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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on November 13, 2021 inaugurated the first operationalised Private Sector Defence Manufacturing facility in Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor in Lucknow. The facility, run by Aerolloy Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of PTC industries, will manufacture Read More …
According to a new study published in the journal PNAS, the continents rose from the oceans about about 3.2 billion years ago and that the earliest continental landmass to emerge may have been Jharkhand’s Singhbhum region. The widely accepted view Read More …
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched two innovative customer centric initiatives of the Reserve Bank of India on 12 November, 2021. These initiatives are the RBI Retail Direct Scheme and the Reserve Bank – Integrated Ombudsman Scheme. About RBI Retail Read More …
Symptoms of the rare Norovirus infection were reported in 13 students of a veterinary college at Pookode, near Vythiri, in Wayanad district of Kerala. About Norovirus Norovirus is a very contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea. Anyone can get Read More …
Bhadarchalam in Telangana has been included as one of the destinations in the Ramayana Circuit of the Pilgrim Special Train of IRCTC. According to the Minister of Culture Shri G. Kishan Reddy, Lord Rama enjoys a special place in the Read More …
India on November 10, 2021 launched ‘E-Amrit’, a web portal on electric vehicles (EVs), at the ongoing COP26 Summit in Glasgow, UK. E-Amrit is a one-stop destination for all information on electric vehicles—busting myths around the adoption of EVs, their Read More …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on November 10 has given its approval for fixing higher ethanol price derived from different sugarcane based raw materials under the EBP Programme for the forthcoming sugar season 2021-22 during ESY 2021-22 from 1st December Read More …
A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts including Indian-origin Raja Chari docked with the International Space Station on November 11, 2021. This mission known as Crew-3 is part of Nasa’s multibillion-dollar partnership with SpaceX, signed after the Space Shuttle program ended Read More …
To commemorate the 75th year of Independence of India a programme on “Nutrition Smart Village” will be initiated to strengthen the Poshan Abhiyan. This new initiative aims to reach out to 75 villages across India through the network of All India Read More …
Over 20 countries including the US, Japan, Australia and Canada have signed the Clydebank Declaration on November 10, 2021 to develop at least six green shipping corridors between two or more ports by 2025 and “many more” by 2030. Corridors Read More …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on November 10, 2021 approved a committed price support of Rs 17,408.85 crore to the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) as reimbursement for its losses in procuring crops from farmers at minimum support prices Read More …
The Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun, will begin collaring 10 fishing cats (Prionailurusviverrinus) in the Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary (CWS) in Andhra Pradesh. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change had also permitted the project. The country’s first such Read More …
The Union Cabinet on November 10, 2021 has approved declaration of 15th November as Janjatiya Gaurav Divas dedicated to the memory of brave tribal freedom fighters so that coming generations could know about their sacrifices about the country. India’s freedom struggle Read More …
The Union Cabinet on November 10, 2021 restored the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) that was suspended in April 2020 subsuming the funds for the scheme in the consolidated fund of India. The MPLADS was suspended for Read More …
The fourth submarine of the Project – 75, Yard 11878 was delivered to the Indian Navy on 09 November 2021. Project – 75 includes construction of six submarines of Scorpene design. These submarines are being constructed at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Read More …