Dutee Chand has won the gold medal in women's 100-metre sprint at the 30th Summer University Games in Napoli, Italy becoming the first Indian to win do so. She clocked 11.32s in the final. The 23-year-old had qualified for the finals with a 11.41s finish in the semifinal heats and led the final ...

In a major boost to Mission Raksha Gyan Shakti, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the Intellectual Property Facilitation Cell (IPFC), Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence and National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), Ministry of Science and Technology ...

The‘Best Innovation Award’ has won by Northeast Frontier Railway for unique strategy adopted to keep wild elephants away from train tracks. The cash prize awarded of Rs 3 lakh. The NEFR, in a bid to tackle the problem, came up with ‘Plan Bee’ in 2017. About Northeast Frontier RailwayNortheast ...

India´s first elephant rehabilitation centre will set up by the Kerala government in Kottoor, an ecotourism village near the state capital Thiruvananthapuram. The first phase of the Rs 105 crore-project was launched last month by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan. The centre, expected to have an ...

“NMIC Bulletin“ is launched by the National Museum of Indian Cinema located in Mumbai, Maharashtra with veteran film maker Jahnu Barua hoping that it will become a platform for movie buffs and other stakeholders. Barua described the newsletter "NMIC Bulletin" as a fantastic initiative by the ...

Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been sworn in as Greece's new prime minister, a day after his centre-right New Democracy party won a landslide over leftist Syriza, which had been in power since 2015. Official results showed New Democracy gaining 39.85 percent of the vote in Sunday's snap election, ...

Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal raised concerns about India’s trade deficit with Indonesia which stood at USD 10.57 billion in India’s trade deficit with Indonesia during 2018-19. He says that the balance of trade is heavily in favor of Indonesia and both countries need to work ...

General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs of Sharjah’s first Golden Card visa was issued to an Indian expat businessman, as part of the permanent residency system tailored for investors. The visa was issued to Lalu Samuel, Chairman and Managing Director of Kingston Holdings and ...

The Delhi Police Crime Branch has rescued 333 children from the Capital in just 7 months. These children were missing since January 2019 from various parts of the country and found in the Capital, the police said. Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Rajiv Ranjan said that they have ...

American aerospace major Boeing announced the arrival of two new heavy-lift Chinook helicopters for the Indian Air Force at the Mundra port in Gujarat. The Indian Air Force has ordered 15 Chinooks and the first four helicopters arrived in February. The IAF had placed the order in 2015 along ...

Mirabai Chanu who was a former world champion led the Indian medal rush by notching up a gold on the opening day of the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship. The Indian contingent won 13 medals that included eight gold, three silver and two bronze medals in senior, junior and youth ...

India is committed to completing work on the Kartarpur Corridor, dismissing reports that New Delhi was lagging behind while Pakistan has completed 70 per cent of the work.Sources said nearly 45 per cent of the work on a four-lane highway connecting Zero point of the Kartarpur corridor up to the ...