Yogi allots UP portfolios, keeps Home and Institutional Finance with himself
[India], Mar 22 (ANI): The portfolios of Uttar Pradesh ministers has been announced today by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, keeping Home and Institutional Finance with himself.Here is the complete list of Cabinet ministers along with their portfolios:The Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has been allotted the work of Public Works, Food Processing, Entertainment Tax, […]
What next for PM Modi after BJP's spectacular show in UP?
[India], Mar. 22 (ANI): With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerging victorious in Uttar Pradesh, it will be interesting to witness whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be able to complete the unfinished agenda of the saffron party and boldly tackle core issues like Article 370, the Uniform Civil Code and building the Ram Temple […]
Yogi allots UP portfolios, keeps Home and Finance with himself
[India], Mar 22 (ANI): The portfolios of Uttar Pradesh ministers has been announced today by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, keeping Home and Finance with himself.Here is the complete list of Cabinet ministers along with their portfolios:The Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has been allotted the work of Public Works, Food Processing, Entertainment Tax, and […]
Centre approves reconstruction package for flood-ravaged Uttarakhand
[India], Mar. 22 (ANI): The Government of India on Wednesday approved a medium and long-term reconstruction package following the Uttarakhand disaster in 2013.Specific relaxation in the existing guidelines of Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Scheme (AIBP), Flood Management Programme (FMP), Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) & Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), Rajiv Gandhi Scheme […]
First for India: A Holocaust-focused course on the history of mass violence
The Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland Presidency University in Kolkata has launched a course on the history of mass violence, featuring the Jewish Holocaust, with the aim of understanding the causes of the phenomenon and how it can be prevented by tracing its history from the 20th century to our times. Outside China and Israel, […]
Chhattisgarh: Five naxals arrested from Bastar's Jagdalpur
[India], Mar. 22 (ANI): Special security forces consisting of different police teams of District Reserve Guard (DRG), Special Task Force (STF) have arrested five naxals from Bastar’s Jagdalpur.The five arrested have been identified to be Parvati Karomi, Pandu Veti, Sukda Mandkami, Pandaru Mandkami and Baman Karomi.At least two security personnel received injuries during the operation.Meanwhile, […]
Doctors' strike will continue until terminations are not withdrawn: IMA Mumbai
[India], Mar. 22 (ANI): Condemning the step taken by the government to deal with the protest led by the Maharashtra resident doctors, Secretary of Indian Medical Association (Mumbai) Dr. Parthiv Sanghvi on Wednesday said that they will continue with the strike if the terminations and suspensions of the doctors are not withdrawn.”The government does not […]
Water Recycling: How mountain women are using waste water to convert taro leaves into manure
Somewhere in a mountain village in the Himalayas, a woman folds a taro leaf into a cone, fills it with soil, and sows a seed. She waters her little cone with waste water from the kitchen, creating an enabling environment for the seed to germinate in, says a woman researcher of an international institute. She […]
80% of world’s wastewater discharged without treatment: UN
About 80 per cent of the world’s wastewater is discharged into the environment without any treatment, said a UN report released on Wednesday in Durban, South Africa, on the occasion of World Water Day. While wastewater treatment levels can reach 70 per cent in high-income countries, the ratio in upper-middle-income and in lower-middle-income countries drops […]
Tirumala police busts racket that sold ‘VIP darshan tickets’ using fake recommendation letters
The Tirumala police busted a racket on Wednesday that was involved in selling VIP darshan tickets, allegedly using the letterheads of several Andhra Pradesh bureaucrats. The Times of India reported that an employee of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD), was the kingpin of the racket, and the gang involved 10 people in total. The TOI report adds that the […]
