Miscellaneous

This news would not have made so big, but for the fact that a politician's daughter has made it to the army. Usually, one finds children of politicians enjoying luxuries. This news is of Namita Pant who has become the Judge Advocate General (JAG) in the Indian Army. She is the daughter of Prakash

Defence Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, flagged-off Indian Naval Sailing Vessel Tarini (INSV Tarini) with an all women crew from INS Mandovi boat pool, Goa on Sunday. This is the first-ever Indian circumnavigation of the globe by an all-women crew and shall attempt to circumnavigate the globe. The

The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that every city in the country should become Smart City and we must put efforts in that direction. He was addressing the gathering after performing Bhoomi Poojan for the Ranchi Smart City, in Ranchi, Jharkhand today. He also laid

When a speeding biker knocked off the exterior rear-view mirror of N Krishna's car, he did not want to proceed on the Bengaluru-Chennai highway without fixing it. So he took the car to the nearest garage. As he waited for the mechanic to fix it, Krishna decided to try and file the claim on his

We hear so much of the problems created by elephants destroying dwellings, and even causing death of life of human and cattle, specially in rural eastern India. A new regional plan to tackle human-elephant conflict in eastern and central India has proposed a number of strategic measures, from

Leader of the Green Revolution Dr. M.S Swaminathan and Padma Shri Dr. H Sudarshan, today, launched the National Nutrition Strategy, along with Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Dr. Rajiv Kumar and Member Dr. Vinod Paul. With a benefit to cost ratio of 16:1 for 40 low and middle-income countries, there is a

The President of India, Shri Ram NathKovind received 319 recipients of ‘National Awards to Meritorious Teachers’ at RashtrapatiBhavan today (September 5, 2017). This is the first time that a high tea has been hosted for award winning teachers by the President of India on Teachers' Day at

1000 ई-रिक्‍शा ‘स्‍मार्ट ई’ का पहला जत्‍था गुरूग्राम से रवाना Shri Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation flagged off a fleet of first batch of 1000 E-rickshaws from Huda City Centre metro station in Gurugram on

City governments in Uttar Pradesh will provide an additional assistance of Rs.12,000 per each individual household toilet to be built in the urban areas of Uttar Pradesh to enable all the 655 statutory cities and towns in the State become ‘Open Defecation Free (ODF)’ by October, 2022, under Swachh

The Environment Ministry will launch an environment awareness initiative, under which an online environmental quiz competition named “Prakriti Khoj” – an Environment Quiz will be conducted at the national level. It will be launched on September 5, the occasion of Teachers’ Day. The objective of the

Cows in Madhya Pradesh will be the first in the country to get an Aadhaar identity. Tagged in the ear, the yellow Aadhaar chip will contain the cow's date of birth, address, milk yield, reproductive details and health data, accessible at the click of a mouse. State Animal Husbandry Minister Antar

The widow of Col Santosh Mahadik, who died fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara and was posthumously awarded Shaurya Chakra, will be commissioned as an officer in the Army Ordnance Corps (AOC) on September 9. Swati Mahadik, 38, had joined Chennai’s Officers Training Academy (OTA) in