Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and Sindhudurg in Maharashtra have emerged the cleanest districts in India according Gramin Swachh Survekshan. Sindhudurg was judged as the cleanest in the ‘Plains’...
Mariyappan Thangavelu has won India’s first gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. He won the gold medal in the Men’s High Jump T-42 event with jump of...
Haryana has won ‘Best Horticulture State’ award of the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA). The award was bestowed upon the state for its concerted efforts made...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a US space agency has launched OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to collect samples from an asteroid 101955 Bennu and return to Earth. The...
The 28th and 29th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit was held in Vientiane, Laos from 6th to 8th September 2016. Prime Minister of the Lao PDR...
India along with 10 other member countries of World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) South-East Asian Regional Committee has decided to set up a dedicated fund aimed at building preparedness...
When a BJP MP Tarun Vijay urged patriotic Indians to use the Bhuvan mapping software developed by ISRO rather than Google Maps; an article was published in financial...
Jack Ma, the founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, had proposed a new business-led initiative for framing global e-commerce rules. Mr. Ma’s proposed setting up what he calls...
Indian mobile handset companies were facing the might of tech patent holders recently. It was looked upon as a non-issue by Indian Cellular Association (ICA). Important Facts Technologies...
National Commission for Minorities has been in existence for 38 years and there were recent debates on scrapping this body. Important Facts Officially, there are 6 minorities in...
