News: Bharati Vidya Scheme is to ensure poor brahmins are educated and protected. Under this scheme financial aid is provided of Rs. 10,000 for inter and polytechnic students, Rs. 15,000 for degree students and Rs. 20,000 for engineering, medical, BL and PG students. Source: TDPOfficial Also Read: Where to Register for ...

News: Airbus, one of the world’s leading commercial aircraft manufacturers, it is reliably learnt, is looking to set up shop in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. The site is on the Hyderabad- Bengaluru National Highway, 80 km from Anantapur town and about 90 km from the Bengaluru. But the proposal ...

News: Cleaning of sewers, descending into manholes, removing night-soil (human excreta) using a broom find a place in the National Career Services portal that was launched recently as a part of Skill India. Modi government seems to now promote and allow the hiring of the prohibited act of manual scavenging ...

News: The ‘Nag’ missile developed by the Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) which Abdul Kalam headed, will move like a ‘cobra’ to hit battle tanks in a range of 4 km to 7 km distance. Production of the anti-tank missile ‘Nag’, a ‘fire and forget’ missile developed to hit ...

News: Bharat Forge Chairman and Managing Director Babasaheb Kalyani, said India will make us third-largest economy after China. “Through the ‘Make-in-India’ campaign, our Prime Minister has envisaged to take the contribution of manufacturing sector in the GDP to 25 per cent in the next 10 to 15 years, which will ...

News: The government of India has asked Asian Development Bank to carry out pre-feasibility study for financing the project across Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. A road and rail link project between India’s Rameswaram and Sri Lanka’s Thalaimannar may be a combination of bridge and underwater tunnel which ...

News: The government is planning to train some 3,000 beggars to sing much like the bards of yore about the signature plans like Beti Bachao Beti Padao, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and many other initiatives on local trains in major cities with a view to popularise them among urban commuter folk. ...

News: Under the ‘Pension at Doorstep’ scheme, 44,750 beneficiaries from the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC), three other municipalities in the district, 49 mandals and 291 places would be given pension for August. Addressing the beneficiaries at Leprosy Colony in Gannavaram mandal in the city, the Collector said “The scheme would ...

News: The Narendra Modi government has signed a “historic peace agreement” with Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM), the Naga outfit named after its two leaders, Isak Chishi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah, concluding talks that began in 1997. Sources said other options discussed during talks was more autonomy to the ...

News: Pasighat is the only city in Arunachal Pradesh which fulfills the condition of having an existing master plan or a proposed one for being selected as a smart city under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme, launched by Union government. Basic objective of this mission ...