Miscellaneous

South Delhi Municipal Corporation on Saturday inaugurated 'bal shuachalaya' — Delhi's first dedicated public toilet for children. The facility with colourful graffiti and inbuilt infrastructure was opened in RK Puram. Tulsi Joshy, the standing committee member and local councillor, said this novel

The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) is stepping up its initiative to achieve the target of one crore accounts under the Atal Pension Yojana (APY) by the fiscal-end. Focused on the workers in the unorganised sector, PFRDA has already been able to open 73 lakh such accounts

Theirs was the story that made Dangal a superhit film. After Geeta and Babita on whom the movie was based, and their cousin Vinesh, another Phogat girl is on the rise. And according to brother Rahul, Ritu Phogat is ruthless, merciless and the most menacing of the sisters when she is on the mat. At

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched an one-in-all app called UMANG (Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance) to provide over 150 services of the centre and state government on one single platform. This app is developed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and

A woman from Rajasthan with bipolar disorder and lost in Kerala, with her 18-month-old son in her arms, returned home on Thursday after nearly two years when she was cared for in a mental hospital that tracked down her home village and contacted police there. Rameela Devi (32) was seen wandering

Govt has promulgated the Indian Forest (Amendment) Ordinance, 2017 to exempt bamboo grown in non-forest areas from definition of tree, thereby dispensing with the requirement of felling/transit permit for its economic use. Bamboo, though, taxonomically a grass, was legally defined as a tree under

Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Nitin Gadkari has said that the Centre has approved projects of value of more than one lakh crore rupees for Tamil Nadu. These projects will cover the Highways, Shipping and Port and

Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State(I/C) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has informed that since launch of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) (U) on 25 th June 2015, the Government has sanctioned a total of 30.76 lakhs houses across all verticals. Currently, 15.65 lakh houses have

A two day National Consultation of Swachh Iconic Places (SIP), an initiative of Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation under Swachh Bharat Mission began in New Delhi on Tuesday. Representatives from 20 Iconic Sites including central and State officials, representatives of iconic places and

Infosys co-founder and tech billionaire Nandan Nilekani and his wife Rohini Nilekani have joined 'The Giving Pledge', an elite network of the world's wealthiest individuals committing half their wealth to philanthropy. In the letter to 'The Giving Pledge' Nilekanis' write, "We thank Bill and Melinda

Sarita, 15, and her friend Mali, 14, are nothing short of stars at the middle school in Punsa village, about 25 km from the steel hub of Jamshedpur, in Jharkhand. Earlier this year, the two stopped their families from getting them married off — with a little help from “Pradeep sir”, their teacher