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Ist ever International Cloud Computing challenge being held in India Union Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Mahendra Nath Pandey said that in coming months about 2.5 lakh new jobs will be created in the IT sector through the comprehensive skill Development programme. Addressing the

Over the last five years, MGNREGA has become the main force that is driving water conservation efforts all across rural India. The scheme has now evolved from being merely a mitigator of rural distress into focused campaign to raise rural incomes through Natural Resource Management (NRM) works. In

Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, D.V. Sadananda Gowda, while giving a written reply to a question on check on drug prices in the country, in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, stated that the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has taken important measures to check the prices of drugs

The government has been promoting traditional farming in the states through dedicated schemes, namely, Mission Organic Value Chain Development North Eastern Region (MOVCDNER) and Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) since 2015-16. Under these schemes assistance is provided to the farmers for on

The Delhi Pollution Control Committee has prohibited the use of Plaster-of-Paris in idol making. The chemical plaster is known to trigger heavy pollution in the Yamuna and water bodies after idols made out of it are immersed during festivals. The land holding and civic agencies have also come up

When 1983-batch IAS officer Keshni Anand Arora Sunday took over as Haryana’s new Chief Secretary, she made history by becoming the third sister from a family to hold top administrative post of the state. Bureaucrats in Haryana believe that in no other part of the country, three sisters have ever

A T-shirt hurriedly thrown over her green salwar-kameez school uniform, 13-year-old Zahida Manzoor waits her turn to play a round of badminton before school is done for the day. Acutely aware that she will not be able to attend school for about four days next week, she is keen to get a few games

The ministry of human resource development (MHRD) plans to train principals and teachers of nearly 1.2 million government schools across the country to identify and address mental health issues in children, a senior official said. The move is aimed at preventing violence involving students on school

The City of Nawabs could soon be free of beggars with the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has decided to engage physically-fit mendicants as daily-wage workers, or finding work for them. The administration is serious enough about the plan to even consider legal remedies against physically

Seventeen-year-old Aviraj Chaudhary, one of 11 children of poor, illiterate tribal farmers, has become the first person from Dang district to have secured an admission in IIT-Delhi. Chaudhary will soon be joining the Textile Technology Engineering course at the premier technological institute

The Food & PD department will be implementing a new Centrally Sponsored Pilot Scheme for “Fortification of Rice and its Distribution under Public Distribution System” which was given administrative approval on 14-Feb-2019. The pilot scheme has been approved with a total budget outlay of Rs.147.61

Minister of State for Tribal Affairs, Renuka Singh launched the “Go Tribal Campaign” of Tribes India at a glittering event in New Delhi on Firday night. The campaign has been launched to widely promote the use of tribal products. The Minister also launched ‘Tribes India’ globally through Amazon