of negative headwinds globally. This was stated by Union Minister of Commerce & Industry ...

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Telecom industry to rollout one million WiFi hotspots in the country by December 2019

India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2018 began on a grand-scale at Aero City, New Delhi with over 300 companies, 20 countries participating in this prestigious event in the Asia Pacific region. Shri Manoj Sinha, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Communications and Minister of State for Railways, accompanied by Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology and ...

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Bioethanol Production from Rice Straw

 Bioethanol is considered as one of the most likely next generation fuel for automobiles because it is neutral in carbon content and can be produced from the renewable resources like the lignocellulosic biomass that is obtained from rice which is a major by-product of agriculture and is produced in a large amount in India. There are many technological barriers like ...

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38 Moussigned at Bhubaneswar Steel Conclave 

Capital Goods(CG) producers from across the globeinked 38 MoUs with Indian steel companies which will reduce imports for the steel sector worthRs 39,400 crore.TheMoUs were signed at a Conclave in Bhubaneswar today which wasorganized by Ministry of Steel, Government of India, in association with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and MECON. The National Steel Policy – 2017 envisages creation of ...

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Conclave on Capital Goods in Steel Sector in Bhubaneswar 

Ministry of Steel is organising a Conclave on “Capital goods in Steel sector: Manufacture in India” in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, on 23rd October 2018. Briefing mediapersons in New Delhi, today Union Steel Minister, Chaudhary Birender Singh, said that this Conclave is an initiative of Ministry of Steel to promote domestic capacity and capability building and manufacturing of capital goods in the steel ...

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Dharmendra Pradhan launches the Road Show for Phase II of Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves 

Government of India’s one of the key initiative towards energy security of the country – the strategic petroleum reserves program, envisions creation of additional crude oil reserves facilities in Private Public  Partnership (PPP)  mode and the road show for the same was launched here today by Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister ofPetroleum and Natural Gas and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Speaking on the occasion, Shri ...

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National Aluminium Network Meet 2018:“Focus should shift towards downstream industries to meet higher aluminium demand and consumption”: Dr. Chand 

In the coming 5 years, aluminium consumption in India will be doubled from existing level of 3.6 million ton to 7.2 million ton. Unless we focus on aluminium downstream unit, India will be importing around 5 billion dollar worth downstream aluminium products,” said Dr. Tapan Kumar Chand, CMD, NALCO. He expressed this while addressing the National Aluminium Network Meet 2018, ...

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