The Vice President of India, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu today expressed confidence that the Indian economy would rebound in the near future saying that the current slowdown was cyclical.

Inaugurating the 102nd annual conference of the Indian Economic Association, he said it was true that the Indian economy was facing some challenges due to the decline in growth this fiscal.

Union Human Resource Development Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ inaugurated the the ‘Social Media Outreach & Communication: National Workshop on Management and Best Practices’ organised by Ministry of HRD for various educational institutions and organisations in New Delhi today.

Alliance Air, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air India, started daily direct flight operations from Kalaburagi to Bengaluru and onward to Mysuru under the RCS-UDAN scheme, today. The Kalaburagi airport was built by the Airport Authority of India in collaboration with State Government.

An inaugural Trial-Run of Indian Railways (IR) freight train on the newly built Rewari-Madar section of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC), covering a distance of about 306 kms (Total 663 track Km) was conducted today (i.e.

In total, 75 Central Ministries/Departments are actively using the e-Office platform, with Ministry of AYUSH being the recent Ministry to go live on the e-Office platform. Out of them, 57 Ministries/Departments have achieved the desired target of 80% on e-Office platform, with Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries being the latest to have achieved this.