Miscellaneous

Veterinary Services including veterinary infrastructure and facilities for disease diagnosis, epidemiology, monitoring & surveillance for animal diseases are provided by respective State Governments. However, Department supplements the efforts of State/UT Governments by providing financial

The Government has devised certain mechanism to inform farmers about market information via SMS from the AGMARKNET Portal. Daily price information is collected from Agricultural Produce Markets (APMCs) on the Agmarknet portal on real-time basis. Efforts are made to disseminate desired information on

Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD) is one of the most economically devastating contagious viral animal diseases affecting all susceptible cloven-footed animals. As per the estimates by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), direct loss due to milk and meat is to the tune of RS. 20,000 crores

Dipa Karmakar has made all Indians so proud. She becomes the first Indian to enter the gymnastics finals at the Olympic Games. This 23 year old athlete is from Tripura. The vault that made her reach the finals, named Produnova, consists of a front handspring and two somersaults. Pray to Almighty for

300 Villages have been identified to be developed as growth centres for the respective area. When there was a lot of talk on 'smart cities' many had opined that we should have 'smart villages' too. In these selected villages city-like infrastructure will be created. This would include providing

'World Tribal Day' is organised every year on 9th August. Vikas Bharti Bishunpur in Gumla district of Jharkhand, is going to organise "Aadim Janjati Vikash Pakhwara" in all the districts of the state. This two week programme will educate people of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in the fields

Today, when we rarely find people talking in Sanskrit, in village Mattur in the Shimoga district of Karnataka all the residents talk in fluent Sanskrit. Reports say that once a child attains the age of 10 he starts getting lessons in Vedas.It is also reported that in every family an IT professional

Members of the Musahar tribe, who have been living on the margin of society in Palamu, will soon get toilets. The tribal community, however, is reluctant to use toilets as they are habituated to defecating in the open. Report of TOI must be read.

Minister of Urban Development Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu today launched ‘Swachh Suvekshan-2017’ to assess and rank 500 cities and towns based on levels of sanitation and efforts made by respective urban local bodies and also to capture progress towards achieving ‘Open Defecation Free’ status. The

Nikki Pradhan, a tribal girl from a remote village Hesal in district Khunti of Jharkhand has become the first women from Jharkhand in Women's hockey team to be included in the Olympics. She would be playing in Rio. Very few people of the state even have heard of this remote village. But now Nikki

The Union Cabinet has given its approval for Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill 2016. The important provisions include increase in compensation for Hit & Run cases from Rs. 25000 to Rs. 2 lakhs. It also has provision for payment of compensation upto Rs 10 lakh in road accidents fatalities. In the area