IIIT-Guwahati organized a Poster Making Competition under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat (EBSB) Campaign. Students participated from their homes for the competition held online due to the COVID-19 lockdown. The Ministry for Human Resource Development (HRD) is the nodal ministry for EBSB campaign ...

Tribal Affairs Minister held a video conference with States/UTs on “Tribal livelihoods and safety” in New Delhi on 13 May which was attended by Chief Ministers, Deputy Chief Ministers, State Ministers for Tribal Affairs, and state ministers for Forests from more than 20 states/UTs along with ...

The Under-5 Mortality Rate in India has dropped by 49 per cent since 2000, but there is a six-fold variation in the rate between states and an 11-fold variation between various districts. These are the findings of two scientific papers on child survival by the India State-Level Disease Burden ...

The FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup 2021 has been rescheduled between 17 February and 7 March. The recommendations were made by the FIFA-Confederations COVID-19 Working Group, the Bureau of the FIFA Council. FIFA announced that the tournament will keep original eligibility criteria which are the ...

New Development Bank of BRICS countries have fully disbursed $1 billion emergency assistance loan to India to help it contain the spread of COVID-19 and reduce human, social and economic losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The 'Emergency Assistance Program Loan' to India was approved by the ...

Anunta announced that it has received the Regional Partner of the Year Award for the Services Excellence category. Anunta was honoured under the Services Excellence category. Anunta's innovative solutions work on the next generation users including cloud based-desktop services was ...

Tourism Ministry organized the 18th Dekho Apna Desh webinar series on 12 May 2020. It was titled 'Odisha-India's Best kept secret' and took the participants on a virtual journey into Odisha. The webinar gave a brief introduction to the State of Odisha and highlighting on the key selling ...

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, and the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have used data science models to analyse and predict the total number of infected people for different States in India in the next 30 days. The researchers used the Susceptible ...

Haryana is geared to provide tap water connection to all rural households by December, 2022. Haryana expects to be among the leading states to accomplish the ambitious target of providing a tap connection to each rural household. Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation reported there are ...

Delhi Police has inducted in service India's first thermal detection headgear that will enhance the social distancing while still enabling the policemen to perform their duties. Indian Robo Store group in partnership with the Delhi Police has invented this headgear that has been given the name ...

External Affairs Minister of India S Jaishankar participated in the virtual meeting of Foreign Ministers of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member countries on 13 May where foreign ministers and diplomats from eight different countries attended the meeting. The Meeting aimed to discuss ...

Modi's Atma-nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan or Self-reliant India Mission is about 10 per cent of India's GDP in 2019-20 and would rank behind Japan, the US, Sweden, Australia and Germany. The relief package includes Rs.1.7 lakh crore package the government had announced in March and the steps were ...