Flight Lt. Mohana Singh becomes the first woman fighter pilot to fly by day on a Hawk advanced jet aircraft. She landed after a grueling 4-aircraft combat sortie at Kalaikunda Air Force station in West Bengal. The other women officers - Bhawana Kanth and Avani ...

National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) data showed that India has 20.6 health workers per 10,000 people.  It is less than the World Health Organization's (WHO)minimum overreach of 22.8 per 10,000 people.Distribution of health workers: Rural areas with 71 % of India's ...

An international collaboration of astronomers with the University of Warwick, I-JK, have discovered an exoplanet, Next-Generation Transit Survey(NGTS)- 4b, the Forbidden Planet, in the Neptunian Desert. It is smaller than Neptune but 3 times the size of the Earth. The Research was led by Dr. ...

A new species of wasp from the genus Kudakrumia identified by scientists in Goa. It has been named as Kudakrumia Rangnekari after Goa-based researcher Parag Rangnekar. Wasp is a member of a group of insects in the order Hymenoptera, suborder Apocrita. It is neither an ant nor a ...

State Health Department of Goa announced the appointment of Panaji-based, Namrata Menon, Yoga Instructor, and fitness expert, as brand ambassador to promote yoga in Goa. She is appointed to promote the ancient system of physical and mental practices to raise awareness about ...

Indian Air Force (IAF)removed all temporary restrictions on all air routes in the Indian airspace. The IAF made the announcement on Twitter. The IAF imposed restrictions following air strikes on a terror camp at Balakot in Pakistan on 27th February.  India imposed restrictions which did not ...

United Nations Security Council decided to cut 1,000 troops from a regional peacekeeping force in Somalia despite a rise in attacks by the Al-Shabaab militia in Mogadishu. The council voted unanimously to draw down the African Union Mission in Somalia but left the door open for the council to ...

A task force on project management, headed by NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, has suggested the development of a National Project Management Policy Framework for the effective execution of public sector and public-private partnership infrastructure projects. It ...

The United States on formally terminated India’s eligibility for a duty-free import scheme for developing countries on 31 May. It cited that India has not given assurances it will provide equitable and reasonable access to its markets to US ...

Indian-origin Anita Bhatia, a veteran in strategic partnerships, resource mobilisation and management, has been appointed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as the Deputy Executive Director in the global body’s agency focussed on women empowerment and gender equality. Ms. Bhatia holds a ...

Russia has rejected an Iranian request to buy S-400 missile defense systems,concerned that the sale would stoke more tension in the Middle East.  The request was rebuffed by President Vladimir Putinon condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to discuss the ...

Former Indian President Pratibha Patil has been conferred the "Orden Mexicana del Aguila Azteca" (Order of the Aztec Eagle), the highest civilian award of Mexico given to foreigners, on 1 June 2019. The Ambassador of Mexico to India, Melba Pria,conferred the award on Patil, who ...