National
Medals for Police Training Institutes
The objective of the Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence is to recognize the importance of training and the trainers in police organizations, make training a respectable assignment and to promote quality training in police training institutes in the country
Indian politics: Two landmarks that changed history
Two historic polls, of the 1971 and 2014 can be termed as the turning points of the politics in independent India as both catapulted mighty leaders to power
Scavengers – destined to go down the drain?
Despite being the first state in India to ban manual scavenging, many scavengers clean dry latrines, drains and manholes in Delhi.
Will the world’s highest rail bridge in J&K be ready by Dec 2021?
When completed the bridge will be 35 metres taller than Eiffel Tower and five times as high as Qutub Minar. The bridge is expected to be taller than the world's current tallest railway bridge over Beipanjiang River in China.
Calling someone from north-east India by a derogatory name can land you in jail
The MHA is in process of finalising a comprehensive bill inserting new sections of 153 C and 509 A in IPC which will be introduced in Parliament after inter-ministerial consultation.
906 IPS posts lying vacant, maximum in UP
A day after the Civil Services examination results were announced and the country got some new raring-to-go IPS (Indian Police Service) officers, a Right to Information (RTI) query has revealed that there is a huge shortfall of police officers across the country.
Even unwed mother could be child’s guardian: SC
The Supreme Court ruled that there was no need for the father's consent in giving guardianship of a child to an unwed mother as it held that the views of "uninvolved father" are not essential if the child is solely raised by the mother.
Yoga makes it to Guinness Book of World Records
Two Guinness World Records were made in two different categories on the first International Day of Yoga. One largest number of participants in a Yoga Lesson at single venue. Two-
the most number of nationalists in a Yoga Lesson- participants from over 84 countries performed Yoga at Rajpath.
Disability is a state of mind says Beno Zephine the first visually challenged IFS officer
Around last year, the DoPT was in a dilemma - a visually challenged secured Rank 343 in the merit list in the Civil Services Exam and was insisting on taking up “Indian Foreign Service” as a career. Though she had cleared the civil services exam her posting was kept pending... till finally a desicion was taken to set aside the existing rules and allow the first-ever 100 per cent visually challenged officer in South Block. A first in the history of the 69-year-old service.
A horror called Jammu-Srinagar National Highway
If you hear that the Jammu-Srinagar national highway is not a road but a horror, don't take this to be an overstatement. Muster up the courage to undertake the journey, provided the highway is open, as it remains closed most of the time.
Transgenders too have a right to be employed?
Why the transgenders are not eligible for the Civil Services Preliminary exam when the Supreme Court has declared them as a third gender?
Delhi will be a world class city in four years: Kejriwal
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is a man with a mission. His latest dream is to give Delhiwalllahs a clean, corruption free world class city. Let's wait and watch..
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