Panjim (Goa): The Minister for Shipping, Road Transport & Highways and Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation Nitin Gadkari reviewed the work of all ports in Goa this week.  He interacted with stakeholders including PPP operators, port users and other private sector service providers. In his address Gadkari said that as per the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Blue ...

New Delhi: The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, has signed an Institutional agreement with Anna University to establish India’s second Technology and Innovation Support Center (TISC) at the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (CIPR), Anna University, Chennai, under the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) TISC program. WIPO’s Technology and Innovation Support ...

  New Delhi: Two Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) have been signed between Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, Atal Innovation Mission – Niti Ayog and Haryana Vishwakarma Skill University.With an aim of enabling millions and millions of Indian youth acquire necessary skills and contribute towards making India a modern country, India has launched ‘Skilling India’ as a multi-skill development programme on ...

Focusing predominantly on value added products, Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) is looking forward to offer an array of differentiated and quality products in market while focusing on value along with volume. During interaction with employees at SAIL’s Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP), Chairman, SAIL, PK Singh said, in the prevailing stiff market competition, value addition to our products and ...

Minerals along with the availability of sufficient water, land and man power resources, Odisha should have been the leading state in India for production of large amounts of energy as well as various types of metals and alloys. It is expected that, the integrated iron and steel, special steels, sponge iron, ferro alloys, aluminium  and aluminium alloys and strategic metal ...

A peep into the stratigraphy of iron ore can give some scope of locating iron ore at deeper level, which is not mineable with present mining technology. There are other resources in the freehold areas which could be included in the mining leases to add to the dwindling resources.  The crises of meeting the needs of steel making industries, we ...

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 ...