48 sportspersons to be conferred with Shiv Chhatrapati Award

Shiv Chhatrapati Award is the highest sports award presented annually to the state players by the Government of Maharashtra. The State Government instituted the award during 1969–70. Recently 48 sportspersons including 25 women athletes are selected to be conferred with ..

Asian Wrestling Championship commences in New Delhi

The Asian Wrestling Championship has recently commenced in New Delhi. Indian wrestler Sunil Kumar became the first Indian in 27 years to win a gold medal in the Greco-Roman style, at the Asian Wrestling Championships. Sunil defeated Azat Salidinov of Kyrgyzstan ..

Pakistan successfully tests cruise missile Ra’ad-II

Pakistan recently successfully flight tested the air-launch of nuclear-capable cruise missile Ra’ad-II. The missile has a striking range of 600 km. The Ra’ad-II weapon system comprises of world-class navigation systems for better precision. Last month, Pakistan successfully conducted a successful ..

Ashraf Ghani re-elected as the President of Afghanistan

Election commission chief of Afghanistan announced the result of last September’s election held in the country. Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has been declared the winner of the polls with 50.64% of the vote. There were allegations of vote-manipulation and fraud ..

Women entrepreneurs in India may generate 150-170 million jobs by 2030

Tech Giant Google along with consultancy firm Bain and Co. released a report titled ‘Women Entrepreneurship in India—Powering the economy with her’. As per the report, women entrepreneurs in India can generate 150-170 million jobs by the year 2030. Nearly ..

Supratim Bandyopadhyay appointed as Chairman of the PFRDA

Supratim Bandyopadhyay was recently appointed as Chairman of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA). It is a statutory body which regulates the Pension system in the country. Supratim was serving as a Member (Finance) in PFRDA, prior to ..

Soil Health Card Day observed on 19th February

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Soil Health Card (SHC) Scheme on 19th February, 2015 at Suratgarh in Rajasthan. Fifth year of the launch of the scheme is being observed on the ‘Soil Health Card (SHC) Day’, this year. The ..

India’s food-grain production to reach an all-time high

The second estimate of food-grain production has been released by the Agriculture Ministry. As per the data, total food-grain production is pegged at a record 291.95 million tonne for the 2019-20 crop-year. It also stated that India is set to ..

Actor Kishori Ballal passes away

Veteran Kannada actor Kishori Ballal recently passed away at the age of 82. She was known for starring with Shah Rukh Khan in his movie -Swades as ‘Kaveri Amma’. She made her acting debut during 1960 in the movie ‘Ivalentha ..

Ministry of Textiles organises Kala Kumbh exhibition

The Ministry of Textiles is organising a Handicraft thematic Exhibition named ‘Kala Kumbh’, for promoting Geographical Indication (GI) crafts, through the Office of Development Commissioner (Handicrafts). Recently the Kala Kumbh exhibition was inaugurated at Bengaluru and Mumbai. It is also ..