No change of guard ceremony Allow a new group of President’s Bodyguards take over?

File photo of the Change of Guard ceremony in the Rashtrapati Bhavan’s forecourt, New Delhi. Photo credit: Shanker Chakravarty Officials have stated that there will be no change in guard ceremony between January 14th and 28 because of rehearsals for Republic Day parade and Beating Retreat ceremonies. The weekly ceremony of the changing of guard, … Read more

Union Cabinet approves formation Took three major decisions in the area of cooperatives?

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 Cabinet clears User-friendly digital payment solutions?

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

Air India midair urination case the complainant tried to contact him?

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

Visva Bharati professor sacking professor Sudipta Bhattacharya’s service?

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

Cabinet nod to rename national institute A suitable infrastructure was therefore developed?

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

Free foodgrains distribution They will nhis year?ow get it free of charge this year?

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

Key road project near Myanmar faces cancellation sanction from the Government of China?

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