New Delhi: The growth in Index of Industrial Production (IIP) at 4.2 per cent for July 2015 is the second successive month of over 4.0 per cent growth during the current financial year. 

New Delhi: In a high level committee meeting held here the Government has decided to import an additional 5000 MT of Tur Dal to increase the availability and control prices of pulses. Import of 10,000MT of Tur and Urad Dals is already in the pipeline and the first consignment will reach by 23rd September, 2015. (Read in Hindi: दस हजार टन अरहर, उड़द दालों का आयात करेगी सरकार)

New Delhi: Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gave its approval for introduction of Gold Monetization Schemes (GMS), as announced in the Union Budget 2015-16. (Read in Hindi: केंद्र ने की स्‍वर्ण मौद्रीकरण योजनाओं की शुरुआत)

Washington: With the rate of stillbirths now topping that of infants who die before their first birthdays, employers and society must become more empathetic to families grieving the death of a baby through stillbirth or miscarriage, says a Baylor University researcher who helped form Cradled, a Waco-based nonprofit serving bereaved families.

New Delhi: BSNL has decided to upgrade Broadband speed to minimum 2mbps at no additional cost for all the Broadband customers on PAN-India Basis from 1st October 2015.

Amid an outcry of poor civic amenities in cities bursting at seams, work on the Smart cities with state of the art facilities-- automatic traffic lights, sprawling solar panels dotting neat dwellings, clean green campuses, digitized working, round the clock vigil through close circuit cameras, has picked up momentum. Visions are coming on drawing boards and future 98 smart cities identified. Uttar Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir have to pick up one each soon to touch 100 cities mark.