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Bhandari had suggested that holders of Indian passport/PIO/OCI card be allowed to travel with their US-born minor children under the age of 14 with any unexpired visa obtained anytime without applying for an emergency visa at consulates.
It can be described as “the Aadhaar for land” and will be used to prevent land fraud, a Department of Land Resources official told The Hindu. The identification will be based on the longitude and latitude coordinates of the land plot, which in turn will be based on detailed surveys and geo-referenced cadastral maps, the report stated.
Announced by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 15th August, 2019, with the aim to provide tap water supply to every rural home by 2024, Jal Jeevan Mission has reached a new milestone of providing over 4 Crore rural households with tap water supply.
A Four-point plan has been chalked out to deal with the situation arising from the blockage of Suez Canal. This plan was chalked out in a meeting convened by the Logistics Division, Department of Commerce, Government of India today. The meeting was chaired by Shri PawanAgarwal, Special Secretary (Logistics) and attended by the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, ADG Shipping, Container Shipping Lines Association (CSLA) and Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO).
The move is in line with the airport regulators plan to harmonize the upper airspace in India with four flight information regions in Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai to establish a single continuum of upper airspace.
In one of the biggest aerial surveys, over 500 high resolution drones would be deployed soon to map nearly 600,000 villages
The Government of India, Government of Nagaland and the World Bank today signed a US$ 68 million project to enhance the governance of schools across Nagaland as well as to improve teaching practices and learning environments in select schools.
Construction of 56,368 houses have been approved under PMAY-U at 53rd Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee Meeting held here last evening. These houses are proposed to be constructed under various verticals of PMAY-U Mission. A total of 11 States/UTs attended the meeting.
According to Gartner forecast on Tuesday, government IT expenditure in India is estimated at US$ 7.3 billion in 2021, an increase of 9.4% YoY.
The pace of construction of national highways has touched a record 34 km a day, the government said on Monday. This is almost three times the rate of highways construction at about 12 km per day in 2014-15.
