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We have earlier also heard of some big business tycoons pledging major portion of their income to philanthropy. Now comes the news of L&T chief A M Naik pledging 75% of his income to philanthropy. He has two trusts for his charitable work. One is called the Naik Charitable Trust for education and

The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi announced at the meeting of the Council of Minister’s today that a Task Force will be set up to prepare a comprehensive action plan for effective participation of Indian sports persons in the next three Olympic games 2020, 2024 and 2028. The Task Force will

In a new service that is set to revolutionize the retail money payment sector in India, consumers will now be able to transfer money from their accounts to any other account in the country using their cellphones via the National Payment Corporation of India's (NPCI) Inter-bank Mobile Payment Service

सुगम्य पुस्तकालय- दृष्टिबाधित लोगों के लिए एक ऑनलाइन पुस्तकालय का शुभारंभ सुगम्य डिजिटल भारत की तरफ एक कदम आगे बढ़ते हुए ‘सुगम्य पुस्तकालय’ (दृष्टिबाधित लोगों के लिए एक ऑनलाइन पुस्तकालय) का शुभारंभ आज विधि एवं न्याय और संचार एवं सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी मंत्री श्री रविशंकर प्रसाद ने किया। समाजिक न्याय और

A must read news item in The Daily Star on the excavation of a 1000 year old temple in Dinajpur in Bangladesh. According to the experts the temple is designed in navaratha, nine-projection style, an architectural form commonly associated with the Kalinga temples of Odisha as well as temples in

In IITs, till now, all the students compulsorily stayed in the hostels. However, in the IIT Council meet on Tuesday a decision has been taken to allow non-resident students to get enrolled. This has been done primarily, with a goal to increase the number of seats to 100,000 by 2020. This will help

सैन्यकर्मियों की पत्नियों और बच्चों के कौशल विकास संबंधी केंद्र का उद्घाटन कौशल विकास एवं उद्यमिता राज्यमंत्री (स्वतंत्र प्रभार) श्री राजीव प्रताप रूडी ने मेगलार को दिल्ली में अपनी तरह के पहले सेना कौशल प्रशिक्षण केंद्र का उद्घाटन किया। उल्लेखनीय है कि देश भर में इस तरह के 10 केंद्र खोले जायेंगे। ये

Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu said the Centre is focussing on providing better infrastructure facilities to give boost to sports. Shri Venkaiah Naidu was speaking at the felicitation function for RIO Olympics 2016 Silver medalist Ms P V Sindhu in Vijayawada

Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said the number of farmers opting for the 'Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana' this year is expected to cross four crore, as against three crore last year. As many as 200 mandis across the country would be brought under the ambit of the scheme by next month

अगले दो वर्षों में स्‍व-सहायता समूहों को 90 हजार करोड़ रुपये ऋण देने की केंद्र की योजना केंद्र सरकार ने गैर-कृषि आर्थिक गतिविधियों के लिए अगले दो वर्षों के दौरान महिला स्‍व-सहायता समूहों और अन्‍य स्‍व-सहायता समूहों को 90 हजार करोड़ रुपये का ऋण देने की योजना बना रही है। आज यहां राष्‍ट्रीय ग्रामीण

After winning just two medals at Rio it is now the preparations of Bharat for the Tokyo Olympics which has to be looked into. Today most editorials have written about this, and most have talked of how we competed this time and what we should do for the next Olympics in 2020. The best editorial was

Concerned by the slump in number of girl students entering the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the Joint Admission Board has set up a committee to explore ways to increase their enrolment. In a related news the HRD ministry is also looking at providing to some one thousand IIT passing out