India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) is a prior art database of Indian traditional knowledge established in 2001, jointly by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the then Department of Indian Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy (now Ministry of Ayush). The TKDL currently contains information from ancient texts related to Indian Systems of Medicine such as Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Rigpa and Y...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: 'Police' and 'Public Order' are State subjects as per the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India. The States/UTs are primarily responsible for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of crimes including cyber crime through their Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs). The Central Government supplements the initiatives of the States/UTs through advisories and financial assistance under various schemes for capacity ...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS) have been developed by MoHFW for primary and secondary healthcare facilities which provides a set of uniform standards envisaged to improve the quality of health care delivery in the country. The IPHS was last updated in 2022 and the details under it regarding population coverage, infrastructure and staff availability at every level of healthcare facilities are available in public domain a...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Sr.No. State/ UT No. of mandis integrated in e-NAM platform 1 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 1 2 Andhra Pradesh 33 3 Assam 3 4 Bihar 20 5 Chandigarh 1 6 Chhattisgarh 21 7 Goa 7 8 Gujarat 144 9 Haryana 114 10 Himachal Pradesh 38 11 Jammu and Kashmir 17 12 Jharkhand 19 13 Karnataka 5 14 Kerala 6 15 Madhya Pradesh 139 16 Maharashtra 181 17 Nagaland 19 18 Odisha 66 19 Puducherry ...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The 2nd India-EU Workshop on Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Technologies was held at the Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy, from 15 to 17 March 2026 under the auspices of the India-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) Working Group 2 on Green and Clean Energy Technologies. The workshop was jointly organised by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (OPSA) to the Government of India, and the Directorate-General for...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: The Government is implementing a Central Sector Scheme for "Formation and Promotion of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs)". As on 1st March 2026, 10,000 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) have been registered across the country under this scheme. As on 1st March, 2026, 1175 FPOs are registered as 100% women members under the 10,000 FPOs scheme. As on 1st March, 2026, 23.55 lakh women farmers are registered across the ...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: SL State/UT 2021 2022 2023 1 Andhra Pradesh 1875 2341 2341 2 Arunachal Pradesh 47 14 24 3 Assam 4846 1733 909 4 Bihar 1413 1621 4450 5 Chhattisgarh 352 439 473 6 Goa 36 90 86 7 Gujarat 1536 1417 1995 8 Haryana 622 681 751 9 Himachal Pradesh 70 77 127 10 Jharkhand 953 967 1079 11 Karnataka 8136 12556 21889 12 Kerala 626 773 3295 13 Madhya Pradesh 589 826 685 14 ...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Sl. Type of project ISTS Charges waiver Duration of waiver from commissioning date 1 Renewable Energy Generating Station (REGS) based on wind or solar source or RHGS based wind and solar source 100% for projects commissioned by 30th June 2025; waiver reducing 25% annually thereafter 25 years 2 Hydro Pumped Storage Plant 100% for projects where award of construction work by 30th June 2028 25 years 3 12 years 3 Large ...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: With a view to strengthen the domestic biopharmaceutical sector and enhance global competitiveness in biologics and biosimilars, the Government has announced the Biopharma SHAKTI scheme with an outlay of Rs.10,000 crore over five years with an objective to build a globally competitive domestic ecosystem for biologics and biosimilars to support affordable healthcare in India and enable India to emerge as a global biopharma manufact...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Under Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi's leadership, the Central government is steadily working to raise farmers' income and strengthen horticulture. Following approval by Union Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and Rural Development Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare released Final 2024-25 horticulture estimates and First Advance Estimates for 2025-26, signaling major rises in area a...