Miscellaneous

Eminent actor, Shri Akshay Kumar, launched an advertisement campaign for the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) in the capital, on Sunday. The campaign was launched at a Collectors Convention for Toilet Technology organized in the capital. The campaign focuses on promoting the twin pit toilet

The government plans to promote the Kumbh Mela as a destination for tourists, and encourage visitors and dignitaries from foreign countries to attend the event. The Kumbh Mela will be held between January 15 and March 4 next year in Allahabad. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to promote the

The Centre is all set to install 4072 mobile towers in Naxal- affected areas after the Union cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal of the Home Ministry on Tuesday. The project will be cost more than Rs 7000 crore, government officials said. In the first phase, which was completed about two years

The Union Cabinet approved additional changes to Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code through an ordinance, easing rules to enable promoters of micro, small and medium enterprises to bid for their companies and giving homebuyers a stronger say in the resolution plan for developers. The Insolvency and

A three way partnership for small business loans was sealed today among lenders, industry and MUDRA Bank Limited. The process of coming together was facilitated by the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Secretary, Financial Services, Rajiv Kumar informed the

Khadi and Village Industries Commission ( KVIC ) has created a new world record of distributing maximum number of bee-boxes in a single day – beating previous best of 841 in Israel around two years ago. May 21 is celebrated as World Honey Bee Day. Today, KVIC Chairman Vinai Kumar Saxena distributed

From a WhatsApp call from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Diwali, celebrating birthdays on the high seas, to being pounded by hurricanes and monstrous waves in the Pacific Ocean, the past 254 days were quite a roller coaster for the women of INSV Tarini who received a hero’s welcome on their return

At the CRPF’s Anti Naxal Training School atop a hill in north Chhattisgarh, the young recruits marched in all their glory. Under two shamianas on either side, sat their parents and family, clapping as they went past. On the dais, receiving the salute, were not just the Director General of the

This is the story of one Ramji Yadav, who was an Ekal school teacher in village Gaipura Kalna in the Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh. Ramji talks of the economic conditions of his family and how his father was addicted to liquor. It was in such conditions that he came in contact with Ekal and got

Union Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment, Shri Thawarchand Gehlot distributed assistive devices to Divyang Jan, at a distribution camp held in Pune today. Addressing the gathering, the Minister said that the scheme to distribute assistive devices to Divyang Jan, is one such scheme for the

For every litre of alcohol they produce from fermentation of sugarcane molasses, distilleries generate 10-15 litres of wastewater effluent or “spent-wash”. The 300-odd molasses-based distilleries in India churning out 2.5-2.6 billion litres of alcohol annually, thus, also discharge 30-35 billion