Plan Part of the plan will be a `4 crore project under the National Rural Drinking Water Programme, and 16 other water supply projects totalling `1.4 crore. Among Mahajan’s first priorities was lavatories for those who did not have it. In the last four months, 30 households have built lavatories ...
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India to assume presidency of World Health Assembly in Geneva after 19 years
News After a gap of 19 years, India will again assume presidency of the 68th Session of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the top decision-making body of the World Health Organisation, beginning May 18th 2015. Union Health Minister J P Nadda will preside over the WHA session and lead a high-level ...
Read More »Modi in China: 26 deals worth $22 billion inked
News Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China has yielded $22 billion worth of MoUs showing China Inc.’s strong interest in the Indian story. The MoUs which span a wide range of industries including renewable energy, power infrastructure, and steel and small & medium industries will enhance Chinese companies’ commitment ...
Read More »India for implementation of UN arms embargo to check terrorism
News India has voiced concern over the easy access to arms and weapons provided by some states as a deliberate policy, saying such availability facilitates terrorism across the world. Calling for the strict implementation of the UN Security Council arms embargo to check the menace of global terrorism, India said ...
Read More »NITI Aayog to hire young blood
News Centre plans to expand NITI Ayog’s workforce at the bottom by bringing in more young professionals while reducing the number of mid-level officials. The restructuring committee at the Aayog, headed by its CEO Sindhushree Khullar, will soon finalise the required workforce, including the new guidelines for hiring young professionals (YPs) ...
Read More »3 cities from India win IBM’s Smart City Challenge
News 3 cities from India were among the winners of this challenge. Allahabad UP, Vishakhapatnam AP, Surat Gujarat More Details What is the Challenge? The Smarter Cities Challenge deploys top IBM experts to help cities around the world address their most critical challenges. They do this by putting teams on ...
Read More »Foundation stones for 7 Handloom Common Facility Centres in Varanasi
News The Governor recalled the laying of foundation stone of Trade Facilitation Centre and Crafts Museum in Varanasi by Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, on 7th November, 2014 and said that work has commenced on this front, and that visible progress will be made soon. He added that there ...
Read More »Directions issued to all CAPFs to bring percentage of women in the forces to 5%.
News There is no proposal to increase the percentage of women personnel in CAPF upto 33 percent. However, in compliance of recommendations given by Parliamentary Committee on Empowerment of Women in its sixth report, directions have been issued to all CAPFs to bring percentage of women in the forces to ...
Read More »Kakinada-Vijayawada Gas Pipeline progress
News The Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply today that GAIL is not laying any pipeline from Kakinada to Vijaywada. However, GAIL is executing Lingala-Kaikaluru pipeline which would interconnect the Lingala-Kaikaluru isolated gas field grid with ...
Read More »‘Namami Gange Programme’: Cabinet approves a massive Rs 20,000-crore budget
News The Union Cabinet today approved a massive Rs 20,000 crore budget for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet ‘Namami Gange Programme’ for the next five years, which is a five-fold increase over the money spent in the last three decades towards the conservation of the river. The programme would be ...
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