Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday named the 21 largest unnamed islands in the Andaman & Nicobar archipelago after 21 Param Vir Chakra awardees. Modi participated in the ceremony through videoconferencing and unveiled a model of the national memorial dedicated to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose that is to be built …

The current practice of translocating leopards from conflict area, in vogue since many years, will be disbanded in due course as Karnataka is set to establish multiple rehabilitation centres to house leopards and tigers captured from the conflict zones. Senior officials of the Karnataka Forest Department are already studying similar …

E-commerce major Amazon on Monday launched Amazon Air, a dedicated air cargo service to enable faster deliveries to customers in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad. Quikjet Cargo Airlines, with whom it has partnered, will operate two Boeing 737-800 aircraft to transport customer shipments to the four cities, VP-Customer Fulfilment (APAC, …

When his predecessor Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, was raided last August and a trove of thousands of government documents was discovered there, including several hundreds of classified papers, little would U.S. President Joe Biden have imagined that he would find himself in a similar sticky situation. Yet, Mr. …

The  President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu will confer the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, 2023 to 11 exceptional children in an  award ceremony which will take place at Vigyan Bhawan tomorrow i.e. on 23rd January, 2023. Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi will interact with Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar …

The Election Commission of India (ECI) is hosting the 2nd International Conference on the theme ‘Use of Technology and Elections Integrity’ at New Delhi on 23-24 January, 2023. ECI is leading the Cohort on Elections Integrity which was established as a follow up to the ‘Summit for Democracy’ held virtually in December, 2021. …

India’s foreign trade data for the first eight months of 2022-23 have been significantly revised, with the import bill being scaled up or down by at least two billion dollars in each of those months, in comparison to the preliminary estimates issued by the Union Commerce Ministry. The total merchandise …

On January 20, foodtech delivery platform Swiggy announced that it was laying off 380 employees due to challenging macroeconomic conditions. In this article dated September 30, 2021, Sowmiya Ashok explains how the Indian public need to be more informed about the plight of gig workers, taking a leaf out of …

India’s financial sector is highly exposed to the risks of the economy transitioning from being largely dependent on fossil fuel to clean energy, says a study in the Global Environmental Change journal, published last week. An analysis of individual loans and bonds found that 60% of the lending to the mining sector …

Promising to bring its visa staff across the U.S. Embassy and five consulates in India back up to full strength in the next few months, the U.S. on Sunday said it was launching a “surge” in staffing and a number of other measures to increase visa processing capacity across the …