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...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, and MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh today said that India, with its 1.4 billion population, holds the key to "Green World" transition. In other words, India stands at a decisive stage in the global transition towards a green future and is well placed to play a leading role in shaping i...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED)alongwithMinistry of Tribal Affairs, Government of Indiais organizing Bharat Tribes Fest 2026from 18 to 30 March 2026 at Sunder Nursery, New Delhi, bringing together tribal artisans, entrepreneurs and cultural performers from across the country. The fest will be inaugurated by Shri JualOram, Hon'ble Union Minister for Tribal Affairs in the august presence of Shr...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Scientists have decoded the evolution of the Ladakh Magmatic Arc in the NW Himalaya, that acts as a around 130-million-year, record of plate tectonics that document the subduction, maturation, and collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates. Millions of years before the Himalaya became the tallest mountains on Earth, the region that is now called Ladakh lay above an ocean called the Neo-Tethys Ocean. Below that ancient sea, ...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) provides health coverage of Rs. 5 lakh per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization to 12 crore families constituting bottom 40% of India's population. Additionally, in March 2024, approximately 37 lakh families of Accredited Social Health Activists, Anganwadi Workers and Anganwadi Helpers were included under the scheme. The scheme was further exp...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: Prices of drugs are regulated as per the provisions of the Drugs (Prices Control) Order 2013 (DPCO, 2013) across the country. As per extant provisions of DPCO 2013, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) fixes the ceiling prices of formulations specified in Schedule-I to DPCO, 2013 and retail prices of new drugs as defined in para 2(1)(u) of DPCO, 2013.  Further, in case of non-scheduled formulations, manufactur...
India, March 17 -- The Government of India has issued a release: In a landmark step towards strengthening rural drinking water governance, Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) under Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) 2.0 were signed with the States of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, marking the formal launch of reform-linked implementation under the extended phase of the Mission which was approved by the union cabinet on 10th March 2026. The MoU with the State of Rajasthan was signed in forenoon, in the pre...