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Indian Railways has generated more than 5.5 lakhs mandays of work under Gareeb Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan in 6 States viz. Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry is closely monitoring the progress made in these projects and generation of ... Read More »

Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, today presided over a review meeting with States/UTs on the “eSanjeevani” and “eSanjeevaniOPD” platforms as1.5 lakh tele-consultations were completed on the tele-medicine service platforms of the Health Ministry. Sh. Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare ... Read More »

The 51st Meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC) Under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) was held on 7th August, 2020 in New Delhi. The Meeting was attended by 19 States/UTs. In the meeting, 1589 proposals from participating States were approved for the construction of nearly 10.28 Lakh houses. ... Read More »

Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan today interacted with media through video conference, where he briefed media about the progress of the major ongoing schemes- Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana-1 & 2, Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan and One Nation One Ration Card of ... Read More »

Union Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Narendra Singh Tomar today released a booklet on “Best Practices in Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP)” of Department of Land Resources (DoLR), Ministry of Rural Development based on the presentations made by the States during Regional and National workshops since ... Read More »

In its notification, the Poll Panel said, conducting any exit poll and publishing or publicizing the result of exit poll by means of the print or electronic media or in any other manner will be prohibited. It said, displaying any election matter including results of opinion poll or other poll ... Read More »

Congress also released its poll manifesto for Chhattisgarh assembly polls. Party has promised loan waiver for farmers within ten days if voted to power. It has also promised a pension for farmers above 60 years of age. Besides, the manifesto also talks about providing 35 kg rice per month at ... Read More »

Rallies and open air meetings are the order of the day and the process of ticket distribution is also on in full swing. In Madhya Pradesh, there was much bickering and tension after tickets were distributed with protests outside the state party office. In Rajasthan too, election fever is high ... Read More »

Road clearance operation started by National highway authority of India & Border Road Origination to remove the remaining debris from Ramban to Banihal & Beacon has cleared the snow from Qazigund to Banihal. SSP National Highway Sakhti Pathak said that the decision to allow traffic on Monday would be taken ... Read More »

In Chhattisgarh, scrutiny of nominations for the second phase of assembly elections was held on Saturday. More than 2,600 nominations were filed by the candidates in 72 assembly segments, which are going for poll in second phase. Monday is the last date for withdrawal of nomination papers. More than 1.53 ... Read More »

The BJP central election committee meeting was attended among others by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief Amit Shah, Organisational Secretary Ram Lal and central ministers including J P Nadda, Thawar Chand Gehlot, Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj. Briefing reporters after the meeting, J P Nadda, secretary of BJP central ... Read More »

The Election Commission will today announce the dates of the assembly elections in four states, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram. The election date in Telangana is also likely to be announced today, according to sources. The Model Code of Conduct will come into force as soon as the announcement is made ... Read More »

In a big blow to Congress’s efforts to stitch maha gathbandhan before this year states elections and 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Bahujan Samaj Party said that BSP won’t have alliance with Congress and will fight assembly elections in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh alone. Hitting out at Congress, BSP supremo Mayawati ... Read More »

California has been dealing with record breaking fires for the past month and they aren’t even halfway through their fire season. The Mendocino Complex eclipsed last year’s Thomas fire which burned 283,800 acres last December 2017 in Ventura and Santa Barbara. Besides the huge and horrifying Mendocino Complex, there are ... Read More »

Hindustan Zinc, recognized as Zinc of India, is looking to expand its mining and smelting capacities. The company is on course to produce 1.2 million tonnes of metal on immediate basis and subsequently 1.35 million tonnes in 3-4 years’ time and eventually 1.5 million tonnes in about 5 years. The ... Read More »

Ministry of Home Affairs has urged them to keep a watch for early detection of such rumours and initiate effective measures. It has also asked States & UTs to direct District Administrations to identify vulnerable areas and conduct community outreach programmes for creating awareness and building confidence. It was also ... Read More »

A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud said this was a law and order issue and each state has to be responsible. The bench said it will pass an order on the pleas giving out guidelines to states to deal with the issue. ... Read More »

The met department has said that the heat wave is expected to continue for the next couple of days and a loo alert has been issued for North India.  The Met has, however, forecast  that temperatures in areas other than Rajasthan could see a drop of two to three degrees ... Read More »

The Lok Sabha seats where polling is being held include Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, Palghar and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra and the sole parliamentary constituency in Nagaland.  Assembly bypolls are taking place in Noorpur in Uttar Pradesh, Shahkot in Punjab, Jokihat in Bihar, Gomia and Silli in Jharkhand, Chengannur in Kerala, ... Read More »

He said that NDA government at the Centre always acknowledged the contribution of the North East. Addressing the third conclave of the North East Democratic Alliance in Guwahati, Amit Shah said it is the geo-culture alliance. He said that North East Democratic Alliance must represent all 217 tribes of North ... Read More »