Investment

Ise commits Rs.217 crore investment Ise Foods. Japan and India have decided to strengthen cooperation in the field of food safety for promoting investment by Japanese companies in the Indian market. This was underlined as Ise Foods Inc committed a...

No room for retaliation in Trade War India may be running an annual trade deficit of about US$150 billion, but a much higher level of imports than exports would not provide the country handle to retaliate, should the world witnesses...

Projects reviewed regularly Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways, Mansukh Lal Mandavia, said 1,417 projects, worth Rs.432,538 crore, were currently under construction. Out of these, 71 projects, covering a length of 1,647-km and amounting to Rs.21,042 crore, were...

Local industry told to interact with Defexpo participants Sitharaman (in brown saree) meeting with the industry on 16 Mar 2018. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met over 200 representatives from the industry for the Tamil Nadu Defence Corridor, which along with...

Paper calls for fast-track housing development Minister Puri's updates on PMAY housing. Nearly 4 million houses have already been sanctioned under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), a Prime Minister housing scheme to build 12-million houses by 2022. Stating this,...

Tranche 3 lending for improving railway sector Kenichi Yokoyama (in tie) and Indian officials with signed loan documents. India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a US$120 million loan agreement for double-tracking and electrification of railways tracks along...

Non-major ports merged Twenty-six projects costing Rs.1,207 crore have been sanctioned for total financial assistance of Rs.462.60 crore, said the Minister of State for Shipping Pon. Radhakrishnan in a written reply to parliament on 15 Mar 2018. The central government...

34% CAGR growth for B2B commerce transaction Commerce Secretary Rita Teaotia has called for an over-arching national e-commerce policy to tap the huge opportunities in this segment. Teaotia said while the B2C commerce transactions in India were growing rapidly at...

Govt fast track solar development Modi and Macron in Varnasi on 12 Mar 2018 when they inaugurated the solar plant at Mirzapur. Bidding of 225 MW solar power plants will be opened on 12th April, 2018 as part of developing...

Make in India introduce in major defence areas Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), the Research wing of Ministry of Defence, has been set up with a mandate of developing cutting edge technologies and systems for Indian Armed Forces as...