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The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved creation of National Testing Agency (NTA) as a Society registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act, 1860, and as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization to conduct entrance examinations for

Senior citizens of more than 70 years of age and the differently-abled can look forward to availing of basic banking services, right from the comfort of their home. The RBI has asked banks to provide doorstep banking facilities to senior citizens of more than 70 years of age and differently-abled

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) achieved yet another feat today with the successful test flight of ‘NIRBHAY’ - India’s first indigenously designed and developed Long Range Sub-Sonic Cruise Missile which can be deployed from multiple platforms. It was successfully test fired from

BharatNet to provide broadband services in rural and remote areas has entered in service provisioning phase. As on 05.11.2017, Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) connectivity has been achieved in 1,03,275 Gram Panchayats (GPs) by laying fibre for 2,38,677 km. Due to several measures initiated to accelerate

Minister of Communications Shri Manoj Sinha today launched a Pan India scholarship program for school children called Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana to increase the reach of Philately. Under the scheme of SPARSH ( Scholarship for Promotion of Aptitude & Research in Stamps as a Hobby) It is proposed to

From 1st December all new four wheelers will have to be fitted with FASTags. These FASTags will help easy flow of traffic and avoid long queues at toll plazas. FASTags are radio frequency identification tags which are used to pay automatically at the toll plazas. Existing four wheel owners can buy

All cars manufactured after July 1, 2019, will have to be equipped with air bags, seat-belt reminders, alert systems for speeds beyond 80 kmph, reverse parking alerts, as well as manual override over the central locking system for emergencies . The Union road transport ministry has approved the

These are the ten approved documents that can be used as identification at airports. 1. Passport 2. Voter ID 3. Aadhaar or m-Aadhaar 4. Pan Card 5. Driving licence 6. Service ID 7. Student ID card 8. Passbook of account in a nationalised bank with photo 9. Pension card or pension documents with

The Union Cabinet on 24 th October 2017 approved a Rs. 7,002 crore plan for construction of permanent campuses for six new IITs, to be completed by 31 st March 2020. Each campus will have facility for housing 1,200 students, beginning from the academic year 2020-2021. Currently, these institutions

Just 478 industrial units from energy-intensive industries have reduced their carbon emissions by 31 million tonne, or 2% of India's total annual emissions, and saved over Rs 9,500 crore through more efficient energy use in the three years between 2012 and 2015, the first report card of a government

In a bid to expedite compliance of telecom service providers with the Hon. Supreme Court's order dated 6 th February regarding linking of Aadhaar card with mobile number and reverification process of mobile users, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued a comprehensive instruction on

The government on Tuesday increased the minimum support price (MSP) of six rabi (winter-sown) crops - wheat, mustard, barley, masoor (lentil), gram and safflower - for the crop year 2017-18. The move is expected to boost acreage and production of these crops. The MSP—rate at which the government