The Centre will on Monday launch SRESHTA scheme for socio-economic upliftment and overall development of Scheduled Castes students by providing quality residential education to meritorious students in reputed private schools. Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Virendra Kumar on Thursday said the Residential Education for Students in High Schools in Targeted Areas( SRESHTA) scheme will enable meritorious SC students to have a better future and aid in controlling dropout rates of students fro

The Congress declared candidates of two Lok Sabha seats and eight assembly seats in Odisha on Sunday.... Constituency Congress candidates 1 Baripada-ST Pramod Kumar Hembram 2 Jaleswar Debi Prasanna Chand 3 Balasore Smt.... Monalisa Lenka 4 Barachana Ajay Samal 5 Pallahara Fakir Samal 6 Barabati-Cuttack Mrs....

India is ranked at 71st position in the Global Food Security( GFS) Index 2021 of 113 countries, but the country lags behind its neighbours Pakistan and Sri Lanka in terms food affordability, according to a report. Pakistan( with 52.6 points) scored better than India( 50.2 points) in the category of food affordability.... Sri Lanka was even better with 62.9 points in this category on the GFS Index 2021, a global report released by Economist Impact and Corteva Agriscience on Tuesday said. Ireland

By Helen Reid3 Min ReadJOHANNESBURG( Reuters)-The United States and Britain are boycotting some Kimberley Process meetings because they are chaired by Russia, in a sign of how geopolitical rifts due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are affecting international diamond certification efforts. FILE PHOTO: An employee sorts rough diamonds at a sorting centre, owned by Alrosa company, in Moscow, October 18, 2013.... Picture taken October 18, 2013.... REUTERS/ Sergei Karpukhin/ File Photo The Kimberle

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