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All the 4,316 government secondary schools in Assam will soon become 'tobacco-free'. Schools in the districts of Lakhimpur, Baksa, Tinsukia, Udalguri, Sonitpur, Golaghat, Goalpara and Bongaigaon have already reported to be tobacco-free. Secretary for Secondary Education R C Jain had launched the

A State-level Swachh Bharat Mission workshop was organized in Ranchi today. The workshop was presided by Minister, Water Resources, Drinking Water and Sanitation, Jharkhand, Shri Chandra Prakash Choudhary. Secretary, Union Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Shri Parameswaran Iyer, Secretary

Devendra Jhajharia has made all of us so proud. He has won gold in the men's javelin throw at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Devender improved his own 2004 record of 62.15 metres, with a world-record throw of 63.97 mt. He had also secured the gold medal in the javelin event at the 2004 Athens Paralympics

Centre approves proposal for initiation of the 3rd Phase of TEQIP, which will be implemented as a ‘Central Sector Scheme’ with total project outlay of Rs 3,600 crore. HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said that the focus in this phase would be on seven low income states (Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand

The Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers Shri Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated Arunachal Pradesh’s first Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Store at Naharlagun, Itanagar on Monday. Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Shri Pema Khandu also shared the dais on the occasion. In this function, both

केन्‍द्रीय उपभोक्‍ता मामले, खाद्य तथा सार्वजनिक वितरण मंत्री श्री रामविलास पासवान ने दालों की कीमतों को नियंत्रित करने के लिए सरकार द्वारा उठाये गए कदमों की जानकारी मीडिया को दी। श्री पासवान ने कहा कि दो वर्षो तक कम वर्षा होने और उसके परिणाम स्‍वरूप पूरे देश में सूखे जैसी स्थिति होने के कारण दालों

Ministry of Communications today launched India Post Help Centre and a Toll Free Number 1924 to address the grievances of people in the Country related to Department of Posts. Inaugurating the Help Centre here, Minister of Communications, Shri Manoj Sinha said that the move comes in the wake of

Rajasthan has become the first state in the country to rope in BEd students as interns for teaching in government schools. The state has 2.59 lakh teachers and falls short of 60,000 teachers to meet the proper student-teacher ratio. This is a right step to fill the gap of teachers. And

21 year old Tangavelu Mariyappan won a gold in Rio Paralympics in high jump. And to the joy of India, the bronze in the same event was won by Greater Noida boy Varun Bhati. India had earlier won gold medals in Paralympics in 1972 for swimming and in 2004 for javelin throw. Mariyappan has been raised

राज्यों से मिली रिपोर्टों के मुताबिक, 09 सितम्बर, 2016 को कुल बुवाई क्षेत्र 1054.49 लाख हेक्टेयर आंका गया, जबकि पिछले साल इसी समय यह आंकड़ा 1012.35 लाख हेक्टेयर था। यह जानकारी दी गई है कि 380.28 लाख हेक्टेयर में धान, 143.95 लाख हेक्टेयर में दलहन, 187.86 लाख हेक्टेयर में मोटे अनाज, 186.95 लाख

Two world records were made by the Indian Army DARE DEVILS team of Corps of Signals as per stipulations of GUINNESS Book of Records, LIMCA Book of Records, ASIA Book of Records and INDIA Book of Records, at Signal Training Centre, Jabalpur, today. The extraordinary feat was performed in front of

Every urban household in Mizoram and Uttarakhand have toilets. In 95+% rural households in states of Sikkim, Kerala and Mizoram have access to toilets. These are some of the findings of the NSSO survey conducted recently. Indian Express gives a good report on the state of affairs as per the findings