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...
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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:
SHREYAS to Skill Non-Technical Students
SHREYAS (Scheme for Higher Education Youth in Apprenticeship and Skills), a programme conceived for students in degree courses, primarily non-technical, with a view to introduce employable skills into their learning, promote apprenticeship as integral to education and also amalgamate employment facilitating efforts of the Government into the education system so that clear pathways towards employ...
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...
New Night Sky Map Reveals 3 Lakh Unknown Galaxies
'Hundreds of Thousands' Unknown Galaxies, previously unknown, have been discovered with 15 Million More Forecast using LOFAR telescope that can detect light sources - optical instruments cannot see, in a new map of the night sky published on Tuesday 19 February 19. This discovery literally shed new light on some of the Universe’s deepest secrets, including the p...
DRDO test fires indigenous Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile
Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM), incorporated with advanced features including state-of-the-art Imaging Infrared Radar (IIR) Seeker with integrated avionics – indigenously developed, low weight, fire, and forget – was successfully test fired by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in a major boost for Army in the ranges of Rajasthan desert on 13 an...
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.
...Public Sector Banks are lifeline of Indian Economy
Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC), is a success story that everybody concedes, it has brought back close to ₹3 lakh crore back into the banking system, Union Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs, Arun Jaitley said at the conference on ‘Reforms Journey for EASE in Public Sector Banks (PSBs)”, organised by Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) on Thursday 28 February 2019 in...
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...
National Conference on Unani Medicine
National Conference on Unani Medicine, themed on ‘Unani Medicine for Public Health’, that elaborated contributions and potentials of Unani Medicine in public health and highlighted that Unani Medicine has effective treatment for many diseases that are not effectively treated in other medical systems, organized by the Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine (CCRUM) as a pa...