Even as the country has around 20 port projects with a total cost of Rs 10,348 crore under public-private-partnership (PPP) in various stages of development and operations, there is a need for regulation and vigilance on the service standards, according to a report by Deloitte and the Federation of Indian Export Organisation (FIEO).

'Regulate service standards of PPP port projects'

Business Standard

The University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) Dharwad has introduced 15 new varieties of crops for the farming community. UAS Vice-Chancellor R R Hanchinal said here on Tuesday that the researchers and experts of the varsity were introducing the new varieties of crops for the betterment of the farming sector and to help the farmers get high yield.

UAS releases 15 new varieties of crops

The University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) Dharwad will introduce Bachelor of Technology degree course in food technology, a new programme for the students of this region. The varsity will be the first in north Karnataka to launch this course.

To introduce BTech in food technology

The Odisha government is mulling to cut sales tax on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) to woo private carriers for start commercial flights operations from Bhubaneswar to various domestic and international destinations. The Biju Patnaik airport in the city is poised to have an international air terminal by August this year.

Odisha mulls cut in ATF sales tax to kickstart global air operations

US-based environmental and quality standard certifying agency API has extended the Monogram license for the pipes making plant of Rourkela Steel Plant, a unit of Steel Authority of India (SAIL).

API extends RSP plant licence by 3 yrs

Continuing its efforts to boost skills development in the state in a big way, the Odisha government on Wednesday inked Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) with nine training institutes to ensure placement of youths in various demand driven sectors.

Odisha in pact with nine players to boost skills training

The Gujarat Universities Service Tribunal (GUST) has held that it had jurisdiction to determine disputes relating to condition of services of members of all universities in the state be it government-run, private or deemed.

Have jurisdiction over all deemed, private universities of state: GUST

The Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath was celebrated with gaiety and fervour on Thursday in the city.

Rath Yatra gets a Russian flavour in Kolkata

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Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Thursday unveiled the state electronic hardware policy offering a slew of incentives, including 100 per cent reimbursement of value-added tax (VAT) and goods and services tax (GST), for a period of five years to those who set up units in Hyderabad and other parts of the state.

Andhra Pradesh unveils electronic hardware policy

The Union government would unveil initiatives to reverse the current import dependence on electronic hardware by eventually transforming the country as a global manufacturing hub of electronic goods, Sachin Pilot, Union minister of state for information technology and communications, said on Thursday.

Electronic hardware next big thing for India : Sachin Pilot

Former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa on Thursday got a breather, when the State High Court granted him anticipatory bail in a corruption case related to illegal mining. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is currently probing the case on the direction of the Supreme Court.

HC grants anticipatory bail to BSY, kin

Karnataka Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Thursday ordered a probe into alleged irregularities in the Excise Department in Dakshina Kannada district, according to JD(S) leader R Janardhan. Janardhan claimed the Chief Minister told him government would probe the charges and that he had directed officials to submit a report in three days.

CM orders probe into alleged irregularities in excise dept

Three richly decorated chariots carrying the deities Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and their sister Devi Subahdra rolled on the Grand Road (Badadanda) of the holy town Puri on Thursday amid presence of lakhs of devotees from different parts of the country and abroad to witness the world famous annual Rath Yatra (Car Festival).

Over a million devotees throng Rath Yatra

The Gujarat chapter of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has joined the apex body in calling a doctors' strike on June 25 across the state.

Guj wing of IMA joins Jun 25 doctors' strike

In wake of the massive fire in Maharashtra state secretariat, Goa government on Friday issued an advisory to fire and emergency service departments to check fire protection systems at all government departments including secretariat and state Assembly complex.

Goa to check fire safety systems in govt bldgs

For Tata Nano and Singur, the journey starts from a &ldquo;Holy Thursday&rdquo; for the Left to a &ldquo;Black Friday&rdquo; for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday.

Singur: The story so far

This is the latest effort by finance department to arrest any laxity in programme execution by all departments after preparing outcome budgets for five departments- works, water resources, panchayati raj, women and child development and rural development in 2010-11. &lsquo;Outcome Budget&rsquo; was billed as a &lsquo;performance tool&rsquo; to monitor not just the intermediate physical outlays that are more readily measurable but also the outcomes which are the end objectives.

Finance dept seeks status of budgetary programmes

The Planning Commission has accorded &ldquo;in principle&rdquo; approval to the construction of a new railway line, connecting the port town of Gopalpur in Ganjam district to Rayagada, an industrial hub, in south Odisha.

Plan panel nod to Gopalpur-Rayagada rail link

The villagers opposing the mega steel project of Posco near Paradip on Friday observed &lsquo;Black Day&rsquo; even as the South Korean steel major&rsquo;s MoU with the state government completed seven years on Friday. Waving black flags and wearing black ribbons round their wrists and foreheads, the villagers under the banner of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) staged a demonstration at Dhinkia.

Anti-Posco brigade observes 'Black Day'

India&rsquo;s bilateral trade with Germany is likely to touch Euro 20 billion during the current year 2012, showing a growth of 11 per cent over the previous year, S M Krishna, external affairs minister said, here on Friday.

Indo-German trade may cross Euro 20 bn mark 

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