India, Aug. 5 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Government continues to take measures on an ongoing basis to ensure that LPG distribution and subsidy transfers in respect of domestic LPG consumers are efficient, transparent, and inclusive. This was stated by Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, in written reply to a Starred Question in the Rajya Sabha. He noted that the implementation of initiatives like the PAHAL (DBTL) scheme, Aadhaar-bas...
India, Aug. 5 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: A delegation of the Government Employees National Confederation (GENC) called on Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology; Earth Sciences and Minister of State for PMO, Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Space, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr. Jitendra Singh here today to discuss a wide range of service-related matters concerning Central Government employees. The del...
India, Aug. 5 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Government implements various schemes for the welfare and upliftment of every strata, including minorities, especially the economically weaker and lesser privileged sections of the society, through various schemes of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Ministry of Textiles, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Rural ...
India, Aug. 5 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: It has come to the notice of the Ministry of Mines that there were some recent media reports suggesting that the Union Government has permitted private sector participation in the exploration and mining of atomic minerals such as Uranium and Thorium from the country's offshore regions by notifying the Offshore Areas Atomic Minerals Rules, 2025. Such reports are misleading and factually incorrect. The Offshore Areas Ato...
India, Aug. 5 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting hosted a high-level Conference with State and Union Territory Information & Public Relations (I&PR) Secretaries on August 5, 2025, at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Dr. L. Murugan, Secretary, Information and Broadcasting Shri Sanjay Jaju, and other senior officials addressed the conference. The Conference aimed to strengthen...
India, Aug. 5 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: India has a robust visa regime in place to enable lawful inward movement of foreigners including foreign tourists, professionals and skilled workforce, business persons, students etc. Government has taken a number of initiatives over the last few years to liberalize, streamline and simplify visa regime with a view to facilitate the legitimate foreign travelers while simultaneously ramping up the technological infrastruc...
India, Aug. 5 -- The Government of India issued the following news 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 crimethrough their Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs). The Central Government supplements the initiatives of the States/UTs through advisories and financial assistance under various schemes for...
India, Aug. 5 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: To significantly improve the speed, efficiency and transparency of the judicial process, applications like e-Sakshya, e-Summon and Nyaya- Shruti (VC) have been developed. While the e-Sakshya enables lawful, scientific and tamper-proof collection, preservation and electronic submission of digital evidence thus ensuring authenticity and reducing delays, e-Summon allow summons to be delivered through electronic means, maki...
India, Aug. 5 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI) has implemented following schemes to promote the electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem to ensure accessibility and affordability of EVs on pan India basis, including in rural and semi-urban areas :- The Scheme for Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles in India Phase-II (FAME-II) was implemented from 01.04.2019 till 31.03.2024 with a total budgetary support of...
India, Aug. 5 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Electric Mobility Promotion Scheme (EMPS) 2024 was implemented for a period of 6 months from 1st April, 2024 till 30th September, 2024 for faster adoption of e-2W and e-3W to provide further impetus to the green mobility and development of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing eco-system in the country. The EMPS 2024 scheme provided incentive only for e-2W and e-3W which are domestically manufactured and sold. Furth...