The third edition of the SDG India Index and Dashboard 2020–21 was released by NITI Read More …
Category: Current Affairs
SDG India Index 2020-21
SWASTIIK-Technology for Safe & healthy drinking water
Scientists, Dr. VM Bhandari and his group at CSIR-NCL Pune, with support from Water Technology Read More …
APEDA to set up dairy Export Promotion Forum
The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has set up an Export Read More …
RDSO-India’s first institution to be declared as Standard Developing Organization
Indian Railways’ Research Design & Standards Organization (RDSO) has become the India’s first institution to Read More …
Eight new Flying Training Academies
India is set to get 8 new Flying Training Academies under the liberalised Flying Training Read More …
NASA announces DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions to Venus
GS TIMES STAFF NASA has selected two new missions DAVINCI+ and VERITAS to Venus, Earth’s nearest Read More …
Seed Minikit Programme launched
The Seed Minikit Programme was launched by Union Agriculture Minster Sh. Narendra Singh Tomar on June 2, Read More …
Joe Biden officially recognises Tulsa Race Massacre
U.S. President Joe Biden became the first sitting American head of state to officially recognise Read More …
Rare subspecies of the male Koklass pheasant in India
Gurugram-based wildlife photographer Rajeev Dasgupta got the first photographic evidence of the rare subspecies of Read More …
Central Civil Services (Pension) Amendment Rules, 2020
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has notified the Central Civil Services (Pension) Amendment Read More …
Union Cabinet approved Model Tenancy Act
The Union Cabinet on June 2, 2021 approved the Model Tenancy Act to be sent Read More …
India-Argentina MoU on lithium mining
GS TIMES STAFF The Union Cabinet on June 2, 2021 approved the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Read More …
Agreement on “Cooperation in the field of Mass Media”
The Union Cabinet has given its ex-post facto approval for signing and ratification of an Agreement Read More …
India-Maldives MoU in the field of sustainable urban development
The Union Cabinet was apprised of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Ministry Read More …
Iranian ship Kharg sank in Gulf of Oman
The largest warship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank on June 2 Read More …
Two new species of woolly flying squirrels discovered in Himalayas
An international team of researchers from Australia and China have shown that two related species Read More …
Joe Biden suspends oil drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
GS TIMES STAFF The United State’s Joe Biden’s administration has suspended oil and gas leases Read More …
Centre allows direct production of ethanol from sugarcane
The Union Government has amended the Sugarcane (Control) Order, 1966 by allowing the setting up Read More …
Bnei Menashe from Northeast
According to the Eastmojo, some 160 Jews from the Northeastern Indian community of Bnei Menashe Read More …
“Nitrogen pollution restricts the safe margin for other environmental issues”
India Science Wire Humanity’s failure to stop nitrogen pollution could limit the safe operating margin Read More …
IIT Ropar develops AmbiTag
Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar (IIT Ropar) in Punjab has developed a first-of-its-kind IoT device Read More …
Horticulture Cluster Development Programme
To ensure holistic growth of horticulture, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Read More …
China to follow three children policy
China has allowed couples to have up to three children, after recent census data showed Read More …
MP launches Ankur scheme
The Madhya Pradesh government has launched of Ankur scheme under which citizens will be awarded Read More …
India’s GDP contracts 7.3% in FY20-21
India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by 7.3 per cent in FY 2020-21, as per the Read More …