India has proposed “constructive talks” on the contentious issue of transit facility through Bangladesh to reach its north-eastern region once a new government takes office in New Delhi after the general elections.
India is particularly keen on railway connectivity between Akhaura in eastern Bangladesh and Agartala, capital of Tripura in India’s north-east, New Age newspaper said.
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The Haryana Government has delivered 14.01 lakh metric tonnes of rice to the Central pool so far, Deputy Chief Minister Chander Mohan said today.
Out of this, 10.32 lakh metric tonnes of rice has been delivered by the six Government procuring agencies while the millers have contributed 3.68 lakh metric tonnes of rice in the [...]
Batting for all those servicemen killed during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in various parts of the country while they were in transit, the ex-servicemen wing of the Shiromani Akali Dal is bent upon making it a poll issue.
National secretary general of the ex-servicemen wing of the SAD, Col P i S Phulka (retd) said [...]
Reliance Energy (REL) has outbid state-run Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) to bag an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract worth Rs 38 billion for setting up a 1,200 mega watt (MW) coal-fired power plant at Yamuna Nagar in Haryana, reports Economic Times.
The project, implemented by the state government, has received the mega power plant [...]
Rains at many places in Punjab and Haryana today broke the long dry spell and also brought down the Mercury, which had witnessed a steep rise in the region during the past five days.
Rain lashed Chandigarh, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala, Ludhiana in Punjab and Ambala, Karnal, Panchkula and Kalka in Haryana, the Met Department here [...]
‘Content Reliance’s move into Delhi is part of a second expansion push following the firm’s successful entry into retail, which was initiated through its opening of 11 Reliance Fresh outlets in Hyderabad in November last year. So far, the growing number of 2,300 square foot stores, offering around 200 SKUs of vegetables and staple foods, [...]
On a chilly January afternoon in india’s capital, about 100 people gather to watch a traditional dance by pink-clad bare-armed teenage girls hailing from a little district with big aspirations.
The performance aims to stir interest in the long-running demands of the Greater Coochbehar People’s Association which wants Coochbehar — a former kingdom in pre-independence india [...]
Travel solutions firm Samsonite Corporation is looking for prospective partners for outsourcing its product manufacturing in Tamil Nadu and Gurgaon.
The company is negotiating with a Hyderabad-based firm for outsourcing shoe manufacturing, the segment it plans to re-enter by the year end.
The move comes after Samsonite announced that it will be gradually phasing out [...]
The Delhi lieutenant-governor has notified the state government’s October 2006 order to private schools built on subsidised public land to reserve 20 per cent of their seats for poor students and also waive their fees.
in lieu of the lands allocated to them at marginal prices, the private schools have been put under the
obligation [...]
india’s “Look East” policy and how Northeastern india could benefit from it economically would come up for a threadbare discussion at a conference to be held here on January 31.
The participants include Union Ministers Jairam Ramesh and Santosh Mohan Dev, former Union Tourism Secretary M P Bezbaruah, Planning Commission advisor A M Gokhale, Lok [...]