With 111 medals in its kitty with 37 gold, 31 silver and 43 bronze, Maharashtra tops the medal tally at the Khelo India Youth Games in Pune.
On 31st January 2018 Khelo India launched at Indira Gandhi arena
Yellow vests movement, motivated by rising fuel prices, high cost of living, and claiming a disproportionate burden of the government's tax reforms falling on the working and middle classes entered 9th week of the protest
The movement started in 17 November 2018 in France
Mahendra Singh Dhoni today became the 5th player to score ten thousand runs for India in One-day International Cricket, adding another feather to his illustrious cap.
Dhoni is the 13th player to score 10,000 runs in the ODIs.
President Kovind conferred the Honorary Rank of General of the Indian Army on General Purna Chandra Thapa, for his immeasurable contribution to fostering Nepal’s long and friendly association with India & his commendable military prowess
General Thapa is Chief of the Army Staff, Nepalese Army
9 Major ports in India have recorded a growth of 3.77% and together handled 518.6 Million Tonnes of cargo during the period April to December, 2018 as against 499.7 Million Tonnes handled during the corresponding period of previous year.
Deendayal Port topped with volume of traffic of 84.91 mn tonnes
Issue Price of the Bond during this bond subscription period shall be Rs. 3,214 – per gram with the Settlement Date of January 22, 2019. RBI has decided to allow discount of Rs. 50 per gram from the issue price to those investors who apply online
RoI of 2.50% p.a. on SGB bonds is payable on half yearly basis
Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Col Rathore (Retd) launched the National Youth Parliament Festival 2019 to provide a chance to the youth to brainstorm about new India and to find ways and chalk out plans to realize our resolves before 2022.
National Youth day is on 12 January every year
The GST Council raised the annual turnover limit under which companies would be exempt from GST to ₹40 lakh for most States and ₹20 lakh for the North Eastern and hill states, from the earlier limit of ₹20 lakh and ₹10 lakh, respectively.
Chairman of GST council is Finance Minister
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved the appointment of Brahm Dutt as part-time, non-executive chairman of Yes Bank. Mr. Dutt has been on the Board of the bank since July 2013.
Yes Bank is headquartered at Mumbai
E-Choupal, initiative from ITC aimed to web-enable farmers to overcome challenges related to information access and procurement, plans to launch a mobile version of the programme by middle of 2019.
ITC is a FMCG giant based in Kolkata