The center has instituted a high-level committee to examine the possibility of withdrawing the AFSPA in Nagaland. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India Vivek Joshi will head the 5-member committee and Additional Secretary in the Home Ministry Piyush ...

Seven-term Rajya Sabha MP from the Janata Dal (United) and industrialist Mahendra Prasad passed away in New Delhi. Prasad was a seven-term Rajya Sabha MP from Bihar and was also elected to the Lok Sabha once. Prasad was first elected to the Lok Sabha on ...

Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC), which is a representative body of asset and loan financing NBFCs, has announced fresh appointments to its board of directors. Kamlesh Gandhi, CMD of MAS Financial Services has been appointed as Co-Chairman, FIDC in addition to Umesh Revankar, CEO and ...

Docprime Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of PB Fintech (parent company of Policybazaar and Paisabazaar), launched Docprime health locker integrated with Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM). ABDM was launched in August 2020 to develop an integrated digital health infrastructure in the ...

The Good Governance Index 2021 was released by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah on 25 December 2021. The GGI Index has been prepared by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG).  The Good Governance Index 2021 has seen an improved composite score by 20 states, ...

Tamil Nadu CM has launched the ‘Meendum Manjappai’ Scheme to promote the use of cloth bags by the public and discourage the use of plastic bags. This awareness campaign on using ‘yellow’ cloth bag or ‘manjapai’ as it is called in Tamil, is aimed at encouraging the people to return to the ...

Anukrti Upadhyay's novel, Kintsugi, was published by the Fourth Estate imprint and won the Sushila Devi Award 2021 for Best Book of Fiction.  The Ratanlal Foundation and the Bhopal Literature and Art Festival's organizing committee have announced the winner of this prestigious award for ...

Mohammed Ben Sulayem of the United Arab Emirates has been elected successor to Jean Todt as the first non-European president of motorsport’s world governing body, the International Automobile Federation (FIA). The FIA is the governing body for Formula One, the ...

A new book by the former Indian Army Chief Gen. Nirmal Chander Vij (Retd) Claims to present a “complete picture” of the conflict in Jammu and Kashmir and the way forward. The book published by HarperCollins India, the book of General Vij, The riddle of “Kashmir: the quest for peace in a ...

PM Modi will be visiting Mandi, Himachal Pradesh to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of hydropower projects worth over ₹11,000 crore. He will lay the foundation stone of the Renukaji Dam project which is lying pending for around three decades. Also, he inaugurated ...

Mark Taylor, artist and toy designer for the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe franchise as well as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles passed away. He-man was the muscled front man for toy manufacturer Mattel’s Masters of the Universe franchise. He-Man was ...

Ratnakar Bank Limited's board has appointed Rajeev Ahuja, who’s currently working as the Executive Director at the bank, as interim Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of the bank with immediate effect, subject to the regulatory and other approvals. The board of ...