Union Minister of Shipping G K Vasan today launched the&nbsp;National Automatic Identification System Network (NAIS), which will&nbsp;strengthen&nbsp;the country's coastal security by tracking ships up to&nbsp;a distance of 50 km from the coast.

New tracking system for ships launched

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Amid uncertainity over Infosys' proposed unit in West Bengal, the founder of the country&rsquo;s second largest information technology (IT) service provider, N R Narayana Murthy on Friday said he is &ldquo;positive&rdquo; about success of the project.

Positive about Kolkata Centre: Narayana Murthy

The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on drought headed by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Friday approved Rs 480 crore as an immediate relief package for the state of Gujarat which facing a drought-like situation following deficient rainfall this monsoon season.

State to get Rs 480 cr for drought relief

The Mars mission should not have been a priority at this stage for India which, instead, ought to have evoted time and energy on getting its rocket operational again and give momentum to the human space flight programme, former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G Madhavan Nair said.

Manned mission not priority: Nair

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Increasing water levels at key rivers caused by copious rains in their catchment areas have alerted the state government, which is yet to finish the embankment strengthening works in the areas that were inundated in back-to-back flood in September last year.

Rising water levels at key rivers alert govt

The Andhra Pradesh government has urged Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) to expedite the construction of 765-Kv substations and extra high tension (EHT) lines for importing power to the state from northern, eastern and western regions, stating this would give relief to the power-starved southern states.

AP urges Power Grid to set up 765-Kv substations

Heavy rain in and around Manali washed away stretches of the Manali-Rohtang pass road on Saturday, besides washing away two bridges and killing one person, the local police said.

Manali flood: One killed road, bridges, huts washed away

The state government, through an announcement, has said that sheep breeders in Himachal Pradesh will be provided highly subsidised solar lights to make life easier for them.

Solar lights for Himachal shepherds

The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has approved the implementation of the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) scheme, which would connect all the gram panchayats in the state.

Broadband for UP gram panchayats

Andhra Pradesh Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Sunday quizzed for the third straight day Bellary MLA Gali Somashekhar Reddy, an accused in the cash-for-bail scandal involving his brother and jailed former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhan Reddy.

Cash for bail: ACB grills Bellary MLA for day 3

Notwithstanding the recent fall in volumes of apparel exports to the US and the European Union, the Centre is confident that the industry will achieve the $18 billion target during the present fiscal.

Govt confident of $18 bn apparel exports in FY13

Monsoon showing activity, though belatedly, reservoirs across the Cauvery have begun receiving inflows in small quantities.

Water discharge stepped up from brimming Harangi

The Akhilesh Yadav-led Uttar Pradesh government on Monday reiterated its firm position that recovery certificates (RCs) would be issued against erring sugar mills, if they failed to settle cane arrears within the stipulated 15 days.

Rs 1,500-cr arrears: Bitter brew for UP sugar mills

Even as there is talk of giving a boost to higher education in the country, the 62-year-old Karnatak University in Dharwad, for the first time is facing severe financial crunch. This has resulted in the varsity facing a threat of an indefinite &ldquo;University Bundh&rdquo; from employees who have not received their salaries.

Karnatak University faces financial crunch staff protest

The Uttarakhand government has decided to abolish the 2 per cent VAT being levied on sugar and waive off an accumulated loan amount of about Rs 498 crore held by all the 6 sugar mills in the government sector, a move signalling the government&rsquo;s aim to revive the loss-making sugar mills.

Uttarakhand to waive off Rs 499-cr debt of sugar mills

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has unveiled developed projects worth about Rs 6,000 crore, especially in the road infrastructure sector. The UP State Highways Authority would develop 4 important road links in the state under the public-private partnership (PPP) model at an investment of Rs 5,305 crore. These include the Delhi-Saharanpur-Yamunotri road, Varanasi-Shanktinagar road, Meerut-Karnal road and Bareilly-Almoda-Bageshwar road (all within state borders).

Akhilesh unveils projects worth Rs 6K cr

In near future, Punjab may have its second STPI (Software Technology Parks of India) centre in Amritsar, the first being in Mohali. This was stated by Kapil Sibal, Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, while laying the foundation stone for SPTIs state-of-the-art incubation centre at Mohali in Punjab.

Sibal plans another tech park in Punjab

If every thing goes well as per the plan conceptualised by the Punjab government, Mohali might turn into a trade expo hub in the near future. The state government is mulling the idea of setting up a state-of-the-art international convention centre spread over 60 acres of land, near the Mohali International Airport, on the lines of Greater Noida.

An international convention centre in Mohali on govt's agenda

After making several attempts at privatising the controversial Babai farm (in Hoshanbad district) owned by state agency State Agro Industries Development Corporation, the state government has decided to hand over half of it to the department of industries. The industry department will invite private players to set up non-polluting industries.

MP's agro corporation to be under industries deptt, decides Cabinet

Faced with insufficient wheat availability in the open market, power cuts and a 35-per cent increase in prices in just one month, the Roller Flour Mills Association of Andhra Pradesh has proposed an action plan for the government. The association represents 37 flour mills in the state.

AP flour mills body seeks govt intervention

The United States of America sees India as a stabilising force in Asia, according to Walter Russell Mead, James Clark Chase professor of Foreign affairs and humanities at Bard College and editor-at-large of The American Interest.

'US sees India as a stabilising force in Asia'

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