Government Policy

The Indian Railways is planning to establish medical colleges to offer postgraduate courses for doctors at 10 of its existing hospitals across India.The official said that the proposal has been cleared by the Railway Board and now, the Railways is in the process of getting permissions from the Medical Council …

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Thursday flagged off a “Startup Yatra”, saying the programme was aimed at turning the State’s educated youth into job providers from jobseekers. He said the State government would provide all possible help to the youth to develop entrepreneurship under the scheme. Source …

‘Letter of Comfort’ given by Paris is good enough, says Attorney-General The Centre admitted in the Supreme Court on Wednesday that there was no sovereign guarantee from the French government on the deal for 36 Rafale jets in case the manufacturer, Dassault Aviation, defaults. Sovereign guarantee is a promise by …

Express concern at delay in tabling audit reports in Parliament Sixty retired bureaucrats have written to the Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) over the “deliberate delay” in tabling the audit reports on the Rafale deal and demonetisation in Parliament. They demanded that these be tabled in the Winter Session. The CAG’s …

Centre to reward high-performing States States may soon start receiving extra funding for the Agriculture Ministry’s flagship schemes on the basis of their performance in encouraging agri-business, especially with regard to marketing, land and governance reforms. The Centre expects to roll out a new Ease of Doing Agri-Business Index early …

“The Twitter representatives claimed that there may be anonymous accounts criticising the government’s policies and if identity trails are provided to the police or government agencies then it defeats the purpose of freedom of expression. We told them that if someone is verbally abused on the road, action is taken …

The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to change the name of Faizabad district to Ayodhya, a week after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath made the announcement on the eve of Diwali. Source :https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/up-cabinet-nod-for-faizabad-name-change/article25489783.ece

Micro-blogging site slow to act on take-down requests: official The Centre has asked microblogging site Twitter to furnish telephone numbers and other identifiable sources that could help track suspicious accounts, as asked for by law enforcement agencies, a senior Home Ministry official said. Union Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba on Monday …

More than 84 lakh farmers, which is around 15% of the total farmers insured in the first year of the Centre’s ambitious Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana in 2016-17, withdrew themselves from the scheme in 2017-18, a reply to an RTI application has revealed. It includes 68.31 lakh farmers from …

General Bipin Rawat says govt. has a clear-cut policy not to allow terrorists to create violence in J&K Army Chief General Bipin Rawat on Monday said that the government’s policy in Jammu and Kashmir was that those triggering terrorism in the State should be neutralised, but the Army’s focus was …