1)India re-elected as Member of International Maritime Council for coming two years (2016-17) :- India has been re-elected unopposed to the Council of the International Maritime Organization. India has been one of the earliest members of the IMO, having ratified its Convention and joined it as a member-state in the [...]

1)India to sell rupee bonds:- The Union Government has decided to launch Rupee Bonds “in some countries” to provide long term finance for infrastructure development in the country. This will be in addition to the setting up National Investment and Infrastructure Fund and launching of Tax Free Infrastructure Bonds. These [...]

1)Gender Ratio and the irony :- Even given the small genetic and biological advantage that boys enjoy, meaning that a slightly larger number of boys than girls are naturally born, there is an implication of pre-natal sex selection which is leading to more boys being born. India has had remarkable [...]

1) Guru Nanak :- News:-The President of India sent his greetings to fellow countrymen on the eve of birthday of Guru Nanak Devji. About :- Founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. He was associated the Bhakti Movement . Nanak was born on 15 April 1469 [...]

1) Zero TB Cities project:- Chennai has been chosen as one of two cities in the world where the Zero TB Cities project will try to create an “island of elimination”; Lima in Peru is the other city. The project will be implemented by the Municipal Corporation of Chennai with [...]

1) ASEAN-India Summit :- News:- ASEAN-India Summit is underway in Malaysia . ASEAN :- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations  is a political and economic organization of ten Southeast Asian countries. It was formed on 8 August 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Since then, membership has [...]

1) Birth of a new Planet:- Astronomers have observed for first time a planet taking shape out of microscopic dust particles 450 light years from Earth The primordial process that turns enormous clouds of cosmic dust into newborn planets over millions of years has been observed directly for the first [...]

1)Center Seeks Memorandum from the States for Providing Drought Assistance  :- News :- In view of sustained dry spell during the last Kharif season, as also in the early Rabi period in some part of the country, the Center has asked the affected states to submit memorandum for drought assistance [...]

  1)Indo-Nepal-China :- Modern-day India and Nepal initiated their relationship with the 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty of Peace and Friendship and accompanying secret letters that defined security relations between the two countries, and an agreement governing both bilateral trade and trade transiting Indian territory. Recently there has been a significant debate [...]

1) G20 :- News:- G20 summit now underway in Turkey. Once the meeting is over and concrete document are out, we will publish the take away from Turkey.Meanwhile :- The Group of Twenty (also known as the G-20 or G20) is an international forum for the governments and central bank [...]