Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for nine National Highway Projects worth Rs 14000 crore in Bihar and launched the project to provide internet services through Optical Fibre in the state today through video conferencing.Speaking on the...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Monday flagged off seven more Amma mobile ration shops as part of the scheme's expansion plan.The mobile ration shops were flagged off at the state Secretariat as part of the state government's plan to add 3,501 more...

All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday claimed that wrong policies led to the failure of the Congress and RJD governments in Bihar.Owaisi was in Patna as the AIMIM entered into an alliance with the Samajwadi Janata...

The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi dedicated the historic Kosi Rail Mahasetu to the Nation and inaugurated new Rail Lines and Electrification Projects in Bihar for the benefit of passengers through video conference.Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister...

Advocate Prashant Bhushan on Monday filed a review petition in the Supreme Court, challenging its verdict convicting him for criminal contempt of court by making derogatory statements against the judiciary through tweets.On September 12, Bhushan had moved a plea...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday appreciated Nilanjana Chatterjee, the lady who tried to rescue a woman screaming for help on the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass on Saturday night and got hit by the offending vehicle, for her act of bravery."The...

The Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan today virtually launched the online system of Registration and Renewal of Jewellers and online system of recognition and renewal of the Assaying and Hallmarking Centres....

AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi and MBT leader Amjedullah Khan have demanded the Telangana government to implement orders of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to compensate the families of the five undertrials who were gunned down by the police in an...

In a potent remark, Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar on Thursday expressed hope that the Sushant Singh Rajput case should not go like the Narendra Dabholkar murder of 2013 which remains unsolved by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).Paying...

Reacting to the Supreme Court's decision for a CBI probe in the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said that everything was done as per the law in Bihar. He also denied any kind of politics in the matter.After the apex court ordered...

Union Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat held a review meeting with Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Shri Edappadi K. Palaniswami regarding implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission in the State through video conferencing today. Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM)...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that nearly 67 lakh girls have been empowered by the state government's Kanyashree scheme till date.Taking to Twitter, Banerjee said: "Today is Kanyashree Dibas (Day). The Kanyashree scheme, started...

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to focus on ramping up medical infrastructure in the country by drawing on the lessons from the country's experience in dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic.Rao expressed...

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday launched 'E-RakshaBandhan' campaign aimed at creating public awareness on cyber crimes against women and children.The virtual cyber crime awareness programme -- jointly developed by Andhra Pradesh...

Breaking his silence, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray slammed the demands for a CBI probe by the Opposition and some Bollywood personalities in the Sushant Singh Rajput case.In a late night statement, Thackeray said the Opposition can even bring Interpol...

Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan today launched the Bureau of Indian Standard’s Mobile App ‘BIS-Care’ and three portals – the Standardization, Conformity Assessment and Training Portals of e-BIS on ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on a Thursday said that Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will have to prove that the Hemtabad Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA's death is a "political murder"."The Governor is acting like a BJP spokesperson. He said that...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, here on Thursday, hit out at Governor Jaddeep Dhankhar for his criticism of the state's education system. A governor couldn't talk like a political party's representative, she said."I urge the Governor to respect...

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav and the Congress have taken a dig at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after the collapse of the Sattarghat bridge also called Ramjanki path on Gandak River in Gopalganj...

The Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan todayheld a media briefing through video conference to provide details of provision, preparedness and necessary steps taken by the ministry for providing additional...

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel Dharmendra Pradhan along with the Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik today inaugurated a Product Application & Development Centre (PADC) setup by Indian Oil at Paradip, through video conference.PADC has...

Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan today held a meeting via video conference to review the progress of the implementation of National Portability of NFSA ration card holders through “One Nation One Ration Card”...

Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Shri Ram Vilas Paswan today chaired the review meeting with the Food Corporation of India’s Zonal Executive Directors and Regional General Managers on the distribution and procurement of...

Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan has given detailed information about the various steps taken by the government and the total stocks of food grains and pulses available with the government and sent to the states...

The Centre has asked the States to ensure that there is no hoarding and price rise of essential commodities during the lockdown. This was conveyed by the Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Shri Ram Vilas Paswan during a video...

March 15 is celebrated as the World Consumer Rights Day throughout the world. The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Government of India observed this day by organizing a webinar on this year’s theme, ‘The Sustainable Consumer’. The webinar was organized in place...

The relentless efforts of Mr. Bharat Bhushan Ashu, Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer affairs today yields high fruits, when the Union Government accepted his rationale to shift 12 lakh surplus rice from the brimful godowns of Punjab to Uttar...

Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today met Chief Minister, Odisha Naveen Patnaik, along with H.E. Ambassador of Japan to India, Mr. Satoshi Suzuki, in Bhubaneswar. Avenues for collaboration, particularly in the steel sector were...

Union Tribal Affairs Minister  Arjun Munda launched the “Programme for Capacity Building of Scheduled Tribe Representatives in Local Self Governments” at a programme in Bhubhaneswar (Odisha) today. He also launched “1000 Spring Initiatives” and an online...

All out efforts should be made to increase the yield of sugarcane crop and to convert the loss making sugar mills into the financially viable sugar complexes so as to increase the income of farmers and generate more employment opportunities in agriculture...

