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Article 231

Article 231 of the Constitution of India provides the constitutional framework for the establishment of a common High Court for two or more States or for one or...

March 31, 2018

Kaziranga National Park: Rhino population rises marginally

The recent census carried out in Kaziranga National Park, Assam has revealed that there was a marginal increase in the population of the one-horned rhinoceros here. As per census...

March 31, 2018

SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act: Government to File Review Petition

Union law ministry is preparing to file a review petition against the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 that puts...

March 31, 2018

Article 230

Article 230 of the Constitution of India provides for the extension or exclusion of the jurisdiction of State High Courts to Union territories, thereby ensuring that the judicial...

March 31, 2018

Ravi Kota appointed as new Joint Secretary of 15th Finance Commission of India

Ravi Kota, the 1993 batch IAS officer of Assam- Meghalaya, has been appointed Joint Secretary of 15th Finance Commission under the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA). Presently, he...

March 31, 2018

Madhya Pradesh raises retirement age of state govt employees from 60 to 62 years

The Madhya Pradesh government has raised the retirement age of state government employees to 62 years from the current age of retirement is 60 years. The announcement was...

March 31, 2018

Chandra Bhushan Kumar appointed as new Deputy Election Commissioner of India

Chandra Bhushan Kumar, a 1995 batch IAS officer of union territories cadre, has been appointed as the new Deputy Election Commissioner as part of a major bureaucratic reshuffle...

March 31, 2018

R K Dorendra Singh, former Chief Minister of Manipur passes away

Raj Kumar Dorendra Singh (83), the former Chief Minister of Manipur, has passed away at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital in Imphal on March 31,...

March 31, 2018

Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship joins hands with Ministry of Power to support household electrification scheme ‘Saubhagya’

The Union Ministry of Power has partnered with the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship to train the manpower in six states – Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand,...

March 31, 2018

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi elected as new President of Egypt

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected for a second term with a sweeping majority in the 2018 Egyptian presidential election. Sisi got nearly 92% of the...

March 31, 2018

Union Cabinet approves MoU between India and SACEP for cooperation on oil and chemical pollution in South Asian Seas Region

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and South Asian Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP) for cooperation on the...

March 31, 2018

The Union Cabinet approves formulation of a new Integrated Scheme for School Education

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved formulation of a new Integrated Scheme for School Education (ISSE) by subsuming Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) , Rashtriya Madhyamik...

March 31, 2018