The national Aadi Mahotsav will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 16th February, 2023 at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, New Delhi. The Festival will be organized by TRIFED, Ministry of Tribal Affairs. More than 1000 tribal artisans and artists from different parts ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the first-ever outbreak of Marburg disease in Equatorial Guinea saying that the Ebola-related virus is responsible for at least nine deaths in the tiny Western African country. In a statement on Monday, WHO confirmed the epidemic after samples from ...
Ministry of Civil Aviation has launched Regional Connectivity Scheme - UDAN (UdeDeshkaAamNagrik) on 21.10.2016 to stimulate regional air connectivity and making air travel affordable to the masses. UDAN is a market driven scheme. Interested airlines based on their assessment of demand on pa ...
The Minister for Communications, Electronics & Information Technology and Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw recently inaugurated the National Philatelic Exhibition - AMRITPEX 2023 at Pragati Maidan in Delhi. An exhibition on the transformative journey of India Post was also inaugurated o ...
Founded by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1921, Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal's Shantiniketan town is all set to become the world's first "living heritage university". The university will soon get the ‘heritage’ tag from UNESCO to become the world ...
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has successfully launched the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV). It was launched from the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan space centre at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The SSLV-D2 dropped EOS-07, Azzzadi SAT-2, and Janus-1 satellites. The satellites ...
Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav addressed at India Energy Week in Bengaluru. India has emerged as one of the global forerunners with the ability to show concrete and collective resolve to ensure harmony and energy security in the world To reshape the g ...
Under the framework of G20, Ministry of Tourism will organise its first Tourism Working Group meeting from 7th to 9th February 2023 in Rann of Kutch, Gujarat. The last meeting will be held in Goa. In G20, there are 5 inter related priority areas for tourism. Greening of tour ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dedicated to the nation a helicopter manufacturing plant of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, HAL in Tumakuru in Karnataka The Greenfield Helicopter factory, spread across 615 acres, will manufacture the Light Utility Helicopters. It has Heli-runway, fligh ...
The Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) will soon start providing services like the one offered by Common Service Centres (CSC). A Primary Agricultural Credit Society (PACS) is a basic unit and smallest co-operative credit institution. It works on the grassroots level. The Gover ...
The two day Ist G20 Education Working Group has concluded in Chenneai . 80 delegates from 30 countries and international organizations from member nations and special invitees participated in the meeting. Collaboration with Universities across the globe would be the major outcome of the del ...
Digi Yatra will be implemented at Kolkata, Pune, Vijayawada and Hyderabad Airports by March this year. The Digi Yatra policy is an initiative for a biometric boarding system using Facial Recognition Technology at airports. Digi Yatra will be implemented across airports in a phased ...
Wetlands are the places where water remains accumulated throughout the year on marshy soil-like land. Wetlands are vital ecosystems which sustain biological diversity. The government will promote their unique conservation values through Amrit Dharohar, a scheme that will be implemented over the next ...
During the Union Budget 2023 presentation, the finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman announced that the government of India to introduce Data Governance policy which will enable access to anonymized data. The introduction of National Data Governance Policy will enable safe access to anonymized ...
This year the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to launch the Aditya-L1 mission from Sriharikota aboard the PSLV rocket by June or July. Aditya translates to 'the sun' . Aditya-L1 is India’s first space-based Indian mission to study the Sun. The Aditya-L1 mission ...
Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) has achieved another milestone of providing tap water supply to eleven crore rural households with Prime Minister Narendra Modi describing the achievement as a great feat. He congratulated to all those who have benefitted from this initiative and complimented to those wor ...
The 3rd edition of Orange Festival celebrated by Nagaland has concluded. The two day festival which started from 24th of January was held at Rusoma village in the Kohima district of Nagaland. Organised to mark the harvest of organic oranges, the festival was organised in collaboration with ...
These days the 8th India International Science Festival (IISF) is being held in Bhopal from 21st to 24th January 2023. Organised at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, this four-day science festival is all set to attract 8000 scientists, teachers, researchers and students. ...
Recently, the Asian Water Bird Census (AWC) -2023 has reported that the number of birds in the Kole wetlands of Thrissur in Kerala has reduced significantly. The number of water birds in the wetland has decreased from the 15,959 birds counted during the 2022 survey to 9,904. Unscientific construc ...
The first-ever joint exercise between Indian Army and Egyptian Army named "Exercise Cyclone-I" is underway at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. This 14 day exercise intends to bolster defence cooperation between India and Egypt It focuses on sharing professional skills and interoperability ...
The 43rd edition of FITUR, an International Tourism Fair, kicked off on 18th January in Madrid in Spain. The fair will last till January 22. With over 130 countries taking part in this edition, it is one of the biggest tourism fairs in the world. FITUR means Feria Internacional del Turismo. Trave ...
More than 300 intellectuals from India and abroad released the Bhopal Declaration after discussing the G-20 agenda in the two-day meeting of Think-20 under G20 in Bhopal. What is Think 20 ? The Think 20 (T20) is an engagement group comprising of think tanks from G20 countries that provides pol ...
Signed in 2018, the India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline Project (IBFPL) is all set to connect Siliguri in West Bengal in India and Parbatipur in Dinajpur district of Bangladesh. Meant for importing diesel from India the 131.5 kilometre long pipeline will start supplying diesel to Bangladesh from ...
The 21st edition of the bilateral naval exercise between India and France, Exercise Varuna, has started at the Western Seaboard on January 16th, 2023. The exercise will run till January 20th. The bilateral exercise, which was initiated in 1993, was christened ‘Varuna’ in 2001 an ...
Indian government has announced plans to set up the country’s first Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Online Gaming in Shillong by March 2023. India Embracing Online gaming in unprecedented way The CoE will be set up under Digital India Startup Hub through the Software Technology Parks of In ...
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) has listed Neelakurinji (Strobilanthes kunthiana) under Schedule III of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972, including it on the list of protected plants. Hence, Neelakurinji has joined the list of 19 plants that are listed under Sc ...
Instituted by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) the Digital India Awards (DIA) encourage and honor innovative digital solutions and exemplary initiatives by various government entities in the realm of digital governance. DIA aims to inspire and motivate not only ...
World Hindi Day, i.e.Vishwa Hindi Diwas, is an annual celebration that takes place on January 10th every year. The rationale for celebrating this day is to establish the significance of Hindi as a language and to promote it. Difference between World Hindi Day and National Hindi Diwas ...
On 9th January, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention in Indore in Madhya Pradesh. Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas (PBD) is a biennial event held in January, to commemorate the return of Mahatma Gandhi to India from South Africa on 9th January 1915. Thi ...
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved a large infrastructure development scheme for the public broadcaster Prasar Bharati that runs both Doordarshan (DD) and All India Radio(AIR). The outlay of the scheme named Broadcasting Infrastructure and Network Development (BIND) is Rs. ...
