Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has unveiled the third tranche of government's Rs 20 lakh crore economic package in a bid to revive the Indian economy that has taken a slump due to ongoing nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. GoI is to create a facilitative ...

Cooperative Nafed is procuring pulses and oilseeds from farmers at support price during the current lockdown. Nafed procured 3.17 Lakh MT Gram (Chana) from 9 States namely Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana. 3.67 ...

The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare held a meeting with representatives of the Pesticide Manufacturing Industry through video conferencing to check the strategy to prevent locust attacks on agricultural fields. GoI is taking several measures to ensure uninterrupted sowing and ...

Bhagalpur Smart City has been supporting the city administration in combating COVID-19 using various initiatives. The key initiatives taken up by BSCL include use of technology for spreading awareness; innovative IEC measures for sharing experience during lock-down periods; establishment of ...

The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has issued a slew of guidelines to expedite implementation of projects under the flagship programme PMEGP to hand-hold local production a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "vocal for local" appeal. KVIC instructed the agencies concerned ...

Union Home Minister announced that all canteens of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) like the CRPF and the BSF will sell only indigenous products from June 1 to 50 lakh family members of about 10 lakh personnel. The total purchase value of the move by MHA would be around Rs.2800 crore. ...

The Ministry of AYUSH and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have partnered to validate four Ayush formulations against COVID-19. The trials are expected to start within one week. The results will be given in 3 months. The partnership is a clinical study multi-centric in ...

The ICMR issued guidance on rapid antibody test kits for COVID-19 and listed their manufacturers, which include two Chinese firms whose importer licenses were cancelled by the CDSCO after kits supplied by them showed wide-variation under field conditions. In its guidance, ICMR stated that these ...

India has moved up two positions to rank 74th on a global 'Energy Transition Index' with improvements on all key parameters of economic growth, energy security and environmental sustainability. India showed improvements in all key parameters of economic growth, energy security, and ...

The Department of Science and Technology has taken several initiatives to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 among Divyangjan and Elderly and identified various challenges faced by them for finding technological solutions. The Science for Equity Empowerment and Development (SEED) Division of DST ...

Researchers have come up with various findings over the course of time about the deadly coronavirus. There is some evidence that claims men are more vulnerable to coronavirus than women. The ACE2 enzyme in blood responds to the novel coronavirus and enables it to infect the human cell.  ...

In a major step towards rapid mass production of the Medical Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) developed by the Indian Navy, a patent has been successfully filed by the Intellectual Property Facilitation Cell (IPFC) of Ministry of Defence, in association with National Research Development ...