Month: January 2024

For ease of doing business by industries like Green Hydrogen manufacturers and to facilitate energy transition along with energy security by faster establishment of energy storage capacity new rules have been prescribed. Now consumers, having more than a specified quantum of load and Energy Storage Systems (ESS) are allowed to establish, operate and maintain dedicated transmission lines themselves without the requirement of licence. By allowing such facility a new category of Bulk Consumers would emerge in the country, benefiting from more affordable electricity and enhanced grid reliability. This facility was…

24.82 crore people escaped multidimensional poverty in last nine years. Findings of NITI Aayog’s Discussion Paper ‘Multidimensional Poverty in India since 2005-06’ give credit for this remarkable achievement to significant initiatives of the government to address all dimensions of the poverty between 2013-14 to 2022-23. The discussion paper was released today by Prof Ramesh Chand, Member, NITI Aayog in presence of Shri B. V. R. Subrahmanyam, CEO NITI Aayog. Oxford Policy and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have provided technical inputs for this paper. The Multidimensional Poverty…

Hardoi. A young man committed misdeed by taking an eight year old boy, resident of a village seva in the rural police station area, to the field on the pretext of getting him sugarcane. Other children of the village who were playing informed the family about the incident. The police got the child medically examined. A case has been registered against the accused under the POCSO Act. A village seva resident boy is a student of class two in the primary school of the village. On Wednesday evening he was…

The dense fog continues to disrupt flight operations in several regions in North India. Several flights departing from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport were delayed, some were cancelled due to weather conditions and a few were diverted to other places. Dense fog in northern India, particularly in Delhi, has caused significant disruptions to flight operations, resulting in prolonged waiting times for passengers at the airport. After an unprecedented incident of a man hitting the pilot of a flight, now visuals have emerged on social media showing people sitting in…

Shri Sheel Vardhan Singh, former IPS officer, having 37 years of distinguished service behind him takes the oath of Office and Secrecy as Member, UPSC this afternoon in the Central Hall, Main Building of UPSC. The oath was administered to her by the UPSC Chairman Dr Manoj Soni. Sheel Vardhan Singh is a seasoned Intelligence expert, known for strategic thinking, expertise in Global Security Scenario and Internal Security. He was Director General of CISF from November 2021 to December 2023 where he provided visionary leadership enhancing Security across the vital Industrial Sector.…

Now we have taken great initiative and the world is praising Bharat. Gati Shakti and Udan for both IMD has played a pivotal role. Safe aviation is not possible at all without IMD being 24 X 7 alert. Even during the G20 summit the success of which has been recognised and acknowledged by the world, to an extent that it will be difficult to reach the benchmark put up by Bharat in organising it, IMD had a great role to play. During COVID, the contribution was no less. I had…