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Environment ministry to partially outsource clearance of forest lands

Environment ministry to partially outsource clearance of…

New Delhi, Jun 15 (KNN) The environment ministry has plans to partially outsource monitoring of clearances, given for millions of hectares of forests for industrial…
IT industry now pushes for local procurement of 30%

IT industry now pushes for local procurement…

New Delhi, Jun 15 (KNN) The Ministry of IT and Communications has set a guideline for the telecom and IT hardware suppliers, which requires them to set up…
Intensive development in animal husbandry sector aids national food security

Intensive development in animal husbandry sector aids…

From: Dr H R Keshavamurthy
 
New Delhi, Jun 15 (KNN)  Animal protein in the form of milk, butter, cheese, egg, meat, fish to name a few,…
Futuristic biotechnology industry partnership programme for SMEs

Futuristic biotechnology industry partnership programme for SMEs

New Delhi, Jun 15 (KNN) The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has planned to launch a biotechnology industry partnership programme (BIPP) to promote break-through…
Discoms to replace defective meters in Haryana

Discoms to replace defective meters in Haryana

Chandigarh, Jun 15 (KNN)  The Haryana Power Distribution Corporations in an attempt to bridge down the losses from consumers who have been tampering with…
Bihar to rope in pvt players in affordable housing

Bihar to rope in pvt players in…

Patna, Jun 15 (KNN) The Bihar Government today announced plans to rope in private sector players to develop affordable housing and a commercial complex in…
Bank of Maharashtra sets up special branch for MSMEs

Bank of Maharashtra sets up special branch…

Pune, Jun 15 (KNN)  The Bank of Maharashtra today said it has set up specialised units in major cities including Delhi and Hyderabad to service micro,…
Industrial sops extended for 5 years in J&K; MSMEs get better deal

Industrial sops extended for 5 years in…

Srinagar, Jun 15 (KNN) Special fiscal incentives for industries in Jammu and Kashmir will be available for five more years until June 2017, the government…
Bangladesh loss is India's gain in apparel export orders

Bangladesh loss is India's gain in apparel…

New Delhi, Jun 15 (KNN)  Bangladesh's loss is India's gain as several global apparel brands are shifting their sourcing requirements to Indian…
Over 200 get jobs at MSME Rozgaar Mela at Noida

Over 200 get jobs at MSME Rozgaar…

Noida, Jun 15 (KNN)  As many as 237 youngsters got on the spot placement at a Rozgaar Mela organised here with most  of them finding jobs in multinational…
Soon a transport enclave to facilitate trade in Vadodara

Soon a transport enclave to facilitate trade…

Vadodara, Jun 14 (KNN)  The Vadodara Urban Development Authority will construct a transportnagar (transport enclave) in the city for facilitating truck…
National jute board to modernise jute industry in West Bengal

National jute board to modernise jute industry…

Kolkata, Jun 14, (KNN) The West Bengal government in its efforts to modernise the jute industry had called for bids from reputed agencies to prepare a techno…
35th National Games in Kerala to be hi-tech

35th National Games in Kerala to be…

Palayam, Jun 14 (KNN) The Department of Sports and Youth Affairs in Kerala is keen to make the 35th national games,  one of the most important…
Ministry of Science & Tech to study impact of mobile tower radiation

Ministry of Science & Tech to study…

New Delhi, Jun 14 (KNN) To address concerns about cell tower radiation and its ill-effect on human health and environment, the Ministry of Science and Technology…
Gujarat's diamond & textile industries lag in availing govt schemes

Gujarat's diamond & textile industries lag in…

Surat, Jun 14 (KNN)   Going by certain business units in Surat and other parts of Gujarat, most of the government policies go unheard among the small…
FDI in multi-brand retail: States can attach more strings; spirit dampened

FDI in multi-brand retail: States can attach…

New Delhi, Jun 14 (KNN)  Over and above the tough conditionalities  by the Centre in allowing 51 per cent foreign direct  investment in multi-brand…
RBI shifts fraud monitor cell to Bengaluru

RBI shifts fraud monitor cell to Bengaluru

New Delhi, Jun 13 (KNN)  The Reserve Bank of India has shifted its Fraud Monitoring Cell from its central office in Mumbai to its regional office in Bengaluru.
World Bank wants India to remove growth barriers

World Bank wants India to remove growth…

New Delhi, Jun 13 (KNN)  Pace of recovery in the Indian economy will depend on reducing structural constraints and consolidation of the government finances,…
Credit growth at standstill for medium scale firms

Credit growth at standstill for medium scale…

Mumbai, Jun 13 (KNN) The growth in deployment of gross bank credit to the medium scale enterprises was among the lowest in 2013 while for micro and small units,…
Falling currency, a boon for cotton exporters

Falling currency, a boon for cotton exporters

New Delhi, Jun 13 (KNN)  The falling value of Indian currency is benefiting the cotton traders, who now are exporting more attributing the prices at home.

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