Himachal launches anti-drug mobile app, helpline
India | June 30, 2019 21:02 IST"Anyone can register a complaint against a drug peddler through the 'Drug-Free Himachal' app," a government spokesperson told IANS.
"Anyone can register a complaint against a drug peddler through the 'Drug-Free Himachal' app," a government spokesperson told IANS.
Puwar told IANS in an exclusive interaction: "I will be taking charge on Monday. Unless and until I take the charge and really understand the issues with all the facts, I would not like to comment on
WhatsApp with over 300 million users in India has become the one-stop shop for the circulation of videos showing scantily-clad girls dancing to vulgar tunes, adult jokes and explicit "funny" messages presented by homely girls being created in the narrow dingy by-lanes of small towns on such Chinese apps.
The fiscal deficit or gap between expenditure and revenue, was Rs 3,66,157 crore, as per data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA).
Going a step ahead, the government is also contemplating invoking a dress code in higher secondary schools for the teachers.
The minister was speaking at a conference with state food secretaries on food security issues. Officials of Food Corporation of India (FCI), Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) and State Warehousing Corporations (SWCs) were also present.
"In an AISAM (Air India Specific Alternative Mechanism) meeting held on 28th March 2018, it was decided that due to issues like volatile crude oil prices and adverse fluctuations in exchange rates, the atmosphere was not conducive for the disinvestment. But this was last year," the ministry said in a statement.
The government would also undertake and promote steps for water conservation and curbing extraction of underground water, which is depleting the water table and is a matter of concern, Gajendra Shekhawat said.
Inaugurating the cleaning and deepening work of a pond in Qutubgarh village for rainwater harvesting, Gadkari also exhorted rural youth to take up new and modern modes of employment for improving their income.
"No proposal of the closure of MTNL and BSNL is under consideration," Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad informed the Lok Sabha.
"Of the 97,139 Anganwadi centres in MP, 29,383 are run from private buildings. Of these, 26,000 centres haven't paid monthly rents of Rs 3,000 for several months said Vidya Khangar MP chief of the All India Federation of Anganwadi Workers and Helpers.
Amid chorus over lack of jobs, the government Wednesday said over 6.84 lakh posts were vacant in different departments under it.
Speaking at the release of a social development report titled 'Rising Inequalities in India, 2018', Singh said some regions and social groups were extremely poor and vulnerable despite various anti-poverty programmes and affirmative policies being followed.
At a meeting of the manufacturers and start-up electric vehicle (EV) makers called by Niti Aayog on Friday, the industry was cautioned that if they do not take steps to address pollution issues, courts will step in.
The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), in a statement, also assured genuine exporters that their refund claims would be processed in an automated environment and issued in a timely manner.
“We've decided to contest the 2022 elections. We've to strengthen the party so that in 2022 Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) forms a government on its own. Rumours are that there'll be merger, this should put an end to all that,” said Shivpal Yadav.
the Centre wil decide whether there is sufficient evidence for declaring Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) as an unlawful association, will hold sittings here for three days from June 19.
The government will seek the support of the opposition parties in getting crucial bills passed in the session including one on triple talaq which among others were approved by the union cabinet on Wednesday, the sources said.
He claimed that some of the people involved in these cancelled deals were so powerful that they had "direct approach up to the prime minister".
The Centre has set a target of providing clean drinking water to all by 2024, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said Tuesday.
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