Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) on Monday launched the 'Waste to Wealth Creation' programme in which women will make ornaments and showpieces from fish scale in the Sundarbans in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district. In this, the women will make ornaments and showpieces ...

The Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Dr. Virendra Kumar will launch the Scheme for Economic Empowerment of DNTs (SEED) on Wednesday, the 16th February, 2022 at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi for the welfare of De-notified, Nomadic and Semi Nomadic Communities. The ...

NITI Aayog has started the Fintech Open Month from February 07, 2022 in coordination with PhonePe. It is a first-of-its-kind initiative where fintech professionals can collaborate, exchange ideas, and innovate. It was started by NITI Aayog. It will continue till Feb 28, 2022. It is a ...

YES BANK announced the launch of an annual startup enabler program, YES BANK Agri Infinity, which seeks to co-develop digital financial solutions for the food and agriculture ecosystem by mentoring entrepreneurial ventures in the field. Agri-fintech start-ups working on financial innovations ...

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 16 February 2022, we have tried to ...

Every year, February 15 is observed as International Childhood Cancer Day (ICCD) to raise awareness about the evil that entails this issue and the ways to deal with the same. The Day is a global collaborative campaign to raise awareness about childhood cancer, and to express ...

Legendary music composer and singer Bappi Lahiri passed away. He was 69. The singer breathed his last in a Mumbai hospital. Lahiri died on Tuesday night at the CritiCare Hospital in Juhu. He was lovingly called Bappi Da in the industry is known for delivering iconic songs in ...

India has been ranked third in the world in the US Green Building Council’s annual list of top 10 nations and areas outside of the United States for LEED-certified green buildings in 2021.  Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is the most widely used ...

Vedanta Group and Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) on Monday announced the signing of an memorandum of understanding (MoU) to form a joint venture company that will manufacture semiconductors in India. The Indian mining major Vedanta has inked an MoU with Taiwanese electronics ...

Indian fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company Dabur has become India’s first plastic waste-neutral company, meaning it collects, processes and recycles as much packaging as it sells. It has done this by collecting, processing and recycling around 27,000 metric tonnes of post-consumer ...

Israel becomes the first-ever country to allow drones in civilian airspace. Referring to this, Israel's Ministry of Transport and Road Safety recently announced the country's first certification for unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) to operate in civilian airspace. This means that the drones in ...

On February 14, 2022, the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) announced its new chairman - IAS Vineet Joshi, Additional Secretary, Department of Higher Education. Joshi replaced IAS Manoj Ahuja.  Mr Joshi, a 1992-batch IAS officer of the Manipur cadre, is an Additional Secretary, ...