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The state industries department has decided to set up a khadi school at Manpur in Gaya. “We are thinking of starting a batch consisting 100 students from July or August this year. The minimum qualification required for admission will be either 10th or 12th certificate. The students will be trained

The mark sheets, pass and migrations certificates of all the 28 lakh candidates of CBSE of Class X and Class XII examinations are available in the students' digital lockers. These digital documents are digitally signed, digilocker verified and also have QR codes. This can be accessed https://cbse

India has made unprecedented progress in coconut cultivation from mid 2014 to 2018 and now it has become the leading country in coconut production and productivity. Productivity increased to 11516 fruits per hectare in 2017-18 as compared to 10122 in 2013-14. Between 2014 and 2018, 13,117 hectare

Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has approved the construction of another 1.5 lakh affordable houses for the benefit of urban poor under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) with an investment of Rs.7,227cr with central assistance of Rs.2,209 cr. The approval was given in the 34th meeting of the

He lost his left leg in a train accident in 2013 and years later he is gearing up to get his name etched in the Guinness World Records. Meet 30-year-old Pradeep Sen, an Indore-based theatre artiste, who has been cycling across the country with the help of his prosthetic leg for the last six months

A loan agreement was signed with the World Bank today for $500 million to provide additional financing for the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) Rural Roads Project, which will build 7,000 km of climate resilient roads, out of which 3,500 km will be constructed using green technologies. The

When Dr Manoj Kumar Sharma set up an internet deaddiction centre in Bengaluru’s Nimhans psychiatric hospital four years ago, he barely saw a patient a week. “Today, we get at least five to six cases every day,” he says of the Services for Healthy Use of Technology (SHUT) clinic that runs a 21-day

Four years ago, she was born with a double whammy - a hole in her heart and one of the rarest blood groups - in an Odisha village. Now, as Iteeshree Nayak from Chandpur village, Kankadahad block of Dhenkanal district plays with her sisters Rani and Pree-tishree before going to school, her parents

Sobhan Mukherjee of Bansdroni has been breaking many stereotypes. Since last year, the postgraduate student of geography at Asutosh College been spending over Rs 11,000 a month to stock up sanitary napkins at public toilets to promote menstrual hygiene. Till now, he has stocked up 30 toilets with

The Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) Vertical has shown progressive performance with over 1,65,000 beneficiaries benefitting from this Scheme during 2015-18. This is a huge jump in the number of beneficiaries from the earlier comparable interest subsidy scheme between 2008-2013 which was only 18

On the occasion of World Menstrual Hygiene Day on Monday, two government schools - Rajkiyakrit Jamshedpur Balika Uchcha Vidyalaya in Sakchi and Madhya Vidyalaya, Tangrain in Potka - launched sanitary pad banks in their cradles to help girl students get used to the napkins during periods. "It is a

Last Sunday, 24-year-old Arjun Vajpai from Noida scaled Kanchenjunga(8,586m), the world’s third highest peak. The feat made him the youngest mountaineer in the world to summit six peaks above 8,000 metres, including Everest, at 16. Arjun’s love of mountaineering started at the age of 10 when his