No ministers represent Tamil Nadu in the new Union Ministry: Data

No ministers represent Tamil Nadu in the new Union Ministry: Data

President Droupadi Murmu hosted a dinner in honour of the Union Council of Ministers, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Monday | Photo Credit: ANI Tamil Nadu is the only major State that does not have an MP in the Union Ministry in the present term. The State … Read more

Health ministry, NBE review exam process 2 days after NEET-PG postponement

Health ministry, NBE review exam process 2 days after NEET-PG postponement

Top officials from the Union health ministry and the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences on Monday reviewed the process of the NEET-PG exam, two days after the entrance examination to postgraduate medical courses was postponed. The National Eligibility Entrance Test (Postgraduate) entrance examination is conducted by the National Board of Examinations in Medical … Read more

Five from Karnataka, including Kumaraswamy and Nirmala, make it to Union Ministry

Five from Karnataka, including Kumaraswamy and Nirmala, make it to Union Ministry

JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy taking oath as Minister at the swearing-in ceremony of new Union government, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Sunday. | Photo Credit: PTI As many as five Members of Parliament, including Janata Dal (Secular) State president and former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and the former Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, … Read more

Defence Ministry places tender to purchase 97 additional Tejas Mk-1A fighters

Defence Ministry places tender to purchase 97 additional Tejas Mk-1A fighters

The Defence Ministry on Friday issued a tender to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) for the acquisition of as many as 97 additional Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas Mark-1A fighter jets, senior officials told India Today TV. The HAL will have three months to respond to the Defence Ministry’s tender, they added. The tender to buy … Read more

Arvind Kejriwal entitled to fair and impartial trial, says German Foreign Ministry

Arvind Kejriwal entitled to fair and impartial trial, says German Foreign Ministry

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal in Rouse Avenue Court after he has been sent to ED custody till March 28 by the court. | Photo Credit: ANI Germany on Friday became the first major global power to remind that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate … Read more

Defence Ministry signs ₹200 crore contract for anti-drone systems under iDEX initiative

Defence Ministry signs ₹200 crore contract for anti-drone systems under iDEX initiative

Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: R. V. Moorthy The Ministry of Defence has signed a ₹200 crore contract for anti-drone systems for the Indian Army and Indian Air Force (IAF) with Big Bang Boom Solutions Private Limited (BBBS). This is the largest contract signed by the MoD under the Innovations for … Read more

Culture Ministry tableau traces history of democracy in India

Culture Ministry tableau traces history of democracy in India

A tableau of the Ministry of Culture passes through the Kartavya Path during the 75th Republic ­Day Parade in New Delhi on January 26, 2024. | Photo Credit: ANI The Ministry of Culture tableau on Republic Day depicted the history of democracy from ancient India to current times using advanced 3-D electronic depiction technology. The … Read more

Science Ministry announces first recipients of ‘Vaibhav’ fellows

Science Ministry announces first recipients of ‘Vaibhav’ fellows

Union Minister Jitendra Singh said the ‘Vaibhav’ fellowship was “open-ended”. File | Photo Credit: Nissar Ahmad The Department of Science and Technology (DST) announced the first batch of ‘Vaibhav’ fellows – a scheme meant to attract Indian-origin scientists based abroad for short-term collaboration – at a function on Tuesday. Twenty-two scientists, mostly based at North … Read more

Roadmap for 2047 should include an average growth of 7% to 7.5%, says senior Finance Ministry official

Roadmap for 2047 should include an average growth of 7% to 7.5%, says senior Finance Ministry official

Vivek Joshi, Secretary, Department of Financial Services, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: KAMAL NARANG The roadmap for 2047, includes an average growth of 7% to 7.5%; rise of domestic savings to 31% of GDP; rise in credit-to-GDP ratio to 130% among others, said Vivek Joshi, Secretary, Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance on … Read more

Morning Digest | Finance Ministry says wrong to assess economic activity on GDP alone, number of Nipah virus cases rises to six in Kozhikode, and more

Morning Digest | Finance Ministry says wrong to assess economic activity on GDP alone, number of Nipah virus cases rises to six in Kozhikode, and more

Nipah outbreak | Number of cases rises to six in Kozhikode One more person tested positive for the Nipah infection in Kozhikode district of Kerala on Friday, taking the total number of infected persons to six now. Meanwhile, lab tests have proved that E. Mohammedali, the first patient who died on August 30, too was … Read more