The United Nations Security Council has rejected Pakistan’s application with respect to listing two Indian citizens to be termed as global terrorists under the 1267 Committee for Counter-terrorism Sanctions. This was a joint decision passed by France, United Kingdom, United States, Germany and Belgium together as UNSC Council. Regarding the issue, India’s Permanent Representative to…
In order to set a new benchmark for learning for the public servants, the Union Cabinet gave a green signal to Mission Karamyogi on Wednesday. Mission Karmayogi called as National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB) which is a skill development scheme for civil servants with the objective to establish a future – ready…
About five hundred experts from the country have written a letter on Wednesday to the Union Environment ministry with the request to withdraw the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification 2020. The experts being the scientists, researchers and academics from top institutes including Indian Institutes of Technology requested stating that draft EIA might be a…
India at the United Nations has called for permanent removal of Jammu and Kashmir issue under outdated agenda item from the agenda of the Security Council. Pakistan’s UN envoy, Munir Akram was bringing up the J & K issue during the virtual meeting on the report of the Security Council. Akram mentioned that the Security…
Former finance secretary and ex-IAS officer, Rajeev Kumar is appointed as the new Election by the central government. Rajeev Kumar is replacing Ashok Lavasa who had resigned from the post. He joined the Election Commission of India on Tuesday with the Chief Sunil Arora and Sushil Chandra. Kumar has around thirty years of experience in…
New Delhi: Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister of Railways, tweeted on Monday that Indian Railways have solarised 960 railway stations and is moving closer to become a Net Zero Carbon Emission Railway by 2030. “In order to achieve its objective of becoming 100 % self-sustainable for all it’s power needs and also to contribute to…
The Indian army thwarted yet another aggressive movement executed by the Chinese troops to commit “provocative military movements to change the status quo” to aggravate the Ladakh border disputes in the southern bank of Pangong Tso lake. The military attack took place during the night of 28 and 29 August at the Line of Actual…
India and Russia were jointly awarded the 2020 Online Chess Olympiad gold medal after a hectic final round held on Sunday. India was provisionally behind Russia with the score card of 1.5 – 4.5 in the second round with internet disconnection and server malfunction affected the final leading. Nihar Sarin and Divya Deshmukh had lost…
Former President of India, Pranab Mukherjee took his last breath today in Delhi at the army hospital. Earlier today, it was reported from the army hospital about decline in his health by entering coma. His son Abhijeet Mukherjee confirmed the news on Twitter, “With a Heavy Heart, this is to inform you that my father…
Indian National Congress has filed grievances by writing to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg second time on this Saturday about the action taken on constant allegations raised against Facebook India for favoring the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Congress, further, appealed for an inquiry probe by a Joint Parliamentary Committee regarding the professed links associated with BJP…
