Bangaru Thalli scheme is a welfare scheme for girls launched by the government of Andhra Pradesh in 2013. The scheme is meant to take care of the girl child in every household and supports the family of a girl from her birth till her graduation. The Department of Women, Children, Disability ...

PM Narendra Modi, who is visiting UK for three days, said India’s relationship with the UK is of “immense importance”. “Not simply to celebrate the immense economic ties, with India a top investor into Britain and Britain a top investor into India, but actually building a thoroughly modern partnership between ...

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the long-pending issue of One-Rank, One Pension has been resolved and it has been granted. Several war veterans have returned their medals as part of their protest against “diluted” OROP. He added that any issue relating to OROP can be taken up with ...

The Coast Guard’s latest and largest offshore patrol vessel, Samarth, was commissioned by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. Samarth is first in the series of six 105m offshore patrol vessels and has been built by Goa Shipyard. The ship has a displacement of 2450 tonnes, and is equipped with sophisticated technology, ...

Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani said e-UGshala initiative will be launched on December 25 to enable open access to digitised contents for undergraduate learning. The minister also talked about making the e-pathshala available on mobile phones to enable access to children in remote areas. After digitisation of the ...

NCML is India’s leading post-harvest agriculture management firm, while AFGRI is a top food and agri-management company with presence in over 40 African countries. The pact signed with largest South Africa’s agri-business company (AFGRI) with National Collateral Management Services sets out seven segments for strategic partnership to leverage the respective strengths ...

A highly encrypted Cloud system of the Indian Army, similar to that of Google, which will store personnel as well operational data, inaugurated by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar in line with the force’s plan to be a “digital army”. The digi-locker of the army is similar to e-Locker of Digital ...

Boeing and Tata group companies have established partnerships in India to manufacture aerostructures for Boeing’s commercial and military aircraft. Tata Advanced Systems Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons, focused on providing integrated solutions for Aerospace, Defence and Homeland Security. Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company and ...

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said government is mulling to set a hub for manufacturing of medical equipment in the state. Naidu, who was on a visit to Delhi, said this in a meeting with Medical Equipment Manufacturers’ Forum and Union Health Ministry officials. Source:EconomicTimes

Essel Infraprojects Ltd, part of Essel Group, will build two build-operate-transfer (BOT) road projects — Mukarba Chowk Panipat Toll Road and Kundli Manesar Expressway in north India. The two projects would hugely help in decongesting Delhi and easing traffic flow on roads connecting six major states with the national capital, ...