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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on May 17 a plea challenging various notifications of the Centre to make Aadhaar card mandatory for availing benefits of government schemes. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar, which is currently hearing a batch of petitions challenging ...

State education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday announced that the Board of Secondary Education, Assam will conduct examination under the Chief Minister’s Special Scholarship Scheme from next year. The scheme was launched in 2012-13 for Class V and VIII students in the state. He said that funds under the ...

New Delhi: IndiGo, the country’s largest airline by market share, is likely to participate in the government’s UDAN scheme for providing regional air connectivity. The airline on Tuesday announced the signing of a term sheet with Avions de Transport Regional G.I.E. (ATR) for purchase of 50 ATR 72-600 aircraft. This ...

The personal accident scheme under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Suraksha Yojana has crossed the 100 million subscriber mark. As of May 6, the scheme had enrolled 100.18 million subscribers according to data from the Jan Suraksha website. Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY), which is the personal accident scheme under ...

The Ministry of Women and Child Development in collaboration with the Ministry of Panchayati Raj has launched a nationwide programme for capacity building of Elected Women Representatives (EWRs) of Panchayats and a training program for Trainers of women panchayat leaders at Ranchi, Jharkhand. The Ministry of Women and Child Development ...

They are healthier, their homes are cleaner and they have more time to themselves, say most beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, the Centre’s flagship scheme to provide LPG connections to below-poverty-line households. A survey undertaken by financial consulting firm MicroSave in 12 districts of eastern, central and western ...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Development Authority’s housing scheme with 12,000 flats on offer is likely to be rolled out very soon, as the DDA has completed formalities and sent the proposal to Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal for his nod. Out of the total number of houses, most of which are in ...

New Delhi: The government on Wednesday approved a new Rs 6,000 crore central scheme ‘SAMPADA’ for the 2016-20 period with an aim to boost processing of marine and agriculture produce. A decision in this regard was taken at the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), headed by ...

MGNREGA has reached a major milestone by geotagging one crore assets created under it. The geotagged assets have been put in public domain. The scale of assets created under MGNREGA is massive and is estimated to be about 2.82 crore assets since the financial year 2006-07. On an average, it ...

In order to give more freedom to farmers to sell their produce, the agriculture ministry has unveiled “The State/UT Agricultural Produce and Livestocks Marketing (promotion and facilitation) Act, 2017” which has defined each state/UT as a single unified market area. The draft law is proposed to overhaul the existing laws. ...