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PM launches key initiatives for welfare of Janjatiya community

PM launches key initiatives for the welfare of Janjatiya community

The Prime Minister has launched multiple key initiatives for the welfare of the Janjatiya (Tribal) community at Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas Mahasammelan. He also launched ‘Ration Aapke Gram’ scheme and Sickle Cell Mission in Madhya Pradesh. The mission has been developed to screen and manage patients suffering from sickle cell anaemia, Thalassemia and other Hemoglobinopathies and to increase public […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates Purvanchal Expressway at KarwalKheri in Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 16, 2021, inaugurated the 341-km Purvanchal Expressway at KarwalKheri in Sultanpur district of Uttar Pradesh after landing on the highway airstrip in an IAF C-130 Hercules plane. It will connect Lucknow with Ghazipur. The 341-km long Purvanchal Express has been constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 22,500 crore. The Expressway starts

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Hardeep Singh Puri unveils statue of Maharani Lakshmi Bai in Hisar college

Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs & Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep S. Puri has unveiled the statue of Rani Lakshmi Bai at the Maharani Lakshmi Bai college for Women, Bhiwani Rohilla in Hisar (Haryana) through video conferencing. Describing Rani Lakshmi Bai as a prominent symbol of rebellion against the suppression of the British Raj, the Minister said that her life has

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India’s first National Yogasana Sports Championships organized in Bhubaneswar

Odisha which has rightly earned accolades for encouraging and supporting various sports in India is hosting the first-ever Physical National Yogasana Sports Championships in Bhubaneswar. Organized by the National Yogasana Sports Federation (NYSF) in association with the Government of Odisha from 11th to 13th November 2021, the competition is a stepping stone in the direction

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Nykaa CEO Falguni Nayar becomes India’s richest self-made woman

Beauty startup Nykaa’s founder Falguni Nayar has become India’s wealthiest self-made female billionaire, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as shares made a strong stock market debut. She founded Nykaa in the year 2012. She holds a 53.5% stake in Nykaa and has a net worth of USD 7.48 billion. This comes after the IPO of

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DARPG organizes regional conference on Public Administration

Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) in collaboration with the Govt of Uttar Pradesh is organizing a Regional Conference on the theme ‘Strengthening the State Institutes of Public Administration’ in a semi-virtual mode. It will be held 11-12 November 2021 at Lucknow. Aim: to bring national and state-level training institutes on the same platform to share emerging requirements in

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Govt to conduct National Achievement Survey (NAS)

Govt to conduct the National Achievement Survey (NAS) on Friday (12th November) across the country. Union Govt has been implementing the rolling programme of sample-based NAS aimed at Classes III, V, VIII, and X with a cycle period of 3 years. The last National Achievement Survey (NAS) was held on 13 November 2017 for assessing the competencies

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Department of Justice launches ‘Tele-Law on Wheels’ Campaign

Joining the country-wide celebrations of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, the Department of Justice kicked off the week-long “Tele-Law on Wheels” campaign from 8th to 14th November 2021. As part of this campaign, a series of activities are being undertaken to empower people through pre-litigation advice for rightfully claiming their entitlements and for timely redressal of their difficulties.

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India’s first rooftop drive-in theatre launched in Mumbai

The first open air rooftop drive-in movie theatre in India has been inaugurated at Jio World Drive mall of Reliance Industries in Mumbai, Maharashtra on November 05, 2021. The drive-in theatre will be operated and managed by the multiplex chain PVR Ltd. The theatre has been launched in partnership with the Reliance Retail and multiplex

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PM Narendra Modi Unveils Shri Adi Shankaracharya Samadhi and Statue in Kedarnath

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi visited Kedarnath in Uttarakhand on Friday, November 05, 2021 to inaugurate key infrastructure projects related to the redevelopment of Kedarnath. He was addressing a large gathering of teerth-purohits and devotees at the Kedarnath temple after unveiling a 12-foot statue of Adi Guru Shankaracharya at the seer’s rebuilt samadhi. The Prime Minister also

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