News India said it agrees with the assessment that it is “presumptuous” of the five permanent members to claim responsibility for global security when they represent only 1.9 billion of the world’s seven billion population. Prakash Gupta, the Counsellor at the Indian mission at UN said there is a structural ...

News Government has developed a ‘Track and Trace’ mechanism to check the authenticity of medicines being sold and stored in the country, Health and Family Welfare Minister JP Nadda today informed Rajya Sabha. The primary, secondary and tertiary packs of medicines will have a unique bar code allotted to a ...

News Government has approved the National Agro Forestry Policy, 2014 that will help natural resource management and improve forest cover. Features Encouraging and expanding tree plantation in complementary and integrated manner with crops and livestock to improve productivity, employment, income and livelihoods of rural households. Stabilisation of ecosystems and increasing forest ...

News The Lok Sabha on Wednesday gave its consent to a far-reaching amendment to the Constitution to pave the way for a pan-India goods and services tax regime and create a unified market across the country, doing away with multiplicity of central and state levies. A government think-tank proposed the ...

News The Bill to operationalise the Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh was today cleared by theUnion Cabinet and now includes territories in Assam along with those in West Bengal, Tripura and Meghalaya. Bill is likely to come up in Rajya Sabha tomorrow. The inclusion of Assam territories in the Bill ...

News Union HRD minister Smriti Irani on Monday made a second visit to Maghrol village in Anand district, which she adopted under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, Irani laid the foundations stone for 21 developmental projects in the village that will come up at the cost of Rs 7.14 crore. ...

News UNSC questioned Pakistan’s “sincerity” in the matter of a terrorist’s release. In this regard, UN Security Council assured that it will take up the issue of Mumbai terror attack mastermind Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi’s release at its next meeting. India  conveyed to Pakistan its unhappiness at the way the case was ...

News Mutual fund managers pumped in over Rs 7,600 crore in equity markets in April, making it their highest net inflow in more than seven years, mainly on account of positive investor sentiments and the government’s reforms agenda. Mutual fund (MF) industry’s asset base has grown around 10 per cent ...

News Prime Minister Narendra Modiwill launch on May 9 social security insurance and pension schemes in Kolkata, while other ministers will unveil them in different cities. Benefits These schemes, are aimed at providing affordable universal access to essential social security protection in a convenient manner linked to auto- debit facility ...

News India purchased nearly $ 10 billion worth bonds in just one month. This made India’s exposure to US government securities reach $ 101.7 billion. The holdings crossed the $ 100 billion-mark in February, the highest level in more than a year. From the time Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government came to the power ...