World Malaria Report 2018 has shown that progress against the disease has stalled amid a scaling-down of significant investments. The data reveals worrying trends in the fight against malaria as the cases of malaria in 2017 increased globally to 219 million from 217 million in 2016 and 11 countries carry 70% of the global burden. Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, M...
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Transformational Changes in Energy Landscape of India
‘New Partnerships for New Energy’ was the theme of ENRich 2018, India’s flagship event for the Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) sector, held at New Delhi on 11 December 2018, where Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship while gracing the occasion said that Energy is a key driver of economic growth and government’s focus ...
Coastal Regulation Zone Notification
Coastal Regulation Zone(CRZ) Notification 2018, which will lead to better life due to enhanced activities in coastal regions thereby promoting economic growth while respecting conservation principles of coastal regions, has been approved by the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 28 December 2018.CRZ notification was last reviewed and issued in 2011 with periodic amendments ...
Strengthening Democratic Institutions in Maldives
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih’s first overseas visit to India, after becoming President of the Indian Ocean nation of Maldives with a population of 400000, from 16 to 18 December 2018, a month after assuming his new responsibility, reaffirmed Solih’s “India First” policy and seems to have brought a tumultuous phase in India-Maldives ties to a close. India, for its part,...
Sahitya Akademi announced Winners in 24 Languages
Sahitya Akademi Awards 2018, the most prestigious literary honours bestowed on writers for their works across genres and languages, were announced by Sahitya Akademi in 24 languages on 6 December 2018, to be presented to the authors at a special function in January 2019 at Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi. The winners cover extensive range of works representing diversity in contemporary Indian liter...
Leaning Tower of Pisa is Straightening & Recovering Tilt
Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, gravitationally-challenged landmark, has slowly started defying its name, losing 4 centimetres of its tilt over the past 17 years and is leaning less after years of ambitious engineering work.
Leaning Tower of Pisa or simply the Tower of Pisa is freestanding medieval bell tower, of the Cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa, sit...
GSLV-F11 Successfully Launched GSAT-7A for Air Force’s Communication Purposes
GSAT-7A, an advanced communication satellite with a Gregorian Antenna and many other new technologies, was launched successfully from Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F11) of Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota on Wednesday 19 December 2018. This is expected to add a new space-based dimension to the way Indian Air Force int...
India’s Heaviest Communication Satellite GSAT-11 Launched Successfully from French Guiana
‘Big Bird’, India’s first six-tonne-class advanced communication satellite GSAT-11, with the mission is to enable high-speed satellite-based Internet services to users in rural, remote areas and to businesses down home over the next 15 years, was put into orbit in the early hours of Wednesday 5 December 2018 from the European Spaceport in Guiana in South America.Continue Reading...
Teaching – A Promising Career Option
According to an old adage, “Teaching is the profession that creates all the other professions”. True indeed! Excellence and high quality in education at any level are only possible if we have the best teachers. In India, however, the teaching profession is often seen as a last choice career option or a “fallback” career by majority of people. The general perception is that teaching jobs and careers in the educat...
Earth Observation Satellite Hysis & 30 Foreign Satellites Launched
India’s Hyper-Spectral Imaging Satellite (HysIS) was injected into a 645 km sun-synchronous polar orbit 17 minutes and 19 seconds after the lift-off, as Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C43) of Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) lifted off at 9:57:30 (IST) from First Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota on 29 November 2018. Later, 30 foreign satellites were...