In an article published in the Sunday Telegraph as she left for India for her first bilateral visit outside the UK, she said plans to promote the best of Britain during her three-day trade mission to New Delhi and Bengaluru.
Target is to train about five lakh Indian women in next 18 months
Sitharaman said keeping morale of forces at the highest level was among the priorities of the government.
Medical tourism in India alone is estimated at $3 billion and projected to grow to $7-8 billion by 2020
Social integration with inclusion is is most necessary.
Infosys continues to be interested in acquisitions.
In the run up to three years of the National Democratic Alliance government, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry (Independent Charge) Nirmala Sitharaman says it is time to consolidate some of the major initiatives as well as take new steps.
It also sports 128MB RAM, 256MB memory (expandable up to 32GB), 2MP camera and 1350 mAh battery.
Internet services in Jammu and Kashmir were fully restored on Monday, three days after the state government ordered the termination of data services fearing trouble during Eid-ul Azha, popularly known as Bakri Eid.
At the first meeting of Governing Council of NITI Aayog on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will seek views of Chief Ministers.
Modi hopes to attract funds and skills from U.S. innovators to help India's burgeoning startup scene grow.
Foxconn, which is Apple's largest manufactures, has decided to set up a manufacturing base in India
Modi said there were a slew of 'matching priorities' between the business council and that of his administration, including dismantling trade barriers, promoting skills development, establishing manufacturing supply chains and infrastructure development.
India is on its way to become a mobile app-first market and e-tailers and start-ups have begun their race to capture the next set of users in India - those who access vernacular content.
My dream is to convert Indian economy into $20 trillion from the present $8 trillion.
Union budget was mildly for cable broadcasting industry and DTH.
'Our mandate is to work in a transparent manner, keeping two objectives in mind - consumer interest and growth of the telecom sector.'
This would be the first visit to India as Google CEO.
On Sunday, August 9, over 400 California-based community leaders from various organisations and inter-faith groups gathered under the Indo-American Community of West Coast USA banner, some of whom were the first to sign up for the event.
This will be in line with government's vision of Digital India.
'The Vajpayee personae is so mirrored in Modi's initiatives that one wonders if the similarities are merely a coincidence or a divine design,' says RSS ideologue Tarun Vijay.
Partial dismantling of subsidies, movement towards a more transparent policy on natural resources and moves to make India more inviting for foreign investors, are some of Modi government's big achievements.
US President Barack Obama has written a profile for Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Time magazine as it named the Indian leader among the 100 most influential people in the world.
Paytm plans to induct 5,000 manufacturers and sellers; has started programmes to identify and train new sellers.
A look at the key decisions taken by the Narendra Modi government in its six months.
Using phones and computers to spread rumours, jihadis are waging a new, unconventional war.
'The BJP and RSS may realise it is much easier for the ICHR to rewrite textbooks and for the ICSSR to float its bizarre interpretations on social themes than to keep people away from their favourite dishes.'
The two countries agreed to intensify coordination to deal with terrorism as Swaraj met top Israeli leadership and discussed a wide-range of bilateral and regional issues.
BPO is going to generate employment in all small cities.
'Information highways are getting stronger and being strengthened.' 'Occasionally, accidents could occur. But do you stop constructing highways because two motor cars collide?'
'Modi should not feel shy of proclaiming as the meaning of secularism regard for all religions in proportion to their numbers in tune with the spirit of democracy and adopting it as State policy,' says B S Raghavan.
'Almost deified by enough Indians now, never mind his politics and, worse, economics,' says Shekhar Gupta.
'The whole country has to aspire to move up. They should look at their neighbours, see where they are, and should work to get there.'
Make in India cannot be successful on the toil, miseries and abuses of young children in the manufacturing sector, the Nobel laureate wrote in a letter to PM
The world's biggest social network Facebook wants to connect more people to internet in India which accounts for the third largest online user base globally after China and the US but has a very low internet penetration growth rate.
'Human rights issues continue to be exploited selectively, more often for narrow short-term political ends,' Modi tells Ban.
'People do not want a 'maha milavat' (highly adulterated) government of those who assembled in Kolkata.'
A CNN-IBN-Axis MyIndia poll about the Modi Government's first year in power assessed the government's performance from a layperson's perspective.
They need to upgrade their skills and become smaller, smarter organisations, says Devangshu Datta.
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