Budget 2022: Digital university to be set up; focus on developing e-content and digital teachers, said FM Sitharaman

In the Union Budget 2022-23, the government has proposed to set up a digital university to provide access to world...

Union Budget 2022: FM Sitharaman announces tele-mental health programme; 2 lakh anganwadis to be upgraded

A national tele-mental health programme will be launched for mental health counselling in India amid the pandemic. Union Finance Minister...

Budget 2022: Focus on organic and natural farming; 2023 as the year of millets, increase oilseeds production

The Indian government has been promoting safer agricultural practices and the Union Budget 2022 will focus on organic farming and...

Ken-Betwa project and five river linking projects find mention in FM Sitharaman’s Budget 2022 speech

These river linking projects are being strongly opposed by the environmentalists who claim linking of these rivers will be disastrous...

Rs 60,000 allocated to Har Ghar Jal scheme in Union Budget 2022: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

3.8 crore households are to be covered under the central government’s piped drinking water scheme in financial year 2022-23.

Union Budget 2022 LIVE UPDATES: Drones to be used for crop assessment, digitisation of land records, spraying of insecticides

Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary, while sharing his views about the upcoming Budget, told the press outside the...

Union Budget 2022-23: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman leaves for Parliament, budget speech at 11 am — WATCH here

In a marked departure from the past budgets, sweets were provided to the core staff due to the “lock-in” at...

Delhi’s anganwadi workers go on indefinite strike. What are their demands?

Hundreds of anganwadi workers assembled near Delhi’s chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s residence to demand an increase in honorarium, facilities such...

If children could vote: In poll-bound UP, high malnourishment but 66% POSHAN funds unutilised

With 41% of under-5 rural kids stunted and 33% underweight, government after government in Uttar Pradesh has made several changes...

Court cases, imprisonment and hooch deaths: Will amending Bihar’s prohibition law change things?

In the last fortnight, 18 people died in Bihar after consuming spurious liquor. Two months ago, at least 39 people...