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Athletes preparing for next year’s Commonwealth and Asian Gamesand for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics may not take a liking to the latest directive by the sports ministry, which has revised the guidelines for issuance of funds to athletes under the Target Olympic Podium (TOP) scheme. Learning its lessons from the past, where there ...

The Nitish Kumar government today approved a “Safe City Surveillance” scheme aimed at putting a check on eve-teasing and other crimes against women at public places across the state. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Principal ...

Sukanya Samriddhi scheme fetches a higher interest rate compared with other small savings schemes. Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana is a small savings scheme exclusively for the girl child. Under the Sukanya Samriddhi scheme, a parent or legal guardian can open an account in the name of the girl child until she attains ...

Applications are invited from the interested candidates to avail free coaching in various courses offered at Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendram under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) scheme, informed PMKVY district in-charge Matti Rama Krishna in a statement released here in Khammam on Wednesday. He said that PMKVY was ...

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has approved a scheme to encourage girl students to join technical education, officials said today. Girl students, who have cleared class X examination, are eligible to get admission into the technical institutes such as ITIBSE 2.05 % under the ‘Sudakhya’ scheme approved yesterday. The students, ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Rs16,320-crore Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana, or Saubhagya, on Monday evening to provide electricity connections to over 40 million families in rural and urban areas by December 2018. Here are some frequently asked questions or FAQs about the scheme. What is the ...

The upper age limit for joining the National Pension System (NPS) has been raised to 65 years from the current 60, the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) announced on Monday. PFRDA Chairman Hemant Contractor made the announcement at a conference here on “Transferring Superannuation Funds to National Pension ...

Women, employed under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme across the country, get only 78 per cent of the minimum wages paid to men, according to Indian Express report. The Ministry of Rural Development panel report said that not a single state has been able to enforce ...

After the hospital deaths of several children in Gorakhpur and Farrukhabad districts sparked public outrage, the Uttar Pradesh government is planning a project to attend to the health needs of people in rural areas. “The UP government is shortly coming out with a project to tackle the health issues in ...

The Modi Government’s flagship scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY), has resulted in generation of 1.68 crore incremental jobs in the first two years since its launch, a SKOCH Group report has revealed. This survey report titled ‘MUDRA Scheme: a Game Changer Initiative on Job Creation’ was released at ...