Good news for school students, the Telangana government has put a cap on the weight of bags carried by schoolchildren to prevent adverse physical effect and anxiety disorders. The order prescribing the weight limit of school bags for students from primary to Class X was released on Tuesday by the[Read More…]
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Mantralaya in Mumbai plans to tighten its security measures
Mantralaya in Mumbai considered as headquarters of the government is supposedly planning to get more securities. Entering Mantralaya will now get more difficult for the common man as the home department plans to tighten the internal security by controlling access points for visitors and vehicle monitoring system. Read More: Union government to impose[Read More…]
India’s fast bowler, Umesh Yadav appointed as RBI Officer
A decade ago, Umesh Yadav wanted to become a constable. His father Tilak Yadav wanted his youngest son – Umesh Yadav – to get a government job. He even prepared for an examination for the post of constable in the police department but he couldn’t clear the exam missing the cut by[Read More…]
UP CM Yogi Adityanath to set up an exclusive ‘CM Helpline’
After a series of reform, UP CM Yogi Adityanath has ordered the setting up of a “CM Helpline” which will connect people to a call centre manned by 500 people. In an attempt to strengthen public grievance redressal system, this helpline will directly be under the supervision of the CM’s[Read More…]
Govt dismisses reports that education will become expensive under GST
The government has dismissed the speculation that the education will become expensive under Goods and Services Tax (GST) on Friday. It has said that services provided by an educational institution to students, faculty and staff were exempted. “Such reports that education will become expensive under GST are completely unsubstantiated. In[Read More…]
Want to know GST? Pay money to government
Much hype has been created by innumerable of people as concepts of the newly-implemented Goods and Service Tax( GST) are unclear to them. In relation to the same, Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has offered a GST Training programme to give an extensive training on the concept of the[Read More…]
Candidate turns up to SSC exam hall with ‘fake finger’
In a bizarre incident, a fake candidate was arrested for turning up to the SSC exam centre with a ‘fake finger’. This dummy candidate who appeared with the ‘fake finger’ was caught at the examination hall on Saturday when his false finger fell on the ground during biometric attendance. The[Read More…]
Cabinet clears privatisation of debt-ridden Air India
The Union Cabinet gave an in-principle approval for disinvestment of the government-run airline. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said, “In-principle approval for Air India divestment has been given.” Besides, “The Civil Aviation Ministry’s proposal for the formation of a group under the chairmanship of the Finance Minister to decide the[Read More…]
#NotInMyName: Breaking the culture of silence against the lynching of the minority
The #NotInMyName protest is a demonstration scheduled in Delhi and several other cities across the country on June 28 (Wednesday) by citizens against incidents of the lynching of Muslims and Dalits. With the politics of mob-lynching claiming lives one after the other across our country, it is about time we[Read More…]
8 of 21 transgenders quit working for Kochi metro
While the country made a huge deal about transgenders being employed in Kochi Metro as a step towards gender equality. The reality is unsatisfactory and dark. While the metro was inaugurated by PM Modi on Monday, in one functional week, 8 transgender employees have quit their jobs out of the[Read More…]
Man stabbed to death, cousins injured for allegedly carrying beef
A man was stabbed to death and two of his cousins were injured on suspicion that they were carrying beef, police said on Friday. Passengers were on board a Mathura-bound train. The three men, who were the residents of Ballabhgarh in Haryana, shopped at Delhi’s Tughlakabad for the Eid festival[Read More…]
Kerala: Viral fever kills 103; govt appeals people to join sanitation drive
Kerala government on Sunday appealed to the people to join the government’s mass sanitation drive on a war footing after more than 100 deaths were reported since January in Kerala due to numerous types of fevers. As many as 103 people, including women and children, succumbed to several types of[Read More…]
President turns down two more mercy petitions before leaving office
