The Union Cabinet on January 8, 2020 gave its approval for the ratification of Migration and Mobility Partnership Agreement between India and France. The Agreement was signed in March, 2018 during the State Visit of the French President to India. Significance Read More …
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Cabinet approves MoU between India and Sweden on cooperation in Polar Science
The Union Cabinet has been apprised of the Agreement on cooperation in polar science between Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), India and Ministry of Education and Research, Sweden. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on 2nd December 2019 during the Read More …
Golden Globe List of winners 2020
The 77th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and American television of 2019, were presented at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California (USA) on January 6, 2020 (Indian Time). Best picture went to 1917, while Renée Zellweger won best actress for Judy, and Read More …
Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani killed by US Forces
The US forces killed Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), in a drone strike at the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq on January 3, 2020. Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was killed in the Read More …
World Braille Day 2020
The world Braille Day is being celebrated on January 4, 2020. World Braille Day, celebrated since 2019, is observed to raise awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights Read More …
Cabinet approves MoU between India and Saudi Arabia for cooperation in the field of Renewable Energy
The Union Cabinet on December 24, 2019 apprised of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy of the Government of India and the Ministry of Energy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for cooperation in Read More …
Cabinet approves ratification of the 10th Additional Protocol to Universal Postal Union
The Union Cabinet on December 24, 2019 gave its approval to the ratification of the Tenth Additional Protocol to the Constitution of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) adopted by 2nd Extraordinary Congress of the Union held at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from Read More …
US Officially Launches Space Force-The Sixth Military Branch
US President Donald Trump on December 21, 2019 officially launched US military ‘Space Force’ at an army base near Washington. He signed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act and with it directed the establishment of the U.S. Space Force (USSF) as the Read More …
World’s Oldest Fossil Forest Found in New York
The world’s oldest known fossil forest has been discovered in a sandstone quarry in town of Cair in New York state. The forest would have spanned from New York to Pennsylvania and beyond, and has been dated to about 386m Read More …
West African countries rename CFA common currency to “ECO”
Eight W. African countries on December 21, 2019 announced to change the name of their common currency CFA to “Eco”. The announcement was made during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to Ivory Coast, which is also the world’s Read More …
John Lewis introduces bill in US House to promote Gandhi’s legacy
Congressman and legendary Civil Rights leader of USA, John Lewis introduced a bill in the US House of Representatives to promote the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. The bill sought a budgetary allocation of 150 million Read More …
Second meeting held to monitor implementation of the Chabahar port agreement
The second meeting between officials of India, Afghanistan and Iran took place in New Delhi on December 20, 2019 to monitor implementation of the 2016 agreement regarding development and management of the Chabahar port in Iran. The three countries welcomed Read More …
Afghanistan first country to recognize Indian Pharmacopoeia
The Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP) has been recognised formally by the National Department of Regulation of Medicines and Health Products of the Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan. It will also be used based on the requirement as reputable pharmacopoeia in Read More …
Portugal set up Gandhi Citizenship Education Prize
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa attended the second meeting of the National Committee for the Commemoration Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th Birth Anniversary at Rashtrapati Bhavan on December 19, 2019. He is the only foreign Prime Minister to be a part of Read More …
Industrial Security Annex signed at India-US 2+2 Dialogue
Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar met US Secretary of Defense Dr Mark T Esper and Secretary of State Michael R Pompeo in Washington DC on December 18, 2019 for the second annual India-US Read More …