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In what is one of the longest hauls in Inland Water Sector (IWT) movement in the country, a consignment of bagged fly ash bound for Pandu Inland port in Assam sailed from Kahalgaon in Bihar on today. Marking the commencement of a critical integrated movement through three Waterways, 1233 tonnes of

The Minister for Women & Child Development, Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, alongwith Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath will inaugurate the widows’ home ‘Krishna Kutir’ at Vrindavan, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh today.Krishna Kutir is a special home for 1000 widows set up by the Ministry of Women

In yet another game changing initiative, the Union Minister for HRD, Prakash Javadekar and Union Minister of State for HRD, Dr. Satya Pal Singh launched the Innovation Cell and Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA )at AICTE, New Delhi on Thursday. Innovation cell is MHRD’s

The literacy and income levels of parents do not necessarily impede their children from aiming for and gaining admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), according to an inference drawn by IIT Kanpur from an analysis of this year’s entrance process. Close to 800 students

When police in Gautam Buddha Nagar started Operation Muskaan on June 18, even they couldn’t imagine they would be able to reunite 96 children with their families. The operation, which continued till August 18, was launched by the Uttar Pradesh DGP to bring families together. The families of 53 boys

The third edition of World’s Biggest Open Innovation Model - Smart India Hackathon 2019 was launched by the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi on Wednesday. MHRD, AICTE, Persistent Systems and i4c have joined hands to make a hat trick with their highly

The Ministry of Tourism has sanctioned two new projects under Heritage and North East Circuits of Swadesh Dashan Scheme for Rs. 164.95 Crores in Punjab and Tripura. Under Heritage Circuit in the state of Punjab, the project covers sites of Anandpur Sahib – Fatehgarh Sahib – Chamkaur Sahib – Ferozpur

A Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) was signed between the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and National Health Agency (NHA) here today, to provide capacity building for Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana(PMJAY) to ensure effective rollout and continued quality implementation. As per the

Researchers from Indian Institutes of Technology , Delhi have developed, in collaboration with San Jose University in the US, an antivenom using an artificially designed peptide that effectively neutralises the poison of several snakes, including the four common in India -- Indian cobra, common

A bunch of freshers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi will provide free coaching to engineering aspirants who cannot afford institutes that cost a fortune to crack the Joint Entrance Examination. A group of 30 volunteers have launched the teaching project titled ‘Aarohan’, where they

The first period—happiness class — at Kautilya Government Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya in south Delhi’s Chirag Enclave has just begun. The teacher, Umesh Kumar, writes on the chalkboard in neat, cursive letters: ‘Happiness Class’. The walls have several colourful posters made by the students, including

Indian Air Force is celebrating its 86 th Anniversary on 08 Oct 2018. To commemorate this event, IAF has launched a unique event in the form of Trans-Himalayan Mountain Terrain Biking Expedition (THE MTB). The team for the expedition consists of 18 Air warriors (12 riders and 06 support staff) which