When COVID 19 pandemic hit India, the country was mostly dependent on imported PPE Kits, N-95 Masks and Ventilators that too without any specifications prescribed for these products considered essential in fight against this pandemic. However, in no time the government recognised the challenges and ensured adequate supplies of all these essential items all across […]
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The country’s first pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), “Pneumosil” developed by Serum Institute of India (SIIPL) together with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was unveiled today. Inaugurating the vaccine, Health and Family Welfare minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said, SIIPL got license of first indigenous PCV from the Government during COVID-19 induced lockdown. The vaccine will be […]
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Just after India’s first-ever driverless metro train ran on Delhi Metro’s tracks, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi listed out a series of new metro rail versions that the country is progressing towards embracing in the near future. These include, MetroLite and Metro Neo, among others. While the version of MetroLite would be constructed with 40 […]
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Home Minister Amit Shah launched a medical college in Guwahati to be built with an investment of over Rs 850 crore, besides laying foundation stones of nine law colleges to be built in Assam. Shah also distributed financial grants to 8000 Namghars, the traditional Vaisnavite monasteries of Assam at the venue. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda […]
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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has launched, “e-Sampada”, a new Web Portal and Mobile App, offering a single-window for allotment of government residential accommodations, besides office spaces for government organisations in forty-five office complexes across 28 cities. The application offers over 1 lakh government accommodations, office spaces and 1176 holiday rooms and […]
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The Ministry of Textiles is all set to launch an e-commerce platform ‘E-Shipmart’ for marketing and promotion of handicrafts and handloom products, said Rajesh Chatterjee, Deputy Director of Weavers’ Service Centre, Kolkata. He was speaking at a webinar on ‘Promotion of local products, vocal for local’, organised jointly by Field Outreach Bureau, Chuchura and Regional […]
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The Government of India has signed a $500 million project supported by the World Bank to develop safe highway corridors across Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Himachal radish. The green National Highways Corridors of total 783 km length are targeted to be constructed with a view to enhancing the Road Transport and Highways Ministry’s […]
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Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Minister Nitin Gadkari is set to lay foundation stone and inaugurate eighteen projects of highways in Rajasthan. The virtual inauguration ceremony will be presided over by Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister of Rajasthan in the presence of Union Minister V.K. Singh, besides various state ministers. Encompassing a mighty road length of […]
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Air Quality Management Commission reviewed the industries in Delhi-NCR for the progress of switching over their operations to piped natural gas (PNG) supplied from Indraprastha Gas Limited and GAIL. The Commission has identified over 1644 industrial units in 50 industrial areas across Delhi for switching over to PNG. The commission has stressed on the need […]
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Indian Oil Corporation has established one of Eastern India’s largest lube blending plant in Kolkata port area with an investment of Rs 142 crore. The project sprawling over more than 13.5 acres, generated a total of 72000 man days, and it’s considered as a step towards making India self-reliant in its requirement of lubricants. Union […]
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