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Giving a major boost for the farmers’ income, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the increase in the Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for all kharif crops for 2018-19 Season. The decision of the CCEA is a historic one as it redeems the

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) today launched its, in-house developed,single-umbrella e-marketing system named Khadi Institution Management and Information System (KIMIS) in New Delhi. The system can be accessed from anywhere in the country for the sale and purchase of Khadi and

Nearly 100 city corporation schools will soon be equipped with gardens that grow vegetables for their mid-day meal scheme. A self-help group which acquired expertise in terrace gardening under the National Urban Livelihood Mission will train the corporation teachers and students. "Members of the SHG

MONIKA THAKUR stands next to a Deodar tree on the wooded St Bede’s College campus in Shimla, absorbed in a mobile device. At 22, she could easily pass off as a student. But she’s not. She is a forest guard — and what she is busy with, is not a mobile phone but a GPS device. Thakur is part of an

They spent the prime years of their life guarding the country’s borders. Now, this army of exservicemen will protect the Ganga, keep it clean, stop people from throwing trash into its water and patrol its ghats. The Indian Army is raising a battalion of 532 ex-servicemen named ‘Ganga Task Force’

Can we identify a water body that needs immediate rejuvenation,” asks agriculture scientist Sachin Tendulkar on the ‘Goa Jalyaatra’ WhatsApp group. He suggests that the group can take up water conservation and mobilise local communities in Sattari, Dharbandora or Sanguem. “Government-initiated

In yet another landmark achievement, India’s nomination of the "Victorian and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai " has been inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list. The decision was taken at the 42 nd session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO at Manama in Bahrain today. As recommended by the

Earlier this week a news came that government is asking air conditioner (AC) manufacturers to set the default temperature at 24 degrees Celsius. As soon as this news came people started expressing fears as to why the government wants to control the temperature at which they should use the ACs. After

La Gravieta, tea lounge, is one of its kind in the world where all differently-abled employees are groomed, trained putting them into cooking where they are the de-facto chefs preparing tea, sandwich, pizza, pasta, noodles etc. They cook, serve, housekeep, buy groceries, collect payment using swipe

Inmates of Apna Ghar old-age home in Kolar are a bit busy these days. Taking up the cause of imbibing traditional values and culture to the Gen-X. From sharing their expertise in day-to-day household cores like cooking to the fine philosophy in the verses of Vedas and Puranas, the senior citizens

Ministry of Shipping’s flagship programme for port-led-prosperity ‘Sagarmala’ received the ‘ Gold Award’ in infrastructure sector in the recently concluded 52 nd Skoch Summit 2018 in New Delhi, recognizing the programmes’s contribution to India’s socio-economic transformation and it's role in

The country’s biggest irrigation project, the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme, in Telangana which holds several national and world records will start receiving water from the Godavari River from the first week of August. The Rs 80,000-crore project will create history in a state where the second