New Delhi, April 16, 2022: The bio-decomposer namely Pusa Decomposer developed by The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has been used by the States of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and NCT of Delhi to total of 978,713 acres (3,91,485 ha) equivalent to about 2.4 million tonnes of straw management in this year. Also, to […]
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Visit of External Affairs Minister to the United States of America
New Delhi, April 10, 2022: Dr. S Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs will visit the United States of America from 11-12 April 2022. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and the Minister of External Affairs will lead the Indian delegation at the Fourth India-U.S. 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue on 11 April 2022 in Washington D.C. The US delegation […]
Hidden in Plain Sight: Faint galaxy discovered in our local universe
New Delhi, April 09, 2022: Researchers have discovered a faint but star-forming galaxy, around 136 million light-years away which was so far undetected since it lies in front of a much brighter galaxy, The galaxy has a ‘ghost’ like appearance in the optical images because of its low disk density, but the inner disk shows […]
Agreement between India and UNWFP to donate wheat to Afghanistan
New Delhi, April 01, 2022: Government of India and the United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP) signed the second ‘In-kind Contribution Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and WFP for the donation of next batch of 10,000 MTs of wheat to the People of Afghanistan’ on March 30, 2022. The Agreement was […]
WOS-C training: A transforming break for a woman in science
New Delhi, March 31, 2022: Dr. Amita Kumari, a Ph.D. in chemistry from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut (U.P.), who had to leave her Senior Research Fellowship at ICMR to take care of her daughter, has now found a channel to utilize her scientific knowledge as a Patent Associate (Science) in one of India’s leading […]
Arsenic contamination in drinking water
New Delhi, March 27, 2022: To make provision of potable tap water supply in adequate quantity, of prescribed quality and on regular & long-term basis to every rural household in the country by 2024, since August, 2019, Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) is being implemented in partnership with States. Under JJM, while allocating the funds to States/ […]
Know the status of Jal Jeevan Mission right here!
New Delhi, March 26, 2022: Since August 2019, the Government of India in partnership with States is implementing Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) – Har Ghar Jal to make provision of potable water to every rural household of the country by 2024, through tap water connection at a service level of 55 litre per capita per day […]
Poster of Mujib – The Making of a Nation released
New Delhi, March 18, 2022: Renowned director Shyam Benegal has released the poster of the film Mujib – The Making of a Nation, a biopic on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of the nation of Bangladesh. The film on ‘Bangabandhu’ is being made under an Audio Visual Co-Production Agreement between the Republic of India and the People’s Republic […]
1947 partition: Remembering the massacre that shook the world
New Delhi, March 10, 2022: Maharashtra’s Parbhani is known as the land of the saints. Amrit Pal Singh ‘Amrit’ the Sikh hermit from Punjab has just arrived there to speak up on the 1947 massacre. Swami Amrit Pal Singh ‘Amrit’ was received at the Parbhani Railway Station by Advocates Sateesh Deshpande, Gyanoba Darade, Ganesh Yadav, […]
What is the population of minorities in India?
New Delhi, February 28, 2022: Government notifies the minorities as per Section 2(c) of the National Commission for Minorities Act, 1992, and the Central Government has so far notified six communities as minority communities namely Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Buddhists, Parsis and Jains. The term “Minority” is not used in Census. However, data on all religions as […]