The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has condoled the sad demise of Manohar Parrikar, Chief Minister on 17th March, 2019 at Panaji, Goa. The Cabinet observed silence for two minutes in the memory of Late Manohar Parrikar. The Cabinet has also approved observing one day of mourning by the Government of […]
Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu will be paying a visit to Paraguay from 5-7 March 2019 and to the Republic of Costa Rica from 7-9 March 2019. This is the first high-level visit from India to both countries. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu will be accompanied by a high-level delegation including Minister of State […]
Abdelkader Messahel, Foreign Minister of People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria undertook a bilateral visit to India from 30th January to 01 February, 2019. During his visit, he held bilateral discussions with Sushma Swaraj, External Affairs Minister on a wide range of issues on how to further deepen relations between India and Algeria that include defence […]
Union HRD Minister, Prakash Javadekar while addressing a press conference in New Delhi today, informed that in a landmark decision, the Government has decided that from the academic year 2019-20 itself, 10 percent Economically Weaker Section (EWS) reservation quota will be implemented across 40, 000 colleges and 900 Universities in the country. This 10 percent […]
Comments made by a Muslim cleric from Egypt have become a talking point as he raked up a taboo topic ‘sex’ in the conservative Muslim country. The Egyptian Muslim cleric Muhammad Al-Zoghbi made some comments on a show on Egyptian TV Al-Rahma on December 24th and he ridiculed the Muslims whom he termed as ‘fossilized fanatics’ […]
Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar today announced the approval an increase of 5000 seats in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas for the Academic Year 2019-20. At present the number of seats in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas, residential schools for talented rural children, are 46600. The addition of 5000 seats will mean availability of 51000 seats from […]
Fake Universities play with the lives and future of the students. Taking this into account the University Grants Commission (UGC) has released the list of 24 Fake Universities, which are available on its website www.ugc.ac.in. In addition, UGC has issued public notice against the unrecognized status of Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), New […]
As part of the enhanced outreach programme of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), a new platform named “Samwad with Students” (SwS) was launched in Bengaluru yesterday. Through the SwS initiative, ISRO aims to ‘constantly engage youngsters across India to capture their scientific temperament. The new conversation mission will inspire students cutting across schools and colleges.’ […]
India will host the 24th edition of Technology Summit with Italy as the partner country. The two-day Technology Summit will be inaugurated on 29th October, 2018 by the Union Minister for Science& Technology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Vardhan and Prof. Michele Geraci, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economic Development, Italy. Valedictory […]
Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Yesso Naik laid the foundation stone of National Institute of Homeopathy at Narela, today. This will be a National level Institute and would be established as an extension of National Institute of Homoeopathy, Kolkata. Addressing the gathering Naik said that Homoeopathy is gaining acceptance and growing in popularity […]
