The National Workshop on Explosive Detection (NWED-2020) was organized at Pune, Maharashtra. The workshop was organised by High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL), Pune. During the workshop, a new explosive detection device known as “RaIDer-X” was also released.
Former India hockey player Balbir Singh Kullar passed away. He was in 1968 Olympics bronze-winning team. He was born at Sansarpur village of Jalandhar district in Punjab.
The Bhartiya Chhatra Sansad (BCS) gave out to ‘Adarsh Mukhya Mantri Puraskar’ (Ideal Chief Minister Award) upon Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh for his “path breaking initiatives to ensure good governance and holistic improvement in the state”.
Ajay Tyagi will carry on to be the head of India’s capital and commodities markets regulator the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for another six months.
The country’s premier agri-research body Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) inked an agreement with Hardiwar-based Patanjali Bio Research Institute (PBRI) to undertake research work as well as training and education.
The Kerala High Court banned all forms of agitations by student groups in school and college campuses in the state that disrupt the working of educational institutions.
Government has collected over one lakh five thousand crore rupees as Goods and Services Tax in February,2020 which is eight percent more than the GST collected in the same month of last year.
Presiding over the launching of the National Security Guard (NSG) Regional Hub campus at Kolkata Union Minister for Home Affairs, Shri Amit Shah termed this as an important step in the direction of giving adequate facilities to the brave NSG jawans.
The 19th edition of World Productivity Congress (WPC) will be organized on May 6 to May 8, 2020 at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, Bangalore. World Productivity Congress, the world’s largest convention for productivity development, is back in India after a gap of 45 years.
Padma Shri Jadav Payeng, the Forest Man of India will be honored with the prestigious Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award in New Delhi. The award is instituted by My Home India for his consistent toil in creating a real man-made forest through massive reforestation.
The Fortum CEO will replace Rajeev Suri. Nokia Chief Executive Rajeev Suri will resign in September and is to be taken over by Pekka Lundmark, until now the CEO of energy group Fortum . Suri resigned after more than a decade in charge of Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks, the company stated.
In Malaysia, newly appointed Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yasin took the oath of office. The swearing-in ceremony was organized at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur. Muhyiddin Yasin was head of a coalition dominated by the country’s ethnic Malay Muslim majority.
As a different initiative of Indian Air Force, the IAF and Savitribai Phule Pune University came into an academic collaboration by signing a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a ‘Chair of Excellence’ at Department of Defence & Strategic Studies on 29 Feb 20.
Union Minister for Steel and Petroleum & Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan, met the Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik, along with the Ambassador of Japan to India, Satoshi Suzuki. With the abundance of raw materials, strategic geographical location and strong and developing connectivity, Odisha is well composed to be the heart of this eastern steel hub.
Indian Railways started its first ‘Restaurant on Wheels’ at the circulating area of Asansol railway station for the use of passengers as well as the general public of Asansol. The Minister of State for Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Babul Supriyo launched this first of its kind restaurant at a program.
The Bihar government escalated the country’s first tribal women police battalion named the ‘Bihar Police Swabhiman Vahini‘ with a strength of 675 constables. The passing out parade of this battalion was organized at Patna’s Mithilesh stadium.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has declared that society should also come forward to remove malnutrition problems in the country. Mr. Birla was addressing the program after starting the ‘Suposhit Maa Abhiyaan’ in his constituency Kota.
The Minister of State (IC) for Tourism & Culture, Shri Prahlad Singh Patel will start the multilingual Incredible India website in New Delhi . The inauguration event will witness participation by key stakeholders of tourism industry, foreign ambassadors, foreign correspondents, major associations among others.
President Ram Nath Kovind approved for resuming delimitation exercise in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland. Delimitation means the act or process of fixing limits or boundaries of territorial constituencies in a country or a province having a legislative body.
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