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Aadhaar enrolment and updation facilities will be available in around 15,000 post offices by March 31 next year and this will complement the earlier decision that bank branches will have similar centres by October 31. Around 5,000 post offices will have the facility by December this year. Rs 2,000

The Uttarakhand government has begun the process of constructing 15 sewage treatment plants that would stop direct discharge of municipal waste from towns along the banks of the Ganga. According to the master plan, the government will undertake 21 projects under the Namami Gange mission to ensure

One Babu Bai, from the tribal majority area of Udaipur area pledged her jewellery to get toilet constructed so that the daughters and daughter-in-laws in the family would not have to go in the open. Her efforts were recently recognised at national level. उदयपुर के जनजाति बाहुल्य क्षेत्र की निवासी

Nandini Sarkar and Aastha Verma, two girls from Varanasi, have shattered a 450-year-old glass ceiling at the medieval wrestling ring. In a major break from tradition, the akhara that's managed by the Sankat Mochan temple trust has permitted girls to practise and wrestle at its hallowed mud pit

The Railway Ministry has asked its senior staff to slug it out - at home and at work - as part of steps to end the VIP culture in India's national transporter. In an unprecedented move, the ministry has brought to an end a 36-year-old protocol where it was mandatory for general managers to present

Tthere has been an improvement in sex ratio at birth in 104 districts selected for the Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme, which aims at checking female infanticide and educating the girl child. “An increasing trend in Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) is visible in 104 districts, 119 districts have

Today Haryana, which has one of the worst sex ratios in the country, is the only Indian state to have all-women police stations in each of its 22 districts. Sonepat has two. Ambala SHO Seema Singh says it’s easier for a woman to talk to another woman than to a man. “Police have a negative image

As our civic authorities grapple with accusations of indiscriminate tree-cutting for development, and not compensating for it by replanting enough saplings, a small, sweet initiative by a city-based family may just be the example they need to emulate. It was the birth of their daughter one-and-ahalf

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has transferred the technology of Bullet Proof Jacket (BPJ) to M/S MKU Limited, Kanpur for manufacturing these for the Indian Army and Para-Military Forces personnel. Chairman DRDO and Secretary Department of Defence R&D Dr S Christopher handed

Every day, as a bunch of municipal workers sweep the streets of Kumbar Koppal and go door to door to collect garbage, a 75-year-old man keeps an eagle's eye on them. D Madegowda gets up early to monitor the work. "When there is 100% commitment, nothing can prevent you from achieving your goals," he

For years, the 9-km stretch of Puri beach near Bankimuhan waste water treatment plant was an eyesore with garbage and sewage littering the shore. Today, the beach is totally litter-free thanks to efforts of well-known sand sculptor Sudarsan Pattnaik . The Puri-based Pattnaik launched a hungerstrike

The ongoing and targeted projects of National Highways Authority of India would generate estimated employment of approximately 50 crores man days over the next four years on a seasonal basis. This would be averaging to nearly 12.5 crore man-days yearly from 2018-2022. Of this, about 1.0 crore will