High Court Judge and Karnataka State Legal Services Authority chairman Jayanth Patel will inaugurate the Senior Citizens Empowerment Scheme here on August 20. The launch will be held at zilla panchyat premises. Kolar has been selected as pilot district in Karnataka for implementation of the scheme, conceived by the National ...

New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday said it will launch a new scheme under which self-help groups will run road transport services in backward areas. The “Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana (AGEY)” is part of Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana — National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM). “The self-help groups under DAY-NRLM will run ...

Generation Based Incentive (GBI) was announced by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) for Grid Interactive Wind and Solar Power Projects with the main aim to broaden the investor base, facilitate the entry of large Independent Power Producers and to provide level playing field to various classes of ...

6th August 2017, Bhubaneswar MAXIM, the Marketing Association of XIMB organized their annual business conclave “Mercatique 2017” on 6th August 2017, Sunday, 9 am. The topic of discussion for the conclave was “Marketing in a VUCA World”. The speakers for the occasion were Ms. Sujata Dwibedy, Ms. Ritu Gupta, Mr. ...

New Delhi: In an attempt to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in agriculture, the government is launching a new AGRI-UDAAN programme that will mentor startups and help them connect with potential investors. Managed by India’s premier farm research body, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), the food and agri-business accelerator ...

People can now pay later for tickets booked under the tatkal quota on the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp (IRCTC) website, it was announced on Wednesday. Till now, this service was available only for general reservations. For tatkal bookings people had to pay first via the standard online payment ...

Bhopal: Benefit of Mukhyamantri Medhavi Vidyarthi Yojana is being extended to the students who have passed 12th examination from board of secondary education securing 75 per cent marks and above and 85 per cent marks and above from CBSE in 2016 also. It may be mentioned that only students who ...

Today, China’s unprecedented “participation” in BRICS (comprising members Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and the G20 has forced foreign policy experts to “assess” China’s growing ambitions. Some define Beijing’s active participation as “hegemonic” while some experts go to an extent to define it as “active role-player in global ...

The financial and operation performance of the distribution companies ( discoms which have joined the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY) scheme have improved on an average during the last fiscal, said India Ratings (Ind-Ra). However, it said the aggregate performance of the scheme masks wide inter-state variations. “Our initial assessment of ...