Telangana to get Rs 797.57 cr from Centre for supplying water

The taxi industry in India in recent weeks has also seen a series of protests including hunger strikes by drivers of cab aggregators over issue of declining earnings.

Director Gayatri Parameswaran, who has come up with a new Virtual Reality (VR) short film "Kya Yahi Pyar Hai", says that the VR technology is still at a nascent stage and will take time to garner footfalls in India."VR is still in very early stages of ...

A few months back when drinking water and sanitation secretary Parameswaran Iyer was seen cleaning a sewage line, it showed his commitment to the cause of Swachh Bharat. But more than that it is Narendra Modi’s leadership in last three years that motivated ...

Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje will do a periodic review of the progress made in making the state Open Defecation Free (ODF) by March 2018.The review will be done in every 15 days under the Swachh Bharat Mission. Raje was speaking during a meeting with ...

Ayurveda physician 'Vaidya' Rajesh Kotecha has been appointed as special secretary in Ayush Ministry. Usually a senior bureaucrat is appointed to such a post. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved Kotecha's appointment for three years on a ...

Odisha government has cautioned district collectors and urban local bodies to ensure use of Swachh Bharat mission logo having Mahatma Gandhi's items in a careful and dignified manner keeping in view public sentiments. The state government also issued a ...

Sita Pallacholla, Founder and CEO, The Angel Hub, had organised the first edition of The Angel Summit in Mumbai at ISDI. The Angel Summit was previously held in Hyderabad and Delhi.It was a day-long event on women in business which hosted 30 speakers and 400 ...

Shoranur: The hartal called by BJP in Shoranur assembly constituency on Monday has been withdrawn. Alleging partiality in allocation of funds to various wards in Shoranur municipality, the BJP councillors had been staging protest and hunger strike for the ...

As a team of doctors in Chennai tried to save IIT-Madras student Sooraj Rs right eye, his friends said protests on the campus would escalate if action was not taken against students who attacked him for eating beef. Sooraj had not consumed beef at a "beef ...