Blue Revolution? Yes, you heard it right! Recognizing the potential and possibilities in the fisheries sector, Government of India has started a program named ‘’Blue Revolution’’ to unlock the country’s latent potential through an integrated approach. The Blue Revolution, in its scope and reach, focuses on creating an enabling environment for an integrated and holistic […]
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Death of Nepali national at the Indo-Nepal border aggrieves Nepal, probe ordered
Following reports of the death of a Nepali national yesterday at the India-Nepal border, allegedly in a firing incident, the Sashastra Seema Bal has initiated an inquiry on this matter. The Government of Nepal is being requested through diplomatic channels to share post-mortem and forensic reports to facilitate the process. Indian government has said that […]
Overwhelming percentage of Indians stand up for gender equality
India has often been compared with the nations with the worst record on gender equality where a lot of focus is on the ‘patriarchy’ but this report by Pew research proves that an overwhelming percentage of Indians stand for equal rights! In fact, after Australia, it is India where a 71% of total respondent voted for […]
Uma Bharti: Need to make people aware about negative impact of Arsenic
Union Minister of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti has underlined the need to make people aware about the negative impact of Arsenic in Ganga basin area. Addressing a workshop on Arsenic problem in ground water and its remediation in Ganga Basin organized by Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) in New Delhi […]
Shashi Tharoor’s surprising take on ‘Hindu genocide’
Did Hindu genocide take place? That has been a topic of much discussion with the majority of Indian historians denying that such a calamity ever befell the Hindus. In fact, the toast of the season Shashi Tharoor is also one of the people who believe that Hindu genocide did not take place. Shashi Tharoor was being […]
Ban on Exit Polls during State assembly elections
The Election Commission had notified the period of prohibition of conduct of Exit Polls for on-going State legislative assembly elections of Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh vide Notification dated: 27th January, 2017. The period notified was from 7.00A.M on 04/02/2017 to 17.30 Hours (5.30 PM) on 8/3/2017. Due to death of contesting candidates, namely, […]
JNU sees anti-India poster surface again
JNU ( Jawaharlal Nehru University) has become a hub of all controversies in recent times. Now an anti-India poster has resurfaced again and the Facebook page of Democratic Students’ Union and the group is angry that the poster has been removed. In a Facebook post, it described the removal as having being done because of RSS and […]
India successfully test fires AAD Endo-Atmospheric Interceptor Missile
India today successfully test fires AAD Endo-Atmospheric Interceptor Missile. DRDO conducted the successful launch of the interceptor missile Advanced Area Defence (AAD) at 1015 hrs today from Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha. The endo-atmospheric missile, capable of intercepting incoming targets at an altitude of 15 to 25 kms successfully destroyed the incoming missile. All the mission […]
India signs Financing Agreement with World Bank for US$ 63 Million for Tejaswini!
A Financing Agreement for IDA credit of US$ 63 million (equivalent) for the ” Tejaswini Socio-Economic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women Project ” was signed in New Delhi with the World Bank on 23rd February, 2017. The Financing Agreement was signed by Raj Kumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance on […]
Randeep Hooda speaks up on trolling Kargil martyr’s daughter!
Randeep Hooda has spoken out against the way he has been accused of belittling daughter of an Indian soldier who attained martyrdom during Kargil operation. It all began with this tweet of Sehwag in which he pointed to a flaw in the reasoning of Gurmehar Kaur: Bat me hai Dum !#BharatJaisiJagahNahi pic.twitter.com/BNaO1LBHLH — Virender Sehwag (@virendersehwag) February […]