The Global Pension Index 2022 has been released by the Mercer CFA Institute in October, 2022. Iceland topped it for the second year in a row, while the Netherlands and Denmark were ranked second and third respectively.Thailand has been ranked at the bottom. In this,...

The President of India, Smt. Draupadi Murmu, on the first day of her visit to the state, inaugurated the ‘PARAM Kamrup’ supercomputer facility and SAMEER’s high-powered active and passive components laboratory at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.PARAM...

First in India, Tamil Nadu is gearing up to set up Kaduvur Slender Loris Sanctuary in an area shared by Karur and Dindigul districts. The Tamil Nadu government has notified the sanctuary under Section 26 (A)(1)(b) of the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972.The 11,800...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 13, 2022 flagged off the country's fourth Vande Bharat Express train from Una railway station in Himachal Pradesh.The train will run between Amb Andaura in Himachal Pradesh to New Delhi.The new Vande Bharat train is an advanced...

To promote football among school children, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday launched 'Football for All', an initiative by FIFA in Odisha in partnership with KIIT & KISS. Under the initiative, over 43,000 footballs will be distributed to children in...

The Supreme Court on October 12, 2022, laid down guidelines for the implementation of the Shreya Singhal versus Union of India judgment, which declared Section 66(A) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 unconstitutional.Section 66A of the Information Technology...

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, today has approved a new Scheme, Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North East Region (PM-DevINE) for the remaining four years of the 15th Finance Commission from 2022-23 to 2025-26.  The...

Naval cooperation between Brazil, India and South Africa epitomises the strong long term strategic relationship between the three democracies and vibrant economies. Initiated in 2008, Ex IBSAMAR is the most visible manifestation of this convergence of democratic...

The first World Sloth Bear Day was observed on October 12, 2022 to generate awareness and strengthen conservation efforts around the unique bear species endemic to the Indian subcontinent.It was proposed by Wildlife SOS India, an organisation involved in sloth bear...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday revealed the winners of the ICC Player of the Month awards for September 2022. Pakistan's Mohammad Rizwan is crowned ICC Men's Player of the Month, while India's inspirational captain Harmanpreet Kaur is named ICC...