The Ministry of Tourism, Government of India in collaboration with other Central Ministries, State Governments and Stakeholders is organizing a “Paryatan Parv” across the country from the 16th to 27th September 2018.

WHO lauds India’s commitment to accelerated coverage of safe sanitation services which, assuming 100% coverage is achieved by October 2019, could avert up to 300 000 deaths due to diarrheal disease and protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) since the country launched the Swachh Bharat Mission in 2014.

The full Potential of Jharkhand’s economy is nowhere near realisation, said the Chairman Sh. N. K. Singh, Chairman of the visiting Fifteenth Finance Commission at a Press Conference in Ranchi. Expectations with which the State was created for it to achieve fast growth and rapidly catch up with India’s fast growing economy remains an unfulfilleddream, irrespective of the factors responsible for it.On the question of independent decision making, the Chairman reasserted the Constitutional Position of the Commission and the ensuing autonomy.

DRDO conducted the successful test of the Ballistic Missile Interceptor Advanced Area Defence (AAD) at 1130 hrs today from Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha. The endo-atmospheric missile, capable of intercepting incoming targets at an altitude of 15 to 25 kms was launched against multiple simulated targets of 1500 km class ballistic missile.

The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that Share and Care is the Core of Indian Philosophy. He was addressing the gathering at the 141st Birth Anniversary Celebrations of Shri Pingali Venkaiah, the designer of Indian National Flag, organized by the Government of Andhra Pradesh and Sri Pingali Venkaiah Charitable Trust & Smarak Samastha, here today.