Government tenders could soon go to bidders who promise to train highest number of youth.
The queries can now be addressed to and their responses accessed from the makeinindia.com website that was unveiled along with the campaign aimed at making India a manufacturing hub by Modi at a mega event in New Delhi on Thursday.
Far from the metros and big cities, the coronavirus crisis in the country's districts, towns and villages is being led by district magistrates.
The responsibility of keeping the pandemic under control lies with the DM or collector.
Subrat Kumar Sen, the young district magistrate of Saran, north Bihar, tells Rediff.com's Archana Masih how he and his staff are combating a crisis that no one has confronted before.
The campaign will be launched in global as well as domestic markets across the media.
Quoting a study conducted by the Department of IT in consultation with the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council, it said that 'an estimated 2.25 million persons would be directly employed in the industry (IT) by 2015 as against 0.77 million in 2007'. Minister of state for labour and employment Harish Rawat told the Lok Sabha that incremental human resource requirement has been estimated to be around 1.5 million persons.
Perched in the hills of Darjeeling, the factory was set up in 1874, but has remained shut since 2001. Efforts to reopen the colonial era establishment are now on a war footing.
Fresh guidelines issued by the Union home ministry on Wednesday permit industries operating in rural areas to run from April 30 with strict social distancing norms.
Among other things, the agenda is likely to focus on increasing private investment, employment generation and giving relief to the farm sector
A Ganesh Nadar profiles a non-governmental organisation that has revealed startling figures about the state's poor children.
Johnson's hospitalisation was described as a "precautionary step" taken on the advice of his doctor
'The Indian economy has been subsidised by the poor.'
Drought hit Bihar plans to increase the number of days of work from 100 to 150 under the rural job scheme to check migration of the poorest of poor in search of livelihood by providing employment opportunity locally.
Rishi Sunak, Sailesh Vara and Suella Fernandes were the three new Indian-origin MPs to be inducted into the Theresa May govt.
In a first of its kind massive cleanliness campaign, Railway Minister Sadananda Gowda will lead from the front by himself picking up the broom during the drive at rail premises on October 2 involving all its employees and top level officials.
With 11 people succumbing to swine flu in Telangana so far this year, the state government on Wednesday sought Centre's help to check the spread of the deadly virus.
After about 58 hours of rescue operation involving different agencies, the child, daughter of a farm labourer, was found dead.
The US saw a staggering 467,000 job losses in June, pushing the unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.5 per cent, indicating that economic revival may take longer time than anticipated.
The report by the High Level Advisory Group said India stands to benefit even more when the US and China are locked in a global trade war.
Access to India's defence market must be made conditional -- available only to those who are ready to make a long-term commitment in India, argues Ajai Shukla.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will retain DoPT, Atomic Energy as well as all important policy issues and portfolios not allocated.
The pandemic is set to become even more challenging, with migrant workers returning home, relaxations in lockdown rules, and the approaching monsoon. However, states are looking at community participation to ramp up testing and home treatment of patients
Modi government plans to set up a committee of five or six chief ministers to suggest ways to promote digitisation.
Nine people, including 3 couples were reconverted to Hinduism in Chennai
The Budget for 2018-19 has at least five takeaways that are yet to receive adequate attention, says A K Bhattacharya.
At this point, it is crucial to think of solutions that will help flatten the curve and also generate income, says Pratyush Banerjee.
A part of Rs 6.5 lakh cr corpus may be used to set up Workers' Bank.
Nipah virus infection is a newly emerging zoonosis that causes severe disease in both animals and humans.
US companies suffered the biggest job losses in more than 30 years last month, underscoring the depth of a recession that is spreading rapidly from financial centres to most parts of the global economy.
CM announced Rs 5 lakh ex gratia for the next of kin of the deceased and free treatment for the injured.
Johnson spent the Monday night in the ICU at a London hospital in a move Downing Street said was a "precaution" should the British prime minister require ventilation to aid his recovery from COVID-19.
Chinese characters were seen on the website, indicating that Chinese hackers may be involved in it.
At least 12 labourers were in the under-construction building and all of them are feared trapped, Chief Fire Officer Arun Kumar Singh said.
'There's a lot of confusion. It started because the President's tweet was all-encompassing.' 'It has been watered down over the last few days though to more narrow classes of immigrants.'
Rebuffing petroleum ministry, Siddaramaiah launches Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana-like scheme months before state polls
Thirty-two Indian pilgrims have gone missing during a stopover in Auckland en route to Sydney to see the Pope at the World Youth Day celebrations, sending immigration officials into a tizzy.The missing 32 are among a group of 220 Indian worshippers given a one-month visitor visa this month, Labour Department officials said in Auckland, adding they had planned to leave for Australia on TuesdayThe Indians had gone missing at various times over the past four to five days.
The figure was well below the expectations of most economists, who were on average predicting a gain of about 70,000 jobs
There were instances of 'rasta roko' at various places in rural Maharashtra
The current H-1B minimum wage of USD 60,000 was established in 1989 and since then has remained unchanged.
The government earned Rs 7.42 lakh crore as direct taxes in 2015-16, a 66 per cent increase from Rs 4.45 lakh crore in 2010-11
The interim Budget has attempted to tick all the boxes that could help the Modi government return to power, reports Archis Mohan.
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