Miscellaneous

He lost his left leg in a train accident in 2013 and years later he is gearing up to get his name etched in the Guinness World Records. Meet 30-year-old Pradeep Sen, an Indore-based theatre artiste, who has been cycling across the country with the help of his prosthetic leg for the last six months

A loan agreement was signed with the World Bank today for $500 million to provide additional financing for the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) Rural Roads Project, which will build 7,000 km of climate resilient roads, out of which 3,500 km will be constructed using green technologies. The

When Dr Manoj Kumar Sharma set up an internet deaddiction centre in Bengaluru’s Nimhans psychiatric hospital four years ago, he barely saw a patient a week. “Today, we get at least five to six cases every day,” he says of the Services for Healthy Use of Technology (SHUT) clinic that runs a 21-day

The Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) Vertical has shown progressive performance with over 1,65,000 beneficiaries benefitting from this Scheme during 2015-18. This is a huge jump in the number of beneficiaries from the earlier comparable interest subsidy scheme between 2008-2013 which was only 18

Last Sunday, 24-year-old Arjun Vajpai from Noida scaled Kanchenjunga(8,586m), the world’s third highest peak. The feat made him the youngest mountaineer in the world to summit six peaks above 8,000 metres, including Everest, at 16. Arjun’s love of mountaineering started at the age of 10 when his

Eminent actor, Shri Akshay Kumar, launched an advertisement campaign for the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) in the capital, on Sunday. The campaign was launched at a Collectors Convention for Toilet Technology organized in the capital. The campaign focuses on promoting the twin pit toilet

The government plans to promote the Kumbh Mela as a destination for tourists, and encourage visitors and dignitaries from foreign countries to attend the event. The Kumbh Mela will be held between January 15 and March 4 next year in Allahabad. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to promote the

The Centre is all set to install 4072 mobile towers in Naxal- affected areas after the Union cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal of the Home Ministry on Tuesday. The project will be cost more than Rs 7000 crore, government officials said. In the first phase, which was completed about two years

The Union Cabinet approved additional changes to Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code through an ordinance, easing rules to enable promoters of micro, small and medium enterprises to bid for their companies and giving homebuyers a stronger say in the resolution plan for developers. The Insolvency and

A three way partnership for small business loans was sealed today among lenders, industry and MUDRA Bank Limited. The process of coming together was facilitated by the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Secretary, Financial Services, Rajiv Kumar informed the

Khadi and Village Industries Commission ( KVIC ) has created a new world record of distributing maximum number of bee-boxes in a single day – beating previous best of 841 in Israel around two years ago. May 21 is celebrated as World Honey Bee Day. Today, KVIC Chairman Vinai Kumar Saxena distributed

From a WhatsApp call from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Diwali, celebrating birthdays on the high seas, to being pounded by hurricanes and monstrous waves in the Pacific Ocean, the past 254 days were quite a roller coaster for the women of INSV Tarini who received a hero’s welcome on their return