Union Home Minister Amit Shah has distributed 100 electric potter wheels to 100 trained artisans under the Kumhar Sashaktikaran Yojana of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC), seeking to empower and associate the marginalized potters’ community with India’s quest to become ...

Ministry of Human Resource Development has held a brainstorming session regarding “Stay in India and Study in India” with senior officials and Heads of Autonomous/Technical Organisations concerned of MHRD in New Delhi. Because of COVID-19 situation many students who wanted to pursue studies abroad ...

Indian Railways is on a mission to RFID Tag all wagons by December 2022. The Railways will complete this process of fitting radio-frequency identification tags (RFID) in all the wagons by December 2022. These tags will be used for tracking all wagons. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

Prime Minister Modi launched the restructured rural housing scheme, namely Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) on 20th November, 2016 to achieve the objective of “Housing for all by the year 2022” with the target of construction of 2.95 crore houses with all basic amenities. Daily ...

DBT-BIRAC has facilitated the establishment of ‘first-of-its-kind’ mRNA-based vaccine manufacturing platform in India. DBT has provided seed funding for the development of Gennova’s novel self-amplifying mRNA-based vaccine candidate for COVID19. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...

The Department of Science and Technology has launched the India-Russia Joint Technology Assessment and Accelerated Commercialization Programme in partnership with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises ...

Ministry of Shipping has decided to waive waterway usage charges with immediate effect considering the Government of India’s vision to promote inland waterways as a supplementary, eco-friendly and cheaper mode of transport. The charges are waived initially for three years. Daily Current Affairs ...

Union Minister for Tribal Affairs has inaugurated an e-Symposium on Handicrafts titled “Emergent North-East India: Strategic and Developmental Imperatives in Handicrafts” organized by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Centre for Policy Research and Analysis, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Shillong. ...

Central Asia bordered country, Turkmenistan has been granted Observer status by the World Trade Organization (WTO) General Council. Turkmenistan has become the last former Soviet republic to establish formal ties with the trade body. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points With this, ...

The Ministry of Defence has issued the formal government sanction letter for grant of Permanent Commission (PC) to Women Officers in the Indian Army, paving the way for empowering Women Officers to shoulder larger roles in the organisation. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The ...

India plans to build a solar power park in Sri Lanka as part of a strategy to project its presence in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) amid Chinese attempts to lure nations into its ‘Belt and Road’ initiative. Leveraging its solar expertize, India’s largest power generation utility NTPC Ltd plans to ...

An Israeli firm has developed a coronavirus breathalyser test that gives results in 30 seconds, billing it as a "front line" tool that can help restore a sense of normality during the pandemic. “NanoScent”, the firm making the test kits, said an extensive trial in Israel for the presence of live ...