The record for the world’s worst traffic jam belongs to Beijing’s gridlock. For 12 days in August 2010, cars could not escape 62 miles of freeway. This example,

NITI Aayog launched the Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP), on the occasion of International Women’s Day, today. The initiative is aimed at building an ecosystem for women across India

India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated Tuesday the new building of the Central Information Commission (CIC) in New Delhi. He noted that the building had been completed before

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) kick-offed on Thursday a new effort to collect comprehensive global data on disaster losses. “It is impossible to prevent

As they are extremely inefficient and illiterate, Indian politicians and bureaucrats do not take decisions to resolve public problems. They keep rotating written public complaints from one desk

A nation-wide roll-out is planned for India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) under its expansion programme. According to an official statement released today, it is scheduled to begin in

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Remote Gram Panchayat Hamira in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan will soon have access to telemedicine and e-education facilities, riding on BharatNet infrastructure, according to Ms Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary,