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The week long Cleanliness Drive undertaken in the Union Ministry of Home Affairs as a part of the Swachh Bharat Mission will coincide tomorrow with the Gandhi Jayanti Day. The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh, the Ministers of State for Home Affairs, Shri Hansraj Gangaram Ahir and Shri Kiren

The Indo-Russian military exercise 'INDRA-2016' culminated today after eleven days of intense and exacting military training in counter-terrorism operations. The closing ceremony was held at 249th Combined Armed Range, Sergieviesky in the Ussiriysk District of Primosski krai Province, Russia

For addressing the issue of deficit of sports infrastructure in the country, the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports Affairs had moved a proposal for inclusion of Sports in the harmonized master list of infrastructure sub-sectors so that the sports sector becomes eligible for obtaining long term

The water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on September 29, 2016 was 117.202 BCM, which is 74% of total storage capacity of these reservoirs. This was 122% of the storage of corresponding period of last year and 97% of storage of average of last ten years

Secretary, FPI Mr Avinash K Srivastava visited Jaipur and Ajmer on 29.9.16. He had meeting with the Chief Secretary, Govt. of Rajasthan wherein Commissioner Industries, Additional Director Industries, SPV/promoters of M/s Greentech Mega Food Park Pvt. Ltd. , representatives of Programme Management

The 8th batch of 25 declassified files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose were released online on web portal www.netajipapers.gov.in. today by Shri N.K. Sinha, Secretary, Ministry of Culture. The present batch of 25 files pertains to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), inclusive years 1951-2006

Every citizen has a right to clean air and clean source of energy, and the day may not be far when there may be a public demand to bring in a legislation for right to clean air on the same lines as we have a law for Right to Education, Food Security, etc. This was stated here today by Union Minister

Shri Thawaarchand Gehlot, Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment today announced cash awards of a total of Rs 90 lakhs for the Rio Paralympics 2016 medal winners under Awareness Generation and Publicity (AGP) scheme. Indian para-athletes bagged impressive four medals at the Rio Paralympics 2016

This is the story of Dr Asif Iqbal, who left a government job to serve the poor. More than 100 eye operations have been performed by Dr Iqbal, free of cost. An excellent story by Ravi Verma in Amar Ujala. Our media should come out with such positive stories to let the people at large know of the

केंद्रीय मानव संसाधन विकास मंत्री श्री प्रकाश जावड़ेकर ने आज कहा कि शीघ्र ही लोगों को घरों में अच्छे शिक्षकों से पढ़ने का अवसर मिलेगा। ऐसा संभव होगा डीटीएच और केबल टीवी के माध्यम से। इसमें कोई भी शिक्षक यदि किसी एक विषय में अच्छा है तो उसे भी पढ़ाने का अवसर मिलेगा। साथ ही छात्रों को भी अच्छे शिक्षकों

A seminar on Bamboo Development for NE region was inaugurated today by Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER). The two-day seminar is being organized by Ministry of DoNER to discuss the gaps pertaining to development of bamboo

Many districts, including Mahatma Gandhi's birthplace Porbandar, will be declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) on Mahatma's birthday, 2nd Oct. Govt data says that so far, 2.37 crore toilets have been built in rural areas and 24.05 lakh in urban areas. Read more on this in the TOI report by Dipak Dash