Bhupender Yadav, Union minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, made the announcement in New Delhi. File Union Cabinet approved three new cooperative societies, Union minister Bhupender Yadav said during the Cabinet Briefing held in New Delhi. These societies will focus on exports, seed availability, and organic farming to benefit farmers. The meeting of the Cabinet Committee … Read more
Union Minister Bhupendra Yodav announced that the Union Cabinet approved Rs2,600 crore to encourage payments using RuPay and the Unified Payments Interface. In a press release, the Cabinet stated that banks will receive this incentive money in order to promote digital payments. Due to the inability of banks to receive a Merchant Discount Rate, (MDR) — … Read more
Metropolitan Magistrate Komal Garg made the reservation on Shankar Mishra’s bail application. File Shankar Mishra the man accused of urinating upon an elderly female passenger on an Air India Flight told a Delhi Court on January 11 that his act wasn’t motivated by sexual desire or aimed to upset the complainant’s modesty. The counsel for the complainant, who … Read more
Students of Visva Bharati University participated in a protest rally in solidarity with suspended student, at Santiniketan (Birbhum) on Wednesday night, January 4, 20,23. Students have been protesting at the campus since November in protest against the denial of hostel accommodation to six of their peers. Photo credit: PTI Over 250 academics including Noam Chomsky the linguist … Read more
Representational image from a statue of founder of Bhartiya Jana Sangh, Syama Prasad Mookerjee. Photo credit: A. M. Faruqui The government announced Wednesday that the National Centre for Drinking Water, Sanitation and Quality has been renamed Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee National Institution of Water and Sanitation in Kolkata. The Union Cabinet approved the proposal to … Read more
Pradhanmantri Garib Kalyanya (PMGKY), New Delhi: A worker distributes ration to the needy. Photo Credit: PTI The Pradhan Mantri Karib Kalyan Ann Yojana is the Central Government’s integrated food safety scheme. This program provides free foodgrains for more than 80 percent of the poor starting January 1. This move comes amid criticism from the Opposition over the government … Read more
This road is still not in its final stages of construction by the BRO. Click image to see representation. The Mizoram government wrote to the Centre stating that a strategic road project was cancelled because funds are no longer available. It was planned to counter the Chinese-funded double lane highway in Myanmar. The Border Roads Organisation, … Read more
Prince Harry revealed to Meghan Markle that he warned her not to take a photograph in front of the Taj Mahal while she was on her India trip. This is to prevent speculation that Meghan was copying his mother. According to Daily Mail, the Duke of Sussex revealed this in his memoir Spare. The memoir states … Read more
Donald Trump’s longtime real estate executive Allen Weisselberg was convicted of tax fraud by the testimony of his former employee. The sentence will be handed down on January 10, for avoiding taxes on $1.7m in job perks. Juan Manuel Merchan of New York is expected to sentence Mr. Weisselberg – a former Chief Financial Officer … Read more
Ranil Wickremesinghe, President of Sri Lanka, has directed his Ministries to trim 5% from their estimates of expenditure in the Budget for this year. The Treasury of Sri Lanka was facing an acute lack of funds. This raises fears that the cash strapped country’s financial crisis might be worse than anticipated. Sri Lanka is experiencing its worst economic … Read more