India plans media campaign on girl child

A cute, chubby animated character called Chamki will reach out to people across the country, spreading the message to let a girl child live in and outside the womb and get her education so that she could chase her dreams.
Chamki, a mascot conceived to create awareness on the subject of girl child, is part of [...]

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Court summons former Haryana CM in teacher’s scam

A city court on Wednesday issued fresh summons to former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala after taking cognizance of a charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against him in a teachers’ recruitment scam of 2003.
The charge sheet also names his son and former parliamentarian Ajay Chautala, two Indian Administrative Services [...]

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New UNFPA initiative to boost midwifery

New York: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) have launched a new initiative to tackle the severe lack of midwives in developing countries.
The new UNFPA-ICM midwifery programme will increase the number of births attended by professional midwifery providers and develop the foundations for a sustainable midwifery workforce in [...]

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No Stumbling Blocks Accepted

“If one of these little children believes in me, and another
person causes that child to sin, then it will be very bad for
that person. It would be better for that person to have a
millstone tied around his neck and be drowned in the sea.”
– Mark 9:42 (ERV)
KEY THOUGHT:
So often in our passion to preserve the [...]

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Madhya Pradesh teachers’ pay system to go online

In an effort to smoothen the disbursement of salary of all the teachers and staff working in the Madhya Pradesh Education Department, the state government has decided to disburse their salaries online.
“With this the principals of higher secondary schools who had been doing salary related work in the capacity of disbursal officers would be relieved [...]

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Madhya Pradesh teachers’ pay system to go online

In an effort to smoothen the disbursement of salary of all the teachers and staff working in the Madhya Pradesh Education Department, the state government has decided to disburse their salaries online.
“With this the principals of higher secondary schools who had been doing salary related work in the capacity of disbursal officers would be relieved [...]

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K’taka invokes Goonda Act against church attackers

Bangalore: The Government of Karnataka on Monday decided to treat those attacking places of worship as ‘goondas’ (thugs) and prosecute them under a tough law popularly known as ‘Goonda Act’.
The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting called to consider steps to end the continuing attacks on Christian places of worship in the state that [...]

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K’taka invokes Goonda Act against church attackers

Bangalore: The Government of Karnataka on Monday decided to treat those attacking places of worship as ‘goondas’ (thugs) and prosecute them under a tough law popularly known as ‘Goonda Act’.
The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting called to consider steps to end the continuing attacks on Christian places of worship in the state that [...]

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Himachal plans online system for public grievances

Shimla: The Government of Himachal Pradesh is planning to evolve an online system of public grievances monitoring, which would connect the office of the Chief Minister to the common man at grass root level.
Announcing this at the review meeting of the Department of Redressal of Public Grievances here on Monday, the Chief Minister Prem Kumar [...]

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Banks to get Rs 250 bn to meet farm loan waiver

New Delhi: The Government of India will give Rs 25,000 crore to banks to help them make up the loss incurred on account of farm loan waiver, said a senior official on Wednesday.
“Rs 25,000 crore will be released to the lending institutions (against the debt waiver) when Parliament meets to approve the supplementary budget,” Finance [...]

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