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A Statement of Intent (SoI) was signed on Monday between NITI Aayog and Lupin Foundation to collaborate in Aspirational Districts Programme. The SoI was signed by Yaduvendra Mathur, Additional Secretary, NITI Aayog and Sita Ram Gupta, Executive Director, Lupin Foundation. For this programme, the

In 2003, National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM), a Mission mode Project, was launched by the Ministry of Culture for documentation, conservation, preservation and digitization of manuscripts.Till date NMM has documented 43.16 lakh manuscripts, conserved 434.56 lakh folios of manuscripts, digitized

Following the successful conduct of the Khelo India School Games, Sports Authority of India took another significant step towards the development of sports earlier today, cleared 734 players for a scholarship programme under Khelo India Talent Identification Development scheme. The Minister of Youth

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh launched the Student Police Cadet (SPC) programme for nationwide implementation at a ceremony in Gurugram, Haryana on Saturday. In his address on the occasion, the Home Minister expressed hope that the SPC would lead to a silent revolution over the years by focusing

It is 11 am, time for “TV serial-type” lessons inside the Project Girls High School at Katoria in Bihar’s Banka district. Around 85 students of Class 10 are crammed in a room, four girls to a bench, but no one’s complaining. On a 40-inch screen plays a video, in Hindi, on photosynthesis. The nodal

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) plans to offer free haircuts to 1.24 lakh students enrolled in its 372 primary schools across the city as part of a “swachhata campaign”. Under the initiative, once a month, students will be offered free haircuts at schools irrespective of gender, caste or

Minor millets have bought a major change in the lives of over 5000 women in the tribal districts of Mandla and Dindori, situated some 400 km east of Bhopal. Eking out a hand to mouth existence earlier, they are now financially and socially empowered, in better health and inspiring others in the

In a step towards offering health care to all 24x7, the city’s Safdarjung hospital will run its out-patient department (OPD) for 12 hours a day under a Union ministry of health pilot project, becoming India’s first government hospital to do so. Under the project, OPDs for key departments, including

Minister of State for Tourism K. J. Alphons has said that Govardhan Teerth of Mathura needs to be made into a world class destination and the Govardhan Maharaj Utsav shall be organized in October every year. The Minister conveyed this after a site inspection in Mathura to assess the requirements for

The Archaeological Survey of India, an organisation under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, in an order issued today, decided to allow photography within the premises of all centrally protected monuments/sites (except 3). However, the 3 monuments/sites in which the photography would not

Odisha will ban the use of plastic in its five municipal corporation areas and the pilgrim town of Puri from October 2 this year. While speaking on environmental awareness during ‘Ama Mukhyamantri Ama Katha’ programme at the state secretariat on Tuesday, chief minister Naveen Patnaik said the ban on

First it was one rupee cow cess on each bottle of liquor sold in the state and then a legislative route to make it mandatory on the temple trusts to shell out 15 per cent of annual earning for gausadans/gaushalas. On Tuesday, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur rolled out an ambitious Rs 1.55 cr project