The Yamuna is considered holy. But over several decades, it has become so polluted, it no longer evokes the pristine images the puranas painted of it. Thinking of the Yamuna, in fact, brings to mind images of black water, expanses of white foam, d
Internet use among Indians is less as compared to Chinese, according to findings of the Pew Research Center, a US-based think tank. “In our latest poll, 71% of Chinese say they use the internet at least occasionally or own a
The nutrition crisis continues to stare at us, despite the fact that India is the fastest growing large economy today. In running after GDP growth, the human development index has probably been given a short shrift. People lik
A total of 447 and 361 cases were reported in which final report ended as false under the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 during 2014 and 2015 respectively, union minister Maneka Gandhi informed the Lok Sabha.
There is no official estimation of percentage of black money held in India in cash, minister of state for finance Santosh Kumar Gangwar informed the Lok Sabha. In the last financial year (2015-16), 648 disc
The government is in process of framing national guidelines on human milk banks, the Lok Sabha was informed. Presently, there is no breast milk bank in the country run by the union government. &
NTPC has installed India’s largest Floating Solar Photo Voltaic Plant at Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Power Plant (RGCCPP) Kayamkulam, Kerala. The 100 kWp Floating Solar PV plant was indigenously developed as
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has commenced commercial operation of its first 800 MW unit - highest-rating coal-based supercritical thermal power plant. The milestone was achieved for the first unit of th
In 2016-17, there has been decline of coal stocks at pitheads -- the top of a mining pit or coal shaft -- of Coal India Limited (CIL) as well as at power plants, said union minister Piyush Goyal.
It has been decided to conduct a field trial with plastic banknotes at five locations of the country, said Arjun Ram Meghwal, minister of state in the finance ministry in the Lok Sabha. The minister said th
The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has become the new platform for verbal spats between India and Pakistan as the rival countries have already clashed four times during the ongoing session of the HRC. This time it began wh
Food is ready to be served on a plastic sheet laid on the floor. Children and mothers (pregnant and lactating) eagerly wait to get something down in their bellies. But before that begins, anganwadi worker Mira Singh calls out for four-year-old Rub
As a seventh grader participating in a painting competition in his school in Noida, he had drawn two flags inside the triangular halves of a kite – the tricolor representing India and the green-white crescent-star of Pakistan over a decade a
“Raising of nutritional standards has to be an important aspect of development in India, but improvement in these standards cannot be gauged solely with reference to any particular item or items within the food group. With extension of i
Pulses and palmolein oil have vanished from the fair price shops in Tamil Nadu. An official admitted that its supply has stopped, but assured that the scheme has been extended so the commodities will reach the shops in some time. There h
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by prime minister Narendra Modi, has given its in-principle approval to permit Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil) to sell its 24% equity in one of its joint venture companies, M/
A High Altitude Cloud Physics Laboratory with a complete range of the observational system has been set-up at Mahabaleshwar to study the interaction of clouds with other environmental parameters through continuous observations inside the clouds
All passenger trains will have bio-toilets by 2019, the Lok Sabha was informed. Union minister Suresh Prabhu said that it was earlier targeted to fit bio-toilets in the entire fleet of coaches by
About 82% works of MPLADS projects were in the rural areas and 18% works were in the urban/semi urban areas, the Lok Sabha was informed. The ministry of statistics and programme implementation ha
