Miscellaneous

A T-shirt hurriedly thrown over her green salwar-kameez school uniform, 13-year-old Zahida Manzoor waits her turn to play a round of badminton before school is done for the day. Acutely aware that she will not be able to attend school for about four days next week, she is keen to get a few games

The City of Nawabs could soon be free of beggars with the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has decided to engage physically-fit mendicants as daily-wage workers, or finding work for them. The administration is serious enough about the plan to even consider legal remedies against physically

The Food & PD department will be implementing a new Centrally Sponsored Pilot Scheme for “Fortification of Rice and its Distribution under Public Distribution System” which was given administrative approval on 14-Feb-2019. The pilot scheme has been approved with a total budget outlay of Rs.147.61

Minister of State for Tribal Affairs, Renuka Singh launched the “Go Tribal Campaign” of Tribes India at a glittering event in New Delhi on Firday night. The campaign has been launched to widely promote the use of tribal products. The Minister also launched ‘Tribes India’ globally through Amazon

A distribution camp for free of cost distribution of 896 Physical Aid and Assistive Living devices to Senior Citizens under Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana (RVY) and 469 Assistive Aid & Devices among Divyangjan under the CSR initiative of Power Trading Corporation of India Ltd. (PTC) Foundation was held

Devotees of Mata Vaishno Devi in national capital will soon get a gift from the Modi government, which has decided to run premium Vande Bharat train on New Delhi-Katra route. The trial run for the country's fastest train will commence soon. The introduction of Vande Bharat, which runs at a speed of

Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan today asserted that the Government is going to implement "One nation-one ration card" scheme in the whole country by 30th June, 2020. Paswan said, while addressing media in New Delhi that work on linking all the

Presently, women are inducted in Indian Army through Short Service Commission (Technical) and Short Service Commission (Non-Technical) entries. The induction is governed by Special Army Instruction (SAI) I/93 and AI 3/98. Women are inducted in all the branches and streams of Indian Air Force (IAF)

The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) is planning to provide free WiFi — for the first 20 minutes — in areas under its jurisdiction in the next six months, chairman Naresh Kumar said Tuesday. The council is planning to set up 625 ‘smart poles’ to provide internet connectivity, he said. Kumar was

Kerala, Andhra Pradesh & Maharashtra ranked on top in terms of overall performance Haryana, Rajasthan and Jharkhand ranked top three States in terms of annual incremental performance NITI Aayog released the Second Edition of “Healthy States, Progressive India” today. The report ranks states and

Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, D.V. Sadananda Gowda, while giving a written reply to a question on Plastic Parks, in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, stated that there is a scheme in place to establish Plastic Parks across the country. Gowda stated that in phase-I of the scheme, four Plastic

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways vide, GSR 174 (E) dated 1 st March 2019 has decided to modify the format of driving licenses to laminated card without chip or smart card type driving licences. The Ministry has prescribed a common standard format and design of the Driving Licence for