New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, presiding over the 7th Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog on Sunday, praised Chhattisgarh's Godhan Nyay Yojana, saying that the scheme is in the interest of the farmers as vermi-compost prepared from cowdung helps in increasing productivity of the fields, according to a stat

Patna,  Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday skipped the crucial seventh governing council meeting of NITI Aayog.

The meeting was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi and chief ministers of all states were invited.

Sources say Nitish Kumar skipped the

New Delhi,  Days after Consulate of Montenegro raised a complaint regarding non-supply of water, BJP national vice-president Baijayant Jay Panda on Sunday said the model that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal boasts about in every state he visits has ultimately become 'A Model of Global Embarrassment'. On August 5

Amaravati,  Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president and former chief minister of Andhra Pradesh N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday called on President, Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

This was Naidu's first meeting with Murmu after she was elected as the President last month. The TDP had exte

Hyderabad, The Telangana government on Saturday urged the Centre to support the textile and handloom sector in the state, calling for reducing GST on textiles and removing all taxes including GST on handloom.

State Industry Minister K.T. Rama Rao has written a letter to Union Textiles Minister Piyush Goyal se

Kolkata,  Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, highlighting purported corruption in the implementation of different central-sponsored schemes in the state.

In the letter, Adhikari has specially highlighted the purported corru

Bengaluru,   Karnataka Minister for Large and Medium Industries, Murugesh R. Nirani, on Saturday invited the Kannada diaspora in Japan to participate in the Global Investors Meet (GIM) scheduled to place here from November 2 to 4.

A state delegation led by Nirani is in Tokyo to invite Japanese inves

New Delhi,  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met Jagdeep Dhankhar to congratulate him soon after he was announced the winner in the Vice-Presidential election in which he was pitted against Opposition-backed Margaret Alva.

"Congratulations to Jagdeep Dhankhar on being elected Vice-President

Kochi,  With vascular diseases on the rise following increase in prevalence of diabetes and other life-style diseases, every 30 minutes one limb gets amputated in Kerala, according to a study conducted by the Vascular Society of Kerala (VASK).

The study pointed out that lack of awareness regarding vascul

Hathras, A primary school headmaster in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras district has been suspended for allegedly asking students to pay money for the national flag and to celebrate the country's 75th Independence Day.

The action was taken against the headmaster Brajesh Kumar by Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) a