President felicitates winners of India Smart Cities Award Contest

President felicitates winners of India Smart Cities Award Contest

27-09-2023 

The President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu felicitated the winners of the fourth edition of the India Smart Cities Award Contest (ISAC) 2022 in Indore today i.e. on 27th September 2023. 

The ISAC has been organized under the Smart Cities…

All three tiers of Indian judiciary now on NJDG portal

All three tiers of Indian judiciary now on NJDG portal

14-09-2023 

With the Supreme Court of India onboarding the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) portal, the flagship project of the e-Courts project completes the full circle. Now we have all three tiers of the Indian judiciary on the NJDG portal. NJDG is recognized…

Tribal jewellery from Jharkhand to feature at G20 Crafts Bazar in New Delhi

Tribal jewellery from Jharkhand to feature at G20 Crafts Bazar in New Delhi

06-09-2023 

On the sidelines of the G20 Summit in New Delhi, a ‘Crafts Bazaar’ (Exhibition-cum-Sale) is being set up in Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan from 8-10 September 2023. This Crafts Bazaar will showcase handicraft products from different parts…

Aiming to curb cyber crime, police verification made mandatory for SIM card dealers

Aiming to curb cyber crime, police verification made mandatory for SIM card dealers

17-08-2023 

In a major move to check cyber crime via mobile phones, the Narendra Modi government has made police verification of SIM dealers mandatory.

More, there will also be discontinuing bulk connections to curb fraud. “Now, it will be mandatory…

Afraid of its price rise, Centre releases stocks of 3 lakh metric tonnes of onion

Afraid of its price rise, Centre releases stocks of 3 lakh metric tonnes of onion

11-08-2023 

The Department of Consumer Affairs has decided to commence the release of stocks from the onion buffer of 3.00 lakh metric tonne created this year. Shri Rohit Kumar Singh, Secretary of the Department took a meeting with the Managing Directors of NAFED…

Railways record steep decline in the number of consequential train accidents in India

Railways record steep decline in the number of consequential train accidents in India

10-08-2023 

There is a steep decline in the number of consequential train accidents from 473 in 2000-01 to 48 in 2022-23.

The average number of consequential train accidents during the period, 2004-14 was 171 per annum, while the average number of…

World Indigenous Day 2023: Jharkhand’s Vandana Tete invited to attend the South Asian Community Radio Conference in Nepal

World Indigenous Day 2023: Jharkhand’s Vandana Tete invited to attend the South Asian Community Radio Conference in Nepal

07-08-2023 

On the occasion of World Indigenous Day, Vandna Tete from Jharkhand has been invited to the South Asian Community Radio Conference, to be held from August 8 to 10 in Kathmandu, Nepal. 

Notably, August 9, adopted in December 1994 by UN…

UNICEF set to organise media sensitisation on World Breastfeeding Week in Ranchi

UNICEF set to organise media sensitisation on World Breastfeeding Week in Ranchi

02-08-2023 

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated from 1-7 August every year. This year the theme is creating an “Enabling Breastfeeding: Making a Difference for working parents” and “Breastfeeding in the first hour of Birth and exclusively…

World Tiger Day 2023: India harbours almost 75% of the global wild tiger population

World Tiger Day 2023: India harbours almost 75% of the global wild tiger population

30-07-2023 

In 1973, the Government of India launched Project Tiger, an ambitious, holistic conservation project, aimed at safeguarding the nation's tiger population and preserving biodiversity. 

Over the past fifty years later, Project Tiger…

Power plants packed with surplus coal stock touching 33.46 Million Tonne, up by 28%

Power plants packed with surplus coal stock touching 33.46 Million Tonne, up by 28%

18-07-2023 

Union Coal Ministry has clarified that there is adequate availability of coal for Thermal Power Plants (TPP) in the country. 

As on 16th July 2023, the thermal power plant end coal stock stands at 33.46 million tonnes (MT) which is 28%…