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Category: International
Maldives and Sri Lanka eliminate measles and rubella, ahead of 2023 target
Operation Samudra Setu culminates
Operation Samudra Setu has culminated after successfully bringing 3992 Indian citizens (from Male, Colombo and Read More …
World Drug Report and India
According to the latest World Drug Report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Read More …
Bubonic plague case reported in China
According to the health officials, a herdsman in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia was Read More …
Dhamma Chakra Day and Mongolian Kanjur
The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind on July 4, 2020 inaugurated the Asadha Read More …
State of the World Population 2020 Report
What: State of the World Population 2020 Who: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Why: round Read More …
World Bank launches STARS Project in India
What: STARS Project Who: World Bank When: June 24, 2020 Why: To improve the quality Read More …
First domestication of chicken occurred in China
Why in news? According to a recent collaborated study, the DNA sequencing of 863 genomes Read More …
Japan renames Tonoshiro to Tonoshiro Senkaku
Image credit: CNN Why in the news? The local assembly of Ishigaki city in southern Read More …
Decarbonising Transport in India Project
Why in the News? NITI Aayog in collaboration with International Transport Forum (ITF) will launch Read More …
International Day of Yoga 2020, Theme
The sixth International Day of Yoga was celebrated with great enthusiasm across the country through Read More …
India-AIIB sign $750 Million for COVID-19 support
India and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on June 18, 2020 signed a $750 Read More …
India Joins Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence
India on June 15, 2020 joined the league of leading economies including USA, UK, EU, Read More …
Nature Index 2020
With 1805 publications, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China has topped the Nature Index 2020 Read More …
World Accreditation Day 2020 Theme
The World Accreditation Day (WAD) was celebrated on June 9 with the theme of “Accreditation: Read More …
QS World University rankings 2021
The total number of Indian institutions in the top 1,000 global list has fallen from Read More …
World Food Safety Day 2020 Theme
The second World Food Safety Day (WFSD) is being celebrated on 7 June 2020. The Read More …
India-Australia Sign Mutual Logistics Support Agreement
The ‘virtual’ summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison took Read More …
What is Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA)?
The Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has announced to suspend its earlier move to abrogate the Read More …
NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 Historic Mission
For the first time in history, NASA astronauts have launched from the United State of Read More …
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
US President Donald Trump on May 28, 2020 an executive order that aims to narrow social Read More …
United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the year Award 2019
An Indian Army officer-Major Suman Gawani, who served as a women peacekeeper with the United Read More …
Ninth century Shiva Lingam unearthed at Vietnam’s Cham temple
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has found a Shiva Lingam dating back to the Read More …
Solar Fence Farmland Protection Programme
Due to the temporary break from normal agricultural activities because of Covid-19 lockdown, farmers in Read More …
What does ‘Mayday’ communication means?
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane ( PK-8303) carrying 91 passengers and eight crew members crash-landed Read More …