News: Battling opposition charge of pursuing “anti-poor” policies, the NDA government has decided to increase the number of workdays under MGNEGRA from 100 days to 150 days in drought-hit areas. A policy decision has been taken that if a family requires 150 days of work under MNREGA in a drought affected ...

News: In a bid to provide affordable houses and boost the agricultural produce in the economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union Cabinet and CCEA on Wednesday took key decisions on the ‘Housing For All’ project and Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for farmers. The government increased the MSP of pulses by Rs 200 ...

News: The union home ministry wants all central ministries, states and nongovernmental organisations to specify what relief material they can supply within the first 72 ‘golden’ hours of a natural disaster and has spelt it out clearly that they cannot subsequently raise bills with the home ministry for relief supplies. A ...

News: The first yoga college in China has been established at the Yunnan University of Nationalities in Kunming. India and China are also jointly organizing a massive 5-day yoga training camp in Chengdu city, where nearly 1,000 Chinese students will be trained by visiting Indian gurus. The camp which will ...

News: Indian Armed Forces have ordered a fourth regiment of BrahMos missiles and plan to order another two accordingly for the fifth and sixth regiment. BrahMos Aerospace was founded in 1998, and named in honour of the Brahmaputra River in India and the Moscow River in Russia. There is a ...

News: About 4,400 hectares of land along the Ganga has been freed from encroachment in Uttar Pradesh and the Centre has started planting saplings on it as part of a special afforestation drive. Land mafia allegedly had encroached upon the flood plains by forging land records and got the plots transferred in ...

News: Defence Minister said that the elaborate functions that take place around foundation stone laying ceremonies are a wasteful expenditure of public money and should be curtailed. Taking a harsh view on public money being demanded by various departments to organise stone laying ceremonies, instructions have been sent out that ...

News: In a press conference addressed by Member Electrical, Railway Board Navin Tandon, said that in order to improve the Indian railways certain initiatives have been taken.  The initiatives are as follows: Electrification With a view to reduce its energy procurement cost as well as to make the Railway System more ...

News: India is finally launching its ambitious river interlinking project in December to irrigate parched farmlands and generate power. The 30-link project would start with the linking of Ken and Betwa rivers to provide irrigation facility to water-deficient Raisen and Vidisha districts of central Madhya Pradesh.  The project is estimated ...

News: The department of posts now delivers more than two lakh ecommerce parcels daily, double of what it used to be a year ago. Two years ago, the ecommerce revenue was below Rs 200 crore, and it was estimated to be about Rs 400-500 crore in the year ending March ...