Category: International

Pakistan has become the first country in the world to introduce a typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) into its immunization program for children to try to contain an ongoing “extensively drug-resistant (XDR)” outbreak of typhoid. With funding support from Geneva-based GAVI Read More …

According to the Trace Bribery Matrix annual ranking for 200 countries., Bangladesh has the highest business bribery risk among South Asian courtiers. Bangladesh has been placed at 178 position among 200 countries in terms of business bribery risk.  It has Read More …

Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises and Parliamentary Affairs, Arjun Ram Meghwal on November 14, 2019 inaugurated the International Symposium on Lighting (iSoL) at International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT), Manesar in Gurugram. Speaking at the Symposium, Read More …

President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro will be the the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations in 2020. Brazilian President has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation. Prime Minister Modi met Mr. Bolsonaro on November 13, 2019 on the sidelines Read More …

Tobacco Board of India has been awarded the Golden Leaf Award in the Most Impressive Public Service Initiative category for the year 2019, for its efforts to initiate various sustainability (green) initiatives in Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV) tobacco cultivation in India. Executive Director Read More …

In consonance with the growing partnership between India and the US, the maiden India US joint Tri services Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercise named ‘TIGER TRIUMPH’ is scheduled on the Eastern seaboard from 13 to 21 Nov 19. Read More …

The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium has been included on the 2020 World Monuments Watch to draw attention to the complex challenges of preserving not only an iconic twentieth-century modern structure, but an emblematic public space for the people of Ahmedabad. Read More …

Karnataka’s Suranga Bawadi has been included it in the World Monument Watch list for 2020 along with 24 other monuments from across the world. Suranga Bawadi is an integral part of the ancient Karez system of supplying water through subterranean Read More …

Union Agriculture Minister, Shri. Narendra Singh Tomar reminded the gathering that the conservation of plant genetic resources is the shared responsibility of humanity while addressing the Opening Ceremony of eight session of the Governing Body of International Treaty of Plant Read More …

INS Kamorta, an Anti-Submarine Warfare Corvette is jointly exercising with Indonesian Warship KRI Usman Harun, a multi-role Corvette in the Bay of Bengal as part of the ongoing Indian Navy – Indonesian Navy Bilateral Exercise ‘Samudra Shakti’ from 06 Nov to 07 Read More …

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the 10th Asian Conference of Emergency Medicine in New Delhi on November 7, 2019. During the inauguration, the Vice President stressed on the urgent need to attach high priority to emergency medicine and services Read More …

According to the Country Report on Terrorism 2018, released by the US State Department, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) is the world’s sixth deadliest terror organisation after the Taliban (Afghanistan), Islamic State, Al-Shabaab (Africa), Boko Haram (Africa) and the Read More …

According to the ‘Freedom on the Net’ (FoTN)’ report by the Freedom House, ‘internet freedom is increasingly imperiled by the tools and tactics of digital authoritarianism, which have spread rapidly around the globe. Repressive regimes, elected incumbents with authoritarian ambitions, Read More …

Dr. Trilochan Mohapatra, Secretary (DARE) & Director General (ICAR) inaugurated the five day-long “International Conference on Soil and Water Resources Management for Climate Smart Agriculture and Global Food and Livelihood Security” at the National Agricultural Science Centre Complex in New Read More …