The Punjab Chief Minister Amrendra Singh launched a scheme to provide free sanitary pads to high school and college girls.
Also, he launched the Basera program to give property rights to slum dwellers.
After Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh states, Telangana has become the third state to successfully undertaken the urban local body reforms stipulated by the Ministry of Finance.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs recently chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the scheme to boost the industrial development of Jammu and Kashmir.
It has allocated 28,400 crores of Rupees for that scheme.
In a first of its kind initiative to promote education of the girl child, the Assam State Government has said every school-going girl student will get Rs 100 per day for attending classes.
According to a new German law, the Listed companies with four executives or more must appoint at least one woman to their boards.
It was proposed after voluntary efforts failed to close a gender gap at Germany.
India’s head coach Ravi Shastri launched a book ‘India’s 71-year Test: The Journey to Triumph in Australia’.
The book reflects on India’s first 12 tours to Australia – from 1947/48.
Shivalik Mercantile Co-operative Bank (SMCB) becomes first urban co-operative bank to transition to Small Finance Bank.
It currently operates in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, and Uttarakhand.
The Tripura state cabinet has decided to provide government jobs to the next of kin of those who lost their lives in political violence till March 2018.
The Defence Ministry of India has launched the Naval Innovation and Indigenisation Organisation (NIIO).