Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday stated the Centre’s Jal Shakti Ministry is planning for the launch of a 100 day campaign termed as ‘Catch the Rain’ for promoting water conservation in country. While addressing the nation during ‘Mann Ki Baat’, the Prime Minister said, “This is the best time to think about water conservation…
It has been six years post Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)’s promises to the Karnataka High Court about its initiative towards ‘bio-mining’ of landfills, and even presently BBMP is just making attempts to adopt the eco-friendly concept. Post the statement given in October 2014, BBMP worked on formulating an expert committee committee for reviewing the…
India and Bangladesh have mutually agreed to strengthen the level of cooperation inclining towards preventing smuggling of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) and contraband throughout the borders amid the 19th Home Secretary Level Talks (HSLT) on Saturday ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh. As per the official release by the Ministry of…
Various renowned institutions along with several countries have appreciated the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 of India and describe it as the biggest reform on a global scale and have also expressed their interest towards implementing it, stated Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on Saturday. While speaking at the 97th annual convocation of Delhi…
A group of scientists from Bengaluru headed by Professor T Govindaraju, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) have done a discover for the potential cure of Alzheimer’s disease, which is the major cause for dementia globally. Their findings are about a small molecule, named as TGR 63, which is depicted to have the…
The Information and Broadcasting Ministry gave a clarification on Saturday about the facility of the new digital media guidelines of blocking the content over the Internet during emergency has been around as a part of the regulation from 2009 and is not a current incorporation. The misgivings by the Union Government were being addressed with…
Union Minister Piyush Goyal has promised Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel for reimbursement of food subsidies worth Rs 4,832 crores which is pending. On Friday, Baghel had a meeting with Union Food and Public Distribution Minister and re-emphasized on his demand of raising the allowance amount of 24 lakh metric tonnes to be obtained under…
With the resignation of Congress MLAs, the government led by Congress had fallen within days, following which the President’s rule has been imposed on Thursday. A notification pertaining to the imposing of President’s rule was directed by the Union Home Ministry on Thursday. The Assembly of Puducherry has been kept under suspended animation. The Bharatiya…
For the second phase of the largest vaccination drive in the world, the state of Karnataka will be administering the vaccines to around 2 crore people with above 60 age group along with people with co-morbidities. The second phase of vaccination will be commencing on March 1 throughout the country. The Director of the National…
The Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO) revealed on Thursday about the primary satellite Amazonia-1 of Brazil and 18 co-passenger satellites onboard (PSLV-C51) proposed to be launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) Sriharikota Range (SHAR) to be scheduled for February 28. ISRO said, “PSLV-C51, which is the 53rd mission of PSLV, will launch Amazonia-1 of Brazil…
