The World Bank has estimated India’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the current fiscal year 2021-22 to grow by 8.3% in its latest economic update for South Asia. World Bank on June 8 projected India's economy to grow at 8.3 percent in 2021. Earlier, the World Bank had estimated the ...

A variety of rice widely grown in Wada in the Palghar district of Maharashtra has been given a ‘Geographical Indication’ (GI) tag, which means the product now gets a unique identity as well as the wider market base. Divisional agriculture joint director Ankush Mane said Wada Kolam rice got the GI ...

Germany has unveiled the logo for soccer’s 2024 European Championship during a ceremony with a light show in the stadium that will hold the final. Some guests and media were invited to Berlin’s Olympiastadion for the UEFA launch, though no fans were present on a damp evening in the ...

An application, stated to be India's first e-fish market app, was launched in Assam by state Fisheries Minister Parimal Suklabaidya. Table size fish such as bhangon, mrigal and rohu, and freshwater and seawater frozen fish (icebox) will be available coupled with dry fish packets, dry fish raw, ...

Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has been announced as the winner of the 2021 Nobel prize for literature. The Tanzanian, UK-based author won “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. The ...

Union Health Minister, Mansukh Mandaviya has released a report titled “The State of the World’s Children 2021: On My Mind: promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health” on October 5, 2021 in New Delhi. The state of World’s Children 2021 report is UNICEF’s global flagship ...

Fintech Company BharatPe, announced its entry into the ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ (BNPL) category with the launch of ‘postpe’. postpe provides credit to customers. Customers can download the app from Play Store and avail interest-free credit limit of up to Rs10 lakh. The ...

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has launched the ‘Swechha’ program to tackle the stigma attached to menstruation, prioritize female personal hygiene, and encourage a healthy dialogue of information. ‘Swechha’ (meaning freedom) is intended to ...

Current Affairs is the most important area in all competitive exams. But the difficulty level is very high. That’s why; many aspirants get confused, how to select Current Affairs for Preparation of Competitive Examination? In this Post, Daily Current Affairs 7 October 2021, we have tried to cover ...

Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited (KMBL) has announced that it has received approvals from the Government of India for the collection of direct and indirect taxes such as income tax and goods and services tax through its banking network. With this, the bank becomes the first scheduled private ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 2021 has been awarded jointly to Benjamin List (Germany) and David MacMillan (the USA) “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”. Benjamin List and David WC MacMillan won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the ...

Rating agency Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded India’s sovereign rating outlook to ‘stable’ from ‘negative’ , on October 05, 2021, following an improvement in the financial sector and faster-than-expected economic recovery across sectors. However, Moody’s had ...