Budget 2025-26 highlights: Four growth engines, financial reforms, more money in people's handsIn-depth coverage of Budget 2025-26: Union Budget 2025-26 prioritised growth via Agriculture, MSMEs, Investment and Exports. Key initiative...
19 Dec, 2025, 03.38 PM IST
Bihar cabinet’s first meeting sets five-day special session, approves AI mission and new investment panelsThe Nitish Kumar government held its first cabinet meeting, detailing a roadmap for Bihar. A special assembly session is scheduled from Dec...
26 Nov, 2025, 12.10 AM IST
Newly formed Bihar Cabinet holds first meeting, decides to provide 1 crore jobs to youth in 5 yearsBihar new government: Under the new-age economy, Bihar will be developed as a back-end hub and global workplace over the next five years, C...
25 Nov, 2025, 01.52 PM IST
For New India, even sky is not the limit: PM Modi in Trinidad & TobagoPrime Minister Narendra Modi, during his visit to Trinidad and Tobago, addressed the Indian diaspora, highlighting India's economic growth ...
04 Jul, 2025, 04.48 PM IST
Saved 6.1 mn users from online fraud in Jharkhand-Bihar circle, claims AirtelBharti Airtel's AI-powered fraud detection system has protected over 6.1 million users in Jharkhand and Bihar from online fraud within 37 d...
20 Jun, 2025, 07.41 PM IST
India’s AI race heats up as entrepreneurs, researchers, and startups vie for IndiaAI Mission fundingIndia’s AI race heats up as entrepreneurs, researchers, and startups vie for IndiaAI Mission funding. With Rs 1,500 crore support and subsi...
15 Feb, 2025, 12.01 PM IST
Budget 2025 Highlights: FM Nirmala Sitharaman announces tax bonanza, big boosters for BiharUnion Budget 2025 Key Highlights: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the first full Budget of Modi 3.0, focusing on economic gro...
12 Feb, 2025, 04.08 PM IST
India to emerge as global hub for critical minerals: Union Mines ministerUnion minister G Kishan Reddy announced the upcoming launch of the National Critical Mineral Mission to enhance India's production of criti...
20 Jan, 2025, 10.20 PM IST
Centre to launch National Critical Mineral Mission to boost production: Union ministerUnion minister G Kishan Reddy announced the upcoming launch of the National Critical Mineral Mission to increase domestic production and re...
20 Jan, 2025, 04.45 PM IST
Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS): How policy vision transformed India's entrepreneurial ecosystemLaunched in 2016, the Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS) by GoI has successfully transformed India's entrepreneurial ecosystem through strate...
14 Jan, 2025, 11.46 PM IST
It takes a village to raise an AI worldAI startups are leveraging local talent, cost efficiency and regional diversity to drive innovation. ET decodes the how and why of this tre...
19 Nov, 2024, 04.12 PM IST
India's Safeena Hussain wins $5 lakh WISE Prize for getting 14 lakh girls back to schoolEstablished in 2011 by Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the WISE Prize for Education is the first distinction of its kind to recognis...
03 Dec, 2023, 02.11 PM IST
'Constant upskill is a must': Coursera CCO reveals pandemic pushed more women to take on new coursesDr Betty Vandenbosch said Indian women show a balanced investment in human & digital skills.
20 Aug, 2022, 11.12 AM IST
Agritech platform DeHaat acquires SaaS startup FarmGuideAs part of the DeHaat-FarmGuide acquisition deal, FarmGuide’s founding team will now join DeHaat and build a full-stack platform for agribu...
23 Feb, 2021, 04.47 PM IST
IIT Kharagpur's AI study finds 20 per cent of India has toxic levels of arsenic in groundwaterAccording to the researchers, the findings suggest a much greater extent of the high arsenic zones and total population exposed than alread...
11 Feb, 2021, 05.45 PM IST
India's Meteorological Department plans to use AI to improve weather forecastingThe IMD has invited research groups who can study how artificial intelligence (AI) be used for improving weather forecasting and the Minist...
02 Aug, 2020, 01.33 PM IST
Livestock population up by 4.6%; cow count rises by 18%From 512 million in 2012 to nearly 536 million in 2019, the livestock population has increased by 4.6%, as per the 20th livestock census. C...
17 Oct, 2019, 10.51 AM IST