Supreme Court asks govt consider making law to regulate NGOs, their fundsOn January 10, the apex court had asked the Centre to place before it the "guidelines/rules, which will be implemented for accredition of V...
Make a law to regulate NGOs, disbursal of funds: SC to CentreThe Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (CAPART) said initially it had blacklisted 718 NGOs for not following t...
Supreme Court pulls up Centre for no mechanism to monitor NGO fundsThe bench asked the officials to inform it whether CAG audit of NGOs post 2009 was carried out or not.
ITPO taking steps to facilitate cashless transactions at IITFPaytm and Freecharge are also making arrangements to facilitate cashless transactions at the fair through digital wallets, it added.
Centre appoints 8 new Joint Secretaries including 3 IAS and 5 officers belonging to other servicesManoj Pant, an Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer of 1986 batch, has been appointed as JS in Department of Health Research.
Siraj Hussain takes charge as new Agriculture SecretaryAshok Kumar Angurana, an IAS officer of the 1980 batch of Jammu and Kashmir Cadre, succeeded Anup Kumar Thakur who retired on February 28.
Narendra Modi government to soon revive CAPARTThe innovators will be classified into three categories - scalable solutions, social enterprises and grassroot innovators – to develop tool...
Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation set up by UPA under government scannerThe foundation was created to replace scandal-hit CAPART a major promoter of rural development in India.
NGOs under SC scanner, CBI directed to file report on themNGOs getting government aid have come under judicial scrutiny with the Supreme Court asking the CBI to provide details about such organisat...
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