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Women at Kachhabali, a small panchayat comprising 12 villages in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand district, part of the Bhim tensil, became the first in the state to vote to shut down its lone liquor shop, driven by a dedicated campaign by local women who said they bore the brunt of the addiction problem. Read

Indian Railways has decided to sign a model agreement for plantation on railway land with the State Forest Departments of Haryana and Punjab. This agreement paves way for the following improvements with regard to afforestation on railway land: • Railway can contribute substantially towards the Green

कैंसर और दिल की बीमारियों के इलाज पर मरीजों द्वारा उठाए जाने वाले खर्च में कमी के उद्देश्य से केन्द्रीय स्वास्थ्य और परिवार कल्याण मंत्री श्री जे.पी. नड्डा ने पूर्वोत्तर इंदिरा गांधी क्षेत्रीय स्वास्थ्य एवं आयुर्विज्ञान संस्थान (एनईआईजीआरआईएचएमएस), शिलांग, क्षेत्रीय आयुर्विज्ञान संस्थान, इम्फाल एवं

Foundation stone laying ceremony of the biggest Sewage Treatment Plant of its kind in India will be done on Wednesday in Vrindavan, Mathura, UP. This plant will treat 200 lakh litres of effluent per day and the treated water will be used by Mathura Refinery for its industrial use. Costing 40 crores

Government proposes to launch a low premium insurance cover for milch cows and buffaloes with an objective to create a protection mechanism for farmers and cattle-rearers against any loss of their livestock during natural disasters. Under the new livestock insurance scheme, the farmers will have to

IIT-Delhi will launch a mentorship programme on October 1, under which 30 women entrepreneurs will be trained for three months to work on their start-ups. The IIT will also help them get funds and the programme will be free of cost. Candidates can be students, homemakers or professionals and there

The Supreme Court has upheld the regulation of Medical Council of India (MCI) to give incentive marks to doctors working in rural areas for getting admission to PG courses, saying that it would encourage medical practitioners to opt for assignments in remote areas facing acute shortage of doctors

National Green Highways Mission (NGHM) under NHAI has collaborated with Power Finance Corporation Ltd. (PFC) for plantations work on NH 7 in Nagpur region (Borkhedi – Wadner, & Khatara – Kelapur) covering 87 km stretch. Power Finance Corporation Ltd. has provided financial assistance of Rs. 13 crore

The Union Minister for Urban Minister Shri Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated a consultative workshop on "Scaling Up Citizens’ Participation in Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban)" {SBM(U)} to a 'Jan Andolan' in New Delhi on Tuesday. The two day workshop is being organised jointly by Ministry of Urban Development

398 villages have been electrified across the country during last week (from 8 thto 14 th August 2016) under Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY). Out of these electrified villages, 2 villages belong to Arunachal Pradesh, 60 to Assam, 28 to Bihar, 11 to Chhattisgarh, 91 to Jharkhand, 28 to

I am deaf and mute. My wife, too. We were born that way. For people like us, communication means much more than talking to people. We don’t talk, actually. They say we make unintelligible noises. Around seven years ago, my world started changing, when I got access to smartphones and later to

State Bank of India has raised its limit for overseas education loans to 1.5 crore Rupees from the present 30 lakhs. As more Indians plan to study abroad, the bank has increased this limit to make it more realistic. According to the Deputy MD of SBI Anuradha Rao, the bank has received 300