IIT Guwahati researchers have developed a new method, ultrasound-assisted fermentation, to produce a safe sugar substitute called ‘Xylitol’ from sugarcane waste. Xylitol is a sugar alcohol derived from natural products. It has potential antidiabetic and anti-obesogenic effects ...

Credit Suisse has appointed Dixit Joshi as chief financial officer with effect from October 1, 2022 and Francesca McDonagh as group chief operating officer from September 19, 2022. Prior to this, Dixit Joshi was group treasurer at Deutsche Bank and also worked at Credit Suisse from ...

Current Affairs is the most important area in all competitive exams. But the difficulty level is very high. That’s why; many aspirants get confused, how to select Current Affairs for Preparation of Competitive Examination? In this Post, Daily Current Affairs 24 August 2022, we have tried to cover ...

Britain’s economy shrank by a record-breaking 9.9% in 2020, new figures by the Office of National Statistics show, highlighting the impact of Covid-19 restrictions, employment uncertainty and reduced demand, with limited growth in the final quarter narrowly avoiding a double-dip ...

World Gujarati Language Day 2022 is celebrated on 24th August every year. The day is celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of the great Gujarati writer Veer Narmad. “Gujarati Diwas” is celebrated because poet Narmad was considered the creator of Gujarati language. He made Gujarati ...

Leading economists have pencilled in a high 13-15.7 per cent uptick in the economy in the first quarter of 2022-23 with an upward bias. Soumya Kanti Ghosh, the group chief economic adviser at State Bank of India, on Tuesday said he expects the GDP to clip past 15.7 per cent in the first quarter ...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held a bilateral meeting with Uzbekistan counterpart Lt Gen Bakhodir Kurbanov on Tuesday. “Raksha Mantri Shri @rajnathsingh at the bilateral meeting with the Defence Minister of Uzbekistan, Lt Gen Bakhodir Kurbanov in Tashkent,” the office of the Defence Minister of ...

As per the official sources, PM Modi will commission the India's first indigenously-built aircraft carrier (IAC) Vikrant on September 2, 2022. The four trial phases of IAC Vikrant was completed on 10th  July 2022. The IAC Vikrant was designed by Indian Navy's ...

India has nominated Garba to inscribe on UNESCO's intangible cultural heritage list for 2022. Last year, Durga Puja was also listed on the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage representative. India was elected by UNESCO to serve on the distinguished Intergovernmental ...

Royal Enfield and UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) have been partnered to promote and safeguard the 'Intangible Cultural Heritage' of India. UNESCO has been running a movement to identify, document and preserve the Intangible Cultural ...

Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) has signed an agreement with Mahatma Phule Renewable Energy and Infrastructure Technology Ltd (MAHAPREIT) to provide loans for green energy projects. IREDA will provide financial facilities and techno-financial consultancy to ...

India has signed USD 96.3 million (Rs 769 crore) loan agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for safe drinking water and improve water supply and sanitation services in Himachal Pradesh. This agreement was signed between the multilateral lending agency and the ...