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. &
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
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
One of the key issues is that much of the existing network was built without much regard to climate resilience and has not been properly maintained, making it vulnerable to climate extremes. To address this, the World Bank is conducting assessme
The railways have reviewed the flexi fare system, the Lok Sabha was informed. Union minister Rajen Gohain said that interim review has been made an
A task force has recommended that an expert committee be set up to arrive at an informed decision on the level at which the poverty line should be set, the Lok Sabha was informed.
The elections are over, votes are counted, victors are being sworn in – ok, in a couple of places the runners-up are being sworn in. And losers are blaming it on electronic voting machines. It’s all on par, as per the script.
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday sought a probe into Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and demanded that the VVPAT chits be counted and matched with the EVM results. Voter Verifi
Overall, the assessment is that the impact of demonetisation on the real economy has been transient, given the information available so far, said a Reserve Bank of India paper.
What does philanthropy mean to India? For a country battling with inequalities at so many levels – health, gender, income – international aid has been a major support since independence. However, over the years, India has creat
The Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), which saved paper and helped in bringing out the results in 2-3 hours, is increasingly facing opposition from politicians who now want that the ballot papers be brought back.
