More than ₹1 Lakh Crore funds allocated for Rural Areas
The 15th Finance Commission has tied grants of ₹1,42,084 crore to ensure more funds to gram panchayats to …
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Centre launched e-SHRAM portal for unorganised sector workers
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the e-SHRAM portal, a national database for workers of unorganised sector. The …
NTPC announced recruitment of an all-Female Engineers batch
NTPC Ltd has recruited its first all-Female Engineering Executive Trainees (EETs) batch to reaffirm its stand on diversity …
Women’s Equality Day 2021
Women’s Equality Day is celebrated on 26 August each year in the United States to mark the American …
India to evacuate around 180 people from Afghanistan
India is expected to bring back around 180 people from Kabul in a military aircraft amid a scramble …
New portal launched to facilitate geospatial planning of MGNREGA assets
The government launched a new geospatial planning portal, ‘Yuktdhara’, which Union Minister Jitendra Singh said will help in …
Which countries are taking in Afghan refugees?
The Taliban’s takeover of Kabul on August 15 prompted hundreds of Afghans to rush to the Hamid Karzai …
Elopements most prosecuted under child marriage law
Legal proceedings against child marriages are commonly undertaken against elopements whereas forced child marriages often go unpunished, finds …
Hazaras of Afghanistan are vulnerable under Taliban
Taliban militants in Afghanistan have vandalised and blown up a statue of Shiite militia leader Abdul Ali Mazari …
58,000 child labour rescued in 2020-21
Over 58,000 children were rescued across India from work, rehabilitated and mainstreamed under the National Child Labour Project …
