National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL) and IIT signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate for research and development in the areas of civil engineering, road construction, planning and design.
IIT Guwahati is known for its R&D in civil engineering, road construction, planning, and design and will help NHIDCL innovate in space
India's National Climate Research Agenda was unveiled at the start of the two-day International Climate Research Conclave (ICRC-2023) at DST's Centre of Excellence in Climate Studies at IIT Bombay, paving the way for coordinating national efforts towards understanding and addressing climate change in 2030 and beyond.
The 14th Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM14) and 8th Mission Innovation (MI8) meetings will be held in Goa in July this year.
The theme of these meetings is ‘Advancing Clean Energy Together’.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation has launched UDAN 5.1 to further enhance connectivity to remote areas of the country and achieve last-mile connectivity through helicopters.
This follows four successful rounds of the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) and with version 5.0 of the fifth round underway.
The board of ICICI Bank has decided to raise the bank’s stake in ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company (ILGIC) by an additional 4 per cent and turn the insurance company into a subsidiary of the bank.
The bank will acquire at least 2.5 per cent stake out of the 4 per cent before September 9, 2024. As on March 31, 2023, the bank held 48.2 stake in the ILGIC.
ISRO's GSLV f 12 rocket with NVS - 01 satellite was successfully launched at 10.42 from Sriharikota .
The rocket lifted off from the second launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre and injected NVS -01 satellite in its geosynchronous orbit.
ISRO Chairmam -Sreedhara Panicker Somanath
The three day Anti-Corruption Working Group meeting under the G20 India Presidency concluded at the Tehri, Uttarakhand.
The delegates agreed on three high-level principles to prevent and combat corruption.
Nepal has decided to allow India's Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) Limited to develop a second hydropower project in the country.
At present SJVN is developing a 900-MW Arun -III hydroelectric project, a run-of-river located on the Arun River in Eastern Nepal, scheduled to be completed in 2024
The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers is held annually on May 29.
It is an opportunity to appreciate the invaluable contribution of the uniformed and civilian personnel who work for the organization.
The day honors over 4,000 peacekeepers who have lost their lives while serving under the U.N. flag since its inception in 1948.
Ahead of the highly-anticipated Gaganyaan mission expected to take place later this year, Indian Navy along with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released a Gaganyaan Recovery Training Plan.
This was released at the state of the art Water Survival Training Facility (WSTF) INS Garuda, Kochi
Praveen Kumar Srivastava was sworn in as the Central Vigilance Commissioner. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to him at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Mr. Srivastava is a 1988-batch retired Indian Administrative Service officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off Northeast India's first Vande Bharat Express train via video-conferencing and added that it will boost tourism, and enhance connectivity.
Connecting Guwahati with New Jalpaiguri, the train will help save about an hour of journey time, when compared with the current fastest train connecting the two places.
Viacom18 owned streaming service JioCinema has inked a multi-year content deal with NBCUniversal (NBCU) to bolster its premium content library.
As part of the partnership, JioCinema will get access to thousands of hours of NBCU films and TV series to India.
Growing at a steady pace, UPI transactions are likely to reach 1 billion per day by 2026-27, accounting for 90 per cent of the retail digital payments in the country, said a PwC India report.
Unified Payments Interface (UPI), which is driving the digital payments revolution, accounted for about 75 per cent of the total transaction volume in the retail segment during 2022-23