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Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu has called for urgent innovation in agriculture sector, using startups to work on solutions to produce more food crops in limited fertile soil with use of less water.

CDB Aviation has taken delivery of its 100th Airbus A320 Family aircraft which will be operated by India’s low-cost carrier Go Airlines Ltd. (GoAir).

India is supporting the use of nuclear energy to meet the rising demand and has called for the use of advanced fission reactors, including fast reactors, that reduces radioactive waste.

Seattle-based Spaceflight, the leading satellite rideshare and mission management provider, will launch 12 spacecraft from India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) this month.

The Union Cabinet has approved leasing out of six airports, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati, Thiruvananthapuram and Mangaluru, under Public Private Partnership (PPP) model of development.

SpiceJet Ltd will get the first of the three 737 MAX 8 aircraft in December 2018 under a long-term lease signed with CDB Aviation.

Power supply-demand project     India and Japan signs a Loan Agreement worth Rs.1,817 crore for the ‘Construction of Turga Pumped Storage (I)’ contributing to the Industrial Development and Living Standard Improvement in the State of West Bengal. The Japanese...

Azure Power has signed a letter of award (LoA) for a 300 MW Interstate Transmission System (ISTS) grid connected solar PV project won in an auction conducted by NTPC Limited.

India-designed Unit 1 of Kaiga nuclear power plant has won appreciation from the World Nuclear Association (WNA) for its continuous operation over three years.

International financiers have boosted Azure Power’s fund raising to US$400 million since 30 June 2018, the largest funding by the solar power group in India.