Annual job fair showcases skills, employability of the disabled. Job ads in Nepal encourage women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply, but few physically challenged people actually submit an application. Water Aid Nepal country director Ashutosh Tiwari is hoping […]
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Fillip to IAS aspirants among minorities : India
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh : In an effort to give a fillip to education and boost representation of minorities in All India Services (AIS), the minorities welfare department (MWD) has rolled out a scheme to sponsor 100 students from minority communities […]
Continue reading »Praveen Davar appointed as NCM member : India
Former AICC Secretary Praveen Davar has been made a member of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM). The NCM has seven members, including the chairman and one vice-chairman. As per the NCM Act, six members, including the chairman, must belong to […]
Continue reading »Loans for members of minority communities: India
KSMDFC offers short-term courses too The newly founded Kerala State Minorities Development Finance Corporation (KSMDFC), as part of its first phase of operations, is offering loans to qualified individuals who belong to Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Parsi, Buddhist, and Jain communities. […]
Continue reading »Shot in the Arm for MSMEs, Minorities : India
Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday allocated funds for the development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector and the members of the minority communities in the State. For establishing Common Facility Centre for the Rice Mill Cluster at […]
Continue reading »Study in Germany with very little or no tuition fee
Chennai Central @The Hindu in association with DAAD India, hosted a Facebook chat on higher education in Germany. This is the last of the two-part series. Read the first part here Padmavathi Chandramouli, Information Officer at the DAAD Information Centre, answered over […]
Continue reading »National minority status for Jains : India
New Delhi : Jains today became the country’s sixth designated minority community after the Union cabinet approved the status that would help the five-million-strong segment access central funds and other welfare schemes. The decision to grant the status under Section […]
Continue reading »Self employment schemes’ beneficiaries to be selected shortly: India
Andhra Pradesh : Selection of beneficiaries for self employment schemes would be completed by January 21, Karimnagar in-charge District Collector Sarfaraj Ahmed said here today. Addressing a meeting with bankers, he said that banks should issue consent letters to selected […]
Continue reading »Appointed : India
Mysore, Karnataka : M. Somasekhar has been appointed President and G. Shivarudrappa as Gen. Secretary of Mysore District Unit of Karnataka State ‘AHINDA’ (Backward Classes, Minorities and Dalits) Employees’ Association, according to a release. source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore […]
Continue reading »MLA distributes scholarships, hearing aids : India
Mysore, Karnataka : Chamundeshwari MLA G.T. Devegowda distributed scholarships and hearing aids to 50 specially abled students at a function organised this morning at JSS Polytechnic for Differently Abled, Manasagangotri, to mark the District Lions Service Foundation (DLSF) Day today. […]
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