The Smart Cities Mission, Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has won the Platinum Icon in the Digital India Awards 2022 for their initiative “DataSmart Cities: Empowering Cities through Data”.  The award was announced under the ‘Data Sharing and Use for...

Under the G20 presidency of India from December 01, 2022, to November 30, 2023, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is organizing the Urban 20 event. In the process to organize the Urban 20 event, Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel unveiled the logo, website, and social...

Spanish tennis player, Rafael Nadal has won the Fan’s Favorite singles title at the Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP Awards 2022. Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) has won the title of Most Improved Player of the Year at the ATP awards 2022....

The famous Tal Chhapar blackbuck sanctuary in the Churu district of Rajasthan has received a protective cover against a proposed move of the State government to reduce the size of its eco-sensitive zone. The World Wildlife Fund for Nature has...

INS Mormugao (D67), the second warship of the P15B class of stealth guided-missile destroyers, has been commissioned at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai on December 18, 2022. It was designed by the Indian Navy’s in-house organization Warship Design...

RTS mechanism uses rupees instead of dollars and other big currencies for international transactions. Recently, Tajikistan, Luxembourg, Cuba, and Sudan, have begun talks with India regarding the RTS mechanism. Earlier, the Reserve Bank of India in July 2022 set up the...

India has jumped to the third position in the global ranking in scientific publications, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said after a review of the functioning of the ministry. Mr. Singh said that according to the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s...

A NASA-led international satellite mission was set for blastoff from Southern California early on a major Earth science project to conduct a comprehensive survey of the world’s oceans, lakes, and rivers for the first time. Dubbed SWOT, short for Surface Water and...

After 36 years, Argentina won their third World Cup by beating France 4-2 on penalties. The 35-year-old Messi played his 26th game in the World Cup, breaking German footballer Lothar Matthaus’s record. With his 18th FIFA World Cup captaincy, Messi broke Rafael...

European Union leaders agreed to make Bosnia and Herzegovina a formal candidate to join the bloc of 27 nations. The Western Balkans country joined the waiting room despite continuing criticism of the way it is run. Three diplomats told The Associated Press that Bosnia...