New Delhi, Feb 19 – The Indian food processing sector has the potential to attract $33 billion of investment and generate nine million person-days of employment by 2024, industry chamber Assocham said on Sunday, citing its study. By 2024, food processing sector is expected to employ nine million people in India and expected to generate about 8,000 direct and 80,000 indirect jobs in the state, the Assocham-Grant Thornton joint study on ‘Food Retail: Investment: Infrastructure’ noted.

New Delhi, Feb 15 – As per the Indian governments directive last year, Chinese smartphone maker nubia has updated its software for the power button to also function like the panic button, the company announced on Wednesday. Pressing the power button thrice will connect the users to the helpline and the GPS in the phone will help authorities to track the location of the person, the company said in a statement.

New Delhi, Feb. 14: India tops the world in the number of premature deaths from air pollution linked to ozone and has also outpaced China in the number of lives lost from tiny inhalable particles, a report released today said. The State of Global Air 2017 report has estimated that India’s ozone deaths rose at a rate of nearly 148 per cent over the past two decades – from 43,500 in 1990 to 1.07 lakh in 2015.

New Delhi, Feb 12: The official website of Ministry of Home Affairs has been down since Sunday morning. According to reports that have emerged, it seems as though hacking is the primary cause for the dysfunction ET reports that the cyber wing of the Delhi police have launched an investigation into the matter.

New Delhi , Feb. 11 : Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in a meeting with the Securities and Exchange Board of India today, revealed that the growth of the Board is in accordance with the need of the hour. Addressing the meeting here, Jaitley said that a number of initiatives have been discussed, with reference to the Budget announcement.

New Delhi, Feb 11 – The Defence Research and Development Organisation on Saturday successfully test fired a Prithvi Defence Vehicle interceptor missile designed to intercept and destroy hostile ballistic missiles in space even before they enter the Earth’s atmosphere. This further enhances India’s capability of dealing with a nuclear attack threat.

New Delhi, Feb 11 : Wards of many senior councillors in the three municipal corporations in Delhi have come under the reserved categories after delimitation, upstaging their plans to contest the civic body polls from their home turf. Malviya Nagar ward in South Delhi Municipal Corporation , represented by former Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay, has been reserved for women candidates.

New Delhi, Feb. 9: JNU students began an indefinite sit-in today, two days after a tentative intake list for 2017-18 indicated seat cuts in MPhil and PhD courses across several disciplines. Several students also wore bandages as a mark of protest against the use of pellet guns in Kashmir – exactly a year after alleged anti-national sloganeering on Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s death anniversary led to the arrest of three students, including then student union president Kanhaiya Kumar.

Nobel peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s apartment in New Delhi has been burgled and a gold-plated replica of his medal and the citation are missing, police in India said. Nobel peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s apartment in New Delhi has been burgled and a gold-plated replica of his medal and the citation are missing, police in India said.

New Delhi, Feb 6 Engineering firm Tube Investments of India today reported a 67.39 per cent jump in standalone net profit to Rs 27.47 crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2016. The company had reported a net profit of Rs 16.41 crore in the year-ago period, TII said in a BSE filing.

New Delhi, Feb 6 India has retrieved as many as 28 antiquities from various countries till date even as there is no proposal for retrieval of artefacts from British Museum, London, the Lok Sabha was informed today. “Till date, 28 antiquities have been retrieved from various foreign countries.

New Delhi, Feb. 4: The minority affairs ministry is drafting a new Haj policy to factor in demands from the community, changes in the administrative structure and the Supreme Court’s 2012 order to abolish the colonial-era subsidy for the pilgrimage. On whether the Haj subsidy would be done away with, minister of state Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said a committee set up to draft the policy would look into all these aspects.

New Delhi, Feb. 4: The Narendra Modi government appears to have again opted for the money bill route, this time to implement new provisions on political parties’ funding, by “sidestepping” the Rajya Sabha where the ruling NDA is in a minority. The Representation of the People Act, Income-Tax Act and the Reserve Bank of India Act – the three laws – “technically do not fall under the Constitution’s Article 110”, which defines a money bill and its scope, several leaders and activists have said.

Addressing parliament, Jaitley called his fourth budget one for the poor. Yet, while vowing prudent fiscal management, he also raised his 2017/18 federal deficit target to 3.2 percent of gross domestic product to cov TOKYO, Feb 1 Japan’s top government spokesman said on Wednesday there is no change to the government’s stance that it will take steps on foreign exchange when it deems it necessary.

Today is Monday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2017. There are 335 days left in the year.