Government policies
India acted against terror, not against Pakistan: Sushma Swaraj
27 Feb 2019
India’s action was not a military operation and the aim was to dismantle the terror infrastructure, she said, adding that India does not wish to see further escalation of the situation and will continue to act with responsibility and restraint
US may end GST preferences for India: report
08 Feb 2019
While the immediate cause for the US move could be India’s new rules on e-commerce that restrict the way Amazon.com Inc and Walmart-backed Flipkart do business in India, Modi has also annoyed global card payment companies such as Mastercard and Visa by forcing them to move their data to India
NITI Aayog delegated NPPA role of drug price regulation
24 Jan 2019
A NITI Aayog-led body will now recommend prices to the NPPA on drugs and other health products, which relegates NPPA to a mere implementing body
Govt to extend Udan flights to international destinations
15 Jan 2019
Modi government’s Udan would be going international with flights to Thailand and Bangladesh for as low as Rs2,500, say reports, quoting sources in the aviation ministry
Quota for economically backward signed into law
14 Jan 2019
Modi gifts 2 AIIMS to J&K, 1 to Gujarat
11 Jan 2019
Govt offers GST sops to small businesses
10 Jan 2019
The Goods and Services Council at its meeting today decided to raise the threshold limit for exemption from registration and payment of GST for supplier of goods to Rs40 lakh while also keeping the Rs20 lakh limit, leaving it to the states to decide
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Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
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By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation