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President Ram Nath Kovind launched Solar Charkha Mission

On occasion of 2nd UN Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day, 2018, President of India Ram Nath Kovind launched the Solar Charkha Mission covering artisans in 50 identified...

June 30, 2018

NITI Aayog releases First Delta Ranking of Aspirational Districts

The NITI Aayog has released first Delta ranking for 108 aspirational districts to measure their incremental progress across five developmental areas during two month period of April and...

June 30, 2018

Prime Minister’s Safe Motherhood Campaign: Madhya Pradesh awarded for reducing maternal mortality

Madhya Pradesh was awarded by Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare for reducing maternal mortality under Prime Minister’s Safe Motherhood Campaign (Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan-PMSMA). The...

June 30, 2018

Odisha Government signs MoU with RIMES for effective management of all kinds of disasters

Odisha Government has singed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) to enhance effective management of all kinds of disasters. The collaboration is...

June 30, 2018

Greenhouse effect

The greenhouse effect is a fundamental atmospheric process that regulates the Earth’s surface temperature by mediating the balance between incoming solar radiation and outgoing thermal radiation. It plays...

June 30, 2018

Portugal’s Antonio Vitorino elected Director General of UN’s International Migration Office

Portugal’s Antonio Manuel de Carvalho Ferreira Vitorino (61) was elected as next Director General (DG) of International Organization for Migration (IOM), an UN Migration Agency. He will succeed...

June 30, 2018

International Day of the Tropics: June 29

The International Day of Tropics is observed every year on 29 June across the world with an aim to raise awareness to specific challenges faced by tropical areas...

June 30, 2018

ReUnite Mobile app launched to trace missing children

The Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation has launched mobile application “ReUnite” in New Delhi to track and trace missing and abandoned children in India....

June 30, 2018

Greenwich Mean Time

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a historically significant measure of timekeeping based on the local mean time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. Counted from midnight in...

June 30, 2018

Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel (20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian Empire biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and later abbot of St Thomas’s Abbey in Brno....

June 30, 2018

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