India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Border Area Development Programme (BADP) is implemented in villages/towns situated within 0-10 Kms. (crow fly aerial distance) from the first habitation at international border (IB), in 16 States & 2 UTs. The main objective of BADP is to meet the special development needs and well-being of people living in the coverage area and to provide essential infrastructure viz.  infrastructure  related  to health,  educa...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Union Minister of Coal and Mines Shri G. Kishan Reddy chaired the 7th Governing Body meeting of the National Mineral Exploration & Development Trust (NMEDT), held at GPOA-3, Netaji Nagar, New Delhi, in the august presence of Minister of State for the Department of Atomic Energy, Dr. Jitendra Singh the performance of NMEDT for FY 2025-26 was reviewed in detail. Union Minister Shri G. Kishan Reddy emphasized that NMEDT must place a...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD) under Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 has developed Facial Recognition System (FRS) in Poshan Tracker Application. For last mile tracking of Take-Home Ration distribution and to ensure that benefit is given only to the intended beneficiary registered in the application. The Aadhaar based tracking has also enabled proper identification of beneficiaries, prevention of leak...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has taken serious note of hotels and restaurants levying additional charges such as "LPG charges", "gas surcharge" and "fuel cost recovery" in consumer bills, terming the practice an unfair trade practice under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019. Observing that such charges are being imposed by default to circumvent existing guidelines on service charges, the Authority has issued a f...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Ministry of Cooperation is committed to empowering cooperatives as instruments of employment generation, social security, and grassroots economic participation. Bharat Taxi is envisaged as a transformative intervention in the mobility sector by placing drivers-referred to as Sarathis-at the centre of ownership, governance, and value creation, thereby offering a sustainable and dignified alternative to aggregator-driven models....
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Financial Year Complaints Registered Complaints Disposed of 2025-26 389 336 2024-25 292 260 2023-24 166 161 2022-23 320 316 2021-22 149 147 (As on 28.02.2026) The details of the number of complaints registered before Lokpal and disposed of by the Lokpal are stated below:- The year-wise details of complaints registered and disposed of are available in the public domain through dedicated website of the Lokpal. T...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Department of Telecommunications announced and implemented Satellite Communication Reforms-2022 to facilitate the ease-of-doing business, streamlining a number of processes and rationalizing various charges. Also, the Space Sector reforms announced in 2020, enable larger participation of Non-Government Entities (NGEs) for building/leasing, owning and operating the satellite systems for providing satellite-based services. The Gove...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: S. No. States Cuisine Items 1. Odisha Dalma, Chenna Poda 2. Tamil Nadu Set Dosai, Palakatti Chettinad 3. Karnataka Medu Vada 4 Rajasthan Pyaz Kachori 5 Maharashtra Vada Pav 6 West Bengal Machher Jhol 7 Gujarat Thepla 8 Jharkhand Singara, Fuluri, Aloo Chokha, Aloo Parwal 9 Madhya Pradesh Kanda Poha, Indori Poha, Sev Tamatar Sabji, Ajwain Paratha, Ragi Bhakhri, Patra Bhagar, Khoya Chicken, Ragi Thepla, ...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: S.No. Name of State/UTs Number of FFPOs formed 1 Madhya Pradesh 107 2 Jharkhand 28 3 Odisha 30 4 Uttar Pradesh 75 5 Maharashtra 196 6 Jammu & Kashmir 2 7 Himachal Pradesh 18 8 Ladakh 1 9 Chhattisgarh 56 10 Gujarat 95 11 Daman and Diu 2 12 Bihar 48 13 Manipur 148 14 Meghalaya 9 15 Assam 176 16 Mizoram 18 17 Tripura 122 18 Telangana 245 19 Andhra Pradesh 176 20 Tamil Nadu ...
India, March 25 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Under the PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana (PMSG: MBY), it has been estimated that RTS installation in one crore households will produce renewable electricity of 1,000 billion units, which will result in reduction of 720 million ton of CO2eq emission during the 25 years of lifetime for rooftop solar projects. Since the launch of the PMSG: MBY in February 2024, a total of 9,566.89 MW rooftop solar (RTS) capacity has been added acro...