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Over 60,000 farmers avail benefits of PM Kisan Yojana in J-K's Udhampur
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Farmers from Udhampur district especially from Debrah Panchayat hailed the scheme as now they are able to buy proper seeds as earlier they were unable to buy because of lower income. As many sixty thousand four hundred eighty-nine farmers in the district benefit from the scheme, officials sa
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"Once Uniform Civil Code draft is submitted, we will comment": Sanjay Raut
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) ally Nationalist Congress Party took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks on the Uniform Civil Code a day earlier.
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Study reveals how tuberculosis cases in prisons worldwide go unnoticed
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Researchers discovered TB case rates to be persistently high and case detection to be low in jails, indicating the need for health organisations to step up efforts to stop the spread of TB among this high-risk demographic. A recent study done by the Boston University School of Public Health
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Consumer Affairs Dept urges online platforms to refrain from adopting 'dar
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
In a letter addressed to major online platforms in India, Consumer Affairs Secretary Rohit Kumar Singh strongly advised online platforms to not engage in 'unfair trade practices' by incorporating dark patterns in their online interface to manipulate consumer choice and violate 'consumer righ
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India recorded third-highest heatwave conditions in last 23 years this sum
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
India, this year, experienced the third-highest instances of heatwave and severe heatwave conditions in the last 23 years, after 2019 and 2022, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said.
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During Jan-Jun 2023, Delhi registers best ever air quality in 8 years
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
As per the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, "The number of 'Good to Moderate' Air Quality Days for the first half-year period was 30 in the year 2016, 57 in 2017, 65 in 2018, 78 in 2019, 126 in 2020, 84 in 2021, 54 in 2022, and 101 in the current year 2023."
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Exploring Tax Benefits of Mutual Funds for Young Salary Earners
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], June 30: Over the past few years, India's youth have increasingly adopted mutual funds as their preferred mode of investment. As per a report by CAMS, one of the country's largest registrar and transfer agencies, millennials comprised of around 54% of the 1.6 cror
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Pakistan, IMF reach Staff-level Agreement on USD 3 billion 'stand-by arran
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
"I am pleased to announce that the IMF team has reached a staff-level agreement with the Pakistani authorities on a nine-month Stand-by Arrangement (SBA) in the amount of SDR2,250 million (about $3 billion or 111 per cent of Pakistan's IMF quota). The new SBA builds on the authorities' ef
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IMF deal expected in next 24 hours: Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The Pakistan government is racing against time to unlock at least USD 1.1 billion under the lender's ninth review of a USD 6.5-billion Extended Fund Facility agreed in 2019. The programme expires on Friday.
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Cabinet okays ratification of headquarters agreement between India, coalit
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The CDRI was launched by PM Modi during the United Nations Climate Action Summit on September 23, 2019, in New York. It is a major global initiative launched by the Government of India and is seen as India's attempt to obtain a global leadership role in climate change and disaster resilie
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PM Modi bats for UCC as Opposition terms it 'vote-bank' politics
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
It is noteworthy that Part 4, Article 44 of the Indian Constitution, corresponds with Directive Principles of State Policy, making it mandatory for the State to provide its citizens with a uniform civil code (UCC) throughout the territory of India. Referring to the failure of succeeding gove
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England-New Zealand set to play opening match of ICC World Cup, India to b
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The World Cup 2023 is set to kick off on October 5 with a repeat of the 2019 Final as England take on New Zealand at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
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