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The 1 st advance estimates of production of major Kharif crops for 2017-18 by the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare is as under: Foodgrains – 134.67 million tonnes. · Rice – 94.48 million tonnes. · Coarse Cereals – 31.49 million tonnes. · Maize – 18.73 million tonnes. ·

President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday released a sophisticated and affordable hand-held testing device which allows domestic users to easily identify adulterants in milk. Developed by the public sector research body, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the device - called Ksheer

Cancer continues to be dreaded because few realise that timely diagnosis and treatment can cure most types of tumours. Fewer still know that cancer can be prevented by healthy lifestyle. It is to make people aware of these that All India Institute of Medical Sciences started a cancer prevention

A 98-year-old man, who wished to have the tag of being a postgraduate, finally completed his master's programme on Monday. Nonagenarian Raj Kumar Vaishya fulfilled his long-due dream by securing a master's in economics from the Nalanda Open University (NOU) 79 years after he graduated in the same

Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, launched the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, or Saubhagya, at New Delhi yesterday. The aim of this scheme is to provide power to all homes. On the occasion of the birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay, the Prime Minister also dedicated a new

In Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, 200 young women, mostly graduates, have motivated over 1,500 villagers, so far, to construct toilets in their houses, that too without getting any government aid. These girls stay at each village and educate residents about sanitation and hygiene. They use

Mysteries solved years ago are helping the Delhi Police make a splash on Twitter, with a tweet highlighting an interesting case, photo or trivia being posted on its handle every Thursday. While the entire cycle — from the tweet being posted to it going viral — takes a few hours, a three-member

Close to one crore people joined the Swachhata Hi Seva campaign in its inaugural week. The nation wide Swachhata Hi Seva campaign is now entering its second week. The inaugural week saw a wave of cleanliness activities across the country. In Chennai to keep the city ‘clean and green’, a battery of

Last month, all 4,480 villages in 52 districts spanning five states on the banks of the Ganga — Uttarakhand, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal — were declared Open Defecation Free under the Namami Gange project. Of the 200 households along the ghats of the Ganga at Dalmau nagar panchayat in Rae

The general perception is that government schools are not good, and if possible even the poor want to send their children to private schools. This mind set prevails all over the country, and if one talks of Uttar Pradesh one can not think of a good government school. However, one government primary

Pollution-plagued Delhi can finally heave a sigh of relief, now that the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and a few biomass power units have expressed their intent to purchase crop residue from farmers in surrounding states. Agricultural stubble running into millions of tonnes is burnt by

Central Government has announced a new PPP Policy for Affordable Housing that allows extending central assistance of up to Rs.2.50 lakh per each house to be built by private builders even on private lands besides opening up immense potential for private investments in affordable housing projects on