To mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on 2nd October as Rashtriya Swachhta Diwas, Secretary, Petroleum and Natural Gas flagged off the publicity vans in Delhi, to generate…
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The Comprehensive first-ever National Nutrition Survey conducted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and UNICEF between February 2016 and October 2018 is the first study undertaken, yet to be made public, to measure…
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For good nutrition among pregnant women and children in a southern Assam district administration has been given a gooseberry candy twist.The tablets(iron-folic acid tablets) given to these groups are often not consumed…
Read MoreThe composite water management index (CWMI) 2.0 was released by NITI Aayog. The states are ranked across nine themes, including attention to groundwater and restoration…
Read MorePV Sindhu became the first Indian to win the BWF World Championships, crushing Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara 21-7, 21-7 in just 38 minutes in a one-sided final. With the win, Sindhu now has a…
Read MoreThe famous Palani panchamirtham, given as ‘prasadam’ at the Murugan temple there, has been granted the Geographical Indication (GI) tag. …
Read MoreThe Centre scrapped Article 370 of the Constitution that grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir;the government has decided to bifurcate the state into two Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir, which will…
Read MoreThe Reserve Bank of India has decided to lower interest rate for the fourth consecutive policy review as it reduced repo rate by 35 bps to 5.40%. Reverse repo rate has been revised to 5.15…
Read MoreParliament approved a bill to enable introduction of minimum wage for every worker besides addressing issues like delay in payment to employees. The Code on Wages Bill, 2019 — which seeks to…
Read MoreFinance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced,Budget 2019, that her government will promote Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) to reduce cost of production of farmers and thereby double their income. Subhash Palekar, who coined…
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