The Union Minister of Women and Child Development (WCD) and Textiles, Smriti Zubin Irani, will announce Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh (BPKK) on Monday, 18th November 2019 in New Delhi. The BPKK will be a repository of diverse crops across 128 agro-climatic zones in India for better nutritional ...

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) organised the conference ‘Def-Connect’ in New Delhi on November 11, 2019 to showcase the accomplishments of the Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) initiative and growth of the defence ecosystem in the country. The iDEX portal and Defence India Start-up ...

The Suranga Bawadi, situated in Bijapur of Karnataka, an integral part of the ancient Karez system of supplying water through subterranean tunnels built during Adil Shahi era which is now set to get funding for restoration. A New York-based non-governmental organisation has included it in the ...

The first guru of the Sikhs, Guru Nanak Dev ji is observed on on Karthik Poornima  every year. Union Cabinet to celebrate the 550th Birth Anniversary of Shri Guru Nanak Devji throughout the country and across the globe, Ministry of External Affairs is commemorating the Anniversary in a grand and ...

The Government of India’s top priority is to put the farmers’ concerns and rural development on a larger landscape, said Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, while speaking at the inauguration of the 6th World Congress on Rural and Agriculture Finance jointly ...

As India gears up to celebrate country's former prime minister Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru's birthday as Children's Day on 14 November. India used to celebrate Children’s Day in India on 20th November every year before 1956 as the United Nations, in 1954, had declared the day as Universal Children’s ...

World Diabetes Day is marked on November 14 every year. It coincides with the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who insulin alongside Charles Best. This year’s theme for World Diabetes Day is “Family and Diabetes”. More than 420 million people worldwide affected by diabetes. China has the ...

The Supreme Court has held that office of the Chief Justice of India is a public authority under the transparency law, the Right to Information Act 2005. A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi gave the ruling. The Supreme Court is a “public authority” and the ...

India, Russia and China are exploring an alternative to the US-dominated SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) payment mechanism. Russia’s financial messaging system SPFS will be linked with the Chinese cross-border interbank payment system CIPS. While India still ...

Supreme Court has Directed Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to prevent their farmers from stubble burning owing to the severe dip in air quality in Delhi. State government had planned to set up bio-fuel plants in every district. Farmers could sell the stubble, along with other agricultural waste, ...

Kapil Dev resigned as the chief of the CAC days after Shanta Rangaswamy stepped down from the 3-member committee. Kapil did not reveal the reason for his resignation but wrote an email to the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA), informing them about his decision. Daily ...

The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has asked the medical fraternity to take lead and launch an awareness campaign on the need to prevent non-communicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension and cancer, which are assuming disturbing proportions. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 ...