Miscellaneous

The Dakshinpally Puja Samiti, which organised the Durga Puja at Pocket 52 in Chittaranjan Park, was awarded the first prize for being environmentally the cleanest among the plethora of pandals. The contest had been organised by area MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj to promote green consciousness at festival

Government has given its approval for implementation of umbrella scheme of "Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF)" for years 2017-18 to 2019-20. The financial outlay for the scheme over the 3-year period is Rs.25,060 crore, out of which the Central Government share will be Rs.18,636 crore and the

President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday released a sophisticated and affordable hand-held testing device which allows domestic users to easily identify adulterants in milk. Developed by the public sector research body, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the device - called Ksheer

Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, launched the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, or Saubhagya, at New Delhi yesterday. The aim of this scheme is to provide power to all homes. On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay, the Prime Minister also dedicated a new

Mysteries solved years ago are helping the Delhi Police make a splash on Twitter, with a tweet highlighting an interesting case, photo or trivia being posted on its handle every Thursday. While the entire cycle — from the tweet being posted to it going viral — takes a few hours, a three-member

Close to one crore people joined the Swachhata Hi Seva campaign in its inaugural week. The nation wide Swachhata Hi Seva campaign is now entering its second week. The inaugural week saw a wave of cleanliness activities across the country. In Chennai to keep the city ‘clean and green’, a battery of

Last month, all 4,480 villages in 52 districts spanning five states on the banks of the Ganga — Uttarakhand, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal — were declared Open Defecation Free under the Namami Gange project. Of the 200 households along the ghats of the Ganga at Dalmau nagar panchayat in Rae

Central Government has announced a new PPP Policy for Affordable Housing that allows extending central assistance of up to Rs.2.50 lakh per each house to be built by private builders even on private lands besides opening up immense potential for private investments in affordable housing projects on

Not far from the densely packed industrial belt in Ahmedabad's Pirana Piplaj areas where 1,500 factories and warehouses jostle for space, a 29-acre green zone, packed with 47,000 trees, now brings a whiff of fresh air to the Sabarmati, named the third most polluted river in the country by the

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by PM Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the proposal for revision of cost norms with annual cost indexation for Supplementary Nutrition (SN) for the beneficiaries of Anganwadi Services and Adolescent Girls (out of school 11-14 years) under the

Some municipal corporations are planning to make rules for compulsory compost plants in big residential colonies to help in managing waste. While these rules are made and come into effect, some individual efforts have yielded good results. Here is a story of a residential colony in Gurgram in

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change will hold a quiz on environment - ‘Prakriti Khoj’ throughout the country. The quiz is planned in five rounds and the qualifying round will begin on September 25, 2017 by paying tribute to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya on his birth anniversary. The