Ever since the Narendra Modi government at the Centre scrapped the erstwhile Planning Commission of India to replace it with NITI Ayog in 2014-15, the fate of the UP state planning commission has remained uncertain. read more

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Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar was responding to a query regarding Amartya Sen’s recent remarks about the present government. read more

Praising the prime minister for his leadership in the last four years, Panagariya said Narendra Modi is both an economic and social reformer. read more

According to the National Family Health Survey 2015-16, 35.7% of children below five years are underweight, while 38.4% are stunted, meaning they have low height for their age.  read more

The special edition of the monthly journal ‘Yojana’ will carry details of the jobs or avenues for self-employment created by various government ministries and departments in the past four years. read more

Citing the adverse feedback from beneficiaries in the state to the cash-transfer scheme, the Union women and child development ministry has decided to seek PMO’s views on whether the ministry should go ahead with the pilot. read more

Launched on April 14 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Gram Swaraj Abhiyan aims to improve socio-economic conditions of villages by providing poor households with electricity, insurance, LPG connections and other such facilities. read more

The Commission set up in 2004 had submitted a report to the then government in 2006 suggesting that the way out of the farm crisis was to provide remunerative prices to the farmer. read more

Residents fill their containers with drinking water from a municipal tanker in New Delhi. Monsoon rains forecast for this week in Delhi will signal an end to the summer, but India faces the worst long-term water crisis in its history and Delhi, the sprawling capital city of 20 million people, is symptomatic of the nationwide water shortage.

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Both the government and NITI Aayog are silent on the issue of quotas in lateral hiring. read more

National Health Protection Mission - Ayushman Bharat (NHPM-AB) aims to provide Rs 5 lakh annual insurance cover to more than 10 crore poor families. read more

Four held with elephant ivory in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal Officers of Belakoba forest range seized elephant ivory and arrested four persons including a civil engineer on June 24. The plan was to smuggle the elephants ivory to Nepal. (HT Correspondent)read more

The cost of cultivation varies across states, while minimum support prices are based on a weighted all-India average, another reason farmers don’t get guaranteed profits. read more

The scholarly attributes of Army personnel can add value to the defence sector read more