A team of archaeologists have discovered what may be the world’s oldest known cave art that was painted at least 45,500 years ago was recently discovered in Indonesia.Read more
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has of late made it his style statement to sport the Risa, a customary handwoven cloth used by Tripura’s indigenous tribal communities. The trend has picked up on social media with people posting their photos with the Risa.Read more
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The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has launched a regulatory compliance portal that will act as a bridge between citizens, industries and the government to minimize burdensome compliances.Read more
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) announced on Jan 20, 2021 that it will establish a Quantum Computing Applications Lab, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to accelerate quantum computing-led research and development and enable new scientific discoveries.Read more
WhatsApp recently updated its privacy policy, triggering a mass digital migration of users from the messaging platform to its rivals. The switch gained momentum after the Elon Musk urged his followers on Twitter to install the Signal app.Read more
The Supreme Court upheld the Constitutional validity of the amendments made to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) in 2020 that mandated a minimum of 100 home buyers to come together to file an insolvency application in the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to trigger the IBC against a defaulting developer.Read more
India Science, Nation’s Science & Technology OTT (Over-the-top) channel has completed its second year of existence successfully on January 15th, 2021.Read more
A meeting was held under the chairmanship of Union Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers regarding upcoming 12.7 lakh MMTPA capacity urea plant at Namrup.Read more
A large scale Joint Military exercise - Exercise Kavach involving assets of Indian Army, Indian Navy, Indian Air Force and Indian Coast Guard will be conducted in the coming week under the aegis of the Andaman and Nicobar Command.Read more
China said its construction of a village across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh was “beyond reproach” because it had “never recognised” Arunachal.Read more
