The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has permitted banks from 18 countries to open Special Vostro Rupee Accounts (SVRAs) to settle payments in rupees, the government said. Speaking in Rajya Sabha, Union Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad said that 60...

Chhattisgarh became the overall champion for the 11th time in the 26th All India Forest Sports Competition held in Panchkula, Haryana on March 14, 2023. In the 26th All India Forest Sports Competition, Chhattisgarh again retained its first position by winning a total...

Global financial markets heaved a sigh of relief after the Swiss National Bank (SNB) came to the rescue of Credit Suisse with a $54-billion lifeline even as the European Central Bank pressed on with its plan to raise interest rates by half a per cent despite the...

According to the ‘Global Air Quality’ study published by the Swiss company IQAir, India fell from the fifth to the eighth most polluted nation in the world in 2022. The research shows that the PM2.5 level in the most polluted Indian cities is 53.3. The two Indian...

Ganesh Joshi, the state’s agriculture minister, said that Uttarakhand launched the country’s first “Resham Keet Bima” programme to safeguard its sericulturists. 200 sericulturists from five blocks in four districts—Dehradun, Haridwar, Udham Singh Nagar, and...

INS Dronacharya, the Gunnery School of the Indian Navy, is being awarded the prestigious President's Colour on 16th March 2023 by the Hon'ble President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu. The President's Color is considered the highest honor that the Supreme Commander of...

The Singapore Army and Indian Army participated in the 13th edition of Exercise Bold Kurukshetra, a bilateral armour exercise from 06-13 March 2023 at Jodhpur Military Station, India. For the first time in the exercise series, both armies participated in a...

SpaceX launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station with 40 more Internet satellites for OneWeb. The final mission was to complete OneWeb's first generation LEO satellite constellation and enable global coverage in 2023. With 582 satellites...

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, (MNRE) on March 14, 2023, issued a notification regarding Solar Waste Treatment under E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2022. As per these rules, every manufacturer and producer of solar photo-voltaic modules or panels or cells...

The indigenous robots and wearable exoskeletons were developed by Hyderabad-based Svaya Robotics in collaboration with the DRDO Labs,  Research and Development Establishment (R&DE), Pune, and the Defence Bioengineering and Electromedical Laboratory (DEBEL),...