Major Achievements in respect of Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs for the year 2015 YEAR-END REVIEW 2015 The 13th Edition of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention was held successfully at Mahatma Mandir Convention Centre, Gandhinagar, Gujarat from 7 – 9 January, 2015. This year’s PBD was special being the […]
Read MoreWhy it’s imperative for Parliament to move into a new building While the structure has aged, the number of Lok Sabha seats is likely to increase after 2026 The 88-year-old Parliament House (or Sansad Bhavan in Hindi) may well move to a new building, if a proposal by Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Sunday […]
Read More“Saral Avedan, Sugam Prakriya, Swachh Prashasan” key to Good Governance initiatives of Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions has said the government is dedicated to service of the people of India in a true sense. Addressing a Press Conference here today […]
Read MoreParliament passes the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill 2015 with the passage of the bill in the Rajya Sabha today The Rajya Sabha passed the landmark Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Bill 2015 today. With this, the Bill stands passed in the Parliament. The Bill was earlier passed by the […]
Read MoreIndia, world’s top arms importer, reworks policy to make weapons at home The procurement policy, reviewed about every two years, is due to be published soon, defence minister Manohar Parrikar said recently India’s first defence procurement policy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to bolster domestic arms manufacturing in the world’s biggest importer of […]
Read MoreEnd the political siege on reforms It may sound impossible to reach a consensus, but just remember that politics is the art of the impossible Last Friday, Supreme Court judge A.K. Sikri weighed in on the eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), something that has caused legislative paralysis for the […]
Read MoreThe limits of control in Parliament India’s opposition has little procedural room to do anything other than exactly what it is doing now The current intransigence in the Rajya Sabha over the goods and services tax (GST) and other legislation is the latest and most extreme version of the unconstructive opposition that has plagued India’s […]
Read MoreHuman Development Report 2015: Work for Human Development the launch of the 2015 Human Development Report UNDP expresses its profound gratitude to Ethiopia for hosting this launch, and for His Excellency the Prime Minister’s presence here with us today to give the keynote speech and launch the report. There can be no doubt that history […]
Read MoreIndia inches up one spot to 130 in UN human development index Inequality, particularly in education, has contributed to India’s poor ranking in the human development index, the report said India climbed one spot to 130 in the latest United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), indicating slow progress in improving people’s living standards in Asia’s […]
Read MoreIn March this year, Rajasthan became the first state to insist that candidates for the panchayat polls meet minimum educational qualifications—Class VIII for sarpanches, Class X for the zila parishad and panchayati samiti elections and Class V in tribal reserved areas. Oh, and one more thing, you had to have a functional toilet at home. […]
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