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The Government has constituted a technology-driven Inter-Ministerial Committee to examine issues relating to doubling of farmers’ income and recommend a strategy to achieve doubling of farmers’ income in real terms by the year 2022.

Indian Railways, which uses approximately 56 Million Units of Electrical Energy per day, is taking the following steps for giving a thrust for use of environment-friendly technologies, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal has said in a written reply to a question...

The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) showed its lead among Indian ports by winning the ‘Best Port of the Year - Containerised’ award at the 4th India Maritime Award 2019.

The Government has established Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS) with corpus of Rs.10,000 crore to meet the funding needs of startups across the country which were 19,351 as of 24 June 2019.

The Karnataka government has proposed to ban construction of new apartments in Bangalore for 5 years. This is a harsh scenario to ponder, considering that the reasons that led to its need are haphazard over-construction and negligence to implement proper...

Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Minister Nitin Gadkari wants to raise the MSME sector’s contribution to GDP to 50% from the present 29% and employment for at least 15 crore people, up from 11.1 crore at present.

The World Bank has signed a Loan Agreement of US$328 Million to help improve the quality and responsiveness of public health services in Andhra Pradesh.

The Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) has elected a staunch votary of exporters issues, Sharad Kumar Saraf, as its new President.

Commerce and Industry & Railways Minister Piyush Goyal has reviewed the draft National Logistics Policy and has stressed on the need to bring down the logistics cost to less than 10% of the GDP by 2022 from the current 14%...

The World Bank is lending US$400 million to expand the coverage and the quality of interventions for the control of Tuberculosis (TB), which kills approximately half a million people in India every year.