The Amma Master Health Check-up scheme will be expanded to cover all districts soon, said Chief Minister ‘Edappadi’ K Palaniswami on Tuesday. The master health check-up facility is now available only at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH). In the coming days, said the Chief Minister, efforts will be ...

IC last month operationalised a new pension scheme called Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (PMVVY). This follows Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier announcing the launch of a scheme for senior citizens (60 years and above) in which they will get a guaranteed interest of over 8 per cent for 10 ...

No-frills carrier SpiceJet on Monday announced the launch of its UDAN routes connecting Mumbai with Porbander and Kandla from July 10. There will be two new daily direct flights from Mumbai-Probander-Mumbai and Mumbai-Kandla-Mumbai sectors. According to a statement issued by the airline, SpiceJet is the only airline which has not ...

“Tele-law”, a scheme under which 1,000 trained volunteers will assist residents of rural areas in reaching legal experts via video conferencing, was launched on Sunday. The assistance will be given from 500 Common Service Centres in the first phase, where a Para Legal Volunteer (PLV) — the first point of ...

Tourism department has finalized five projects under Swadesh Darshan scheme of the Central government. These include setting up of a light and sound show at Fatehpur Sikri, upgradation of the existing light and show facility at Agra Fort, conservation and upgradation of Bateshwar religious circuit, installation of musical fountain at ...

The Delhi government will launch its ‘City Taxi Scheme – 2017’. The programme aims to regulate all taxis plying in the capital, including those run by app-based cab aggregators. The last time Delhi government had launched the cab scheme was in 2015 and the government felt that with the changing ...

Officials in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur district have been ordered to make sure that farmers taking up “kuruvai” paddy cultivation, insure their crops under the Prime Minister’s insurance scheme. Chairing a review meeting here on Thursday, District Collector A Annadurai directed Agriculture Department officials to set up nodal centres in each ...

Panaji: Citing high rainfall as one of the reason for the high acidity in the soil content of the state, the department of agriculture has launched a scheme for farmers to get the soil from their farms, tested. The department of agriculture has launched the scheme to develop different kind ...

Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana in Himachal, benefitting about 3 lakh BPL families in the state. Pradhan said that two LPG bottling plants and 50 LPG distribution centres would be opened in Himachal. The scheme aimed at providing five crore ...

Amid violent protests by farmers demanding loan waivers and fair price for their produce, the Madhya Pradesh government on Wednesday launched a new debt relief scheme – Krishi Rin Samadhan Yojana — for farmers.  The cabinet also allocated Rs 1,000 crore for the scheme, minister Archana Chitnis was quoted as saying ...