The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has signed an agreement for extending a $400-million currency swap facility to Sri Lanka to boost the foreign reserves and ensure financial stability of the country, which is badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The currency swap arrangement will remain available ...

About 200 investment proposals from China are waiting for security clearance from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) after new rules were notified in April, making prior government approval mandatory for foreign direct investments (FDI) from countries which share a land border with India. Daily ...

Arun Kumar, Director General of the Railway Protection Force (RPF), has been nominated to be the vice-chairman of the Security Platform of the Paris-based Union Internationale Des Chemins /International Union of Railways (UIC). He is a 1985-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. Daily ...

The Rural Development Ministry will soon rank states on efficient management of financial resources allocated for implementing half a dozen rural development schemes. The department has developed a financial management index that will map the performance of states and rank them on the basis of ...

A study by the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) an autonomous institute of the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, exploring the elastic properties of rocks and seismicity in this easternmost part of India revealed that the area is generating moderate ...

Indian Railways' e-procurement system and Government e-Marketplace (GeM) are working on ways to integrate both the platforms with a view to further widen the ambit of the Commerce Ministry's portal by enhancing its buying and selling process. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...

India and UK held the 14th Joint Economic and Trade Committee meeting on 24th July, 2020 virtually. It was co-chaired by Minister for Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal and UK Secretary of State for International Trade, HE, Ms Elizabeth Truss. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...

India and European Union have renewed its Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation for the next five years (2020-2025). This has been done by exchange of Note Verbale between two sides. The Agreement was initially signed in on 23 November 2001 and renewed two times in past in 2007 and ...

Pune-based Mylab Discovery Solutions has scaled up its production and development of COVID-19 pathodetect testing kit with the help of strategic funding under National Biopharma Mission of Department of Biotechnology (DBT)-Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC). Daily ...

TRIFED has signed an MoU with IIT Delhi for the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA), a flagship national programme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. To cement and formalise this partnership, a tripartite MOU was signed between TRIFED, IIT Delhi and Vijnana Bharati at IIT, ...

Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports has announced Haryana as the host state for the fourth edition of Khelo India Youth Games, which is currently scheduled to take place after Tokyo Olympics. The Games will be held in Panchkula in Haryana. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...

President of India has presented a cheque of Rs 20 lakh to the Army Hospital (Research and Referral), Delhi, to buy equipment that will help doctors and paramedics to combat the Covid-19 pandemic effectively as a tribute to soldiers who fought valiantly and made supreme sacrifice in the Kargil ...