News: In a bid to provide affordable houses and boost the agricultural produce in the economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union Cabinet and CCEA on Wednesday took key decisions on the ‘Housing For All’ project and Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for farmers. The government increased the MSP of pulses by Rs 200 ...
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PM Modi has changed terms of India-US engagement
News: India’s ties with the US have been “completely transformed” with setting of new parameters in bilateral engagement during the first year under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and there is more to come in, all the areas. In one year, India under Modi, government has been used effectively to lay the foundation ...
Read More »Disaster relief material list to be made by govt and non govt organisations
News: The union home ministry wants all central ministries, states and nongovernmental organisations to specify what relief material they can supply within the first 72 ‘golden’ hours of a natural disaster and has spelt it out clearly that they cannot subsequently raise bills with the home ministry for relief supplies. A ...
Read More »China gets its first yoga college
News: The first yoga college in China has been established at the Yunnan University of Nationalities in Kunming. India and China are also jointly organizing a massive 5-day yoga training camp in Chengdu city, where nearly 1,000 Chinese students will be trained by visiting Indian gurus. The camp which will ...
Read More »BrahMos missile ordered for the fourth regiment of Indian Armed Force
News: Indian Armed Forces have ordered a fourth regiment of BrahMos missiles and plan to order another two accordingly for the fifth and sixth regiment. BrahMos Aerospace was founded in 1998, and named in honour of the Brahmaputra River in India and the Moscow River in Russia. There is a ...
Read More »4,400 hectares of land freed from encroachment along Ganga
News: About 4,400 hectares of land along the Ganga has been freed from encroachment in Uttar Pradesh and the Centre has started planting saplings on it as part of a special afforestation drive. Land mafia allegedly had encroached upon the flood plains by forging land records and got the plots transferred in ...
Read More »Foundation stone laying ceremonies are wasteful expenditure of public money: Defence Minister
News: Defence Minister said that the elaborate functions that take place around foundation stone laying ceremonies are a wasteful expenditure of public money and should be curtailed. Taking a harsh view on public money being demanded by various departments to organise stone laying ceremonies, instructions have been sent out that ...
Read More »Free Wi-Fi at Taj Mahal started
News Tourists visiting Taj Mahal will now be able to upload selfies or photographs clicked with their loved ones directly from the 17th century monument of love. BSNL has made special arrangements to introduce the facility with support from Quadgen, a Bengaluru-based company. Facility Half-an-hour free Wi-Fi Internet facility in ...
Read More »Indian railways on the track of development
News: In a press conference addressed by Member Electrical, Railway Board Navin Tandon, said that in order to improve the Indian railways certain initiatives have been taken. The initiatives are as follows: Electrification With a view to reduce its energy procurement cost as well as to make the Railway System more ...
Read More »Ken-Betwa river linking project to be launched in December
News: India is finally launching its ambitious river interlinking project in December to irrigate parched farmlands and generate power. The 30-link project would start with the linking of Ken and Betwa rivers to provide irrigation facility to water-deficient Raisen and Vidisha districts of central Madhya Pradesh. The project is estimated ...
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