June 2020

Assam to provide functional tap connections to 13 lakh rural households

Assam to provide functional tap connections to 13 lakh rural households

Centre has approved Rs 1407 Crore for 2020-21 under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM). In 2020-21, State plans to provide tap connections to 13 lakh households out of total 63 lakhs.  Achieving the target of Jal Jeevan Mission in Assam is not difficult because of the abundant water resources in the State, which is both groundwater […]

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Pradip Kumar Tripathi Assumes Charge as Secretary in Ministry of Steel

Pradip Kumar Tripathi Assumes Charge as Secretary in Ministry of Steel

Shri Pradip Kumar Tripathi, IAS has taken over as Secretary, Ministry of Steel, Govt. of India. Prior to this, Shri Tripathihad been posted as Special Secretary and Establishment officer in Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). Binoy Kumar is a 1983 batch officer who had taken over as Secretary, Ministry of Steel on 1 September

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Trojan Asteroid spotted near Jupiter's Orbit for the first time

Trojan Asteroid spotted near Jupiter’s Orbit for the first time

Scientists have discovered a rare kind of space object which is described as something between an asteroid and a comet. The object has been called an active asteroid. The celestial body was first noticed by the astronomers in June 2019 when the University of Hawaii’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected a faint new

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