Piyush Goyal announced 18th zone named South Coast Railway with headquarter at Visakhapatnam. As per item 8 of Schedule 13 of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2014, Indian Railways was required to establish a new railway zone
India’s 1st National Rail & Transportation Institute: Vadodara
Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi and engineers from Pune-based Thermax have joined hands to set up a pilot plant for producing methanol from high-ash content Indian coal. The pilot is expected to be completed in 2021
Union Minister of Science & Tech: Dr. Harsh Vardhan
National Science Day is celebrated every year on February 28 to commemorate the discovery of Raman Effect by Tamil Physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman on this day in 1928. The discovery won him the Nobel prize in physics in 1930
C V Raman was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1954
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in collaboration with the Government of Maharashtra is conducting a 2-day national workshop on Preparedness, Mitigation and Management of Heat Wave in Nagpur (27-28 February)
Ex-officio Chairman of NDMA: Prime Minister (Narendra Modi)
Dharmendra Pradhan today handed over the 100th LOI to the Compressed Bio-Gas entrepreneur under the SATAT scheme. SATAT is an initiative aimed at providing a Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation to boost availability of affordable fuel
Dharmendra Pradhan is Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas
NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) and Adobe today signed a Statement of Intent (SOI) to collectively drive the charter of developing creative skills and spreading digital literacy across all Atal Tinkering Labs in India.
NITI Vice-Chairman: Rajiv Kumar
Dr. Jitendra Singh, presented the National e-Governance Awards, 2019 in a function organized by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG). IRCTC Rail Connect App was presented the Special Jury Award
MoS Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions: Dr. Jitendra Singh
IDBI Bank & LIC have signed a bancassurance agreement under which IDBI will offer LIC’s insurance products at its branches. As part of the service-level agreement, the bank will become the preferred bank for LIC premium payments
Rakesh Sharma is the MD & CEO of IDBI Bank
Prakash Javadekar recently launched the Scheme for Higher Education Youth in Apprenticeship and Skills (SHREYAS) for providing industry apprenticeship opportunities to the general graduates exiting in April 2019 through NAPS, New Delhi
NAPS- National Apprenticeship Promotional Scheme.
Narendra Modi addressed the closing ceremony of National Youth Parliament Festival Awards 2019 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi & conferred the National Youth Parliament Festival Awards 2019. He also launched the Khelo India App at the event
MoS for Youth Affairs & Sports: Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore