Gujarat and Karnataka are the top states for creating startup ecosystems for aspiring entrepreneurs (DPIIT) according to the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade’s rating of states and Union territories. Meghalaya has been determined to be the top performer among minor states with a population under one crore. ...

A central sector scheme under the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Svamitva scheme aims to provide the ‘record of rights’ to village household owners. Thus, SVAMITVA stands for Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas.  In addition, the property owners will get property cards for their houses ...

According to the census of 2011, India with a population of 121 crores has 5.6 crores widows. Vrindavan- the “city of widows”, alone has an estimated 20,000 widows who are mostly children. Consequently, the government has been running the Widow Pension Scheme since long. Widowhood comes with a pandora’s box ...

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh will on July 24 flag off the first set of 100 Uber bike taxis, under a new scheme aimed at generating jobs for the state’s unemployed youth. Uber’s South Asia Public Policy Director Shweta Rajpal Kohli called on the chief minister here today to ...

Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha launched a skill development scheme named after RSS ideologue Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya that will train rural youth to maintain mobile towers, repair optical fibres and fix other communication technologies across India. “We are going to start the skill development programme at 10 rural locations and ...

Petrol pumps will be closed on Sundays in eight states, starting May 14. These are Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra and Haryana. The move is an effort by owners’ association to comply with a call by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his “Mann ki Baat” programme ...

New Delhi: After having dithered for over a year, Tamil Nadu on Monday signed up for the center’s scheme for revival of financially stressed state-owned power distribution companies. The southern state, which became the 21st state to join Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY), is also one of four states with ...

In the month of November 2016, we were hit by the worst smog of the century. In Delhi, 80 people die of pollution every day! Heavy reliance on coal for power generation is one of the main reasons of environmental problems in India. We have to reduce dependence on fossil ...

JAIPUR: Around 18 lakh farmers have been associated with the new insurance scheme in Rajasthan which is the first state to provide Rs 5 lakh accidental insurance to farmers by charging only Rs 27 premium per year. The government is targetting to associate 25 lakh farmers in the current fiscal ...

The Supreme Court asked the central government to put in place “graded response action plan” for different levels of air pollution in the national capital and areas of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Asking the government to notify the “graded” plan that includes the steps that would be taken to ...