The Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards, also known as “the Oscars of Education,” given significant recognition to the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M). The best program awards went to the IIT Madras courses, BS Data Science, and NPTEL in partnership...

The Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah launched the Mobile App ‘Prahari’ of the Border Security Force (BSF) in New Delhi on 29 December 2022.   Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai, and Director General of BSF Pankaj Kumar Singh were among...

The project comes on the back of an acute shortage of security personnel at centrally protected monuments with the ASI recently telling the parliamentary committee probing the matter that security guards were posted at only 248 of the 3,693 CPMs. That comes to a...

The government in Himachal Pradesh has appointed 1990 batch IAS and Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Prabodh Saxena as the new Chief Secretary of the state. Born in 1965 in Uttar Pradesh, Prabodh Saxena is a graduate of economics and law. He was holding the charge of...

As part of India’s G20 presidency, the Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Communications and Railways, Shri Ashwini Vaishnav has launched the “Stay Safe Online” campaign and the “G20 Digital Innovation Alliance” (G20-DIA). MeitY, the Nodal Ministry...

The Karnataka Cabinet decided to categorize the two dominant communities in the state, Vokkaligas, and Lingayats, as “moderately backward” from the “backward” category in a move that could increase their share in reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC). Karnataka...

Recently, the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution issued a notification to provide free foodgrains (rice, wheat, and coarse grains) to all eligible households under the National Food Security Act, 2013, for one year from January 1, 2023....

The first Nilgiri Tahr project in India, which would cost Rs 25.14 crore, will be undertaken to protect Tamil Nadu’s state animals. Sharing details of the project in a statement, Sahu said, “Project Nilgiri Tahr of Tamil Nadu Forest seeks to rehabilitate the habitat...

On 16-12-2022, the Ministry of Science and Technology notified the National Geospatial Policy, 2022 to create an enabling ecosystem thereby providing a conducive environment to Indian Companies that will enable them to make India self-reliant in producing and using...

In June 2020, a panel constituted by the Securities and Exchange Board of India recommended that non-profit organizations be directly included in the Social Stock Exchanges. In the wake of the economic downturn brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, this was seen as...