With a view to promoting India as a destination for traditional medical treatments, Ministry of Home Affairs has notified the creation of a new category of Ayush (AY) visa for foreign nationals for treatment under Ayush systems/Indian systems of medicine. The visa is aimed at facilitating t ...
Under Section 12 of the Legal Services Authority Act 1987, applicants who are marginalized or disadvantaged including ST, SC, victims of trafficking or begging, women or children, PWDs, and other eligible categories, are entitled to get free legal aid & advice through Department of Justice&rsquo ...
To encourage entrepreneurship among women, the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) implements various schemes. The Ministry implements Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) is a major credit-linked subsidy programme aimed at generating self- ...
India has witnessed the highest ever coal production in the Year 2022-23. The all India coal production in the year 2022-23 was 893.19 Million Tonne (MT) (Provisional) in comparison to 778.21 MT in the year 2021-22 with a growth of about 14.77%. Rise in the production of coal has been re ...
US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced its plan to invest approximately $400 million in Indian over the next five years. The semiconductor giant AMD plans to build new campus in Bangalore with largest R&D facility in the world. Mark Papermaster, Executive Vice ...
4th Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group (ECSWG) and Environment and Climate Ministers meeting under India’s G20 Presidency concluded in Chennai. The 4th Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group (ECSWG) and Environment and Climate Ministers’ meeting b ...
The Indian Coast Guard has successfully rescued 36 crew members, including eight scientists, on board a research ship - RV Sindhu Sadhana of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) - in the Arabian Sea off Karwar Coast in Karnataka on July 27, 2023. The research vessel had suffered eng ...
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) is implementing the Scheme of Polytechnics through Directorate General of Training (DGT). Under this scheme, Community Development Through Polytechnics (CDTP) is one of the components wherein non-formal, short-term, employment-orient ...
Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) is implementing Central Sector Scheme SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages and Mapping with Improvised Technology in Village Areas) with the aim to provide the ‘Record of Rights’ to village household owners possessing houses in inhabited areas in villages. Legal ...
The Ministry of Mines says India's overall mineral production increased by 6.4 per cent in May 2023 over the last year and cumulative growth touched 5.8 per cent from April to May 2022-23. The index of mineral production of the mining and quarrying sector for the month of May stood at 128.1.& ...
To make Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG), a clean cooking fuel, available to the rural and deprived poor households, Government launched Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana in May 2016, to provide deposit free LPG connections to adult women of poor households. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) was laun ...
The value of defence production in the financial year (FY) 2022-23 has crossed the figure of one lakh crore rupees for the first time, Union Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt on Friday informed the Lok Sabha. In the last few years, the government has taken several policy initia ...
The 14th installment of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi will be released next week. The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) is a Central Sector Scheme. According to the official Twitter Handle of the PM KISAN scheme, the government will release the 14th installment and interact with farme ...
The 4th Energy Transitions Working Group (ETWG) Meeting under India’s G20 Presidency began in Goa from July 19, 2023. The 4th Energy Transitions Working Group Meeting (ETWG) under India’s G20 Presidency is being held in Goa from July 19th to 22nd, 2023. 100 delegates from G20 me ...
Minister of State for Communication Devusinh Chauhan and Director General, Universal Postal Union (UPU) Masahiko Metoki inaugurated the Regional Office of UPU in New Delhi. The Regional Office will undertake UPU’s technical assistance activities in South Asia region by entering into a host ...
Nelson Mandela International Day or Mandela Day is an annual international day in honour of global icon Nelson Mandela Mandela Day is celebrated each year on 18 July, Mandela's birthday. Nelson Mandela was the former President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist. The Nel ...
Two frontline Indian Naval ships INS Sahyadri and INS Kolkata arrived in Indonesia's Jakarta on 17 July 2023 to participate in the Maritime Partnership Exercise (MPX) with the Indonesian Navy. The ships were accorded a warm welcome by the Indonesian Navy. During the port call, personnel fr ...
The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways is coming with the third edition of its most prestigious ‘Global India Maritime Summit’ this year. Sarbananda Sonowal, Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW) in the presence of Shripad Y. Naik, Minister of State for ...
A National Conference on Drug Trafficking and National Security was held in New Delhi under the chairmanship of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. 1,44,000 kgs of narcotics of worth Rs. 2,378 Crore were destroyed in different parts of the country by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in coordination with ...
India-ASEAN conference being held at New Delhi after almost a decade, ten ASEAN countries including Cambodia, Vietnam will participate The Ministry of Ayush with support from the Ministry of External Affairs, Indian Mission to ASEAN and the ASEAN Secretariat is gearing up to host the Conference o ...
The two-day Visitor’s Conference hosted by Rashtrapati Bhavan concluded on Tuesday after with a focus on education for sustainable development. More than 150 heads of higher educational institutions (HEIs) such as IITs, NITs, IISERs, NIPERs, and Central Universities were present at th ...
A three-day International Conference on Green Hydrogen (ICGH-2023) was held to highlight India's significant investment in green hydrogen and its transformative impact on the country's energy landscape. India is betting big on making a transition towards renewable energy and reducing ...
The Election Commission of India (ECI )and Electoral Tribunal (ET) of Panama have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Panama City to establish the institutional framework for their ongoing cooperation in the field of election management and administration. A three member ECI deleg ...
India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tanzania to establish the first IIT branch abroad, in Zanzibar- Tanzania. The Tanzania campus is expected to open in October 2023, with 50 undergraduate and 20 master’s students in its first batch. The agreement was signed b ...
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for cooperation in Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Innovative Air Mobility. This MoU will focus on collaboration on unmanned aircraft and ...
The Ministry of Coal has achieved substantial surge in overall coal production with a growth of 8.40% in Q1 of FY 2023-24. The cumulative coal production has witnessed a significant increase, reaching 222.93 million tonne (MT) as compared to 205.65 MT in Q1 of FY 2022-23. Coal India Limi ...
The Navy and Indian Coast Guard has signed an MoU with Indian Port Rail & Ropeway Corporation Ltd (IPRCL) to set up a picture gallery at National Maritime Heritage Complex (NHMC) being constructed at the historic Indus Valley civilization site in Gujarat’s Lothal. The foundation stone f ...
The Subansiri Lower Dam is an under construction gravity dam on the Subansiri River in North Eastern India. It is located 2.3 km (1.4 mi) upstream of Subansiri River on Arunachal Pradesh. The dam is officially named Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project (SLHEP). The project is being exec ...
India has formulated policies aimed at ensuring safe & trusted and secure cyber space for its users. To further address the goal of safe cyberspace, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has released guidelines on information security practices. India’s di ...
The number of face authentication transactions is on an upward trajectory. Aadhaar based face authentication transactions for service delivery have crossed an all-time high of 10.6 million in May this year. According to Electronics and IT Ministry, this is the second consecutive month to reg ...
