National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), the Navratna PSU under the Ministry of Mines, Government of India, has paid a total dividend amount of Rs. 257.72 crore for the financial year 2010-11 which includes the final dividend of Rs, 128.86 crore at Rs. 0.50 per equity share on expanded capital i.e. 10% on face value of

The Union Minister of Mines Shri Dinsha J. Patel, received the final dividend of the Rs. 46.07 crore for the financial year 2010-11 from Sh. Shakil Ahmed, CMD, Hindustan Copper Limited here today in the presence of Shri S. Vijay Kumar, Secretary (Ministry of Mines), Shri A. K. Srivastava, Additional Secretary (Ministry of Mines).
For the

A delegation under the leadership of Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat, Scientific Advisor to Raksha Mantri, Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Director General DRDO visited Canada during Oct 10-15, 2011. The purpose of visit was to attend the Indo-Canadian Workshop on ‘Frontiers in Science and Engineering 2011’ at York University and also to visit and

The Minister of State for Defence Dr MM Pallam Raju inaugurated a two-day seminar on ‘Command, Control, Computers, Communication, Intelligence and Information (C4I2 Summit-2011)’ here today. Following is the text of his delivered on the occasion :
“It is my pleasure to deliver this address on the occasion of the Third Summit of C4I2 which could

A Dual Degree (UG Programmes) has been finalized between National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) and Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York. This implies that selected meritorious students from NIFT would avail the unique opportunity to obtain a joint Degree awarded both by NIFT & FIT. The association of two premier fashion institutes would

Mr Kamal Nath, Minister of Urban Development, Govt. of India gave away the Environmentally Sustainable City Awards (ESCA), 2011 to the cities of Mysore and Vijayawada at the 5th Euro-India Summit on 13 October 2011 at Leuven, Belgium.
Speaking at the Summit, Minister Nath emphasized the growing infrastructure and urbanization challenges being faced by India and

New Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) will be introduced by Internet Corporation for Assigned Name and Numbers (ICANN) for the categories of Brands, Communities and Cities and Regions. Applications for the first round of new gTLDs will open on January 12, 2012 and run until April 12, 2012. During this time frame, organizations will be

In his announcements for the Foreign Trade Policy (2009-14) here yesterday, Shri Anand Sharma, the Union Minister of Textiles, announced various incentives for the Textiles sector. The sector is reeling under economic uncertainty at global level and pulls and pressure at domestic levels.
Announcing the incentives Minister said, “we adopted a multi pronged strategy by providing

Recalling the considerable progress achieved in bilateral educational relations following the visits by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to the United States in 2009 and President Obama to India in 2010, Human Resource Development Minister Shri Sibal and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today reaffirmed the strategic partnership between India and the United States

The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, addressed the 6th Annual Convention of Information Commissioners in New Delhi today. The following is the text of the Prime Minister’s address:
“Let me begin by saying that yours is a very important conference. The Right to Information is now about six years old. I am sure we are all