Miscellaneous

As per information given by the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today, 723,25,948 connections have been released under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana. 714 districts of the country have been covered under the scheme. The salient

The Government of India, the Government of Jharkhand and the World Bank, signed here today a $147 Million loan agreement to provide basic urban services to the people of Jharkhand and help improve the management capacity of the urban local bodies (ULBs) in the state. The Jharkhand Municipal

To promote water conservation across the country ahead of the monsoon season, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, recently wrote letters to all Sarpanches, urging them to undertake Rainwater Harvesting and Water Conservation activities in rural India. Gram Sabhas were convened across the country on

Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change and Information & Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar and MoS (I/C), Ministry of Development of North East Region; Dr. Jitendra Singh today launched a spectrum of initiatives for the state of Jammu and Kashmir. In a vibrant launch ceremony held at

“This is something new for everyone here. Till now we would visit different offices with our problems, and those problems were never resolved. They are here now to see the ground reality. I am hopeful something happens,” said Ghulam Nabi, a resident of the Aloosa Ghat Panchayat block as a group of

A three day National Yoga Olympiad of school children, organised by the National Council of Educational Research and Training is being held at Chacha Nehru Bhawan in New Delhi. The Olympiad was inaugurated on 18th June by the Director and UNESCO Representative for India, Mr. Eric Falt in the

India’s push to build a less-cash economy seems to be gathering momentum with the central bank recording a phenomenal growth in digital transactions till March 2019 and setting an ambitious target to push up the volumes by four times by 2021. Total digital transactions in volume terms recorded a

Of all the things the 59-year-old forgot in the last 12 years, the one that came back quickest to her was how to add tadka to a dish. The woman, serving a life-term for killing her husband, is one of five to be shifted from a closed prison to India’s first semi-open one for women at Delhi’s Tihar

“TO SHOW how challenging it was to achieve the correct cruise path, would be like going outside and hitting a golf ball towards a hole located in Los Angeles. The ball has to go straight into the hole and to make it more challenging, the hole is moving.” That was ISRO scientist Ritu Karidhal

In a press meet, at ISRO Headquarters, Bengaluru on the occasion of the forthcoming launch of India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission to Moon. Dr K Sivan, Chairman, ISRO addressed and interacted with regional, national and international media persons during the meet. Dr Sivan outlined ISRO’s vision on space

Nearly 15,00,000 students across all the ITIs in India can access the digital learning module via the Bharat Skills portal. Directorate General of Training (DGT), under the aegis of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, today joined hands with two big private sector companies-Cisco

Sahitya Akademi has selected 22 writers for the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2019 and 23 writers for Yuva Puraskar 2019. The Executive Board of the Akademi that met in Agartala today, under the Chairmanship of its President, Dr. Chandrashekhar Kambar approved the selection of awardees. The