'India and Iran signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to smoothen movement of seafarers from both the countries as per the provisions of International Convention on Standards of Training, Certifi Read More...
'Over 20 people have been killed in the destruction caused by cloudbursts and flash floods in different parts of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand recently.' A cloudburst is a localised but intense Read More...
'The National Legal Services Authority has recently introduced the concept of full time engagement of lawyers for legal services delivery under the Legal Aid Defense Counsel System (LADCS), which is i Read More...
'As part of a pilot project, the Ashramshalas, residential schools covered under the Tribal Development Project Office, in Nandurbar taluka in Maharashtra, have been experimenting with a unique way to Read More...
'Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development and Panchayati Raj’ released an action taken report on MGNREGA.' The government has accepted 26 of the 33 recommendations made. The Mah Read More...
'The elders of the Wancho community in a remote district of Arunachal Pradesh have taken up the task of recording their age-old folktales in digitised form with the help of a UK-based researcher.' Read More...
'One person lost his life, while another was injured in an alleged case of illegal coal mining in a remote area of West Khasi Hills (WKH) district of Meghalaya.' Rat hole mining involves digging of Read More...
'In recent studies, it has been found that, adding a second copy of one of its own genes has boosted the yield of a Chinese rice variety by up to 40%' It boosts grain yields and shortens the grow Read More...
'A new infection dubbed tomato flu, or tomato fever, has been detected in India mostly among children younger than five, according to a report in the Lancet Respiratory Journal.' The “non-lif Read More...
'The appointment of Dr N Kalaiselvi as the first woman director general of India’s largest research and development organisation, the 80-year-old Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (C Read More...
