A few years after its students started scoring sky rocketing scores, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), seems to have made its marking policy for class XII exams more stringent this year. While several students featured in the 90s brigade like every year, experts have observed that the overall ...

The Manohar Parrikar-led Goa government will re-introduce the scheme to screen newborn babies for detecting metabolic disorders. The scheme, started by the erstwhile congress-led government in the state, was discontinued in 2012 when Manohar Parrikar was Chief Minister. The health programme is now being resurrected when Parrikar is once again ...

The Haryana government is preparing a scheme which shall provide a source of income to villages in the state, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said in Chandigarh on Friday. “Religious tourism is being promoted and possibilities of weekend tourism are being sought to attract visitors to the state,” he told ...

The Multi-sectoral Development Programme (MsDP) was conceived as a special initiative of the follow up action on the minority schemes and policies. It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) approved by the Government in the beginning of the 11th five Year Plan and launched in the year 2008-09 in 90 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced ‘Sampada’- a food processing scheme, news agency ANI reported. He further stressed that modernisation of agriculture sector is vital for an economy, adding that government wants to strengthen the farmer community by doubling their incomes. “Farmers’ income should be doubled by 2022, it’s ...

Maulana Azad National Academy for Skills (MANAS) is an ambitious and over-arching skill development architecture, aimed at providing all India level training framework, based upon tie-ups with National/International training organizations for imparting training to the minority population, for skills that are currently in demand. It will also provide concessional credit ...

The Delhi Development Authority’s new housing scheme with 12,000 flats on offer is set to be launched mid-June with Lt Governor Anil Baijal giving his approval to the urban body’s proposal. Top officials in the DDA said the draft of the brochure is also ready and the urban body will ...

Even as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami has petitioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the delay in the disbursal of compensation claims of farmers under the Centre’s new crop insurance scheme, the State government has planned to expand the coverage of the scheme both in terms of number ...

Members of the district unit of the Karnataka Rajya Akshara Dasoha Naukarara Sangha, affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), staged a dharna in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s Office here on Thursday demanding that the Union government increase grants for midday meal scheme. Addressing the protesters here, ...

Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana, under the Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency (MUDRA) Bank is a new institution being set up by Government of India for development and refinancing activities relating to micro units. It was announced by the Finance Minister while presenting the Union Budget for financial year 2016. ...