Initiatives

Punjab must share water with Haryana, the Supreme Court ruled, terming “unconstitutional” a law the state passed in 2004 to end all its water agreements with neighbouring states. The verdict, 12 years after a presidential reference to the court, has sharply escalated politics in Punjab ahead of polls next year. ...

Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Launched Pradhan Mantri Yuva Yojana to Scale Up An Ecosystem Of Entrepreneurship For Youngsters. Marking the 2nd Foundation Day of MSDE,Minister of State(I/C) for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Rajiv Pratap Rudy, launched the Pradhan Mantri YUVA Yojana, MSDE’s flagship scheme on entrepreneurship education and ...

The Income Tax department has added a new window in their I.T. E-Filing Website viz “Account Cash Transactions.” to keep a track of all cash transactions in your account. The moment Cash is deposited into your Bank a/c , the amount will immediately reflect in this Window of  Income  of ...

Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Govt of India has a scheme of providing Financial Assistance for Setting up of Common Display Centers for Women. This Scheme is under the scheme for Micro & Small Enterprises Cluster Development Programme (MSE-CDP). Objective: To help women owned micro and small enterprises for ...

The state government has come up with yet another scheme, ‘Madhubabu Aain Sahayata Sibir (MASS)’. Under the scheme, the state government would set up legal assistance cells in all 6,812 gram panchayats across the state to provide free legal consultations to deprived sections of the society at the grassroots. Informing ...

Press Release With a view to curbing financing of terrorism through the proceeds of FakeIndian Currency Notes (FICN) and use of such funds for subversive activities suchas espionage, smuggling of arms, drugs and other contrabands into India, and for eliminating Black Money which casts a long shadow of parallel economy ...

NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank of India will issue new notes for Rs. 500 and Rs. 2000. Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the nation on Tuesday said that the notes will be circulated soon, RBI has decided to limit the notes with higher value. The Prime Minister announced ...

NEW DELHI: Kerala has become the third Open Defecation Free (ODF) state in the country. The announcement was made on the state’s foundation day. Earlier, Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim had declared themselves Open Defecation Free. “Kerala has become an ODF state,” Drinking Water and Sanitation Secretary Parameswaran Iyer said. He ...

MUMBAI: Maharashtra is converting forty-two state-of-the-art cyber crime labs into cyber police areas, as part of the BJP-led government’s programme to take on hackers or cyber criminals. “Maharashtra is the first state in the country which will have a cyber police station in each district simultaneously”, Home Department told to ...

In order to reduce post harvest food losses, estimated at Rs 1,00,000 crore, the government said that it will promote new technologies that help increase the shelf life of pulses and other grains. Efforts are also being made, it said, to strengthen storage infrastructure with modern silos by giving huge ...