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Government e Marketplace [GeM] has launched “Womaniya on GeM”, an initiative to enable women entrepreneurs and women self-help groups [WSHGs] to sell handicrafts and handloom, accessories, jute and coir products, home décor and office furnishings, directly to various Government ministries

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, today received the first-ever Philip Kotler Presidential award, in New Delhi. The Award focuses on the triple bottom-line of People, Profit and Planet. It will be offered annually to the leader of a Nation. The Award Citation says: “Shri Narendra Modi is selected for

Last week, the Centre launched what it described as a "war against pollution" across the country. — a Rs 300-crore National Clean Air Programme (NCAP). It proposes a “tentative national target” of 20%-30% reduction in PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations by 2024, with 2017 as the base year for comparison

In a bid to relieve pressure on students, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced that students who do not wish to pursue mathematics at the senior secondary level will be able to opt for a simpler question paper in the Class X board examinations from 2020 onward. In a circular

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a clarion call for youth-led development. He has said that the youth should be the voice of New India and it is they who should find solutions and contribute to policy. In his Mann Ki Baat address on 31st December 2017 he had said, “I got an idea whether we

Ministry of Tourism has sanctioned four new projects for Rs. 190.46 Crores under the tourism infrastructure development schemes, Swadesh Darshan and PRASHAD in the states of Meghalaya, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh recently. Following are the sanctioned projects and the details. Under North East Circuit

In an effort to widen the reach of its publications and increase book sales, the Sahitya Akademi will go for online sale of books—both physical and electronic—through Amazon. This will be for the first time in its 65 years of history, that Sahitya Akademi—India’s premier literary institution working

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology here said they have developed an air pollution sensor which they claim costs much less than similar instruments worldwide. The sensor will measure the level of harmful gases, including ozone and nitrogen oxides, said professor S N Tirpathi. The

10 Month Student Entrepreneurship Programme with Dell EMC announced NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) released the “Atal Tinkering Lab Handbook – Nayee Dishayen, Naye Nirman, Naya Bharat” on the eve of the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, also celebrated as the National Youth Day, to

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be interacting with a cross section of Students, Teachers and Parents for another exciting edition - Pariksha Pe Charcha 2.0 at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi on 29 th January’19. Salient features of “Pariksha Pe Charcha 2.0”- It is a unique interaction where students

Union Cabinet has given its approval for a proposal for establishing three new AIIMS at Vijaynagar, Samba, Jammu at a cost of Rs 1661 Crore; Awantipura,Pulwama, Kashmir at a cost of Rs 1828 Crore and Rajkot, Gujarat at a cost of Rs 1195 Crore. Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, J P Nadda

With the start of New Year 2019, the Prime Minister’s flagship program e-NAM has achieved another milestone by commencing inter-State trade between mandis of two different States. Earlier trade used to happen either within the APMC or between two APMCs situated within same state. The very first