The National Water Mission set up the inaugural session of the workshop on “Increasing Water Use Efficiency in Industries” in New Delhi. The workshop was set up under the initiative “HarKaamDeshkeNaam”. Emphasis on the adoption of the Corporate Water Responsibility (CWR) as part of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) provisions was given during the workshop.
Union Cabinet has sanctioned the merger of 10 public sector banks (PSBs) into 4 from 1st April 2020. As per the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the exercise of consolidation of 10 PSBs into four is on course and the merger will come into effect from the new financial year 1st April 2020.
Labour of Minister Santosh Gangwar has started a mobile application named ‘Fuel Humsafar’ for delivery of diesel at doorsteps of Housing societies, hotels and hospitals in the national capital region.
“EKAM Fest” has been held in New Delhi to uplift Craftsmanship & Products of Divyang Artisans and Entrepreneurs. National Handicapped Finance Development Corporation (NHFDC) has launched the exhibition-cum-Fair under the Social Justice and Empowerment Ministry.
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 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.
Ministry of Corporate Affairs has been started ‘SPICe+’ Web Form (pronounced ‘SPICe Plus’) to offer 10 services by 3 Central Government Ministries/ Departments and of State Government of Maharashtra in a single web form.
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), in collaboration with Niti Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), started an artificial intelligence (AI) based module for students of Indian schools.The AI-Base Module will be implemented across 5,000 Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL), teaching 2.5 million students.
The Ministry of Food Processing Industries(MoFPI) has signed Rs 162 crore under Operation Green scheme which has an outlay of Rs 500 crore to stabilize the supply of tomato, onion and potato (TOP) crops and to ensure their availability round the year without price volatility.