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The ‘Viksit Bharat’ vision entails becoming a high-income society that empowers citizens to realize their potential and aspirations, for which India’s demographic dividend is to be effectively leveraged, says Niti Aayog, Vice Chairman, Suman Bery. Increasing labor productivity is central to India’s aspiration of becoming a developed nation in about two decades, as it would […]

The orders issued this month have selected Ministries ranging from Home Affairs under Amit Shah to Rural Development, headed by Shivraj Singh Chouhan, to move to Building 3 – currently named CCS-03 – on Kartavya Path. The scale of the shift will be even larger than when most of Lutyens’ Delhi’s present crop of Government […]

Among other things, the policy lays down that new residential buildings must provide EV charging facilities and also offers incentives such as toll waiver for these eco-friendly vehicles. The new Electric Vehicle (EV) policy of the Maharashtra Government seeks to achieve 30% EV penetration in the State by 2030, officials said on Saturday. The Transport […]

Called the world’s largest entrepreneurial train journey, the Jagriti Yatra is a special train in India that is aimed to grow the community of entrepreneurs in India by immersing them in India of small towns and villages. This year, the yatra will start on November 7 and run till November 22. Once a year, a […]

In a significant development, India’s coastline has officially been revised to 11,098.81 kms, marking an increase of 3,537.21 kms or nearly 50% from the previous measurement of 7,561.60 kms. With this revision, the coastline of Gujarat, which is the longest in the nation is no longer 1,600 kms; it is now over 2,300 kms. The […]

Not only is entrepreneurship in India very different from what it is in the United States, but it is also a different ball game as compared to salaried employment in the world’s fifth largest economy. With stable, salaried employment in the public and in the private sector a thing of the past, the core of […]

Opportunistic squatters are thriving online, snapping up prominent domains before the brand can get there. Divya Joyce Moolayattil shares how companies can safeguard their trademarks. Earlier this year, Reliance’s JioCinema merged with Walt Disney’s Disney+ Hotstar, their forces coming together to form the streaming behemoth JioHotstar. The joint entity had everything in place: Over three […]

 The new rule introduces a joint photo declaration—Annexure ‘J’—as a valid substitute to the marriage certificate. In a move set to ease a longstanding hassle for Indian passport applicants, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has announced that citizens can now add their spouse’s name to their passport without furnishing a marriage certificate. According to […]

FCRA Registration: Before receiving any foreign contribution or donation from foreign sources, any individual, association, or company in India must obtain registration from the Central Government under Section 11 of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (FCRA). If registration is not secured, the person or entity can still accept foreign contributions, but only with prior […]