Recently, a International Labour Organization report titled ‘World Social Protection Report 2020–22’ has revealed that, globally 4.1 billion people are living without any social safety net of any kind. The report highlighted that the pandemic response was uneven and ...

Amazon India has announced the launch of Kisan Store - an online platform that will enable farmers across India to get access to more than 8,000 agriculture inputs such as seeds, farm tools and accessories,plant protection, nutrition, and more. Listed by small and medium ...

India has become the first Asian country to develop a plastics pact, launching a ground-breaking new initiative to bring together leading businesses at a national level to make commitments for building a circular system for plastics. The India Plastics Pact (IPP) has launched as a collaboration ...

India's Manish Narwal and Singhraj Adana claimed two medals for India in men's P4 mixed 50m pistol SH1. While Manish Narwal won the gold medal, Singhraj Adana claimed the silver medal. The two shooters took India's tally to 15 medals at the ongoing Tokyo Paralympics. Manish scored a total of ...

India has emerged as the third largest startup ecosystem in the world after the US and China and the pace of growth is not showing any signs of slowing down. Over the last year, India has added three unicorns every month taking the total count to 51, ahead of the UK (32) and Germany (18). A ...

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022 has been announced. The University of Oxford is at the top of the list, followed by California Institute of Technology and Harvard University at the second and third positions, respectively. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), ...

On September 2, 2021, Minister of State (MoS) Krishan Pal Gurjar, Ministry of Power virtually chaired the 6th meeting of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) Energy Ministers 2021 under the Chairship of India. The meeting saw an adoption of a joint communiqué consisting of the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually addressed the plenary session of the 6th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), organized in Vladivostok, Russia. An Indian delegation led by Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Hardeep Singh Puri and comprising leading ...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Friday that he would not run in the ruling center-right party's leadership election this month, indicating he would step down after just a year as the country's leader. Suga, 72, has struggled with low public approval ratings over his ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has made an allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) 12.57 billion to India. (approx USD 17.86 billion). With this, the total SDR holding of India has gone upto SDR 13.66 billion (equivalent to around USD 19.41 billion). SDR ...

Atul Bhatt has been appointed as chairman and managing director (CMD) of disinvestment-owned steel company Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL), Bhatt was the CMD of state-owned consultancy firm MECON.. He was the CMD of state-owned consultancy firm MECON, which offers a full range of services ...

The next Defense Expo will be hosted by Gujarat in 2022. This was announced by chief minister Vijay Rupani in Kevadia on Thursday after the Gujarat government signed an MoU to this effect with ministry of defense in presence of defense minister Rajnath Singh. About the Defence Expo-2022: ...