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We usually read of news of lakhs of pending cases in our Courts or hear of cases pending for years. However, here is some good news. For the first time, as many as four states and a Union Territory have managed to bring down cases pending for over 10 years+ in their subordinate courts to almost zero

Widows of two soldiers who died in the line of duty, turned a new leaf in their lives by becoming officers themselves. What sets Lieutenants Swati Mahadik and Nidhi Dubey apart is that they are widows of soldiers who died on duty. Swati lost her husband, Colonel Santosh Mahadik, in an anti-terror

Delivering his valedictory address at the 20 th National Homeopathic Congress of HMAI at Margaon in South Goa on Sunday Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH, Shri Shripad Naik said Homoeopathy being most efficacious and cost effective treatment of medicine, Government is committed

Defence Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, flagged-off Indian Naval Sailing Vessel Tarini (INSV Tarini) with an all women crew from INS Mandovi boat pool, Goa on Sunday. This is the first-ever Indian circumnavigation of the globe by an all-women crew and shall attempt to circumnavigate the globe. The

Swachhathon 1.0, the first ever Swachh Bharat Hackathon, was organized by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation to crowd source solutions to some of the Sanitation and Hygiene challenges faced in various parts of the country. The Ministry invited innovators from schools and colleges

When a speeding biker knocked off the exterior rear-view mirror of N Krishna's car, he did not want to proceed on the Bengaluru-Chennai highway without fixing it. So he took the car to the nearest garage. As he waited for the mechanic to fix it, Krishna decided to try and file the claim on his

We hear so much of the problems created by elephants destroying dwellings, and even causing death of life of human and cattle, specially in rural eastern India. A new regional plan to tackle human-elephant conflict in eastern and central India has proposed a number of strategic measures, from

Leader of the Green Revolution Dr. M.S Swaminathan and Padma Shri Dr. H Sudarshan, today, launched the National Nutrition Strategy, along with Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Dr. Rajiv Kumar and Member Dr. Vinod Paul. With a benefit to cost ratio of 16:1 for 40 low and middle-income countries, there is a

The President of India, Shri Ram NathKovind received 319 recipients of ‘National Awards to Meritorious Teachers’ at RashtrapatiBhavan today (September 5, 2017). This is the first time that a high tea has been hosted for award winning teachers by the President of India on Teachers' Day at

The Environment Ministry will launch an environment awareness initiative, under which an online environmental quiz competition named “Prakriti Khoj” – an Environment Quiz will be conducted at the national level. It will be launched on September 5, the occasion of Teachers’ Day. The objective of the

The total sown area as on 1 st September 2017, as per reports received from States, stands at 1028.14 lakh hectare as compared to 1034.28 lakh hectare at this time last year. It is reported that rice has been sown/transplanted in 366.30 lakh ha, pulses in 137.61 lakh ha, coarse cereals in 180.60

The widow of Col Santosh Mahadik, who died fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara and was posthumously awarded Shaurya Chakra, will be commissioned as an officer in the Army Ordnance Corps (AOC) on September 9. Swati Mahadik, 38, had joined Chennai’s Officers Training Academy (OTA) in