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Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said that the government, society, cinema and media in India have played a commendable role with courage, commitment and caution during the Corona pandemic. Short films conveying awareness and strong message played an important role during the crisis. While addressing the ... Read More »

NITI Aayog today released a white paper: Vision 2035: Public Health Surveillance in India with the vision: To make India’s public health surveillance system more responsive and predictive to enhance preparedness for action at all levels. Citizen-friendly public health surveillance system will ensure individual privacy and confidentiality, enabled with a ... Read More »

Addressing the 93rd Annual Convention of Industry body FICCI, through video conferencing in New Delhi Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh said the Covid-19 pandemic has brought many new challenges to the country and the government has taken various steps to mitigate its adverse impacts concerning both lives and livelihoods.  Utmost priority has been given first to ... Read More »

The Government of India (GoI) has announced the Sale (Re-issue) of (i) ‘4.48% Government Security, 2023’ for a notified amount of Rs6,000 crore (nominal) through pricebased auction, (ii) ‘GoI Floating Rate Bonds, 2033’ for a notified amount of Rs2,000 crore (nominal) through price based auction, (iii) ‘6.22% Government Security, 2035’ for a notified amount of Rs9,000 crore (nominal) through price ... Read More »

The office bearers from different States representing the All India Kisan Coordination Committee met Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar in Krishi Bhavan today. Farmer leaders from Telangana, Maharashtra, Haryana, Tamil Nadu and Bihar spoke to the Agriculture Minister. All of them were convinced that the recent Farm Acts are for ... Read More »

The National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) is releasing All India Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Base 2012=100 and corresponding Consumer Food Price Index (CFPI) for Rural (R), Urban (U) and Combined (C) for the month of November 2020 (Provisional) in this press note. CPIs ... Read More »

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made Swachhta a Jan Andolan which is drawing wide participation from society, urban and rural areas alike. He was speaking at the awards distribution ceremony for Swacchta Pakhwada in the petroleum industry. ... Read More »

Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar said that the idea of organizing a film festival to celebrate short films made on coronavirus was wonderful. Speaking at the International Coronavirus Short Film Festival here today, Javadekar said that the festival witnessing participation of 2,800 films from 108 countries on ... Read More »

The Office of the Economic Adviser, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade is releasing index numbers of wholesale price in India for the month of November, 2020 (Provisional) and for the month of September, 2020 (Final) in this press release. Provisional figures of Wholesale Price Index (WPI) are ... Read More »

India’s active cases today stand at 3,52,586.The share of Active Cases in the total Positive Cases has further shrunk to 3.57%. This is lowest after 149 days.  The total active cases were 3,58,692 on 18thJuly, 2020 The daily recoveries exceeding new cases have ensured a total net reduction of the Active Caseload. A ... Read More »

  ‘Himgiri’, the first of the three Project 17A ships being built at M/s Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE), Kolkata was launched today, 14 Dec 20. She made her first contact with the waters of Hoogly River at 1335 Hrs at the launch ceremony, General Bipin Rawat, Chief ... Read More »

India has crossed a landmark milestone in its eHealth journey. eSanjeevani telemedicine service of the Health Ministry has crossed 1 million (10 lakh) tele-consultations today.Telemedicine entails delivery of health services from a distance using internet and it not only extends the reach of health services but also improves quality of ... Read More »

Google applications including YouTube, email and Docs have suffered a rare service outage, with users unable to access many of the company’s services. The outage started shortly before noon UK time, lasting more than half an hour before being restored. Users around the world reported problems with Gmail, Google Drive, ... Read More »

The Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu today said that terrorism is a serious threat to democracy, individual freedoms and global economic advancement which are the core values of present day civilisation. In a facebook post on anniversary of the 2001 terror attack on the Parliament, the Vice President said that ... Read More »

Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister for Labour & Employment (I/C) and G. Kishan Reddy, Minister of State for Home Affairs jointly dedicated new services and equipment at ESIC Medical College, Hyderabad yesterday. The services and equipment dedicated are: Innovative Portable Point of Care RTPCR, a user friendly, quick sample processing device ... Read More »

Steadily following the trend set over the past few weeks, India’s active caseload has fallen to 3.62% of the total active cases. India has reported more daily recoveries than the daily new cases during the past 24 hours. The trend of more daily recoveries than the daily cases has led to ... Read More »

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake a visit to Dhordo in Kutch, Gujarat on 15th December, 2020 and lay the Foundation Stone of several development projects in the State. These projects include a desalination plant, a hybrid renewable energy park, and a fully automated milk processing and packing plant. Chief ... Read More »

Few Stories have been published in certain sections of media about issuance of unreserved tickets . It is informed for guidance of all that- There has been NO change in policy to run all express trains including festival specials and clone specials as fully reserved train ONLY as yet. Accordingly ... Read More »

The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has paid tributes to martyrs of 2001 Parliament attack. In a tweet, the Prime Minister said, “We will never forget the cowardly attack on our Parliament on this day in 2001. We recall the valour and sacrifice of those who lost their lives protecting our ... Read More »

‘Plan for Khedut Sansad’  Udaipur : Fearing house arrest and custodial harrasments, members of the Gujrat Kisan Sangharh Samiti and various farmer unions have disguised themselves and moving furtively and stealthily to Delhi to participate in the Kisan movement. From the traditional Kediyu-Chorno and phento ( Kurta- Dhoti pant with headgear) many peasants ... Read More »