Just before President Pranab Mukherjee’s tenure is about to end, reports say that he rejected two mercy petitions in the last week of May. Mukherjee whose term ends on July 24 has rejected a total of 30 mercy pleas. Notably, Mukherjee’s predecessor Pratibha Patil had accepted mercy pleas of 30[Read More…]
Aadhaar must for opening bank accounts, transactions over ₹50,000
In the latest development on the Aadhaar debate, the Centre has made quoting of Aadhaar mandatory for the opening of bank accounts as well as for any financial transaction of ₹50,000 and above. While the existing account holders have been asked to submit their Aadhaar numbers issued by the Unique[Read More…]
Aadhaar made mandatory by Finance Ministry to avail Atal Pension Yojana
The subscribers of the Atal Pension Yojana (APY) will now have to link their Aadhaar to their accounts for availing up to Rs 1,000 government’s co-contribution, the Finance Ministry said on Monday. In a statement, it said that any individual who is eligible to receive benefits under the APY will[Read More…]
Haryana traders to protest against GST on clothes
Over 450 retail and wholesale cloth merchants in Haryana are against the GST proposed on clothes by the government. According to the merchants, the new tax slab on clothes will escalate the cost of clothes for customers and they fear a slowdown in the cloth trade after the imposition of[Read More…]
Tamil Nadu: Government to turn dry land into fertile area
In order to promote agricultural activities and turning the dry land into a fertile area, the state government is going to employ 200 clusters in 25 districts in Tamil Nadu. The initiative has been taken under the Mission on Sustainable Dryland Agriculture (MSDA) which will further improve the livelihood of[Read More…]
Floodlights installed along Pakistan and Bangladesh borders
In attempts to prevent terrorists and immigrants from invading the Indian borders, the government has floodlit 647 kilometres of the borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh. The floodlighting of the 647-km-long stretches of the two international borders was completed in last one year, a Home Ministry official said. This initiative will[Read More…]
Cows up for sale on OLX, Quikr after Government bans selling cattle for slaughter
After the government banned the sale of cows for slaughter, farmers and traders have began putting up advertisements to sell their cows on digital marketplace like OLX. After days of protests and confrontations, the cattle traders have finally found a new way of making use of Digital India. As traders[Read More…]
Manmohanomics comes true, GDP slows down post demonetisation
India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) witnessed a sharp slowdown of 6.1% in Q4 from 7% in the previous quarter, said the data released by the government on Wednesday. Over the quarters of FY2017, GDP growth has spotted a downtrend from 7.9% in Q1 to 7.5% in Q2 to 7.0% in[Read More…]
Hotels in South India to observe bandh to protest against GST rates
The hotels in South India have decided to observe a day’s bandh on May 30 in a protest as the GST rates declared by the Union Government will cripple the hotel industry and place an unbearable burden on the common man said T Satyanarayana, the general secretary of the AP[Read More…]
Fresh clashes in Saharanpur after Mayawati’s visit killed one; two injured
Fresh clashes erupted in the already boiling Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday after BSP chief Mayawati’s visit. A Dalit man was killed and several others were reportedly injured in the incident. Reportedly, a group of Dalits threw stones at the houses of some Rajputs before Mayawati’s rally. This[Read More…]
Over 2000 people fined in UP for using tobacco products
As per an official, the Uttar Pradesh government has fined a total of 2,250 people and collected Rs 1,98,096 during 2016-17 for using tobacco products in public places. The reports revealed that the government fined 12,444 people and collected Rs 14,28,261 between April 2013 and March 2017 for violating Section[Read More…]
No new BEd colleges this year: Union Minister Prakash Javadekar
The Centre has refused to allow new BEd colleges to spring into existence as they are concerned over the dropping standards of teacher training institutions in the country. Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said that 2017 will be a “zero year” for new colleges in the field and[Read More…]
Thousands of women protests against against Adani power plant in Godda
Protest against proposed Adani power plant in Godda district of Jharkhand is intensifying with every passing day. In the latest development, the mass movement was fueled by thousands of poor women who gathered from diverse villages and protested on the streets of Godda with raising slogans against Adani. The locals[Read More…]