News H.E. Mr. Mohan Kumar, Ambassador of the Republic of India to France India, joined the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Paris, France, along with Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Indonesia and New Zealand. Ninety-four countries have committed to exchange information on an automatic ...

The Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi and Union Minister of Communication & IT, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad jointly launched the Khoya Paya web portal at a function organised at National Media Centre in New Delhi. The Khoya Paya portal is a citizen based website ...

The Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi launched the IAP Health Phone programme in New Delhi . The IAP Health Phone programme is the world’s largest digital mass education programme for addressing the malnutrition in women and children. This programme is launched by the Indian ...

The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said  that meanwhile, starting from the forthcoming semester beginning August 2015, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi will start an “Option Paper” in ...

The minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping, Shri Nitin Gadkari said that the Inland Waterways is economically most viable sector, in his inaugural address at the ‘National Conference on Inland Waterways: Issues, Options and Strategies’. He added that development of inland waterways would lower the logistics cost of production and, ...

 The Department of Fertilizers has procured more than 10 Lakh MT of imported Urea in January 2015 for propositioning in the States. Additional procurement of imported Urea has been done in April, May & June 2015. With increased domestic production by 10 Lakh MTs and reduction of demand due to ...

Dr. Ashton Carter, the US Secretary of Defence, accompanied by Mrs. Stephanie Carter and a thirteen member US delegation, visited Visakhapatnam. During the visit, the Secretary of Defence interacted with Vice Admiral BK Verma, Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command and held discussions on issues of common interest. During the ...

The Employees Provident Fund Organisation(EPFO) has upgraded the District Offices / Services Centres in Gangtok, Imphal, Aizwal, Itanagar and Dimapur to special state offices.  The Special State Office shall be headed by an Assistant P.F. Commissioner level officer and would have an Enforcement Officer and other supporting staff. The special ...

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the following appointments: Shri C.R.Viswanath, IAS, Chairman and Managing Director of Food Corporation of India has been appointed as Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.  Ms.Vrinda Sarup, IAS, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy ...

Vijayawada MP Kesineni Nani, inaugurated Pradhana Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana meant for imparting skills to the youth to make them employable. The educated youth who need skill development would be identified for imparting necessary skills to them. The skill development programme would be for about a month and after that the youth ...