India’s fastest train Gatimaan Express has been extended up to Bundelkhand Region with effect from 1st April 2018. Government has notified that the Train no 12049/50 Nizammuddin-Agra Cantt Gatimaan Exp. has been extended upto Gwalior/Jhansi for facilitating passengers. The extension of this prestigious premium train will facilitate movement of tourists to various tourist attractions in and around […]
Based on Census figures, all India Scheduled Tribe (ST) literacy rate has increased from 47.1% in 2001 to 59.0% in 2011. ST literacy rate is lower by about 14 percentage points as compared to overall literacy rate (73%) in 2011. However, this gap has narrowed from 22.6 percentage points in 1991 and 17.7 percentage points […]
Tobias Thyberg is the ambassador of Sweden to Afghanistan and in one of his tweets, he hailed Mughal emperor Babur. He tweeted a picture showing this Mughal emperor in his capital Kabul “commanding that all religions and beliefs will be respected throughout his Mughal Empire.” Read more: Shashi Tharoor’s surprising take on ‘Hindu genocide’ When people started […]
Dhahi Khalfan, the Lieutenant General and Head Of General Security in Dubai, is one tough man when to comes to law-breaking Pakistanis. The tweets reflect a growing anger at the advent of drugs in Dubai as Khalfan tweeted all this right after the Dubai authorities apprehended a group of Pakistanis who were trying to smuggle […]
In response to an United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Flash Appeal, the Government of India has increased its annual contribution for UNRWA from US$ 1.25 million to US$ 5 million from 2018-19 for three years. India made this announcement of this substantive increase of annual contribution […]
In response to media queries on the missile attacks in Saudi Arabia, the Official Spokesperson said : ”We strongly condemn the renewed missile attacks targeting civilian areas in the direction of Riyadh and other cities of Saudi Arabia. We are deeply concerned about the escalating situation threatening the lives of innocent civilians. We reiterate our […]
The 15th meeting of the India-US Counterterrorism Joint Working Group was held in New Delhi on March 27, 2018. Led by Ministry of External Affairs Joint Secretary Mahaveer Singhvi and the State Department’s Principal Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Alina L. Romanowski, the Indian and the U.S. delegations achieved important progress on counterterrorism cooperation between the […]
E-Cigarettes have found much favour with the current generation in India. But should we be getting addicted to it? No. Not yet. The Minister of State (Health and Family Welfare), Anupriya Patel stated this about the E-Cigarettes in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on 27th March 2018: As per a report prepared by […]
The National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS) 2017-18, conducted by an Independent Verification Agency (IVA) under the World Bank support project to the Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM-G), has found that 93.4% of the households in rural India who have access to a toilet use it. The NARSS also re-confirmed the Open Defecation Free (ODF) […]
