In Kadus, a sleepy village in Maharashtra's Rajgurunagar town, a handpicked batch of 70 students trained for the past one year for the IIT joint entrance examination (JEE) has achieved a 100% success rate with all of them clearing the mains. So have 149 students trained at Bundi in Rajasthan (50)
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A week after Border Security Force (BSF) head constable Prem Sagar was beheaded by Pakistani intruders on the Line of Control (Loc) in Jammu and Kashmir, his wife received donations worth Rs 13.59 lakh from a portal ‘India’s Bravehearts’ or 'Bharat Ke Veer' launched by Union home ministry in
UNTIL A year ago, Santosh Thakur would take his sacks and crates of peas, tomatoes, capsicum, beans, cauliflower and ginger to the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) in Solan Mandi, 46 km south of Shimla, and watch as commission agents, or arthiyas, called for bids and sealed them on his
With the inspiration of P M Shri Narendra Modi, to help create a spirit of respect for our real heroes, HRD Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar and Minister of State for Defence Dr. Subhash Bhamre jointly launched a campaign to have a ‘Wall of Valour’ in 1,000 educational institutions across the country
ICICI Group today dedicated 100 ‘ICICI Digital Villages’ to the nation at an event in New Delhi marking the bank’s efforts to partner the nation’s progress by empowering rural India. Shri Arun Jaitley, Hon’ble Union Minister of Finance, Defence & Corporate Affairs inaugurated the event, ‘ICICI Rural
A record sale of village goods and khadi worth 50,000 crore was seen last year. This is good news showing growth in rural economy. Khadi sales has seen a manifold rise as the government made a push for its growth. Added to this was Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal to the citizens to buy Khadi
With the gradual decrease in the prices of LED lamps, more and more municipal bodies are replacing street lights from conventional lamps to the power saving LEDs. This is not only reducing the power bill of the municipal bodies but also helping in reducing carbon dioxide emission. This programme of
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off a flight on Shimla Delhi sector today under the 'Udan' scheme which is aimed at boosting regional connectivity with low-cost flights. And through video link flights on Kadapa-Hyderabad and the Nanded-Hyderabad sectors were also flagged off. Udan ('Ude Desh ka
Kherki Daula has become the second toll plaza in Delhi-NCR to hire women toll collectors. The first to do so was the Gurgaon-Faridabad toll plaza. “We trained the women over the last week, beginning April 18. They began work on Monday morning,” said Piyush Gandhi, Project Head, Skylark Group — the
To allow students with special physical needs to read a book along with regular students in a classroom, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) unveiled a series of 40 booklets on Friday. The council will study the impact of these books to determine if the technology used
राष्ट्रीय जलमार्ग -1 विकसित करने के लिए विश्व बैंक ने 375 मिलियन डॉलर के ऋण को मंज़ूरी दी देश की महत्वाकांक्षी जलमार्ग परियोजना को आगे बढ़ाने और नियत समय में इसे पूरा करने की दिशा में जलमार्ग विकास परियोजना के अंतर्गत राष्ट्रीय जलमार्ग -1 (National Waterway -1) की क्षमता में वृद्धि करने के लिए विश्व
Adulteration in Milk is harmful to health even while it is an unfair trade practices. Further, it is a market fraud and affects the honest efforts of the milk producers. Government of India has enacted Food Safety and Standards (FSS) Act -2006 in August 2006 to consolidate the laws relating to food