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The Union Cabinet chaired by PM Shri Narendra Modi has approved the revamped Khelo India programme at a cost of Rs.1,756 crore for the period 2017-18 to 2019-20. This marks a watershed moment in the history of Indian sports, as the programme aims at mainstreaming sport as a tool for individual

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change will hold a quiz on environment - ‘Prakriti Khoj’ throughout the country. The quiz is planned in five rounds and the qualifying round will begin on September 25, 2017 by paying tribute to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya on his birth anniversary. The

Siachen, the highest battlefield in the world, is a place where everything is ferried from the hinterland. It is a logistics challenge to move all types of waste out of the glacier so that these do not become environmental hazard. Since October 2014, when Swachch Bharat Abhiyan commenced, Siachen

The world’s cheapest and smallest ventilator, which looks like a clunky cellphone and can easily slip into your back pocket, has been developed by a young robotics engineer in Delhi in collaboration with a neurosurgeon at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. “It is almost 450 times smaller

The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that a national effort is needed to further strengthen country’s democratic foundations. He was addressing the gathering after releasing the Book ‘Loktantra ke utsav ki ankahi kahani’ authored by Dr. S.Y.Quraishi, here today. The Chief

The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, launched a nationwide sanitation campaign, ‘Swachhta hi Seva’, at Ishwariganj village in Kanpur today (September 15, 2017). He also administered the ‘Swachhta hi Seva’ pledge to all present there whereby they resolved to create a clean, healthy and new

The Olympic Task Force has recommended that stipend of Rs 50,000 per month be paid to the elite athletes preparing for Tokyo Olympic, Asian Games or Common Wealth Games to meet pocket expenses. The Government, accepting the recommendation, today took the decision to give a stipend of Rs 50,000 per

Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar has said that the Centre is considering bringing back retired teachers not more than 75 years old and with "good teaching record" to fill in the large number of vacancies in centrally funded institutions and universities. He said these retired teachers could be

Praveen Teotia, 32-year-old Shaurya Chakra winner and former Marine commando took four bullets during the operation to neutralize terrorists at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai in November 2008. Hit in the lung and in an ear, he became partially hearing impaired. After being given a non-active duty job

Indians could live four years longer on average, if India is able to reduce air pollution to comply with the World Health Organisation’s standards, according to the Air Quality-Life Index (AQLI) tool developed by the Energy Policy Institute at The University of Chicago (EPIC). In Delhi, which was

The Ministry of Women & Child Development has invited nominations for the Nari Shakti Puraskars 2017. This is the "Highest Civilian Honor for Women" conferred on International Women’s Day, 8 th March, every year . The objective of the award is to acknowledge and recognize the services of individuals

When a child reaches higher classes the most difficult task for the child and the parent is to decide as to which stream one should go for. Many a times it is the friends who decide, many a times it is forced by the parents and rarely it is selected as per the capabilities of the child. Many experts