NEW DELHI: Praising the Delhi government’s announcement of taking emergency steps to tackle the severe air pollution, a green body today said these will need strict enforcement and vehicle restraint measures, including odd-even scheme, for effective impact. Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said for enduring impact, the government must ...

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 ...

New Delhi: The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has asked banks to employ their banking correspondents for increasing coverage of the Atal Pension scheme among low income groups. The objective of the government’s flagship Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan scheme is to provide banking facilities to the unbanked, not ...