At the invitation of Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, Tran Dai Quang, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam will pay a State Visit to India from 2-4 March, 2018. President Quang will be accompanied by Nguyen Thi Hien and an official delegation, including Ministers and party leaders, and also a business delegation. During […]
In Sri Lanka, Buddhists and Muslims relations are under renewed strain. The two religious groups, which have been at loggerheads due to the issue of Rohingya persecution in Myanmar, have now clashed for an unknown reason in eastern Sri Lanka’s Ampara. At least 5 people have been injured, while a Mosque and several shops have […]
The King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein will be visiting India from 27 February-01 March 2018. The King will be accompanied by a business delegation. During this visit, the two sides will discuss the entire gamut of bilateral relations as well as regional and international issues of mutual interest. […]
A first-of-its-kind Aviation Multi Skill Development Centre (MSDC), a CSR initiative of Airports Authority of India (AAI) was inaugurated in Chandigarh today by the Union Minister of Civil Aviation, P Ashok Gajapathi Raju, in the presence of Member of Parliament Chandigarh, Smt. Kirron Kher, and Member of Parliament Anandpur Sahib, Prem Singh Chandumajra. The Centre […]
National Museum- a prestigious Cultural organization under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, for the first time is exhibiting a collection of The Holy Quran scripted in different calligraphic styles and inscribed in different epochs i.e. from 7th CE to 19th CE. The exhibition was inaugurated by Dr Nasim Akhtar, former Curator (Manuscripts) of […]
The Ministry of Human Resource Development will reduce the syllabus of NCERT textbooks in the coming two to three years. This was disclosed by the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Prakash Javadekar at a media briefing in New Delhi on 26th February 2018. Giving more details, Javadekar said that the idea to have quality […]
J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare launched the ‘‘Viral Load testing for all People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV),”at a function, in New Delhi today. The initiative will provide free of cost viral load testing for 12 lakh PLHIV on treatment in the country at least once a year. Nadda further announced […]
As part of lndo-US Bilateral Defence Cooperation, the 8th Defence Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI) Inter-Agency Task Force Meeting was held in New Delhi on 26th February 2018. The meeting was co-chaired by Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff Vice Admiral A K Jain and Acting Director, International Cooperation Matthew Warren. The DTTI was initiated […]
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given approval for creation of National Urban Housing Fund for Rs.60,000 crores. This fund will be situated in Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC), an autonomous body registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. The […]
