India, July 2 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India, has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report revealing that two persons belonging to the Scheduled Caste were beaten up, forced to eat grass and drink drain water, on suspicion of illegally smuggling cattle by some people belonging to other community, in Ganjam district of Odisha, on 26th June, 2025. Reportedly, their mobile phones were snatched and their heads were...
India, July 2 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD) has officially been renamed as the Savitribai Phule National Institute of Women and Child Development, reflecting its evolving role and greater focus on region-specific, mission-driven support for the development of women and children across India. This transformation has taken place under the visionary leadership of Union Minister for Women and...
India, July 2 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Ministry of Steel has issued Quality Control Orders for enforcement of 151 BIS Standards. The last Quality Control Order was issued in August 2024. No new Quality Control Order has been issued after that. The Order of Ministry of Steel dated 13th June 2025 is to clarify that the intermediate material for manufacturing of final products under BIS Standards, steel products will also have to follow BIS Standards prescribe...
India, July 2 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: INTRODUCTION The back-to-back Household Consumption Expenditure Surveys (HCES) conducted during August 2022 - July 2023 and August 2023 - July 2024 collected information on consumption of food items by the members of the households during specified reference periods. Based on the food consumption data and utilizing the nutrient content values of different food items estimates of per day per capita and per day per consu...
India, July 2 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: In a breakthrough that could redefine how we store and use energy, Scientists from Bengaluru, in collaboration with Aligarh Muslim University, have engineered a next-generation energy storage material that dramatically enhances supercapacitor performance. At the heart of modern energy storage lies the supercapacitor-a device that can rapidly store and release large amounts of energy making them crucial for powering eve...
India, July 2 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Union Minister for Agriculture, Farmers' Welfare and Rural Development, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan will be on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir on 3rd and 4th July 2025. During his visit, he will chair high-level meetings and participate in key programmes related to agriculture, rural development, and academia. On the morning of July 3, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan will hold a review meeting at the Civil Secretariat i...
India, July 2 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Shri Santosh Kumar Takhele has assumed the additional charge of Regional Executive Director (West-I) at NTPC Limited with effect from 30th June 2025. A graduate in Mechanical Engineering from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Shri Takhele joined NTPC in 1988 as an Executive Trainee. Over the course of a distinguished career spanning 37 years, he has held key leadership roles across several core functi...
India, July 2 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: In a significant move aimed at reducing pension-related legal disputes and ensuring swifter justice for India's growing population of retired government employees, Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh today , while chairing the first-ever "National Workshop on Pension Litigation" organized by the Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare at Vigyan Bhawan here, said that in no case should the vital energies of our elder c...
India, July 2 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has approved SPREE 2025 (Scheme for Promotion of Registration of Employers and Employees)-during its 196th ESI Corporation Meeting held in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, under the chairmanship of Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Labour & Employment and Youth Affairs & Sports. SPREE 2025 The Scheme for Promotion of Registration of Employers and Employees (SPREE) 202...
India, July 2 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS), Ministry of Jal Shakti, and UNICEF India, organized the National Rural Sanitation Workshop today at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The event brought together key stakeholders including senior government officials, state mission directors, development partners and sector experts to review the progress of the SBM-G and identify priorities for its next phase. D...