The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution today held a press conference regarding mandatory hallmarking of Gold jewelry & artefacts in India for which notification will be issued by the Department of Consumer Affairs providing...

Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha, inaugurated the Adani-KISS Residential School at Bankishole, Baripada, Mayurbhanj, Odisha on 8th January 2020. On this occasion Shri Sudam Marandi, Minister, Revenue and Disaster Management, Govt. of Odisha; Shri Bishweswar...

The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution  Ram Vilas Paswan today inaugurated the One Day Workshop organized by the Bureau of Indian Standard with the aim to disseminate information about requirements of Indian Standard with...

New Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday afternoon formally took charge at ''Mantralaya'' here with a huge crowd trailing him.Arriving in the state government headquarters, Thackeray accompanied by wife Rashmi, a few family members, son...

The Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Shri Ram Vilas Paswan today announced that Notification for mandatory Hallmarking of Gold Jewellery & Artefacts across the nation to be issued on 15th January, 2020. Addressing media...

The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Shri Ram Vilas Paswan has always exhorted providing quality products to consumers which includes providing clean & safe drinking water for all. This is also in line with Jal Jeevan...

AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said that the Supreme Court is "supreme but not infallible" and termed its judgment in the Ayodhya title dispute case as a victory of "faith over facts".Reacting to the Supreme Court verdict in the Ayodhya case,...

Union Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises (HIPE), Arvind Sawant, inaugurated new testing facilities at International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) today. A  technology appreciation drive was also organized to bring out the...

Cabinet Minister Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria and local MLA Navtej Singh Cheema formally welcomed Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today here at Sultanpur Lodhi. CM Nitish Kumar was here to pay homage at Gurudwara Ber Sahib on the occasion of 550th birth anniversary...

The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan today reviewed the prices& availability of Onions across the nation with Secretary Consumer Affairs Avinash K Srivastava, Secretary Food, Shri Ravi Kant along with...

Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan distributed the Hindi Pakhwada Awards, 2019 to the officials and employees of the Department of Consumer Affairs in Krishi Bhawan today. Shri Paswan congratulated all the winners...

Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan inaugurated the celebrations of ‘World Standard Day’ by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on the theme “Video Standards create a global stage” in New Delhi today. The theme...

Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan today showcased the Bullet Resistant Jackets being made under the ‘Make in India’ initiative of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. The Jackets have been made using standard (IS...

The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Shri Ram Vilas Paswan today made a clarion call for beginning a ‘Swachh PaniAbhiyaan’ or clean water mission in line with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’. Shri...

In order to fast-track consumer grievance redressal process and provide an effective forum for consumers to give their valuable suggestions to the Department on  consumer related issues, Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution...

The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan held a review meeting on BIS laboratory activities today. Shri Paswan said  that there should be ‘One Nation One Standard’ and there should be coordination between...

Moments before code of conduct for Maharashtra Assembly elections were announced, Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray spoke at India Today Conclave in Mumbai on September 20. While the BJP and Shiv Sena have announced a pre-poll alliance for the elections, there...

The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind reached Ljubljana, Slovenia, yesterday (September 15, 2019) in the final leg of his visit to – Iceland, Switzerland and Slovenia.  This is the first ever presidential visit from India to Slovenia. Today (September...

Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan today chaired a meeting on the Standard formation process of Bureau of India Standard (BIS) and their enforcement with the senior officials from 14 Ministries. Wide ranging discussions...

Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan today met key stakeholders from Plastic bottle industry and senior government officials from various ministries to find suitable alternative for single use plastic. During the...

The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs Food and Public Distribution, Shri Ram Vilas Paswan today announced a blanket ban on all types of single use plastic products in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and all its PSUs including...

The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution held the Fifth National Consultation Meeting of State Ministers, Secretaries and other officials of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairsat VigyanBhawan in New Delhi today. Union Minister...

The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Shri Ram Vilas Paswan today launched the National Lab Directorywhich is a one-stop-shop for all testing needs of the industries, academia, researchers and other stakeholders who need to...

The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution  Ram Vilas Paswan today held wide ranging discussions on the rules and regulations to be formed under the New Consumer Protection Act, 2019 with several Members of Parliament (MPs)...

The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan today critically and minutely examined the production, availability, consumption pattern, import and export of all pulses, oilseeds and Onions with senior officials from...

The Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog, Shri Rajiv Kumar met the Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Shri Ram Vilas Paswan atKrishiBhawan in New Delhi today. The Vice Chairman discussed the ongoing Rice Fortification Pilot Scheme and...

The Consumer Protection Act 2019 will be more holistic and  stringent once the rules are framed to protect the interest of the Consumer ,stating this at a press conference today Union Minister for Consumer Affairs ,Food and Public distribution Shri...

In a major step towards achieving the objective of ‘One Nation One Ration Card’, the Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Shri Ram Vilas Paswan today inaugurated the inter-State portability in two clusters of adjoining States...

In the wake of twin murders of old couples in the city, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday promised a thorough investigation in  both cases and stringent action to ensure the safety of the elderly."Thorough investigation will be...

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Wednesday met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and invited her to his party's  campaign to shun Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and return to ballot papers for future elections.Claiming that...