The International Epilepsy Day is observed every year on the Second Monday of February across the world.In 2022, International Epilepsy Day falls on February 14, 2022. International Epilepsy Day seeks to raise awareness and educate the general public on the true facts about epilepsy and ...

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has launched the ‘JIVA programme’ to promote natural farming under its existing watershed and wadi programmes in 11 states. To effectively implement the principles of agroecology long-term sustainability and transform the ...

Luc Montagnier, the French virologist and Nobel laureate whose co-discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus sparked a global search for an AIDS cure, has died. He was 89. He died on Feb. 8 at a hospital in a suburb of Paris. The noted virologist won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or ...

A visionary with strong academic leaning and having deep professional insight, CA. (Dr.) Debashis Mitra, has been elected as the President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) for the year 2022-23.  While Aniket Sunil Talati has been elected as Vice President of ICAI.

India has agreed to provide a grant to Sri Lanka to implement a ‘Unitary Digital Identity framework’, apparently modelled on the Aadhaar card. The Rajapaksa government will “prioritise” the implementation of the Framework as a national-level programme. The initiative ...

Burkina Faso's new military strongman, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has been declared President by the country's top constitutional body after a coup last month, legal sources said Thursday. The 2022 Burkina Faso military coup took place on January 24, 2022, which was led by Damiba. President ...

Private sector lender RBL Bank has announced a partnership with Creditas Solutions, a global technology company in the field of delinquency management, for its ‘Neo Collections’ platform. The Neo Collections Platform is a Do It Yourself (DIY) debt management platform that will help the ...

The Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) delivered the 5th and final vessel of the 5 Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Vehicle (CGOPV) Project to the Indian Coast Guard, on February 08, 2022, ahead of contractual schedule. The vessel was named as ICGS ‘Saksham’. All 5 vessels under the project have been ...

Securities and Exchange Board of India has restructured its advisory committee on Investor Protection and Education Fund (IPEF), under the chairmanship of G Mahalingam. G Mahalingam, the former Whole Time Member of Sebi, is the new Chair of the eight-member committee. ...

Ambassador Rajiv Kumar Bhatia, a Distinguished Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Programme at Gateway House, has authored a new book (his 3rd book) titled "India-Africa Relations: Changing Horizons" which explores the emergence and assertion of Africa as a significant actor and ...

The central government on Sunday announced the approval of the umbrella scheme for modernization and improvement of police forces in states and Union territories for five more years. The ministry of home affairs said in a statement that the umbrella scheme of Modernisation of Police ...

The Power Ministry said on Friday that India has set an ambitious target of replacing diesel with renewable energy (RE) in the agriculture sector by 2024, as part of the government's commitment to increasing the share of non-fossil fuels by 2030 and becoming a net zero emitter by 2070. The ...