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A Parliamentary panel on empowerment of women has suggested that 15% of all branches of Public Sector Banks should be all-women branches. Their report was tabled in the Parliament on 10th August. The report says that women constitute 24% of the total workforce in PSBs. Finance ministry sources have

Their passion for designing something unique and interest in technology brought a group of students from colleges across the country together to create an app for the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Raghav Sarin, team leader and designer, says, “The contest was a unique initiative by Google and the

A Swachh Bharat Short Film Festival is being organised. For the entries are invited from all age groups, especially the children. The duration of the film should not be more than 3 minutes (180 seconds) and should be shot in HD format. The film can be made in any of the listed official language but

वस्त्र मंत्रालय मना रहा है 'आजादी के रंग' महोत्‍सव वस्त्र मंत्रालय 70वें स्वतंत्रता दिवस के अवसर पर 9 अगस्‍त से लेकर 15 अगस्‍त, 2016 तक देश भर में 70 स्थानों पर 'आजादी के रंग' महोत्‍सव मना रहा है, ताकि भारत के लोगों विशेष रूप से हमारे युवाओं में स्वतंत्रता और देशभक्ति का जोश भरा जा सके। वस्त्र

In order to compliment and supplement the efforts made by the States for promotion, development and conservation of indigenous bovine breeds including breeds of Gir and Sahiwal Government of India has initiated following programmes (i) Rashtriya Gokul Mission a new initiative initiated as a part of

Veterinary Services including veterinary infrastructure and facilities for disease diagnosis, epidemiology, monitoring & surveillance for animal diseases are provided by respective State Governments. However, Department supplements the efforts of State/UT Governments by providing financial

The Government has devised certain mechanism to inform farmers about market information via SMS from the AGMARKNET Portal. Daily price information is collected from Agricultural Produce Markets (APMCs) on the Agmarknet portal on real-time basis. Efforts are made to disseminate desired information on

Foot & Mouth Disease (FMD) is one of the most economically devastating contagious viral animal diseases affecting all susceptible cloven-footed animals. As per the estimates by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), direct loss due to milk and meat is to the tune of RS. 20,000 crores

Dipa Karmakar has made all Indians so proud. She becomes the first Indian to enter the gymnastics finals at the Olympic Games. This 23 year old athlete is from Tripura. The vault that made her reach the finals, named Produnova, consists of a front handspring and two somersaults. Pray to Almighty for

Before a patient buys medicines it would be soon possible to check the price with the help of a mobile app. The drug pricing watchdog National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) will soon extend its "Pharma Jan Samadhan" facility to smart phones. Later more features will be added to this app

300 Villages have been identified to be developed as growth centres for the respective area. When there was a lot of talk on 'smart cities' many had opined that we should have 'smart villages' too. In these selected villages city-like infrastructure will be created. This would include providing

'World Tribal Day' is organised every year on 9th August. Vikas Bharti Bishunpur in Gumla district of Jharkhand, is going to organise "Aadim Janjati Vikash Pakhwara" in all the districts of the state. This two week programme will educate people of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in the fields