India and Iran agreed to accelerate work on the strategic Chabahar project as External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held wide-ranging talks with his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif on regional and global issues of mutual interest. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Chabahar port jointly being ...

Wipro partnered with Nasscom to launch a skilling platform for new-age technologies like AI that will reach 10,000 students over 20 engineering colleges in India. Future Skills will bridge the industry-academia skill gap and help students keep pace with emerging technologies. Daily Current ...

Indian-American Dr Monisha Ghosh has been appointed as the first woman Chief Technology Officer at the US government's powerful Federal Communications Commission. She will advise Indian-American Chairman of the FCC Ajit Pai and the agency on technology and engineering issues, and work closely with ...

Thiruvananthapuram–Kasargode Semi High-Speed Rail Corridor (SHSR) a high-speed rail corridor in India connects Thiruvananthapuram with Kasaragod in Kerala expected to be completed by 2024. The central government in-principle approval to the Rs.56,000 crore Thiruvananthapuram-Kasaragod SHSR ...

The new Alphabet Inc. chief executive officer will receive $240 million in stock awards over the next three years if he hits all of his performance targets, as well as a $2 million annual salary beginning in 2020. If Alphabet shares outperform the S&P 100 Index, Pichai could receive an ...

Indian Railway is looking at a 50 lakh crore rupees investment over the next 12 years. The rail infrastructure in the country increased by mere 30 per cent in the last 65 years due to the lack of adequate investment. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Electrification work has been undertaken ...

Gulzar Ahmed took oath as the 27th Chief Justice of Pakistan. He takes over from Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, whose tenure came to an end, after serving the country's top judge from January this year. The new Chief Justice will remain in office till February 21, 2022. Daily Current Affairs ...

Under the NIRBHAYA Fund, projects of Rs 7,000 crore, including setting up of 1,023 fast-track courts, have been approved by the government. Nirbhaya (fearless) was the pseudonym given to the victim to hide her actual identity. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 In a tribute to the 23-year-old ...

The Union Minister of State for Shipping (IC) and Chemical & Fertilizers Shri Mansukh Mandaviya handed over the Citizenship certificates issued by Government of India to 07 Pakistani refugees in Kutch, Gujarat. He met the Pakistani refugees, who have taken shelter in Gujarat’s Morbi and Kutch ...

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) received the following three Green Channel combinations filed under sub-section (2) of Section 6 of the Competition Act, 2002 (Act) read with regulation 5A of the Competition Commission of India (Procedure in regard to the transactions of business relating ...

Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space from at a space station in China. The satellite was designed by Chinese and Ethiopian engineers and the Chinese government paid about $6m of the more than $7m manufacturing costs, Solomon Belay, director-general of the Ethiopian Space ...

Union plans to take khadi and village industries turnover to Rs 2 trillion in the next five years from Rs 75,000 crore at present. Urging the industry to expand its share in global trade to about 10 per cent, Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Minister Gadkari also urged players to grab ...