Miscellaneous

Nominations for Vayoshreshtha Samman - National Awards for Senior Citizens 2019 for individuals/institutions should be sent by 31 st May, 2019. The Department of Social Justice And Empowerment had invited nominations for the awards on 17 th April, 2019. The Ministries/Departments of Government of

The Website of the Lokpal was inaugurated by the Chairperson, Justice Shri Pinaki Chandra Ghose in presence of all the Members of Lokpal today. The DG, NIC, Smt. Neeta Verma was also present on the occasion. The Website has been developed by NIC and provides the basic information with respect to the

The National Cadet Corps (NCC) Girls’ Mountaineering Expedition to Mt. Tenchenkhang in Sikkim was ‘Flagged Off’ by Addl Director General (B) Maj Gen Sanjay Gupta, here today. The team is led by Lt Col Madhab Boro and constitute three officers (including Medical Officer), 17 PI staff and 20 NCC Girl

A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) head constable, who survived the Pulwama terror attack in February, is being praised for his act of feeding a differently-abled boy while he was on duty in Nawakadal area in Srinagar’s old city on Monday. A short video clip, showing Iqbal Singh, 44, feeding the

The Delhi government is finalising an action plan to ensure that the Yamuna is not polluted due to idol immersion during the coming festive season this year. While in the past, there have been attempts at controlling what is put into the rivers during the festivities, this is the first time that the

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between National Mission for Clean Ganga, HCL Foundation and INTACH for taking up a project of ‘Plantation of Rudraksh Trees in Uttarakhand’ as a part of CSR initiative under the ‘Namami Gange’ Programme. While the project aims at planting 10,000

First AH-64E (I) - Apache Guardian helicopter was formally handed over to the Indian Air Force at Boeing production facility in Mesa, Arizona, USA on 10 May 19. Air Marshal AS Butola, represented the Indian Air Force and accepted the first Apache in a ceremony at Boeing production facility,

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted successful flight test of ABHYAS - High-speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) from Interim Test Range, Chandipur in Odisha on Monday. The flight test was tracked by various RADARS & Electro Optic Systems and proved its performance in

In a landmark achievement for Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Pune, theAll India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has granted approval to five courses of FTII under AICTE's newly created APPLIED ARTS AND CRAFTS category. This approval makes India's premier film school,FTII,the

Admiral Sunil Lanba, the Chief of Naval Staff inaugurated Indian Navy’s first full-fledged Service Selection Board (SSB) on Tuesday at Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata. The Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command, Vice Admiral Karambir Singh, was also present at the venue. SSB (Kolkata)

On Sunday, a picture of four plainclothes women pointing guns at a gangster who was on Gujarat police’s ‘Wanted’ list, Jusab Allahrakha Sandh, went viral on social media. Santok Odedara (30), Nitmika Gohil (34), Shakuntala Mal (29) and Aruna Gameti (40) were among the team of five sub inspectors,

State-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC) Tuesday said its research and development centre at Faridabad has become the first public sector oil and gas company to cross the milestone of filing 1,000 patents. The Centre filed the 1,001st patent this week, the company said in a statement here. "The R&D Centre