India will need 6 gigawatt-scale plants of 10GWh each by 2025 and 12 by 2030 Apart from EVs, such battery storages will cater to the consumer electronics industry and electricity grids, given the intermittent nature of electricity from clean energy sources New Delhi: India is putting the final shape on a plan to build at … Read more
Sogoport – India’s leading digital freight logistics business – has announced a major boost for shippers with the launch of refrigerated (reefer) cargo services to and from destinations across the globe. Customers requiring cold storage shipping can now compare rates and book reefer containers through a host of partner shipping lines on the Cogoport e-freight … Read more
In a major boost to the ‘Make in India’ initiative in Defence and Aerospace sector, Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh accords approval to allow Private Sector industry compete with Ordnance Factories and Defence Public Sector Units (DPSUs) for the prestigious Raksha Mantri’s Awards for Excellence. This is a significant departure from the past wherein only … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Defence Ministry has selected Lucknow to conduct Asia’s biggest defence exhibition in 2020. The state capital of Uttar Pradesh will conduct the 11th DefExpo from February 5th to 8th next year. Making it official the Ministry of Defence on Sunday tweeted, “The 11th biennial edition of DefExpo India- 2020 is scheduled to … Read more
Commerce and Industry Minister Shri. Piyush Goyal has directed officials handling public procurement portal GeM to make it more simple, less time consuming and attractive to attract vendors, especially from the MSME sector. The minister’s directive came during a meeting Thursday to review and formulate an action plan for Government e-Marketplace (GeM) to achieve a … Read more
Share of exports of products related to India’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) during the year 2018-19 stood at 48.10 per cent as per the information from Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics. The jump in the share has been impressive from the preceding year (FY18) when MSME exports contributed only 7.5 per … Read more
Will India’s growth remain concentrated in mega-cities or will it shift to secondary cities and small towns? For India, a faster pace of spatial development is vital to enable the country to take full advantage of its demographic dividend afforded by its young population. With 12 million people joining the country’s labour force every year, … Read more
A new public sector enterprise, New Space India Limited (NSIL), has been incorporated to tap benefits of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting her maiden Budget in the Lok Sabha on Friday. “India has emerged as a major space power. It is time to harness our ability commercially. … Read more
नयी दिल्ली : केंद्रीय मंत्री नितिन गडकरी ने मंगलवार को कहा कि एमएसएमई मंत्रालय और वाणिज्य मंत्रालय के साथ मिलकर देश में आयात किये जा रहे ऐसे सामानों की पहचान करेगा, जिनके देश में ही विनिर्माण के लिए सूक्ष्म, लघु एवं मध्यम उपक्रमों को प्रोत्साहित किया जा सकता है. गडकरी ने यहां सूक्ष्म, लघु और … Read more
Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) said in the Rajya Sabha that the ministry aims to increase the number of MSMEs in India on a sustainable basis through various schemes and programmes, according to a government release. Gadkari added that the ministry is providing better credit facility, technology upgradation, and skilling … Read more