After a coronavirus pandemic-induced hiatus of over two years, regular international flights are set to resume from Sunday with airports and airlines getting ready for normal overseas operations.Battered by the pandemic, the airline industry is slowly coming back to normalcy and the resumption of normal overseas flights is expected to provide a fillip to the […]
The Narendra Modi government on Saturday extended the Pradhanmantri Garib Kalyan Yojana, the scheme to provide free food grains by another six months. The decision was taken in the cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Modi. “In keeping with the concern and sensitivity towards poor and vulnerable sections of society, the Union Cabinet chaired by […]
In a path breaking initiative aimed at safeguarding the interests of farmers, the Punjab Chief Minister Mr Bhagwant Mann today announced that in future farmers incurring any loss from a natural disaster would be duly compensated prior to completion of assessment (Girdawari). Addressing a gathering during function organised to distribute compensation farmers who have lost […]
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a surprise video appearance on Saturday at Qatar’s Doha Forum, calling on the energy-rich nation and others to increase their output of energy “so everyone in Russia understands that no one can use energy as blackmail”. Zelenskyy’s call is significant as Qatar is a world leader in the export of […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend a virtual summit of the seven-nation BIMSTEC grouping on March 30, which is expected to focus on expanding economic engagement among its member countries. The summit is being hosted by Sri Lanka in its capacity as the chair of the BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and […]
In the first major decision of the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, the state cabinet on Saturday decided to extend the free ration scheme initiated during the Covid pandemic by three more months. The programme was supposed to expire in March.A total of 15 crore people are benefiting from the programme in the state, […]
A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) reached Bogtui village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Saturday and started its investigation into the violence that claimed eight lives earlier this week. Unidentified people had on March 21 set 10 houses on fire in the village, killing at least eight people, including women and […]
A portal, modistory.in, has been launched to bring together “inspiring” stories related to Prime Minister Narendra Modi from those who have interacted with him during his life journey over the decades. “Announcing the launch of MODI STORY, a volunteer driven initiative to bring together inspiring moments from Narendra Modi’s life, as narrated by his co-travellers.Inaugurated […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that India is honoured to be home to World Health Organization’s Global Centre for Traditional Medicine. A day earlier, the ministry of Ayush signed an agreement with the UN health agency for the establishment of the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in India at Jamnagar, Gujarat. Its […]