The Centre has released the balance Rs 44,000 crore to states under the back-to-back loan facility in-lieu of GST compensation, taking the total to Rs 1.59 lakh crore, the full amount that the government had planned to pay to states for FY 22 for compensation shortfall. The government had released Rs 75,000 crore in July and Rs 40,000 crore in October.
Shri Hardeep S. Puri chaired the valedictory session of the 14th edition of Urban Mobility India (UMI) Conference 2021. He presented awards to the state / city winners for “Excellence in Urban Transport” in different categories and distributed certificates under the Executive Programme in Sustainable Transport and trophies for SMART-MOVE.
Shri Hardeep S. Puri is Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs & Petroleum and Natural Gas
The Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has released 2020-21 (Third Advance Estimates) of Area and Production of various Horticultural Crops, compiled on the information received from States/ UTs and other Governmental source agencies. Horticulture production in the year 2020-21 is estimated to be a record 331.05 million tonnes. This shows an increase of 3.3%.
Shri Narendra Singh Tomar is the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
The J&K team for deaf clinched 1st position in World Deaf Judo Championship held at Paris Versailles, France. Rakshanda Mehak who is part of the Indian team for the deaf clinched the bronze medal by defeating the South Korean team in the semifinal. The championship was held at Versailles, France from 26-30th October 2021.
Microsoft's stock becomes world's most valuable after it's share rose as much as 1.1% to hit a market value of 2.46 trillion Dollars blowing past Apple in October last week. The drop in Apple Inc.’s shares propelled Microsoft Corp. to the position of the world’s largest listed company by market capitalization.
Satya Nadella is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft.
Power Ministry has said that India is committed to achieve more than 40 percent cumulative electric power installed capacity from non-fossil-fuel energy resources by 2030. The Ministry said, government has identified new areas to achieve higher levels of penetration of Renewable energy by proposing certain Amendments to Energy Conservation Act, 2001.
Kerala is celebrating its 65th "Kerala Pirayi," the formation day of the State. The State of Kerala was created on November 1, 1956, amalgamating the erstwhile provinces of Malabar, Cochin and Thiruvithancoor. Kerala Piravi Day commemorates this momentous union that led to the formation of modern-day Kerala as we know it.
The G20 summit has adopted the Rome Declaration. The member countries have agreed on mutual recognition of vaccines, strengthening of WHO to give faster approvals to vaccines and suspending debt servicing for developing countries till December 2021. On the last day of the G20 Summit the global leaders deliberated upon subjects of Climate change, environment and development.
The Climate Equity Monitor focuses on equity and climate action from a data and evidence-based perspective will encourage a vigorous discussion on this crucial issue and engage experts from all countries. The Climate Equity Monitor provides an online dashboard for assessing, at the international level, equity in climate action, inequalities in emissions, energy and resource
The website encourage a vigorous discussion and engages experts from all countries
Shri Amit Shah, Union Minister of Home Affairs and Cooporation launched the "Dairy Sahakar" scheme at Gujarat, during the function organised by Amul for celebration of 75th Foundation day. The Dairy Sahakar with a total investment of Rs 5000 crore will be implemented by NCDC under Ministry of Cooperation to realize the vision, “from cooperation to prosperity".
'Amul' is an Indian dairy cooperative society based in Gujarat and was founded in 1946.
On the eve of the World Leaders Summit at the Glasgow climate change conference (COP26), WMO’s provisional State of Climate in 2021 report said the mean global sea level rise was 2.1mm per year between 1993 and 2002 and 4.4mm per year between 2013 and 2021. This was mostly due to the loss of ice mass from glaciers and ice sheets.
Arctic sea ice was below the 1981-2010 average at its maximum in March.
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya addressed the inaugural session of CII Asia Health 2021 summit. The theme of the summit is ‘Transforming Healthcare for a better tomorrow’. The Union Minister exhorted that the Government is committed to Access, Affordability, Accountability, Adoption and Awareness for a better future of Healthcare sector
Dr. Rajiv Nigam (Former Chief Scientist, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India), Selected as 2022 recipient of J.A. Cushman Award for Excellence in Foraminiferal Research.The award will be presented at the Cushman Reception at the 2022 Geological Society of America meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Dr. Nigam is recipient of several awards like CSIR Young Scientist Award.