The 18-days long 'Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat' campaign has been launched to promote cultural unity among various states of the country. It will continue till the 28th of February 2020. The objective of this campaign is to promote the spirit of national integration through various cultural ...

Directorate General of Training (DGT), Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship proposes to issue digital ‘e-Credentials / e-Certificates' which are freely portable for candidates and easily verifiable at scale by employers and job matching platforms but continue to allow print and other ...

Reserve Bank of India announced the setting up of a Digital Payments Index. This index, the RBI says would help capture the extent of digitisation of payments effectively. The DPI would be based on multiple parameters and shall reflect accurately the penetration and deepening of various digital ...

Chinese researchers investigating the animal origin of the coronavirus outbreak in China have said that the endangered pangolin may be the “missing link” between bats and humans. A genetic analysis showed that the strain of the virus currently spreading among humans was 96% identical to that found ...

Jammu and Kashmir government will soon announce a horticulture policy to tackle upcoming marketing challenges and increase the production manifold. The Policy will focus to increase production and tackle climate change, given the unique temperature of this place. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

Anoop Mishra has developed first of its kind bulletproof helmet that can stop AK-47 bullets round from a distance of 10 meters. This “ballistic helmet” has been developed under project Abhedya. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Mishra had earlier developed a bulletproof jacket that could give ...

The Indian company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) will now manufacture Light Utility Helicopters (LUH) for the Indian Air Force and Army. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited will be manufacturing close to 200 helicopters that are indigenously designed and developed to meet the operational ...

Over 200 partnerships involving Signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs), Transfer of Technology (ToTs) , Product launches were concluded on the third day of DefExpo 2020, at ceremony tilted “Bandhan”, making it the most successful such events to be held in India. The pacts, aimed at forging ...

During DefExpo 2020, HEMRL, Pune signed technology development contract with Rosoboronexport, Russia for development of Advanced Pyrotechnic Ignition Systems. This will enable advancement in the field of energetic materials and pyrotechnic technology leading to the development of advanced ignition ...

To help assess the progress made in cities through various initiatives and empower them to use evidence to plan, implement & monitor their performance, two Assessment Frameworks, viz. Ease of LivingIndex (EoLI) and Municipal Performance Index (MPI) 2019 have been launched by the Ministry of ...

The area of co-operation of this MoU envisages to enable energy efficiency and energy self-sufficiency for Indian Railway. The MoU will benefit Indian Railway in field of energy planning, renewable energy planning and deployment including off shore wind and solar energy, energy storage, new energy ...

The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) 2020 observes that in India, there were 271 million fewer people in poverty in 2016 than in 2006, which shows improvement in status. The report noted that of the 10 selected countries for which changes over time were analysed, India and ...