India Subcontinent

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]PM’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ reference to Diabetes reflects Govt’s concern: Dr Jitendra Singh New Delhi: Citing the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s reference to Diabetes as the theme of this year’s World Health Day during his “Mann Ki Baat” radio broadcast today, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]New Delhi: The Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley will be leaving on a 4-day official visit to Australia on 28th March, 2016. One of the main objectives of the Finance Minister’s visit to Australia is to attract foreign investment in India especially in Infrastructure sector among others. In …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]New Delhi: The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, and the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, today jointly dedicated via video-conferencing, the second cross border transmission interconnection system between India and Bangladesh. This will link Surjyamaninagar in Tripura with South Comilla in Bangladesh. The two leaders also dedicated the …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval to the US $ 1,500 million project of World Bank Support to Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) [(SBM(G)]. The Project basically provides for incentivising States on the basis of their performance in the …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]New Delhi: A group of 25 students of International Policy Studies from Stanford University, US, called on the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi today. The group included students from various countries, including India. Welcoming the students to India, the Prime Minister said that they are all soon-to-be policy-makers, and …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]New Delhi: The India-Russia Joint Commission meeting was held here today to discuss bilateral cooperation between the two countries. The Russian delegation was chaired by Mr. Vladimir Andreevich Puchkov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination Consequences of Natural Disasters and the Indian delegation was …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]New Delhi: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has introduced a new procedure for submitting application/proposal for application to Medical Colleges. It is an add-on procedure which will run parallel with conventional procedure of manual submission of applications. As per the revised procedure an online application is mandatory and …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]New Delhi: The week-long Festival of Innovations in Rashtrapati Bhavan concluded with a 12 hour long coding competition to develop web and mobile applications in hackathon style (non-stop rapid development). The topics on which applications were developed were 1) teachers taking attendance after every class 2) examination authentication for …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Text of PM’s address at the World Sufi Forum Syed Mohammad Ashraf, Founder President, All India Ulama and Mashaik Board Shawki Ibrahim Abdel Karim Allam, Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shaykh Hashimuddin Al Gailani, from Baghdad Syed Minhaj Ur Rehman from Bangladesh Diwan Ahmed Masood Chisti from Pakistan Syed …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]New Delhi: A roundtable discussion on funding for innovations was organized in Rashtrapati Bhavan on the sixth day of the ongoing Festival of Innovations today (March 17, 2016) in association withNABARD,SIDBI and National Innovation Foundation. The speakers who addressed the roundtable included Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari,Union Minister of Road …