Malware equipped with data stealing capabilities reported targeting Android mobile devices: DhotreDhotre said the government has taken a number of measures to check malicious apps and enable users to protect their mobile phones, includin...
17 Sep, 2020, 06.56 PM IST
Shun single use plastic, says PM; launches programme to vaccinate 500 mn livestockWith 100 per cent funding from the Centre of Rs 12,652 crore for a period of five years till 2024, NADCP aims at vaccinating over 500 Milli...
11 Sep, 2019, 02.12 PM IST
Government releases Rs 400 crore for forward areas along international bordersThe BADP schemes include construction of primary health centres, schools, supply of drinking water, community centres, connectivity, draina...
03 Sep, 2018, 02.24 PM IST
Government finds 86% Gandhi chairs non-operationalMahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha , V C Girishwar Mishra told ET that the biggest challenge was to make Gandhian ...
09 Jul, 2018, 07.13 AM IST
25% of swachh cess hasn’t reached dedicated fundCAG said Rs 12,400 crore, around 75% of total collections, was transferred to the RSK and used for identified schemes in the last two years.
27 Dec, 2017, 10.40 AM IST
Corporates, individuals donate over Rs 666 cr in swachhta fund since 2014: GovernmentMoS for Drinking Water and Sanitation informed about the CSR funds the government has received to achieve the objectives of Swachh Bharat M...
21 Dec, 2017, 04.15 PM IST
Fake notes: ICICI Bank says probing the matterICICI Bank spokesperson said it has installed state-of-the-art note sorting machines that check the quality of millions of notes every day.
27 Feb, 2017, 03.34 PM IST
Government looks to educate 1 crore rural citizens on e-payments“We aim to create 1 crore people digitally literate on e-payments, and in a matter of 3-4 days, the government can touch this figure in rur...
23 Dec, 2016, 12.46 AM IST
All ministries to get Swachh Bharat funds in Budget 2017-18The drinking water ministry is revamping the National Rural Drinking Water Programme to upgrade the scheme and increase its reach.
08 Nov, 2016, 01.29 AM IST
- Agriculture ministry to assist 'mandis' for setting up waste management plants
As part of the Centre’s cleanliness mission, the agriculture ministry has decided to provide Rs 10 lakh each to 585 ‘mandis’ (wholesale agr...
02 Nov, 2016, 09.41 PM IST
Private firms build less than 1% of toilets in schools under Swachh Bharat AbhiyanThe National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) had carried out the first survey since the initiation of the mission in 2014.
21 Apr, 2016, 06.04 AM IST
Centre may impose cess on petrol, diesel, telecom services to fund PM Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat AbhiyanThe government may issue Swachh Bharat bonds and impose a cess on automobile fuels, telecom services and mineral waste to fund PM Modi’s pe...
15 Oct, 2015, 10.12 AM IST
Chief Ministers' panel bats for fuel cess to fund Swachh BharatPetrol and diesel as well as telephony services may cost more if the government accepts recommendations of a panel of Chief Ministers to le...
15 Oct, 2015, 10.12 AM IST
Modi government may levy cess on petrol, diesel and telecom services to fund Swachh BharatGroup of chief ministers, headed by Chandrababu Naidu, submitted a detailed report to PM Modi on Wednesday dovetailing the ways to mobilise...
15 Oct, 2015, 10.11 AM IST
PM Modi meets Bhagwad Gita contest winner Maryam Asif SiddiquiPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met Maryam Asif Siddiqui, a 12-year-student from Maharashtra, who had won the Bhagwad Gita Champio...
18 Jun, 2015, 04.26 PM IST
Reduction in health budget just rumours: J P NaddaThe health minister said the aim is to work in cooperation with states and make healthcare accessible to all.
03 Jun, 2015, 10.33 AM IST
'Swachh Bharat': PM Modi ropes in nine people including Tendulkar, Salman Khan, Baba Ramdev"I have invited 9 people and asked them to come to public places and work towards a Clean India. I urge them to invite nine more people," M...
02 Oct, 2014, 02.20 PM IST