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10 lakh jawans of paramilitary forces are to be equipped with high-tech, bulletproof, combat helmets. Home minister Rajnath Singh has given approval to procure "light-weight bullet resistant helmets" to protect the jawans from gun shots, injuries from stone pelting and neck injuries. This will also

Ministry of Tourism has sanctioned 25 projects under the Swadesh Darshan scheme worth Rs. 2048 Crore so far to 21 States and Union Territories since its launch of in January 2015. These States and UTs include Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Kerala, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh

The State of Madhya Pradesh today declared that 18 districts of the State, taken up by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, will become Open Defecation Free (ODF) by March 2017. The declaration was made during a State visit by the Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Shri

Stents used in heart surgeries will soon cost almost half the present price. This will be made possible with the health ministry's decision to include all types of stents to be put in the National List of Essential Medicines. It is reported that some 5 lakh stents are used in India annually and of

The HRD ministry in Jharkhand had launched a project called 'Prayas' to tackle absenteeism in government schools in 2014. This has been implemented in 40,000 villages and is showing good results. Most schools have shown significant improvement in the attendance of students. Under the scheme if a

14 students of Braj Kishore Netraheen Vidyalaya, a Ranchi-based non-profit school for visually impaired girls, are set to create history by becoming the first batch of visually challenged students in Eastern India and only the second in India after Pune, to be employed by a mobile operator company

Ministry of Tourism has approved project worth Rs. 275 Crore for development of Krishna and Heritage circuit of State of Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat under the Swadesh Darshan Scheme. The Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC) for the Swadesh Darshan Scheme met under the Chairmanship

Government is making all efforts to boost the Housing Finance Sector to ensure that the goal of Affordable Housing for all by 2022 is met. This was stated by Minister of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu at the National Summit on “Finance for Housing for All by 2022”

टोरी-लोहरदगा रेल लाइन अक्तूबर से शुरू टोरी-लोहरदगा रेल लाइन पर आवागमन इसी वर्ष के अक्तूबर माह से शुरू होने की संभावना है। इसके शुरू होने से रांची से दिल्ली की दूरी कम हो जायेगी। Operations on the much awaited Tori-Lohardaga railway line is likely to start in October. With this the distance between

To improve the skewed child sex ration of 890 girls to 1000 boys a hospital in Gujarat will waive off charges if a girl child is born. The Sindhu Hospital run by Sindhu Sewa Samaj has launched this initiative last month. Read Bharat Yagnik's report in TOI.

The Navy yet again pitched in with timely assistance for an organ transplant emphasizing its commitment to social issues by providing a Naval Dornier for the transportation of medical team for heart harvesting and their subsequent return with the harvested heart. On 18 Jul 16, the District Collector