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The government of India is implementing schemes for scholarship/grant for Indian students traveling abroad for higher studies like National Overseas Scholarship for Scheduled Caste Students, Overseas Doctoral Fellowship Programme, National Overseas Scholarship for Scheduled Tribe Students.

Government of India has introduced two voluntary and Contributory Pension Schemes, Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan Yojna, (PM-SYM), a pension scheme for the Unorganised Workers and National Pension Scheme for the Traders and Self Employed Persons (NPS-Traders)

The Government of India Takes Various Initiatives to Popularise Kabaddi. The sports facilities of Sports Authority of India (SAI) and Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, Gwalior and Guwahati have been made available free of cost for sports including Kabaddi for organizing training programmes and sporting events.

Union Minister for Home Affairs, Amit Shah presided over the signing of historic agreement between Government of India, Government of Assam and Bodo representatives, in New Delhi on 28th January 2020. Further, a permanent solution has been found out for the problem that has cost the region over 4000 lives. 

The night of December 2nd, 1984, will remain etched in our country’s memory. On that horrific night, deadly methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, claiming over 20,000 lives and leaving lakhs severely disabled. Abdul Jabbar, who was 28 then, lost his mother, father, brother and himself suffered lung fibrosis and lost 50% of his vision. On November 14, 2019, he passed away after fighting for justice for the victims and survivors for close to 3 decades. With the government of India awarding this Bhopal gas tragedy activist the Padma Shri posthumously, let’s take a look at his lesser-known story in this episode of India Untold with Sunita Iyer.

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled Rs 102 lakh crore of infrastructure projects to be implemented in the next five years
 

Amidst protests over the CAA and NRC, here’s some good news for Khatija Parveen, a woman hailing from Pakistan who has been granted Indian Citizenship by the Government of India.  Khatija Praveen, along with her husband, expressed happiness and gratitude on receiving the certificate of registration from the Government.

The Minister for Communications, Law & Justice and Electronics and Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that the National Broadband Mission is to fulfill all aspirations of the people and enables fast track growth of digital communication infrastructure. He was addressing the gathering after launching the National Broadband Mission (NBM) at an event on 17th december. A large number of representatives from the telecom industry, officers from various Ministries of the Government of India, various State Governments and senior officers of the Department of Telecommunications participated in the event.

President Ram Nath Kovind said it was in 2015, the 125th birth anniversary year of Bhimrao Ambedkar that the central government of India decided to celebrate November 26, as 'Constitution Day' every year

Abhinav Khare deep dives into the tweet by Aam Admi Party MLA Rajendra Pal Gautam, which sought to add to the Hinduphobia that left-leaning governments and parties have been trying to maintain
 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the fifth India International Science Festival. PM Modi will also address a gathering in Kolkata through video conferencing. The India International Science Festival (IISF) 2019 is an annual event organised jointly by the science and technology-related ministries and Departments of the Government of India and Vijnana Bharati (Vibha). 

Be it restoring communication lines fully or bringing in investments to the state, youths of J&K want the government of India to fulfil all the promises it made during the abrogation of the Articles 370 and 35A

'First of all, I would like to thank the Government of India for honouring me with the Arjuna award. I would also like to congratulate the other winners as well. They've performed brilliantly in their fields,' Ravindra Jadeja said in a video message posted on the BCCI's Twitter handle

 Maria Fernanda Espinosa said she has "sent her condolences to the people and the Government of India after the monsoon floods in the southern and western parts of the country, which led to over 140 deaths, and hundreds of thousands of people being evacuated"
 

Former chief economic adviser to the Government of India, Arvind Subramanian claims that India has over-estimated the GDP in 2015. In a new paper ''Validating India's GDP Growth Estimates'', the former CEA said he had indicated his doubts on the growth numbers in the Economic Survey in 2015 as well as mid-year Economic Analysis.