As the country prepares for the summer months, Pune’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) institute brings news of grapes with increased juice production capacity.  Scientists from Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), an autonomous institute of the DST, have developed a hybrid variety of ...

Infosys has joined the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program to offer end-to-end solutions for smart stadiums, smart venues and smart event management. This program is designed to connect cities, municipalities, government agencies, and enterprises with Qualcomm Technologies' ecosystem to help ...

State Bank of India (SBI) has cut interest rates on fixed deposits (FD) for certain tenors for the second times. It has reduced a rate cut up to 50 basis points (bps) in some tenors, and for some tenors, it has announced a reduction of 10 bps. The new rates were made effective from 10 March. ...

The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has stated that FDI inflows dropped by 15 percent due to Corona Virus outbreak. It warned that regardless of how quickly the COVID-19 outbreak lasted it would significantly drag down global FDI, which is a measure of cross-border private sector ...

Gujarat has topped the list in the installations of solar rooftop plants across the country to achieve renewable power generation goals, with about 50,915 systems being fixed on domestic rooftops in the State as on March 2, 2020. Maharashtra follows with 5,513 installations as on the same date. ...

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) is looking at setting up logistics bases in Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Sri Lanka as part of initiatives to woo the countries to buy India's light combat aircraft Tejas and military helicopters. The HAL top executive said the company is looking at setting up ...

The Reserve Bank of India has placed Yes Bank under moratorium. Yes Bank customers cannot make regular withdrawals of more than Rs. 50,000 a day till April 3, subject to a maximum of Rs.5 lakh. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Why the Yes Bank fall into the crisis? Many borrowers started ...

Union Minister for Women and Child Development Mrs Smriti Zubin Irani has stressed the need to train more female forensic investigators and cyber crime experts. Speaking after inaugurating a National Conference on Women in Police and CAPFs organized by the Bureau of Police Research and ...

The Arunachal Pradesh government has sought pilot development projects to stop people living along its international borders, specifically with China, from migrating to faraway urban centres in the State. Following the intrusion, the depopulation in border villages of Arunachal Pradesh has been ...

The Ministry of Panchayati Raj has directed all the States and Union Territories to organise Special Gram Sabhas and Mahila Sabhas (Women’s Assemblies) in all Gram Panchayats on 8th March, 2020 to mark the International Women’s Day. The theme of the International Women’s Day 2020 is “Generation ...

The Government of India is implementing the ‘Scheme for Adolescent Girls (SAG)’ across the country. The Adolescent Girls (AG) Scheme, implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development under Umbrella Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), primarily aims at breaking the ...

India has been approved as a member of the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), the inter-governmental organisation that coordinates maritime governance in the south-western Indian Ocean. The decision, as per sources, was made by the IOC council of ministers in Seychelles. India had apparently made the ...