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New Delhi: To provide an assured income support to the small and marginal farmers, the Central Government announced Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN). The programme would be made effective from December 1, 2018 and the first installment for the period upto March 31, 2019 would be paid during this year itself. While presenting the […]
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Kochi: With over 1,45,000 fatalities a year, India accounts for 12.5 per cent of the global road accidents, one road accident occurring every four minutes, said Institute of Road Traffic Education (IRTE), Ghaziabad president Dr Rohit Baluja. Baluja revealed this while speaking in a two-day workshop on road traffic and safety organised at the Southern […]
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New Delhi: The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), an executive arm of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), would send second batch of 17 skilled candidates to Japan under the Technical Intern Training Programme (TITP). Amongst the 17 candidates who would leave for Japan by end of February, at least five candidates have […]
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New Delhi: Vice Admiral G Ashok Kumar, AVSM, VSM assumed charge as Vice Chief of the Naval Staff on Wednesday. An alumnus of Sainik School, Amaravathi Nagar and National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakvasla, Pune, Kumar was commissioned into the Executive Branch of the Indian Navy on July 1, 1982. The Admiral has held various challenging […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation three sewage infrastructure projects worth Rs 425.41 crore for Varanasi and lay foundation stone for another project on November 12. Among the projects to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister, the first is a 140 MLD Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) at Dinapur built at […]
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New Delhi: Export of raw sugar from India to China will begin early next year. A contract for exporting 15,000 tonnes of raw sugar has been entered to by the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) and COFCO, a Government of China run public sector company. Due to the initiative taken by the Ministry of Commerce […]
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New Delhi: In the wake of the ‘MeToo movement’ the Central Government on Wednesday constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) to examine the existing legal and institutional frameworks for dealing with matters of sexual harassment of women at the workplace. The GoM will be chaired by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. Its members are Road […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday dedicated the National Police Memorial to the nation to mark the 59th Police Commemoration Day. The PM laid wreath and paid homage to the martyrs at the memorial. He honoured the three surviving members of Hot Springs incident. He also inaugurated the Museum of National Police memorial […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation the National Police Memorial (NPM) on Saturday in recognition of the supreme sacrifice made by police personnel since independence. Around 35,000 police personnel martyred in the line of duty since Independence, most of them unsung, will get their names etched in the memorial. October […]
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New Delhi, October 11, 2018: In the first phase more than 900 prisoners lodged at different jails across the country were granted remission of sentence on the occasion of commemoration of 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. In the week long first phase of special remission to prisoners, the States and UTs, after obtaining the […]
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