About 94% of total Broad Gauge Network of the Indian Railways has been electrified, Ministry of Railways has stated. “At present, 61,813 route km on BG network has been electrified, which is about 94% of the total network,” a spokesperson from the Railways Ministry stated. The figure shared is the work completed until December last … Read more
Minister of Road Transport and Bridges Obaidul Quader argued that the government of Sheikh Hasina has worked to break the “wall of doubt and mistrust” that existed between India and Bangladesh for many years. File | Photo Credit: AFP India stood by Bangladesh’s election process when the Opposition tried to cancel the polling, said one … Read more
Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre | Photo Credit: File photo Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre said that forest encroachment clearance will focus on big-time encroachers who have illegally occupied tens of hectares of forests across Karnataka. Addressing members of the Federation of Karnataka Farmers in Mysuru, the Minister said that farmers, who have encroached up to 3 … Read more
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar meets with his Bangladesh counterpart Mohammed Hasan Mahmud in Kampala, Uganda on Saturday. | Photo Credit: ANI External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Saturday met newly-appointed Bangladesh Foreign Minister Mohammed Hasan Mahmud in Uganda’s capital Kampala and hailed the bilateral relations, which are “growing from strength to strength”. Mr. Jaishankar … Read more
Telangana IT and Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu; Principal Secretary of the department Jayesh Ranjan; Investment and Promotion Special Secretary Vishnuvardan Reddy at a meeting with with industrial bodies in Hyderabad. | Photo Credit: File Photo | By Arrangement Industries and IT Minister D. Sridhar Babu will make a stopover at Jeddah while returning from … Read more
Minister for Industries, Investment Promotion and Commerce T.R.B. Rajaa. | Photo Credit: BIJOY GHOSH A delegation led by Tamil Nadu’s Minister for Industries, Investment Promotion and Commerce T.R.B. Rajaa will attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) to be held at Davos, Switzerland. The delegation will showcase Tamil Nadu as the ideal global investment destination, share … Read more
Various technologies developed and promoted by ICAR – Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) have had a great impact on tribal areas in many States, noted Arjun Munda, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare during his maiden visit to IIHR on Sunday. He said that eight major technologies from the institute were selected and … Read more
Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Rupala Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Rupala on Saturday assured construction of fishing jetty on a permanent basis at Chintapalli village of Pusapatirega mandal in Vizianagaram district to benefit thousands of fishermen. As part of Sagar Parikrama programme, he visited Chintapalli and … Read more
A cultural procession heralding the beginning of ‘Poopoli – 2024’, an international flower show and agri-fest being organised jointly by the Kerala Agricultural University and the Department of Agriculture Development and Farmers’ Welfare enters the Poopoli ground of the Regional Agricultural Research Station at Ambalavayal in Wayanad on January 1. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT … Read more
Minister for Revenue and Disaster Management K.K.S.S.R. Ramachandran on Saturday said instructions had been issued to Collectors to take precautionary measures in the wake of forecast of heavy rain in the southern districts on January 1 and 2. In a statement, he said that in the last 24 hours, till 8.30 a.m. on December 30, … Read more