Recently, South Africa, first time in the world, has granted a patent to an ‘artificial intelligence system’ relating to a “food container based on fr...
UNCLOS : ‘Laws of the Seas
The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) has been accepted by the UN Security Council as the legal framework applicable to activities in the o...
IPCC climate report
Every few years, the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) produces assessment reports that are the most comprehensive scientific evaluati...
Tamil Nadu releases white paper on economy
Tamil Nadu Minister for Finance and Human Resources Management P. T. R. Palanivel Thiagarajan published the White Paper on the state’s finances to the...
India’s medal winners at Tokyo Olympics-2020
1) India’s medal winners at Tokyo Olympics-2020At the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, India had seven medal winners and recorded its best-ever tally at the ...
IDBI Bank Recruitment 2021 650 Assistant Manager Posts
IDBI Bank PGDBF Recruitment 2021 | 650 Assistant Manager Grade ‘A’ Posts | Apply Online @ https://www.idbibank.in. IDBI Bank invites online applicatio...
Constitution amendment bill to restore states’ rights on OBC list
Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Virendra Kumar introduced the Constitution (127th Amendment) Bill, 2021 in the Lok Sabha on August 9, 20...
Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021
The Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 will seek to propose amendments to the Electricity Act 2003. Further, it also sets rules and provisions for regu...
Khel Ratna Named After Dhyan Chand
India’s highest sporting honour Khel Ratna Award, which was named after former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, was rechristened in the honour of ho...
Tokyo Olympics: Bajrang Punia wins bronze medal in men’s 65kg wrestling
Bajrang Punia defeated Kazakhstan’s Daulet Niyazbekov to take bronze in the men’s freestyle 65kg category, bringing the seventh wrestling medal for In...
Retrospective tax policy struck down
In a move to bury the controversial policy of retrospective taxation, the government proposed amendments to the Income-tax Act and Finance Act, 2012 t...
Ladakh removes need for Inner Line Permit for Indian nationals
In a notification, Ladakh UT’s Home Department said the requirement of an ILP for the Indian nationals, including domestic tourists and local resident...
Tokyo Olympics: Neeraj Chopra wins historic Gold medal for India in Javelin
Neeraj Chopra created history by becoming the second Indian to win an individual gold medal in Olympics after shooter Abhinav Bindra. Neeraj is the fi...
1st woman chief of ZSI in 100 yrs
The Zoological Survey of India, one of the premier organisations involved in taxonomic studies of fauna, got its first woman Director. Dhriti Banerjee...
Samagra Shiksha Scheme 2.0
The union cabinet has approved the continuation of the Samagra Shiksha scheme for school education till March 31, 2026.The revised scheme with a perio...
The Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2021
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan introduced the Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2021, in the Lok Sabha. It is the bill that seeks to...
Tokyo Olympics: Indian Hockey team won Bronze Medal
India men’s hockey team defeated Germany to win the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics. This is India’s first Olympic medal in hockey sinc...
Lovlina Borgohain bags Bronze Medal in Tokyo Olympics
Boxer Lovlina Borgohain has bagged a Bronze Medal in 69-kilogram category after she lost to World Champion Busenaz Surmeneli of Turkey in semi-finals....
Indigenous Aircraft Carrier ‘Vikrant’
India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) ‘Vikrant’ hit the waters for the first time as the Indian Navy began its sea trials recently. “This is...
The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2021
Rajya Sabha recently passed The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill, 2021, which seeks to amend the constitutional list of Schedule...
The Tribunals Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Bill, 2021
The Tribunals Reforms Bill, 2021 was passed in Lok Sabha on August 3, 2021. The Bill seeks to dissolve certain existing appellate bodies and transfer ...
Pardoning power of governor
The Supreme Court, recently held that the Governor of a State can pardon prisoners, including death row ones, even before they have served a minimum 1...
The Commission for Air Quality Management in National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas Bill, 2021
The Parliament approved a Bill that seeks to set up a commission for air quality management in the National Capital Region and its adjoining areas. Th...
Tokyo Olympics: PV Sindhu gets bronze
v PV Sindhu created history by winning the bronze medal match against China’s He Bing Jiao at the Tokyo Olympics. Sindhu became only the second ...
Near-surface Shear Layer
It was long known the Sun’s equator spins faster than the poles. However, a peek into the internal rotation of the Sun using sound waves revealed the ...
Integrated theatre commands
As part of the process of evolving consensus among the three services on the reorganisation of the forces into integrated tri-service theatre commands...
e-RUPI – digital payment solution
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched digital payment solution e-RUPI, taking the first step towards having a digital currency in the country. The pla...
UN creates permanent body to address challenges of racism
The UN General Assembly approved a resolution establishing a Permanent Forum of People of African Descent to provide expert advice on addressing the c...
Provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan
Pakistan’s Law and Justice Ministry has finalised draft legislation to incorporate Gilgit-Baltistan, the region known before 2009 as Northern Areas, a...
Kuthiran Tunnel
Nine years after works started for the 1.6 km-long twin tube tunnel road at Kuthiran on the Palakkad-Thrissur stretch of NH 544, one of the tunnels wa...
North Eastern Space Application Centre (NESAC)
Following the recent clash on the Assam-Mizoram border, the central government has decided to demarcate boundaries of the Northeastern states through ...
NISAR Satellite
The ISRO-NASA joint mission NISER (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite, aimed at making global measurement of land surface changes using adv...
World’s youngest mountaineer to scale K2
A 19-year old Pakistani climber became the youngest person in the world to reach the summit of K2, the second-highest peak in the world. Mr. Shehroze ...
Lokmanya Tilak Award 2021
Businessman Cyrus Poonawalla, who is the founder-chairperson of the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII), has been named as a recipient of the pr...
Silver coin found at Keezhadi archaeological site
A thin silver punch-marked coin was discovered at Keezhadi during the seventh phase of excavation. According to sources, the silver punch-marked coin ...
The General Insurance Business (Nationalisation) Amendment Bill, 2021
A bill to amend the general insurance law to allow the government to pare its stake in state-owned insurers was introduced in the Lok Sabha by Finance...
36TH EDITION OF INDIA – INDONESIA COORDINATED PATROL
Indian Naval Ship (INS) Saryu, an indigenously built Offshore Patrol Vessel has undertaken coordinated patrol (CORPAT) with Indonesian Naval Ship KRI ...
UN Best Small Business winners
Three India-based enterprises are among the winners of a $100,000 global competition of ‘Best Small Businesses’ announced by the United Nations that a...