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Centre to focus on increasing gross enrollment ratio, building higher educ
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], September 8 (ANI): Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday said that the Centre has set a target of increasing the Gross Enrollment Ratio in higher education from 26 per cent to 50 per cent under National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and added that
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Studied engineering, but had instinct for acting, says Baramulla youth fea
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Baramulla (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 7 (ANI) A young man from rural Baramulla, who quit his engineering career to do roles in TV serials, will now feature in a web series produced by Bollywood actor Salman Khan.
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Free power DBT scheme will be beneficial for farmers: Botsa Satyanarayana
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], September 5 (ANI): The free power Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) scheme will be beneficial to the farmers, said Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister Botsa Satyanarayana on Saturday.
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Karnataka will soon reach goal of 1 lakh COVID-19 tests per day: Dr K Sudh
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Bengaluru Rural (Karnataka) [India], September 5 (ANI): Karnataka will soon reach the target of conducting one lakh tests for COVID-19 per day, said Medical Education Minister of the state Dr K Sudhakar on Saturday.
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PBT margins of India Inc contract to multi-year lows of 3.6 per cent in Q1
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 5 (ANI): Financial results of 489 companies in the Indian corporate sector (excluding financial sector entities) show aggregate revenues contracting by 31.1 per cent on a year-on-year basis in Q1 FY21, according to investment information firm ICRA.
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3 Naxals arrested in Visakhapatnam
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) [India], September 4 (ANI): The rural police of the Visakhapatnam district arrested and sent on remand three Naxals, including a commander Bonangi Nageswara Rao.
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5 youth die in road accident at Warangal Rural in Telangana
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Warangal (Telangana) [India], September 2 (ANI): A car accident took place at Warangal Rural under the Damera police station limits in which five youth died on the spot.
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Karnataka Minister KS Eshwarappa tests positive for COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], September 1 (ANI): Karnataka Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister KS Eshwarappa on Tuesday informed that he has tested positive for COVID-19.
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Two CPI(M) workers hacked to death in Thiruvananthapuram
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], Aug 31 (ANI): After a long null, political killings shook Kerala on the occasion of Onam, with two CPI(M) workers allegedly hacked to death on Sunday, in the rural area of the state capital.
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Jal Jeevan Mission to create smart eco-system to measure, monitor water su
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 30 (ANI): In a bid to harness initiatives like Atmanirbhar Bharat, Digital India and Make in India, the Jal Jeevan Mission has decided to create a smart rural water supply eco-system to measure and monitor the service delivery of the water supply in rural areas, the Mi
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Ravi Shankar Prasad launches wireless BSNL Bharat AirFibre for rural ar
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 30 (ANI): Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday inaugurated a next-generation network telephone exchange at New Bihar Vidhan Mandal compound and Bharat Air Fibre service at Danapur Telephone Exchange in Bihar through video conferencing from New Delhi.
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Women, rural population have benefited from PMJDY: Anurag Thakur
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 28 (ANI): Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur said on Friday that over 40 crore bank accounts had been opened under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) and women and rural parts of the country have benefitted from it.
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