Dhola-Sadiya Bridge, India’s longest river bridge, across River Lohit, a tributary of the Brahmaputra in Assam’s Tinsukia district was inaugurated on May 26, 2017 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and it was decided to name it after Bhupen Hazarika. This bridge will shorten the distance between Assam and Arunachal Pradesh by 165 k...
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World Water Day 2019
‘Leaving no one behind’, an adaptation of the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: as sustainable development progresses, everyone must benefit, was the theme for World Water Day 2019. Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) aims to ensure availability and sustainable management of water for all by 2030. India’s Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation...
PratiyogitaDarpan: AFavourite Magazine for Competitive Exams
Competitive Examinations require a great deal of preparations. Magazines play an important role in the preparations specifically in case of the UPSC eCivil Services Examination (CSE), where a large part of Current Affairs related questions are analytical in nature. Reading newspapers keeps candidates abreast with the current events of national and international importance on daily and regular ba...
Justice P C Ghose is India’s First Lokpal
India gets its first Lokpal, as the former Supreme Court Judge Pinaki Chandra Ghose has been appointed as Lokpal, an office dedicated to fighting systemic corruption in the country, by a committee consisting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, Loksabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi in the capacity of 'eminent person'. The concept of a...
2nd International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
International Workshop on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure-2019 (IWDRI), the 2nd IWDRI, organised by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in collaboration with United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), and in partnership with the Global Commission on Adaptation, United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank on 19 & 20 March 2019 in New De...
Web Wonder Women campaign
Web Wonder Women, online campaign aimed to recognise the fortitude of Indian women stalwarts from across the globe, who have used the power of social media to run positive and niche campaigns to steer a change in the society, which was launched on 9 January 2019 by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) in collaboration with Twitter India and Breakthrough India, selected after an exte...
Fourth United Nations Environment Assembly
“Innovative Solutions for environmental challenges and sustainable production and consumption”, was the theme of the 4th United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) this year held in Nairobi from 11 to 15 March 2019, where India piloted resolutions on two important global environment issues relating to Single-use Plastics and Sustainable Nitrogen management:
PETROTECH -2019 Emphasised Responsible Oil Pricing
PETROTECH -2019, India’s flagship hydrocarbon Conference was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at India Expo Centre, Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh on Monday 11 February 2019 in its 13th edition, pitching for responsible oil pricing that balances interests of both the producer and the consumer, Modi said, “For too long, the world has seen crude prices on a roller-coaster,” a...
INDIA-US Trade Issues: Generalized System of Preferences
Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) is a U.S. trade programme designed to promote economic growth in the developing world by providing preferential duty-free entry for up to 4800 products from 129 designated beneficiary countries and territories, which United States intends to terminate in case of India and Turkey and has given a 60-day withdrawal notice for that on Tuesday 5 March 2019.
...France-India Space Cooperation CNES & ISRO to Establish Maritime Surveillance Centre in India
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Sivan K and National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) - French space agency, President Jean-Yves Le Gall, have signed an agreement on Wednesday 6 March 2019 in Bangalore, to establish maritime surveillance centre in India. India and France will explore putting up a constellation of low-Earth orbiting satellites that will identify...