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  Venkaiah Naidu hits back at Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over 'smart city' issue

  Politics | August 18, 2015 18:15 IST

  Bengaluru:  Hitting back at Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Union Minister today said the state itself had not proposed Bengaluru for "Smart Cities Mission" and the Centre was committed to make it a "great city" even if

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  Bihar govt names college, science city after APJ Abdul Kalam

  India | July 30, 2015 14:46 IST

  Patna: Paying rich tributes to 'People's President' APJ Abdul Kalam on the occasion of his last rites, the Bihar government today named Agriculture College at Kishanganj and proposed the science city after him.  The decision was taken by the state

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  Smart City project not 'elitist': Venkaiah Naidu

  Politics | June 26, 2015 16:41 IST

  New Delhi :  Rejecting Congress's criticism that the 'Smart City' project was "elitist" in nature, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said that the NDA government's ambitious plan was aimed at benefiting "the poor who

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  PM Modi launches 'Smart Cities Mission' for urban development

  Politics | June 25, 2015 15:13 IST

  New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched three ambitious schemes aimed at developing cities and towns as 'new engines for growth'.The three projects are - 100 smart cities, Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban

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  PM Modi to unveil Smart City, AMRUT projects on June 25

  India | June 07, 2015 14:49 IST

  New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally launch the Rs 98,000 crore Smart City and AMRUT projects on June 25, in an attempt at tranforming the urban infrastructure burdened with ever-growing population.Modi will announce

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  Smart-City Challenge: Building on pillars of good governance

  India | May 12, 2015 12:36 IST

  The second budget of the Narendra Modi government has been presented. The Smart Cities programme and 500 habitations under the National Urban Rejuvenation Mission (NURM) together have been allocated Rs. 6,000 crore (approximately $1 billion).

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  Amethi to be developed as Smart City

  Politics | May 07, 2015 14:12 IST

  Amethi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi's constituency Amethi is set to be developed as a Smart City by the Narendra Modi-led government.The Centre has written to the Akhilesh Yadav led state government in this regard

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  After smart cities, 'Smart Armed Forces Station' on cards

  India | May 01, 2015 12:08 IST

  New Delhi: Taking a cue from Smart City project, the Indian military could announce to develop its own smart stations.According to some media reports, the Chiefs of Staff Committee is discussing a proposal to develop

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  PM Modi's Smart City project runs into hitch after tender cancellation

  March 18, 2015 10:17 IST

  New Delhi: With the last minute cancellation of first major tender, Narendra Modi's ambitious smart city project seems to have run into a hitch.According to a report published in ET, international consultancy firm McKinsey 'unofficially'

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  Govt to start work on 12 smart cities at major ports with 50,000 crore investment

  India | February 22, 2015 14:39 IST

  New Delhi: Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari has said the government is working on an ambitious plan to build one smart city each at the country's 12 major ports. The plan estimates total investment of

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  Cisco to develop Vizag as first smart city

  India | February 04, 2015 11:41 IST

  New Delhi: Visakhapatnam will be the first city to be taken up by Cisco Systems, Global information technology networking company, for developing as a smart city.Cisco informed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on

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  Raghubar Das urges PM to include 6 J'khand cities in Smart City project

  Politics | January 05, 2015 6:52 IST

  Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das yesterday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to include six cities of the state in the Centre's ambitious 100 'Smart Cities' programme.Calling on Modi in New Delhi, Das said Ranchi,

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  This 'Dancing Red Light' would teach you road safety!

  Lifestyle | October 09, 2014 16:37 IST

  As they say, if you can drive in India, hell you can drive anywhere in the world!It's not just that we Indians 'believe' ourselves to be born with talents to handle road safety on our

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  Smart city plan out soon, wide scope for private sector: Government

  India | September 04, 2014 10:20 IST

  New Delhi: The Central government said that framework for government's stated goal of developing 100 smart cities will soon be finalised and the plan would allow plenty of opportunity for participation to the private sector.“We