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The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind conferred “Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar” – the revamped award scheme of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India,to 26 children, 2 individuals and 3 institutions, today at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. The Minister for

The National Museum of Indian Cinema, at Films Division Campus, Peddar Road, Cumbala Hill, Mumbai has been opened to the public from Sunday, January 20, 2019. The Museum has been inaugurated by PM Modi on Jan 19, 2019. The Prime Minister took a tour of the Museum, after which he addressed a

Aadi Mahotsav is an effort to scale up the livelihood and income generating opportunity for tribals by giving them the opportunity to interact and sell their goods directly to the customers. Ministry of Tribal affairs and TRIFED through Aadi Mahotsav’s provides them market access across the country

A new digitised museum that brings to the fore some unknown and interesting facts about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, as a narrative from his childhood days, to the trials of the personnel of the Indian National Army (INA) — a force Bose had put together to fight the British — is ready for

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday announced that the monthly old age pension (for people aged between 60 and 79 years) has been hiked from Rs 400 to Rs 500. He also said that camps will be organised across the state till January 30 to identify beneficiaries of old age, widow as well as

Hampi in Karnataka, Gangtok in Sikkim, Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand and Shimla in Himachal Pradesh are among tourist destinations that have been unlocked since the Centre launched its flagship regional air connectivity scheme UDAN to bring unserved and underserved airports on the country’s aviation

The next phase of highway development in India is to focus on construction of expressways to ease traffic flow. Under the second phase of Bharatmala, the government has proposed to construct 3,000km of expressways, including Varanasi-Ranchi-Kolkata, Indore-Mumbai, Bengaluru-Pune and Chennai-Trichy

Revenue To Be Generated : Rs 1.2 lakh crore Jobs To Be Generated : 600,000 The Kumbh Mela, which began on January 15 and will continue till March 4, is expected to generate a revenue of Rs 1.2 lakh crore for Uttar Pradesh, says apex industry body Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Although the

Students planning to apply in the Delhi University (DU) will have more opportunities to look forward to in the upcoming academic session, 2019-20, as the varsity’s academic council (AC) has decided to introduce 30 new courses, at both the under graduation and the post graduation level, in around 20

Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) works under Department of Defence Research and Development of Ministry of Defence. DRDO dedicatedly works towards enhancing self-reliance in Defence Systems and undertakes design & development leading to production of world class weapon systems and

Minister of State (I/C) for Housing and Urban Affairs, has informed that a fortnight of events named ‘Shehri Samridhi Utsav’, focusing on urban livelihoods is being organised by his Ministry, from 1 st -15 th February 2019. The event aims at extending the outreach of National Urban Livelihoods

In partnership with States, the Ministry of Rural Development has completed 1.37 crore Rural Homes since April 2014. The year-wise break-up of completion (the details of which are available with geo-tagged images of each and every house completed on pmay-g.nic.in) are as follows: - (numbers in lakhs