News: The railway and the women and child welfare development ministries have joined forces in a bid to rescue abducted and lost children and put an end to child trafficking. It’s a mammoth task, given that the Indian Railways carries 23 million people every day and that there are more ...

News:   As per the National Forest Policy, 1988 the state should have a forest cover of over 33 per cent of its total landmass area. Maharashtra government has come out with a new Green City policy that lays emphasis on afforestation on private land and on those reserved for community purposes, protection and increasing ...

News: The foreign minister V.K. Singh warned that “in a world of inter-dependence and globalization, there is no option but to follow international laws and norms”. at fifth East Asia Summit. India supported the “freedom of navigation in international waters, including the South China Sea, the right of passage and ...

News: The Cochin Shipyard is building fast patrol vessels and indigenous aircraft carriers worth Rs 4,357 crore for the Defence. The orders to the Cochin Shipyard include a contract worth Rs 2,848 crore for building indigenous aircraft carriers (IAC) for the Indian Navy, Radhakrishnan said. He said 14 FPVs have ...

News: India’s postal department is set to launch a pilot programme that seeks to help farmers sell their produce over the Internet, that too without spending a paisa on transport. The plan is to deploy postmasters in villages to collate details from farmers on their produce and upload the data ...

News: The government plans to push power sector reforms through its new coal supply mechanism, by ensuring that it benefits only those state distribution companies that agree to raise tariffs periodically and cut distribution losses. The government is working on the incentive-based scheme to award coal supply contracts to state ...

News Besides launching the Handloom day, the Prime Minister will also present Sant Kabir awards and National Awards for handloom weavers for the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 on the occasion. Points PM stressed upon Fashion and design education in India also needs to be re-oriented Sale of khaadi has ...

News: In an effort to prevent delay in payments to workers under the rural employment guarantee scheme, union cabinet has approved direct benefit transfer to beneficiaries of the MNREGA workers. The rural development ministry will release the money directly into the State Employee Guarantee Funds  once a finance order has been generated. ...

News: Karnatka government will flagship the Digital India scheme. E-governance department is set to roll out 376 government services under the e-district programme within the next three months. The e-district platform will cover services pertaining to the revenue department, motor vehicles department, education, police, forest, industries, Backward Classes department and ...

News: The government is considering a proposal that will make it incumbent on households to hire domestic workers through a placement agency as part of an initiative aimed at ensuring basic rights and better conditions including paid leave and other benefits for an estimated 3 crore people in the unorganised sector. ...