Locally manufactured coaches can achieve similar speeds as Talgo trains.
Modi is keen to get more investments into Gujarat.
Swaraj emphasised that the UN must accept it needs fundamental reform.
Skoda has made extensive changes to the styling of the Yeti.
The top 10 in terms of the number of MSMEs is dominated by the larger states with Uttar Pradesh at the top.
For existing technologies, unless appropriate financing is available, deployment at scale is difficult.
Is the Airtel Zero plan really a big blow for net neutrality? Will it end the 'free' internet as we know it? Amidst the hullaballoo over the issue, Sudhir Bisht provides a contrarian view.
Rahul Gandhi has the potential to grow into a good, effective, leader of the Opposition provided he puts his heart and soul into it, with a willingness to learn, says B S Raghavan, the distinguished civil servant who worked closely with India's first three prime ministers.
NTPC to be the worst hit, stock slides to five-year low on announcement.
The real estate Bill will stamp out illegal practices prevalent in the industry.
Modi sarkar will have to undertake reforms to prove its mettle.
Karan Narsu takes a look at the most gob-smackingly expensive bikes launched in India this year
Recent statistics show that the situation is no different across the country with several hospitals lacking the infrastructure to manage a breakout of a blaze.
Sanjeev Nayar offers some ideas on how Indians can help in improving the lives of those living in border areas and in the process help the Indian Army.
Dharmendra Pradhan lays bare the next course of action for his ministry and says RIL will have to pay the same price at which it produced the volumes.
'There was a time when I went without salary for about six months,' says Amod Malviya, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and currently CTO, Flipkart.
'By the time he came out after nearly five hours, he had a one-to-one conversation with the President, a delegation-level meeting, a reception, a dinner, a tour of the White House and a joint statement of a kind none of his predecessors ever had,' says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
The 2015 Ford Figo is a completely new product and does not share anything with its earlier model
At the GO-JEK hackathon in Bengaluru, there were over 100 people working on their projects. Most were between the ages of 25 and 30. All except the CoderDragons: Mrinal Jain is 11, and Shreyas Katuri is 12. Nikita Puri meets the pre-teens who are building a virtual voice assistant named Erica.
'Our intentions are clear. If I keep all the acquired land under the ownership of the government, why do you raise questions about my intentions?' 'One achievement of my ministry would be the gas pricing policy. Two, we made a delivery mechanism (for domestic LPG) which is the largest in the world. We are crediting money to the poor directly. It is the biggest structure of direct subsidy transfer.' 'It is very easy to work with Modi. He gives everyone a chance in decision-making. I have become a minister for the very first time, but if we want to raise any issues in the Cabinet, we have full freedom to do so.' The second and final part of Union Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's exclusive interview with Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com.
Here's everything you need to know about the Goods and Services Tax Bill.
Faced with sluggish economic growth and dwindling exports, China on Wednesday devalued its currency for the second consecutive day.
'Win or lose, the BJP's Delhi unit is clearly in a mess. Its behaviour offers a textbook example in how not to approach an election.'
Private sector firms need to be re-engaged for better infra planning.
It is possibly the first time that a regional party with not even enough numbers to move a no-trust motion has taken the lead, and others are following it. The hints of a no-trust move first came from the YSR Congress, and the ruling TDP could not have stayed on together when the question is another version of 'Telugu atma gouravam' - an issue that fired its founder N T Rama Rao in the 1980s, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Here's everything you need to know about the Goods and Services Tax Bill.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered an impassioned speech to the United States Congress.
If carmakers don't explore innovations to improve safety, they could be relegated to the garbage heap by new players, says Indrajit Gupta
Here is the full text of the joint statement issued by India and the US.
Around 80 mn rural households are estimated to have no access to grid power.
Amit Bansal discusses the emerging trends in the engineering sector.
Farming and debt go together in Tamil Nadu's Ariyalur district. There are those who have learnt to live with it and others like Alagar who could not cope with the loss.
'The Modi government believes the industrialist, the capitalist, has to pay for the assets of the government which belong to the people of India.'
Will get Rs 830 cr, Rs 329 cr respectively to offset higher coal costs
The agrarian crisis must be met with similarly speedy responses.
In an online chat with readers overseas education consultant NNS Chandra addressed queries related to US admissions.
If Narendra Modi could tame his obsession with the Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi family, Arvind Kejriwal resist polishing his halo and Rahul Gandhi find his voice, we could begin a debate about the future of this country that actually addressed the seriousness of its problems, says Rahul Jacob.
The 2015 World Bank group's Doing Business index ranked India at 142, down from 140, which it was the year before.
'We should not flatter ourselves that China is fixated on encircling India. She has greater goals, becoming the pre-eminent power in the world, and India as a major power is dealt with as part of that strategy.'
'The Paris Conference is a decisive meeting on climate change.' 'Negotiating an agreement between 196 countries is indeed a challenge.' 'If we go beyond 2°C, the consequences will be extremely difficult to deal with.'The poor are the most vulnerable to the impact of climate change.'
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