Noida International Airport: Key features

Noida International Airport

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will lay foundation stone of Noida International Airport. The event will happen in Jewar, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh on 25 November 2021. With this, Uttar Pradesh is poised to become the only state in India to have five international airports. The development of the airport is in line with … Read more

Cleanest Cities of India title is awarded to Indore

Cleanest Cities of India

Cleanest Cities of India title is awarded to Indore. The President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind today felicitated the awardees of the cleanest cities of India at the ‘Swachh Amrit Mahotsav’ hosted as part of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 by Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. Cleanest Cities … Read more

23 September in Indian and World History

23 September in Indian and World History

23 September in Indian and World History is celebrated, observed, and remembered for various reasons.23 September is the birth anniversary of Yusuf Meherali, Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’, and Prem Chopra. 23 September is also observed as the death anniversary of Rao Tularam Singh, and Satyanarayan Shastri. Birth Anniversary 23 September in Indian history is celebrated as … Read more

Shri Rajnath Singh unveils DRDO developed anti-COVID drug

2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG)

Shri Rajnath Singh unveils DRDO developed anti-COVID drug | Source: Ministry of Defence The first batch of the adjunct COVID therapy anti-COVID drug, 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG), was released by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh and handed over to Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Science & Tech and Earth Sciences Dr Harsh Vardhan in New Delhi … Read more

70,000 Isolation beds made available by Railways in more than 4400 Covid Care Coaches

Covid Care Coaches

Isolation Railway Coaches Set-Up in Bhopal to Address Bed Crunch in Hospitals | Source: News18 In the relentless fight against Covid, the Ministry of Railways are taking rapid action to swiftly move Isolation Coaches to places of demand (made by respective states) mobilising workforce and material for this task. The Railways has made available a … Read more

Railway mobilises Additional Covid Care Coaches for use in States of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra

Covid Care Coaches

Isolation Railway Coaches Set-Up in Bhopal to Address Bed Crunch in Hospitals | Source: News18 Strengthening the capabilities of the nation in the united fight against Covid, the Ministry of Railways has, amongst its multi-pronged initiatives, deployed nearly 4000 Isolation coaches with almost 64000 beds. To work concurrently with the States and in a bid … Read more

Shri Rajnath Singh reviews efforts in fight against second COVID-19 wave

Shri Rajnath Singh

Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh reviewed the efforts of the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces to support the civilian administration in the fight against the current COVID-19 situation in the country, through video conferencing on 1 May 2021. The meeting was attended by Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, Defence Secretary Dr … Read more

Indian Railways offering to supplement the COVID care efforts

Covid Care Coaches

Isolation Railway Coaches Set-Up in Bhopal to Address Bed Crunch in Hospitals | Source: News18 Indian Railways is making an all-out effort to supplement the COVID care efforts of the Government of India. Total 5601 train coaches were converted as Covid Care Centers by Indian Railway. Presently, a total of 3816 Coaches are available for … Read more

Railways logs record pace of route Kilometer electrification

route Kilometer electrification

Source: https://www.railwaygazette.com/ Indian Railways has planned to fully electrify its tracks by December 2023. Indian Railways has logged the highest ever electrification of sections. Initiatives covered  6,015 Route Kilometer (RKM)in a single year during 2020-21. Despite the ongoing pandemic, it surpassed the previous highest of 5,276 RKM achieved in 2018-19. The latest Broad Gauge network … Read more