Skill development seeking special support
The skill development with its poor employment generation being a major concern is keen to have adequate allocation from the Budget.
Rajasthan gives 1% quota to Most Backward Classes
The government in Rajasthan has issued orders for granting 1% reservation to the Most Backward Classes, comprising Gujjars and four other nomadic communities, within the 50% ceiling mandated by the Supreme Court.
CJI recommends impeachment of Allahabad High Court judge Shri Narayan Shukla
Chief Justice of India (CJI) recommended the impeachment of Justice Shri Narayan Shukla, the eighth senior-most judge of the Allahabad High Court, following an adverse report about him by an in-house panel set up by the CJI.
India’s spending on science below economic capacity
India currently spends far below its economic capacity on research, according to a chapter in the Economic Survey.
A morale booster for women army officers.
In a morale booster for women Army officers, the DefenceMinistry withdrew its appeals against a 2012 Armed Forces Tribunal decision setting aside denial of promotions and benefits to Short Service and Women Commissioned Officers commissioned before 2006.
Economic Survey out : Economy is set to grow 7-7.5%
The pre-Budget Economic Survey tabled in parliament predicts that India’s GDP growth will accelerate from 6.75% this year to 7-7.5% in 2019.
‘Climate change may hit farm income’
The Economic Survey 2017-18, said farmer income losses from climate change could be between 15% and 18% on an average, rising to anywhere between 20%-25% in unirrigated areas of the country.
President for simultaneous LS, Assembly elections
In his hour-long, maiden address to a joint sitting of Parliament President Ram Nath Kovind covered the entire range of issues concerning governance, including pitching for simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
Centre seeks to complete Darjeeling drawdown
The Union government told the Supreme Court that it wants to withdraw the last four companies of Central paramilitary forces from Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts in West Bengal for deployment in the three poll-bound northeastern States.
Rain in western hemisphere linked to currents in the Atlantic Ocean: Study.
Changes in ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean influence rainfall in the western hemisphere and the two systems have been linked for thousands of years, the study by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin suggests.