Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan has launched the implementation of City Gas Distribution (CGD) project in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. The event marked an important step towards developing a gas-based economy and linking Eastern India
Prime minister Narendra Modi`s popularity has been validated throughout the election, in which he made himself and his actions the main issue in many public speeches. The ability of Modi to deliver landslide victory results like in UP consolidates
The cabinet on Monday approved four Good and Services Tax (GST) related bills. The four GST related bills are: The Central Goods and Services Tax Bill 2017 (The CGST Bill)
India and Pakistan began discussions on the Indus Water Treaty on Monday, six months after New Delhi suspended talks following the Uri terror attack. The talks are being held in Islamabad. Read:
Arrears of Service Tax, which was Rs 22,014 crore in 2012-13, tripled to Rs 71,257 crore in 2014-15. However, recovery during the year as a percentage of unrestrained recoverable arrears registered a steep fall from 42 percent during 2013-14 to 10
Anxiety and headache are just two of the side effects of saffron. Some people are also allergic to it. Pray what were you thinking – That this is about BJP’s victory and Yogi Adityanath being anointed the chief minister of Uttar Prades
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
