Miscellaneous

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of 'Multimodal Terminal' at Sahibganj in Jharkhand today. To be constructed at a cost of 280 cr, the cargo handling capacity here will be 22.4 lakh tonnes per year. The facilities at this terminal include berthing for two vessels, stockyard

To generate rural employment and to promote the entrepreneurs in the rural areas of the country, Ministry of MSME is implementing the following schemes through Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) and Coir Board: I. Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC): i) Prime Minister’s

Jharkhand government has launched the PTG Dakia Yojana on Monday in which food packets of 35 kgs will be delivered at the doorsteps of some 70,000 vulnerable tribal families. It is reported that employees of Food and Civil Supplies Department will deliver these packets once every month to these

In order to connect the country’s under-served and unserved airports under the Centre’s Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS), five airlines, have won bids to operate on 128 routes. The routes will connect 70 airports, including 31 unserved and 12 under-served ones under the scheme — also known as UDAN

A Kolkata-based company has designed a bus that will run on biogas produced from cow dung. The first bus flagged off on Friday will run between Ultadanga in the north and Garia in the south in Kolkata. At just Re 1 for the 17.5 km stretch, the bus will be the cheapest mode of transport for a

13,002 villages have been electrified till date under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram JyotiYojna (DDUGJY). Out of remaining 5450 un-electrified villages, 835 villages are uninhabited. All the remaining 4615 un-electrified villages are to targeted to be electrified by 1 stMay, 2018 . The progress of

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, will dedicate to the nation, India’s longest road tunnel – the 9 kilometer long “Chenani – Nashri Tunnel” in Jammu & Kashmir on April 2nd, 2017. The tunnel on NH-44 which connects Jammu with Srinagar, will reduce travel time between the two cities by up to two hours

The ‘Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat’ programme, aims to actively enhance interaction between people of diverse cultures living in different States and UTs in India, with the objective of promoting greater mutual understanding amongst them. As per the programme, each year, every State/UT would be paired

Winter has finally come, it's time to take the morning off and enjoy the #earthly #pleasure of #heavenly #pristine snow," reads one post with a photo of snow-clad fields on the Instagram channel @voicesofmunsiari. This is no holiday post by a visiting city-dweller, but the musings of a villager in

One does not come across such stories very often. Abhishek Pallav, a doctor-turned IPS officer in Bastar of Chhattisgarh, treats wounded Maoist after a seven-hour long encounter. Somaru, a Maoist commander, owes his life to IPS officer Pallav who had engaged him in a fierce gun battle last week in

While commuting one has to cross toll plazas so often now a days. And mostly we find men working at these toll plazas. We have heard of unruly behaviour of many at the toll plazas too, mostly because one does not want to pay. This gender barrier has been broken at the Gurgaon-Faridabad toll plaza in

Conceived in mid-2013, a project of preserving 192 languages, which were listed as endangered, was initiated by the Central governement. The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysuru, has been entrusted with the mammoth task, under the Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered