India, March 13 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi lays foundation stone for various development works in Kokrajhar, Assam via Video Conferencing. The Prime Minister stated that due to inclement weather, he was unable to visit Kokrajhar in person and expressed his sincere apologies to the gathered citizens. PM Modi remarked that he was communicating from Guwahati. Shri Modi noted that he bows to the great personalities of the land like Bodofa ...
India, March 13 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) today hosted the AMRUT Mitra Mahotsav, a national gathering that celebrated the leadership of women Self-Help Groups (SHGs)- AMRUT Mitra's in strengthening urban water services under AMRUT 2.0. The event was chaired at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi by Hon'ble Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs, Shri Manohar Lal with participation of over 1000 women and 300 officials from 30 States and...
India, March 13 -- The Government of India has issued a release: State/ UT -wise Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) over the last five years as per Sample Registration Survey (SRS) S. No. India/States SRS 2019-21 SRS 2020-22 SRS 2021-23 India 93 88 88 1 Andhra Pradesh 46 47 30 2 Assam 167 125 110 3 Bihar 100 91 104 4 Jharkhand 51 50 54 5 Gujarat 53 55 51 6 Haryana 106 89 89 7 Karnataka 63 58 68 8 Kerala 20 18 30 9 Madhya Pradesh 175 159 ...
India, March 13 -- The Government of India has issued a release:  The Central Ethics Committee (CEC) of the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), Ministry of Ayush, Government of India, underwent an external evaluation by the internationally recognized ethics accreditation body-the Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review (SIDCER) under the aegis of the Forum for Ethical Review Committees in the Asian and Western Pacific Region (FERCAP) from 9th ...
India, March 13 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that a woman from Manipur was physically assaulted when she objected to lewd and racial abuse by a group of boys in the Malviya Nagar area of South Delhi. Reportedly, the incident happened on 8th March 2026. The Commission has observed that the contents of the news report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights ...
India, March 13 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Ayush and Minister of State, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Shri Prataprao Jadhav, today inaugurated Yoga Mahotsav-2026 in New Delhi, marking the 100-day countdown to the 12th edition of the International Day of Yoga (IDY) 2026. On the occasion, the Minister launched "10 Yoga Protocols for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Target Groups", designed for individuals across dif...
India, March 13 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Union Minister of Jal Shakti, Shri C. R. Paatil, chaired a meeting with Ministers of Public Health Engineering Department (PHED)/Rural Water Supply (RWS) and Panchayati Raj Departments of States and Union Territories to discuss the implementation roadmap of Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0. Shri V. Somanna, Minister of State, Ministry Jal Shakti also attended the meeting. The meeting was convened in the backdrop of cabinet approval for...
India, March 13 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Period Outlay 2009-14 Rs.879 crore/year 2025-26 Rs. 6,626 crore (more than 7.5 times) Category No. of sanctioned Total Length Length Commissioned upto Expenditure New Line 9 812 24 1,337 Gauge Conversion 3 748 604 3,471 Doubling /Multitracking 3 140 37 2,783 Total 15 1,700 665 7,591 S.N. Project Cost 1 Dindigul-Palani-Pollachi gauge conversion (121 km) 610 2 Pollachi-Palghat gauge conversion (...
India, March 13 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that at least seven workers died and three others were injured when a wall collapsed at an under-construction site near the Bilaspur area of Gurugram, Haryana on 9th March 2026. Reportedly, around ten more workers were feared trapped under the debris. The incident occurred at the site where a sewage treatment plant for an upcoming re...
India, March 13 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Soil and Land Use Survey of India under Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has generated soil data base at different scales of 1:50,000 and 1:10,000 which reveals that soil of India are sufficient in Potassium with variability in Nitrogen andPhosphorous. With reference to the micronutrients, Zinc shows deficiency majorly in states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh& Odisha.  Iron and Boron also shows variability across the soil...