Newdelhi:7/8/24:Election Commission of India has announced the schedule for bye polls for 12 Rajya Sabha seats in nine states. Notification in this regard will be issued on the 14th of this month and nominations can be filed till the 21st of this month. The scrutiny of nominations will be done on the 22nd of August. The Election will be held ...

Newdelhi:7/8/24:Lok Sabha today passed the Finance Bill, 2024. The Bill gives effect to the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 2024- 2025. With the passage of the Bill, the budgetary exercise is now complete. Replying to the discussion on the Bill in Lok Sabha, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman emphasized that the approach to taxation has been ...

New Delhi :5/8/24: Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports and Labour & Employment and Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Union Minister of Communications & Development of North Eastern Region jointly released commemorative postage stamps celebrating the XXXIII Olympics Paris 2024 in New Delhi today.   Distinguished sports icons, including recent bronze medallist Shri Sarabjot Singh, former cricketer ...

Newdelhi:5/8/24:Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda has said that the Modi government has given utmost priority to the health sector. Replying to the discussion on Demands for Grants under the Control of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for 2024-25 in the Lok Sabha,  the Union Minister informed that the budgetary allocations have gone up from ...

Newdelhi:3/8/24:Coal India Limited, continuing its commitment to serve the community, launched a noble CSR initiative- CIL ASHIS (Ayushman Shiksha Sahayata) to provide scholarships to 1645 children who lost their parents to COVID and were unable to continue their studies further. Coal India Ltd also released appointment letters to 424 beneficiaries under compassionate appointment, who had lost their family members while ...

Wayanad:3/8/24:The Indian Navy continues with the rescue and relief operations at landslide-affected areas of Wayanad district, amidst inclement weather and difficult terrain. Additional personnel, stores, resources, and essential supplies were mobilised from INS Zamorin to augment the relief efforts and support local community impacted by the disaster. Presently, 78 Naval personnel are involved in the ongoing rescue operations. The teams ...

Newdelhi3/8/24:The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the 32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists (ICAE) at National Agricultural Science Centre (NASC) Complex, New Delhi today. The theme for this year’s conference is, “Transformation Towards Sustainable Agri-Food Systems.” It aims to tackle the pressing need for sustainable agriculture in the face of global challenges such as climate change, natural resource degradation, ...

Newdelhi:2/8/24:India needs Hydro Pumped Storage Projects (PSPs) to support faster energy transition with large-scale integration of renewable capacity in the country and also ensure energy security. To ensure that Hydro PSPs get commissioned on a fast track, thereby accelerating the growth of India’s renewable energy and energy storage capacity, Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has accorded concurrence to two Hydro PSPs ...

Newdelhi:2/8/24:The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the Conference of Governors at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi today (August 2, 2024). The conference will cover a wide range of issues that are critical in shaping center-state relations and promoting welfare schemes for common people. In her opening remarks, the President said that the agenda for this conference included carefully ...

New Delhi:1/8/24: A day after deserting Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and resigning from her Rajya Sabha seat, Mamata Mohanta joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at party headquarters in Delhi. Mohanta, a prominent tribal leader from the Kudumi community of Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district, joined the BJP in the presence of party national general secretary Arun Singh and party Odisha in-charge Vijaypal ...