A decade ago, government subsidies and services in India were slow, cumbersome, and prone to leakages. Today, digital public infrastructure...

Government assessment reveals challenges in India's science and technology institutes. Complex accounting, GFR issues, and low R&D funding ...

Leading Indian Institutes are facing challenges. These challenges are due to strict rules on faculty positions. The Finance Ministry's orde...

The government has eased financial regulations for scientific institutions, including those in defense, allowing greater autonomy in procur...

The exemption will enable NTPC and other CPSEs engaged in RE projects to cut costs by directly importing from bidders/companies from China ...

At least two high-level inter-ministerial meetings have been held on the issue recently to resolve the concerns and find a middle ground ke...

"With effect from 15th June, the licences, shall only connect trusted products in its network and also seek permission from the designated ...

"DoT is almost ready to amend licence conditions to incorporate guidelines NSD (national security directive). It should be done in the comi...

In response to a question that if the telecom ministry plans to allow the use of Chinese equipment for 5G, Dhotre said 5G technology in tel...

Further, ministries or departments that needed to float global tenders for amounts below the threshold would have to seek approval from the...

FM Sitharaman had last week announced an economic support package for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which includes disallowi...

As per the amended rule, "of all items of textiles required by the central government departments, it shall be mandatory to make procuremen...

"Now, GFR 2017 (general financial rules) have done away with the need for publishing advertisement in newspapers for procurement," the orde...

In the housing sector, there is a great scope of absorption of steel, according to Aruna Sharma, Steel Secretary.

The rule will mean that any government department can bring in a national procurement policy for a good or service mandating that this be p...

Since its launch in August, purchases done through GeM have added up to Rs 150 crore, with savings of 10-20% — and in some cases even up to...

The government has amended rules related to public sector imports to ensure swift sourcing of essential commodities such as rice or wheat t...