The state cabinet minister for women and child development Mamta Bhupesh on Wednesday said that the Indira Gandhi Maternity Nutrition Scheme will now be implemented across the state...
The Smart City Thiruvananthapuram Ltd (SCTL), which has of late witnessed a spate of exits at various positions, recently took the decision to constitute a project implementation unit (PIU) and empanel independent consultants at additional cost disregarding the decision of the previous board meetings. The board meeting held in March had approved a decision to empanel consultants to provide handholding support to the SCTL and seven independent consultants were recruited for civil, electrical and legal and HR departments. While the recommendation was to fix remuneration for these consultants at Rs 6,000 per day for their service of 20 days a month, the board revised it as Rs 3,000 per day...
India is again witnessing a resurgence of COVID-19 cases with Maharashtra, Kerala, Delhi and Karnataka contributing over 81 per cent to the daily tally. Perturbed over the spike, union health ministry on Thursday wrote to the states asking them to strengthen surveillance and take pre-emptive measures to limit the spread of infection...
At the precipice of large-scale climate change and environmental degradation, with climate adaptation costs rising to $500 Billion a year, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has recalled its fifty-year long history of observations to mark World Environment Day (WED) on June 5, 2022. With the theme #OnlyOneEarth, mirroring that of the first World Environment Day, 1974, the global community has come full circle in realising the importance of planet Earth as the singular home for mankind.
