New Delhi: General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat were cremated on Friday at Brar Square crematorium in Delhi Cantonment with a large number of people including Defence Minister Rajnath Singh paying tearful adieu to...

New Delhi: After the grand success of Maitri Cycle Rally, the Border Security Force (BSF) jawans have embarked on Swarnjayanti Saurya Pradarshini Yatra to commemorate 50 years of the Bangladesh Liberation War. Comprising six ...

New Delhi: Union Minister of Power and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has approved new 23 Inter State Transmission System Projects (ISTS) with an estimated cost of Rs 15,893 crore. The new ISTS projects comprises...

New Delhi: A versatile soldier, strategist and Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 other armed forces personnel on board an Indian Air Force helicopter died in a crash near Coonoo...

Jaisalmer: Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Sunday promised all support to the Border Security Force (BSF) for its modernization while lauding the country’s first line of defence for its resolve and dete...

New Delhi: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has taken up developmental projects worth around Rs 25,000 crores over the next five years for expansion and modification of existing terminals, new terminals, expansion or str...

New Delhi: The gross GST revenue collected in the month of November 2021 is Rs 1,31,526 crore of which CGST is Rs 23,978 crore, SGST Rs 31,127 crore, IGST Rs 66,815 crore (including Rs 32,165 cro...

New Delhi: BSF Director General (DG) Pankaj Kumar Singh has said the country’s largest Border Security Force will not act as a parallel police and the powers to investigate and file chargesheet continue to remain with the state police....

New Delhi: The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $300 million loan to strengthen and improve access to comprehensive primary health care in urban areas of 13 States that will benefit over 2...

Visakhapatnam: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has lauded Indian Railways for rising to the occasion during the pandemic and coming up with novel efforts to ‘keep the wheels running and customers protec...

Lucknow: Inter-operable technologies and proper analysis of all police related incidents and developing case studies were some of the key points Prime Minister Narendra Modi made during the conference of DGsP and IGsP, which ...

New Delhi: In a major boost to export prospects of agricultural produce, India registered a significant surge in export of agricultural and processed food products in April-October period of current financial year, 2021-22, i...

New Delhi:  Adopting a sustainable approach to practicing agriculture should involve meeting demand of key stakeholders including farmers and consumers as well as ecology, said Dr Ashok Dalwai, CEO, NRAA, Ministry of Agr...

Lucknow: A wide range of issues including cyber crime, data governance, counter terrorism challenges, Left Wing Extremism, emerging trends in narcotics trafficking, prison reforms and best policing practices among others...

New Delhi: In a major administrative reform, the Government of India has decided to extend the tenure of directors of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) up to five years. At present, d...

New Delhi: Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles Goyal has said that India is poised to achieve services export target of $1 trillion by 2030. He was address...

New Delhi: Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Union Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) for their ambitious Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – Na...

New Delhi: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has the largest share under the National Monetisation Pipeline. It has announced the launch of its InvIT as a mode to monetise road projects. The InvIT will initially...

New Delhi: The gross goods and services tax (GST) revenue collected in the month of October 2021 has been pegged at Rs 1,30,127 crore of which CGST is Rs 23,861 crore, SGST Rs 30,421 crore, IGST is Rs 67,361 crore&n...

New Delhi: India’s agriculture is in an epoch-making era under the PM Sri Narendra Modi Ji. It is the phase where farmers are reaping the utmost benefit of numerous welfare measures and schemes without any hindrances. T...

New Delhi: As they say, when you fight a battle, you prepare for a war. We now know the enemy well, we know ourselves, and now we are preparing for bigger foes and fights that may come our way. Covid-19 was an eye-opener when...

Mumbai: From Sir Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh, popularly known as Sir CD Deshmukh to Shaktikanta Das, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) owes a lot to illustrious Civil Servants who have helmed the country’s central bank ...

New Delhi: Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri has said that unless the prices of crude oil are maintained at sustainable levels, it will severely impact the green shoo...

New Delhi: Union Power Minister RK Singh has said there will be no power crisis in the country amid the ongoing low coal stocks at power plants and stressed the need for timely payments by distribution companies to the plants for ...

The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) is giving enormous thrust on improving Logistics in the country and taking steps to bring efficiency into Logistics management. Delivering a talk on "Improving Operational Efficienc...

New Delhi: Recently, the country has achieved 100 crore vaccinations. What does it mean for India? This achievement is a momentous landmark for the country. India began the vaccination drive against COVID -19 on Jan 16, ...

New Delhi: First, the unstinting dedication and untiring efforts of our frontline workers and healthcare professionals involved in the vaccination drive, who have risked their health to work without breaks through the pandemi...

New Delhi: India completed vaccination of 100 crore doses on 21st October 2021, in just about 9 months since starting vaccination. This has been a tremendous journey in dealing with Covid-19, especially when we recall how thi...

New Delhi: Twenty years is a short time in the history of a nation but more than sufficient for an individual to lay a lasting foundation in the development of the nation. Nowhere is this more visible than in the historic Swa...

It takes a lot of grit, commitment and resolve for initiating and completing any major reform. Changing the status quo while meeting the competing aspirations of the stakeholders needs a fine balancing act. However, our Government, under the able ...

New Delhi: TRIFED, a public sector entity under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, is working to get GI tag for 177 potential Tribal products. It currently markets 56 GI tagged products thanks to their tribal origin/involve...

New Delhi: Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and Textiles Piyush Goyal has called EPCs for $450-$500 billion exports next year. Addressing a Mid-Term Review Meeting wi...