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Ensuring food security was the big promise of UPA-2. The promise to enact legislation to ensure a minimum quantity of affordable food to all poor households in the country was part of the election manifesto of the Congress Party that leads the government. The 100 day agenda of the government made it a priority, even as rising food prices made [...]
In a proactive move to ensure a fair balance between the protection of intellectual property rights and protection of the public interest, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has chosen to put out a discussion paper on the issue of Compulsory Licencing of Patents. Compulsory Licencing (CL) involves providing an agent other [...]
Gujarat Emerges One Of The Leaders For Investments Among Forward Looking States Gujarat has emerged a leader among five top States i.e. Maharashtra, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in becoming preferred investment destinations and in attracting 52.42 % of total investment of Rs. 1,04,93,602 crore for 20 States as on 31st March, 2010, according to a study undertaken by ASSOCHAM.
The Union Cabinet considered the recommendations of the GoM and decided as follows: a) ‘Caste’ of all persons as returned by them would be canvassed. b) The caste enumeration would be conducted as a separate exercise from the month of June 2011 and completed in a phased manner by September 2011 after the Population Enumeration phase (to be conducted in [...]
Indian Space Research Organisation successfully conducted the second static testing of its liquid core stage (L110) of Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV Mk -III) for 200 seconds at its Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) test facility at Mahendragiri on September 8, 2010 at 15:50 hrs. L110 is one of the heaviest earth storable liquid stages ever developed by ISRO. L110 [...]
The Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance is coming out with the sixteenthedition of the annual publication titled ‘India’s External Debt: A Status Report 2009-10’ that analyses India’s latest external debt position (at end-March 2010) based on the data released at end-June 2010 by the Reserve Bank of India. The incorporation of two new chapters on ‘Trends and Composition of [...]
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved revision of the existing norms of the SSA programme to conform with the RTE Act (Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act). The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) Programme, a major flagship programme of the Government of India to universalize elementary education in the country, will be the main vehicle for the [...]
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