India, Aug. 18 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Technology Development Board (TDB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, has signed an agreement with M/s Primary Healthtech Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, for the project titled "IoT-enabled Point-of-care Blood Testing Device for Affordable and Accessible Healthcare powered by AI/ML algorithms." Founded by Mr. Sahil Jagnani and Mr. Ankit Choudhury, alumni of IIT Guwahati, the company emerged from a m...
India, Aug. 18 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Providing commuters with convenient and efficient tolling experience, the newly introduced FASTag Annual Pass facility has crossed the landmark figure of five lakh users across the country. The FASTag Annual Pass was launched on 15th August 2025 and received an overwhelming response from the National Highway users. Tamil Nadu led the most number of Annual Pass purchased over the last four days, followed by the states o...
India, Aug. 18 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Taking strict action on the incident of misbehavior with army personnel by toll staff deployed at Bhuni Toll Plaza on Meerut-Karnal section of NH-709A on 17th August 2025, where a verbal altercation between an army personnel and toll staff escalated into a fight. NHAI has imposed a penalty of Rs. 20 lakhs on the toll collecting agency, M/s Dharam Singh, in view of the grave breach of the Contract Agreement due to the ...
India, Aug. 18 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Government of India launched the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (SAUBHAGYA) in October, 2017 with the objective of providing electricity connections to all willing un-electrified households in rural areas and all willing poor households in urban areas in the country. All sanctioned works have been successfully completed under SAUBHAGYA and scheme stands closed as on 31.03.2022. As reported by the States, ar...
India, Aug. 18 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Following features have been added in NeVA to incorporate linguistic diversity: - Text-to-Text Machine Translation through Bhashini has been integrated to translate the NeVA public portals (including the homepage and individual State Assembly portals) into all 22 Scheduled Regional Languages and English. State-wise interface configuration enables users to operate the application in their respective regional languages....
India, Aug. 18 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Under the Youth Parliament Programme of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, various Youth Parliament Competitions for the students of Delhi schools, Kendriya Vidyalayas, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, Universities/Colleges and Eklavya Model Residential Schools are organized in which more than 5 lakh students have participated so far. Additionally, for wider participation of citizens including students, especially thos...
India, Aug. 18 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Udyam Sakhi Portal i.e. https://udyamsakhi.com/ is designed to support women entrepreneurs and provides information about various financial schemes, policies, programmes & supporting institutions functioning under the administrative control of the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME). This portal helps women entrepreneurs to start, build and grow their businesses and become self-reliant. It provide...
India, Aug. 18 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: Ministry of MSME has taken various steps for the promotion and development of MSME sector. Some of these are detailed below. Udyam Registration for MSMEs, for Ease of Doing Business w.e.f. 1.7.2020. Launch of Udyam Assist Platform (UAP) to bring the Informal Micro Enterprises (IMEs) under the formal ambit for availing the benefit under Priority Sector Lending (PSL). Inclusion of Retail and Wholesale traders as MSMEs...
India, Aug. 18 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: The Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana portal, facilitating registrations under the Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his 12th Independence Day address, has gone live. The Union Cabinet on 1st July 2025 approved the Employment Linked Incentive Scheme, named as Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana. With an outlay of rs 99,446 Crore, the scheme aims to ...
India, Aug. 18 -- The Government of India issued the following news release: In order to provide good quality medical services to its beneficiaries, Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has been continuously taking steps to upgrade and expand ESI facilities. Some of the measures taken are: enhancement of bed strength, procurement of advanced medical equipment, establishing the intensive care unit (ICU) / high dependency unit (HDU) facilities as per ESIC guidelines, establishing new hos...