Month: June 2024

The CSIR, under the Department of Science and Technology, launched the ‘One Week One Theme (OWOT)’ campaign on 24 June 2024 across its 37 labs in India. Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences, and MoS PMO, Ministry of Personnel Public Grievances…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today praised the Honourable Lok Sabha Speaker for his strong condemnation of the Emergency and the excesses that followed. In a message on X, Prime Minister Modi expressed his appreciation: “I am pleased that the Honourable Speaker condemned the Emergency and brought attention to the abuses…

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has transferred the Medium Range-Microwave Obscurant Chaff Rocket (MR-MOCR) to the Indian Navy during a ceremony in New Delhi on June 26, 2024. This advanced technology, developed by DRDO’s Defence Laboratory in Jodhpur, creates a microwave shield around platforms, reducing their radar detectability….

The ‘India Africa Postal Leaders Meet’ is being held in India from June 21st to 25th, 2024. This initiative aims to strengthen ties between African countries and India in the postal sector. Organized under the “South-South and Triangular Cooperation” programme of the Universal Postal Union, it is supported by India…

The Ministry of Defence’s flagship initiative, Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX), marked a significant milestone on June 25, 2024, by signing its 350th contract. This landmark agreement, made in New Delhi, is with SpacePixxel Technologies Pvt Ltd for the design and development of a miniaturised satellite capable of carrying multiple…

Kodikunnil Suresh of the Congress has filed his nomination for the Lok Sabha Speaker position as the INDIA bloc candidate. This marks the first time in thirty years that the Speaker’s post will be contested. The NDA has fielded Om Birla as its candidate. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi mentioned that…

The West Bengal government was notified about discussions between the Centre and Bangladesh regarding the Teesta water-sharing and Farakka Treaty, as per government sources. On July 24, 2023, the Centre wrote to the Bengal government, seeking their nominee for a committee to conduct an internal review of the 1996 water…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has described the 1975 Emergency as a significant threat to democracy, marking 50 years since it was imposed by then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. At the Parliament House complex in New Delhi on the first day of the 18th Lok Sabha session, Modi called the Emergency a…

Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, aged 78, is reported to be in critical condition, according to a senior leader of her party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The Daily Star reported that Zia was urgently transported to Evercare Hospital around 3:30 am on Saturday after falling seriously ill at her…

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, expressing her objections to the ongoing water-sharing talks between the Centre and Bangladesh—a discussion from which Bengal was excluded. Rejecting the Centre’s proposal to share Teesta water with Bangladesh, she stated, “Such unilateral deliberations and discussions…