Governor of West Bengal Kesri Nath Tripthi released the Bengali version of the famous book “Great Minds of India” penned by an acclaimed author Salil Gewali of Shillong on July 7, 2019, at an impressive ceremony held at Raj Bhavan, Kolkata. Daily Current affairs Quiz 2019 The special ...

The bilateral trade between United States and India could reach USD 238 billion by 2025 from the current USD 143 billion given the present dynamics of the commercial engagement, a US-based India centric advocacy group. This growth will occur if trade grows by 7.5 per cent each year, as has been ...

A technical snag detected in the GSLV-MkIII rocket, less than an hour ahead of the scheduled launch aborted the planned flight of Chandrayaan-2, India’s first attempt at landing a spacecraft on the moon. “Revised launch date would be announced later,” ISRO said in a statement without giving any ...

Kerala's Of women - By women - For women Scheme is now available for women's startups from across the country and to give it a wider canvas, the Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) is hosting a women startup summit 2019 on August 1 in Kochi. KSUM is the nodal agency of the state government for ...

The 11th  Mekong Ganga Cooperation Senior Officials' Meeting was held in New Delhi on 9 July 2019. The meeting, which was attended by Senior Officials from all 6 MGC Member States, was co-chaired by Ms. Vijay Thakur Singh, Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs and H.E. Ms. Doan Phuong ...

India lifted 271 million people out of poverty between 2006 and 2016, recording the fastest reductions in the multidimensional poverty index values during the period with strong improvements in areas such as “assets, cooking fuel, sanitation and nutrition,” a report by the United Nations said. ...

Shelving its previous plan to convert it into a waste-to-energy plant, the Delhi government announced that a solar park — of 5,000 KW capacity — will come up in the spot of the defunct Rajghat thermal power plant. In October, 2016, Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain had announced that a ...

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has launched an all-India drive called Operation thirst and registered 732 cases against 801 persons for selling unauthorised water bottle brands across 18 zones including the East Central Railway (ECR), headquarter at Hajipur in Bihar, on July 8 and 9 ...

Croatia Grand Chess Tour title 2019 is won by Magnus Carlsen of Norway.Carlsen finished a point ahead of Wesley So, whose 7/11 was good for a 2881 performance rating, $60,000 and 15 GCT points. The American GM said about Carlsen:  "It feels like second place is already a victory whenever ...

Chandigarh has been ranked best among states and Union territories in the field of education and is followed by Kerala and Gujarat, according to HRD Ministry officials. As per the Performance Grading Index 2017-18, Arunachal Pradesh is the least performing state and has been ranked 36 on the ...

5 days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi set a target of 5 trillion dollar economy for the country to be achieved in the next five years, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on 8 July set the ambitious target of “$1 trillion economy” for Uttar Pradesh. Adityanath said that the milestone for Uttar ...

Walmart Labs, the technology part of the global retail giant Walmart, has acquired two Bengaluru-based startups, FloCare and BigTrade. While, the healthtech startup FloCare will be integrated into customer technology part of Walmart’s online pharmacy, BigTrade, which is a B2B wholesale trading ...