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One does not come across such stories very often. Abhishek Pallav, a doctor-turned IPS officer in Bastar of Chhattisgarh, treats wounded Maoist after a seven-hour long encounter. Somaru, a Maoist commander, owes his life to IPS officer Pallav who had engaged him in a fierce gun battle last week in

Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Minister Radha Mohan Singh has said that the biggest challenge for the agricultural sector is to make smallholdings profitable and engage rural youth in agriculture. Work is going on to provide small farmers distinct technological option so that they can choose as per

TB is a disease which is largely curable and preventable. “We are committed to achieving zero TB deaths and therefore we need to re-strategize, think afresh and have to be aggressive in our approach to end TB by 2025.” This was stated by Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare J P Nadda, at a

While commuting one has to cross toll plazas so often now a days. And mostly we find men working at these toll plazas. We have heard of unruly behaviour of many at the toll plazas too, mostly because one does not want to pay. This gender barrier has been broken at the Gurgaon-Faridabad toll plaza in

Now, one would not have to stand in long queues for getting appointments with doctors in the government hospitals. Appointments can be sought through Online Registration System (ORS). Online Registration System (ORS) is a framework to link various hospitals across the country for Aadhaar based

Government has decided to fast-track the implementation of the direct benefit transfer (DBT) system for payment of fertiliser subsidy to farmers. From the coming kharif season, beginning June, the Rs 70,000-crore fertiliser subsidy budgeted for 2017-18 will be disbursed to companies based on actual

Conceived in mid-2013, a project of preserving 192 languages, which were listed as endangered, was initiated by the Central governement. The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysuru, has been entrusted with the mammoth task, under the Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered

Government is implementing the following schemes and measures to support the jute manufacturing units and to strengthen the jute sector: (i) Under the Jute Packaging Materials (Compulsory Use in Packing Commodities) [JPM Act], 1987, Government specifies the commodities and the extent to which they

Ayesha Aziz at the age of 16 received a student pilot's license in 2011 and became the youngest student pilot of the country. Her story says so much - if one has a clear cut vision and a determination any mission can be accomplished. Now, Ayesha at the age of 21 will be getting her commercial pilot

This is the story of a remote village in Jharkhand. To promote education among the girls residing there local village women committee selects an educated girl and a lane in the village is named after her. Juri, the non-descript village some 150 km south of state capital Ranchi, has initiated this

The CBSE has formally junked the continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) scheme for classes VI to IX, being followed in affiliated schools since 2009. Replacing it from the coming academic year (2017-18) is a new format — 'uniform system of assessment, examination and report card' — that aims

Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation today approved construction of 1,17,814 affordable houses for the benefit of urban poor in six States at a total cost of Rs.5,773 cr for which central assistance of Rs.1,816 cr has been approved, under the Prime Minister’s Awas Yojana (Urban). Madhya