Newdelhi:30/3/23:The Central Government has given full exemption from basic customs duty on all drugs and Food for Special Medical Purposes imported for personal use for treatment of all Rare Diseases listed under the National Policy for Rare Diseases 2021 through a general exemption notification. In order to avail this exemption, the individual importer has to produce a certificate from Central or ...

Newdelhi:30/3/23:Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shri Anurag Thakur met the Oscar winning team behind Elephant Whisperers at his residence today. The Minister met with Ms Kartiki Gonsalves, Director and Cinematographer, Ms Guneet Moonga, Producer and Ms Monica from Netflix. During the interaction Shri Thakur said that the power of India’s storytelling is unmatched!. Expressing his pleasure at one such ...

Newdelhi:30/3/23:The (FLNAT) under Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram (New India Literacy Programme ) was held on 19.03.2023 across 10 States and UTs in the country to assess the basic Reading, Writing and Numeracy skills of the neo-literates. The youth and students of schools and colleges were involved as volunteer teachers to organize teaching learning activities. More than 22.70 lakh learners participated ...

Uttarakhand:29/3/23:Ramnagar, Uttarakhand hosted the First Meeting of G20-Chief Science Advisers Roundtable (G20-CSAR), which witnessed intense discussion on issues of transboundary S&T issues of mutual interest. G20-CSAR is the flagship event under India’s G20 Presidency and led by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. The day-long roundtable witnessed discussions under the broad themes of Opportunities ...

Newdelhi:29/3/23:The National Health Authority (NHA) under its Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) scheme is enabling digital interventions for bringing efficiency in delivery of healthcare services. One such intervention is the Scan and Share service that is enabling instant registrations for patients at OPD (Out-patient Department) blocks of participating hospitals. The utilization of the service has crossed 10 Lakh patient registrations ...

Newdelhi:29/3/23:Under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and guidance of Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah, the Ministry of Cooperation is committed to protect the interests of the people associated with the cooperative sector. In this direction, on the petition of Ministry of Cooperation, in a historic decision the Hon’ble Supreme Court today ordered ...

New Delhi:29/3/23: India logged 2,151 new coronavirus cases, the highest in five months, while the active cases have increased to 11,903, according to Union Health Ministry data updated today. The death count has increased to 5,30,848 with seven deaths, the Health Ministry said. Three deaths were reported by Maharashtra, one by Karnataka and three reconciled by Kerala. The daily positivity ...

Newdelhi:29/3/23:Inspired by the idea of Hon’ble Prime Minister, aimed at making all our cities ‘Garbage Free’ under Swachh Bharat Mission- Urban 2.0 and focus on ‘Swachhta’, Technology Development Board, a statutory body of Department of Science & Technology, Government of India invited applications from Indian companies having innovative/indigenous technologies at commercialization stage in waste management domain. The call for proposal ...

 INS Chilka:28/3/23: The Passing Out Parade (POP) of the First batch of Agniveers is scheduled at INS Chilka on 28 March 2023. The POP marks the successful completion of training of close to 2600 Agniveers including 273 women Agniveers undergoing training at Chilka. Adm R Hari Kumar, Chief of the Naval Staff will be the Chief Guest and the Reviewing ...

Newdelhi:28/3/23:Union Minister for Labor and Employment Shri Bhupender Yadav today launched e-passbook for the benefit and convenience of the EPFO members enabling them to view more details of their accounts in graphical representations. Shri Yadav inaugurated crèche facility in 63 regional offices of EPFO where 100 or more employees are working and laid foundation Stone of the office building of ...