Now National Security Guard personnel will not have to face hardships to get railway tickets as India’s elite federal contingency force has signed an agreement with IRCTC for provisioning of e-ticketing facility. The pact will
The Ayushman Bharat health protection scheme, which aims to help the poor with an annual health insurance cover of Rs 5 lakh per family, has taken up a lot of media space, relegating health and wellness centres (HWCs) to the background. The chief
Ending the tussle between Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and lieutenant governor Anil Baijal, the supreme court on Wednesday ruled that the LG cannot act independently and must seek the advise of the council of ministers. The SC said that the matters of
BSNL has improved connectivity of Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep islands by augmenting satellite bandwidth in Andaman & Nicobar islands from 240 Mbps to 1 Gbps. The state-run enterprise said the bandwidth au
To ensure highest level of safety and operational efficiency, Airports Authority of India (AAI) is planning to augment existing air traffic control (ATC) facilities of Indian Navy at Dabolim Airport in Goa by making provision of real time data of
Man’s association with animals is legendary. So while activists flay development work and infrastructure projects undertaken by the Maharashtra government in the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) in Mumbai, surely there is some aged leopa
NTPC has clocked highest quarterly generation of 69.2 billion units (BU) against the previous highest of 68.6 BU in the fourth quarter of 2017-18 FY. Generation growth is up by 7.45 percent with respect to first quarter of the last fiscal.
Considering the fact of three-fold growth in the consumption of steel and aluminium by 2030, NALCO CMD Tapan Kumar Chand has asserted that skilled manpower will be highly valued because of the improvement in the sector. He said, &ld
Indian Oil has increased the price of cooking gas by Rs 2.71 per cylinder in the effective price of subsidised LPG cylinder in Delhi for domestic customers. The corporation said that the hike is mainly on account of GST on revised price of domesti
As he completed the first year of his second term on May 24, 2010, the then prime minister Manmohan Singh made a statement in a press conference that became a reference point for all future discourse on left-wing extremism (LWE) or Maoism/Naxalism
In its bid to give a thrust to Make in India programme, Steel Authority of India Ltd’s (SAIL) Durgapur Steel Plant dispatched the first consignment of metro coach wheels to Kolkata Metro. Earlier, the wheels for
BHEL has inked an agreement with a Republic of Korea firm to design and manufacture SCR Catalysts for De-NOx application in coal power plants to be commissioned with high capacity emission control equipment. To comply
While the Maharashtra police has detained 23 people in connection with the lynching incident in Dhule, in a fresh case in Malegaon, at least four men were beaten unconscious on suspicion of being child lifters, according to News18. The police mana
NITI Aayog will implement a proof-of-concept application of blockchain technology in partnership with Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (GNFC) fertilizer subsidy management. They will jointly d
As the preliminary inquiry report into the chartered plane crash in Ghatkopar on June 28 is still awaited, a lawyer and aviation safety activist says that airspace around every airport in India has been ruined in the last 10 years. Yeshwanth Sheno
India is facing its ‘worst’ water crisis in history, according to the government’s think-tank NITI Aayog’s Composition Water Management Index (CWMI) report. Moreover, by 2030, the country’s water demand is projected t
The recent DoPT advertisement inviting applications for 10 posts of joint secretaries has generated a disproportionate amount of controversy. The government has justified the lateral induction of experts at such a senior level as an attempt to r
The first green helicopter built for Indian Coast Guard successfully completed its maiden ground run in Bengaluru on June 28. It was handed over to the Rotary Wing R&D centre, a design house of HAL for integration and certification of 19 new s
NTPC has decided to use treated sewage water for its Dadri power station. The move is in line with the tariff policy amendment by the ministry of power, which requires mandatory use of treated sewage water from sewage treatment plant (STP
State owned Saudi Aramco and Abu Dhabi national oil company (ADNOC) have signed a pact to jointly build a $44 billion integrated refinery and petrochemicals complex at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. The project will be executed by Ratnagiri Refinery &a
