Cabinet Decides Amendments in proposed Rights of the Persons with...
New Delhi (ABC Live):The Cabinet on 6 February, 2014 approved the proposal of the Department of Disability Affairs to incorporate amendments in the proposed Rights of the Persons with Disabilities...
View ArticleIndia launches New Scheme for Rainfed Area Development Authority
New Delhi (ABC Live):In order to ensure agriculture growth in the rainfed areas. Government has launched a new scheme on” Rainfed Area Development Authority” I 2011-12 as a sub-scheme under Rashtriya...
View ArticleIndia’s Agricultural Sector Holds 144.3 Million Labourers
New Delhi (ABC Live):As per Census conducted by Registrar General of India, the total number of agricultural workers in the country comprising cultivators and agricultural labourers increased from...
View ArticleIndia Gives Rs 153743 Crores Farm Subsidy in 2011-12
New Delhi (ABC Live): Subsidies are provided to farmers under numerous components of various Central Sector/Centrally Sponsored Schemes of the Government. In 2011-12 Rs. 67199 crore subside was given...
View Article24,65,005 Farmers Get Benefit Under Crop Insurance Schemes
New Delhi (ABC Live): Under crop insurance schemes in 2012-13, total 24,65,005 farmers were benefited. Maharashtra has highest number of 13,18,200 farmers followed by Tamil Nadu and Karnataka with...
View ArticleAfter Leaked US Conversation UN Washes out its Hands from US Interfere in...
New York (ABC Live): The role of the United Nations in strife-torn Ukraine has merely been to encourage a peaceful end through dialogue, a UN spokesman said on Friday, despite what some think is...
View ArticleUN Bats for Rule of Law for Sustainable Development
New York (ABC Live): United Nations argues its members states to implement Rule of Law for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks...
View ArticleChina Launches Fourth Research Base Taishan in Antarctic
New Delhi (ABC Live): China has officially start a fourth Antarctic research base, the State Oceanic Administration said here on Saturday. The new Taishan station is located between Zhongshan and...
View ArticleDemocracy Ensures Worldwide Equitable Development: UN
New York (ABC Live): Following are Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s closing remarks to the event entitled “Democracy, Governance and the Post-2015 Development Agenda”, in New York, today, 7...
View ArticleCIL to Supply 75 percent of Coal Demand of India Thermal Power Plants by 2017
New Delhi (ABC Live): The Government has decided for supply of domestic coal to Thermal Power Plants (TPPs) for upto a capacity of 78,000 MW commissioned / to be commissioned during upto 31.03.2015....
View ArticleAfter Initial Operational Clearance in 2013 LCA Tejas All Set to Join Indian...
New Delhi (ABC Live): There have been delays in the indigenous development of Light Combat Aircraft (LCA-Tejas) and the Project to co-develop Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA). The LCA has...
View ArticleIndia Army Faces Shortage of 12372 Officers, 39839 Subordinates
New Delhi (ABC Live): The Indian Army, Navy and Air Force are facing acute shortage of 12372 officers and 39839 subordinates as on 31.12.2013. Details of the shortage of the manpower in the Armed...
View ArticleDRDO, MBDA France Sign MoU to Develop Short Range-Surface to Air Missile
New Delhi (ABC Live): A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed on 18th December 2007 between Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Department of Defence Production (DDP) and...
View ArticleIndia Denies Officially Defence Cooperation with Japan
New Delhi (ABC Live): There is no formal agreement or Memorandum of Understanding on Defence Cooperation between India and Japan. Various measures are being pursued to promote defence cooperation with...
View ArticleIndian Air Force to Adopt Intermediate Jet Trainer by 2018
New Delhi (ABC Live): The Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) is planned to replace Kiran Mk-I. Due to repeated revisions in the time line set for the Initial Operational Clearance (IOC) of IJT, and also...
View ArticleIndia Launches National AIDS Control Programme Phase-IV
New Delhi (ABC Live):The Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad will launch fourth phase of the National AIDS Control Programme (NACP-IV) of the Department of AIDS...
View ArticleMinistry Fails to Compile Data on Liquor Shops on National Highways
New Delhi (ABC Live): Road accidents occur due to the complex interaction of a number of factors which also include intake of alcohol and drugs. The State-wise data shows that number of road accidents...
View ArticleRBI Releases Foreign Liabilities and Assets for Mutual Fund Companies Survey
Mumbai (ABC Live): The Reserve Bank of India today released, on its website, the data related to the results of Survey of India’s Foreign Liabilities and Assets for the Mutual Fund Companies – 2012-13....
View ArticleItaly Reacts Sharply Over Charging Two Italian Marines with Terrorism Charge
New Delhi (ABC Live): The Italy on Monday expressed its sharp reaction on Indian law enforcing agency submission in Supreme Court of India to allow them to charge two Italian marines suspected of...
View ArticleHollande’s US Visit Confirms US-French Strategic Partnership for Mission Africa
New Delhi (ABC Live): French President Francois Hollande on his arrival in the United States has become the first president of France to visit the country since 1996 as both Hollande and Obama are...
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