Scientists in India have finished sequencing the genomes of 10,000 people from different Indian communities. This effort aims to create a database that could help develop treatments based on genes.

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Dr. Jitendra Singh has said that it will now take only 6 hours of road travel to reach Jammu from Delhi as the work on historic Katra-Delhi has started.

"Withdrawal of consent, if any, by a state government can be effected prospectively and not retrospectively," said Singh.

Jitendra Singh also hit out at Kharge for "giving his own version" of the panel's deliberations to the media.

The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) informed Parliament on Thursday that 21 new nuclear power reactors with a total installed capacity of 15,700 MW are expected to be set up in the country by 2031.

The government think-tank also pitched for an integrated exam for all civil services in its 'Strategy for New India @75' document released on Wednesday.

Speaking to the media on the sidelines of a function in winter capital Jammu, Jitendra Singh said: "Rohingyas and Bangladeshis were brought to India by the Congress party with a dubious motive to change the vote demography.  

"We have given up begging one year back. You are lagging," said M Venkaiah Naidu.

Pakistan's Foreign Office said yesterday that Kulbhushan Jadhav would be allowed to meet his wife on Pakistani soil.

Union Minister Jitendra Singh said that the security forces had been successful in effecting a positive change in the security situation.

The central government, it said, has introduced "far reaching changes" in the appointments of top officials to solve many problems faced by nationalised banks.

The MoS PMO was responding to a question about the recent 'threat' by China through its official media asking India to withdraw troops from the Sikkim sector.

Terming Mehbooba Mufti's statement as shocking and ridiculous, Jitendra Singh said, "Jammu and Kashmir is as much part of India as any other state of India. That is also the official stand."

Employees who have got job on the basis of fake caste certificates are to be sacked from the government service, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said today.

Seven pilgrims were killed and 19 others were injured on Monday late night when a group of LeT terrorists opened indiscriminate firing on a bus that was carrying 54 yatris who were returning to Jammu after the pilgrimage.

Singh said that let all of us be assured that Pakistan was being given a befitting reply and would be given a befitting reply for any mischief that happens from its soil.

Singh's assertion assumes significance as the Supreme Court had recently observed that the proposed Lokpal is a "workable piece of legislation" and it was not justifiable to keep its operation pending.

Jitendra Singh was asked whether the government has taken or proposes to take any measure for acceptance of RTI applications and providing their reply in Braille.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today defended Army Chief General Bipin Rawat’s warning to locals hampering counter-militancy operations in Kashmir and accused the Congress of speaking in the voice of separatists.

A total of 1081 cases and 75 preliminary enquiries are pending with the CBI as on December 31, 2016.