Between September 2017 and August 2018, close to 15% of all flavoured milk launches in India were in the chocolate category, reports Nitin Kumar.
The incentive-based IHQ status, awarded by Singapore's state investment agency Economic Development Board, would also see Tata Communication increasing its Singapore workforce by 60 per cent to 200 over the next four years.
Unlike the 2012 manifesto, the BJP has chosen not to make any extravagant promises.
The Karnataka high court on Monday granted bail to former minister Katta Subramanya Naidu, who was arrested in connection with the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board land scam.
Nadathur S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) has announced the launch of Next Big Idea, a business plan competition.
The Uttar Pradesh Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it has found detergent in one of the samples of Mother Dairy's milk packets, a claim contested by the Delhi-based company.
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In a first of its kind venture by any coconut producing country, India is mulling launching a 'Coconut Trail' across various states producing the wonder nut, which would give tourists an insight into the rural life and history of the 3000 year-old tradition of coconut culture.
The import of power is expected to start by late 2012. The state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board on Monday signed the deal with Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd at a ceremony in Dhaka.
Essar Power and GMR are among the global bidders for a 450-Mw dual fuel power project planned by the Bangladesh government at Sirajgonj, about 140 km from Dhaka.
The plan is to have five brand new cities, which are bigger than Navi Mumbai, in the next five years.
More than 50 startups have graduated from Startup Village's Physical and Virtual Incubation Programme and eight startups from Digital Incubation
"This year the Ministry has received 579 proposals from all the State Governments under the National Afforestation Programme out of which 270 have been accorded sanction," Jairam said.
The Mangalore Special Economic Zone Limited (MSEZL) is facing stiff opposition from the landholders who are resisting acquisition of their lands.
Used mostly as fuel or discarded as waste, the coconut shell is increasingly fetching great commercial value, with the global market for activated carbon produced from it registering encouraging growth.
The move to set up a development board for Bundelkhand region allegedly without taking Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh governments into confidence paralysed proceedings in Parliament on Monday. The Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha were adjourned within minutes as the Bahujan Samaj Party and Bharatiya Janata Party members were on their feet demanding that the Bundelkhand issue be taken up straight away suspending the Question Hour.
Minister of External Affairs S M Krishna on Saturday reacted strongly to the attack on two Indian priests of the famous Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, and asked the Nepal government to ensure the safety and security of the priests.However, unfazed by the attack, the two priests performed the daily rituals at the 5th century Hindu shrine. The police and temple authorities, with the help of the locals, rescued the priests from the attackers, sources said.
The transfers were effected keeping in mind the demands of ministers, an official said, adding the conflict between them was resulting in inefficiency of work.
A 1988 batch Indian Administrative Service of Gujarat cadre, Arvind Sharma is set to be Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi's personal secretary. Sharma was additional principal secretary to the Modi when he was chief minister of Gujarat, and has been with him since 2001.
The government and Reserve Bank of India are working on opening a massive Rs 75,000 crore refinance window to provide concessional funds for infrastructure, housing and small and medium enterprises by partly leveraging the country's foreign exchange reserves.
She has been given training for handling polling booth and tackling challenges like other presiding officers.
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, (IIT-KGP) has lined up four courses for rural development this year to facilitate skill development among the rural youth as well as create self-employment opportunities.
This is the first time that the company has acquired land on its own without seeking the assistance of the state government's land acquisition agency, Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board.
With growing appetite for investments abroad, the number of Indian companies setting up units in Singapore has grown three-fold in six years to 3,084 in 2007.Wipro Technologies is also setting up an R&D centre in Singapore, Tan said, adding that there are few other companies which would shortly be firming up investments in Singapore which includes Tatas as well.
The Rs 1-trillion organised dairy market is dominated by co-operatives in almost every state.
The visiting PM would pay a visit to the offices of the Coconut Development Board, among other places.
Experts at the seminar ruled out the possibility of coconut causing increased risk of heart ailments.
Tourism to Corbett and Almora could be particularly hit as a result of the fire, which has destroyed 2,200 hectares of forest.
Now, Bihar wants a white revolution in the state. So, the state has approached National Dairy Development Board to seek assistance.
This is part of an initiative to include all sections of the society in polling process and the EC has identified a booth in southern Kolkata.
With humorous memes, videos and short stories, Brand Mother Dairy has been steadily inserting itself into almost every trending conversation on social media, writes Viveat Susan Pinto.
The Gujarat government believe it can usefully utilise its 1,600-km coast for cultivating more coconuts in the coming years.
Setting up dairy cooperatives modelled on Gujarat's 'Operation Flood' could ease agrarian distress and stop suicides by farmers in the region.
In view of a number of injuries the Indian team is beset with, the Bengal batsman has been asked to join the team.
Amrita Patel (pictured), the chairman of National Dairy Development Board, has joined the board of Tata Tea as a non-wholetime independent director.
Cheap milk prices, rising fodder cost and the difficulties in buying new cattle and selling old ones on account of cow vigilantism have cast a triple shadow on this sunshine sector in Indian agriculture, reports Sanjeeb Mukherjee.
'The controversy created by a Gujarat minister was totally unnecessary and unwanted.' 'It is a disgrace that a person who happened to be Gujarat's finance minister, spoke this kind of rubbish.'
Amrita Patel, chairman of National Dairy Development Board, and one-time protege of Varghese Kurien, has been silent till now on the raging controversy over the legality of Kurien's chairmanship at the Institute of Rural Management Anand.
