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In a decision bound to further the outreach and accessibility of Doordarshan, Prasar Bharati has brought 11 more State DD Channels, including five channels of North-Eastern States, on the Satellite footprint of India through DD Free Dish. It is for the first time that the States of Chhattisgarh, Goa

The Cabinet Meeting Chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the grant of Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) facilities to World War-II Veterans, Emergency Commissioned Officers (ECOs), Short Service Commissioned Officers (SSCOs) and pre-mature retirees. As a result, over 43,000

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the setting up of 50 new KendriyaVidyalayas under Civil/Defence Sector all over the country. The Vidyalayas are proposed to be opened in the Civil/Defense Sector and once they are fully functional they will provide quality

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will inaugurate and lay the foundation stones for National Highways projects worth Rs 1,10,154 crore in Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh tomorrow. He will also inaugurate/lay foundation stone for several works under Namami Gange programme worth over Rs 1969.57 crore there

As a four-year-old in 1947, Amir Singh Virk held on to a tender memory — that of his older cousin bandaging his toe after he’d slipped and fallen. What Amir didn’t realise was that the cousin, Dalbir Singh, would slip away from his life for the next seven decades. The extended family lived in a

The National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS) 2018-19, conducted by an Independent Verification Agency (IVA) under the World Bank support project to the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBM-G), has found that 96.5% of the households in rural India who have access to a toilet use it. The NARSS

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, today, launched the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM-SYM) Yojana at Vastral in Gujarat. He also distributed the PM-SYM pension cards to select beneficiaries. Over two crore workers at three lakh Common Service Centers across the country witnessed the launch

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched One Nation, One Card for transport mobility at a function in Ahmedabad today. The indigenously developed National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) is the first of its kind in India. This Payment Eco-system for transport consisting of NCMC Card, SWEEKAR (Swachalit

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, visited Kauhar, Amethi in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. He dedicated to the nation, the Joint Venture of Indo-Russian Rifles Pvt Ltd, for Kalashnikov Assault Rifle Production. In his special message on the occasion, which was read out by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

An underwhelming move towards complete local manufacturing of mobile phones notwithstanding, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is studying the possibility of introducing a phased manufacturing programme (PMP) for items such as LED products, LED and LCD television sets and set

Prayagraj Kumbh Mela 2019 has been placed in the Guinness World Records in three sectors. It includes largest traffic and crowd management plan, the biggest painting exercise of public sites under paint my city scheme and biggest sanitation and waste disposal mechanism. A three member team from

Colourful slippers of all sizes were lined outside room no. 22 of the Mandir Marg police station where children from nearby informal settlements had gathered to learn English, Mathematics, and more — an upgrade from their previous makeshift classroom on a pavement on Kali Bari Marg in New Delhi