Made in India' tuberculosis (TB) infection skin test called 'c-TB introduced in 35th board meeting of the "Stop TB Partnership" through video-conferencing in Delhi
New initiative, "Adopt people with TB" will be launched this year urging corporates, industries, organizations, political parties and individuals to come forward and adopt TB infected people and families
3rd edition of Indian Navy – Bangladesh Navy Bilateral Exercise ‘Bongosagar’ commenced at Port Mongla, Bangladesh on 24 May 22
The Harbour Phase of exercise is scheduled from 24-25 May followed by a Sea Phase in the Northern Bay of Bengal from 26-27 May
From Indian Navy Ships Kora and Sumedha & BNS Abu Ubaidah and Ali Haider from Bangladesh will be participating
The first Global Report on Assistive Technology (GReAT) is launched by The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
10 key actionable recommendations on improving access to assistive technology for every child were shared by Innocenti
Currently, 2.5 billion people need assistive technology worldwide.
Ten union ministers will be the permanent invitees to the Inter-State Council
Union Ministers are the members of the council
Established to promote and support cooperative federalism in the country
Composition of the standing committee of the Inter-State Council: Amit Shah (Chairman), Nirmala Sitharaman, Narendra Singh Tomar, Virendra Kumar and Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
CABA is revised for a period of three years
The board consists of Culture Minister as the chairperson and including officials from the Culture Ministry and ASI, MPs, nominees of State governments, representatives of universities, scientists and experts on Indus Valley script
Last meeting was held on October 17, 2014 with 53 members, including 13 State govt. nominees
Captain Abhilasha Barak became the first woman officer to join the Army Aviation Corps as a combat aviator after completing the combat army aviation course.
She was awarded the coveted wings along with 36 other army pilots by the Director-General and Colonel Commandant of Army Aviation during a valedictory ceremony held at the Combat Army Aviation Training School in Nashik.
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi became part of the National Super Computing Mission (NSM), GOI, by commissioning the Param Porul Super Computer Centre
It was sanctioned a Super Computer worth ₹119 crore by the MeITY and the DST
Bhaskar Bhat, Chairman, Board of Governors, NIT-T inaugurated the Param Porul Computing Centre
The Music Academy announced Sangita Kalanidhi award winners for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, physical festival could not be conducted due to the COVID-19 pandemic in last 2 years
Noted vocalist and teacher Neyveli R. Santhanagopalan for 2020, mridhangam maestro Tiruvarur Baktavatsalam for 2021 and violinists Lalgudi GJR Krishnan and his sister GJR Vijayalakshmi for 2022
The Delhi High Court has appointed a three-member CoA for Hockey India and the administrative setup of Hockey India is erroneously or illegally constituted because of the Life President.
While the terms of power and responsibility for the CoA – comprising Justice (Retd) Anil Dave, former CEC S.Y. Quraishi and Zafar Iqbal – are similar to that of the one formed for the AIFF.
Narinder Batra will step down as the president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) at the end of his term to focus more on his job as the head of the International Hockey Federation (FIH).
The 65-year-old Batra took charge of the IOA for the first time in 2017 and was eligible to contest for reelection.
After a gap of ten years, an Indian government officer — Anwar Hussain Shaik — has been made the chair of the WTO’s committee on Technical Barriers on Trade.
He will take this role from Elisa Maria Olmeda de Alejandro from Mexico.
WTO's Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.
The RBI came up with norms for facilitating physical import of gold through India International Bullion Exchange IFSC (IIBX)/similar authorised exchange by Qualified Jewellers in India.
The RBI issued the guidelines in order to enable resident Qualified Jewellers to import gold through IIBX or any other exchange approved by IFSCA & the Directorate General of Foreign Trade.
State Bank of India (SBI) has launched personal loan product ‘Xpress Credit’ for salaried customers on its YONO digital banking platform.
Eligible customers will now be able to avail personal loans (Real Time Xpress Credit/RTXC) up to ₹35 lakh via YONO, without any paperwork, the country’s largest bank.
Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has been honoured with an international award for his contribution to cinema.
At the prestigious French Riviera Film Festival, Emmy award-winning American actor Vincent De Paul bestowed the honour on Siddiqui.
He is the only actor in the world to have eight films officially selected and screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate India’s biggest drone festival and interact with kisan drone pilots as well as witness open-air drone demonstrations.
‘Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022’ is a two-day event and being held on May 27 & 28.
Modi will inaugurate India’s biggest Drone Festival – ‘Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022’ – on May 27 at 10 am at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
Ministry of Coal will be organizing National Mineral Congress and field visit of Coal Gasification Plant of JSPL at Angul, Bhubaneshwar on 27th and 28th May 2022.
Anil Kumar Jain who is also Chairman of Indian National Committee of World Mining Congress (INC WMC) will be inaugurating the Congress.
National Informatics Centre Services Incorporated (NICSI), a Government of India Enterprise under the National Informatics Centre,
Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), and Delhi School of Management (DSM), Delhi Technological University (DTU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has chaired the meeting of 40th edition of PRAGATI, the ICT based multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation, involving Centre and State governments.
Nine agenda items were taken for review including eight projects and one Programme.
The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education has released the National Achievement Survey (NAS) 2021 report which assesses the health of the school education system in the country by conducting a comprehensive evaluation survey of children’s learning competencies at classes III, V, VIII and X with a cycle period of three years.