Rajiv Gandhi (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991) Shri. Rajiv Gandhi served as the 6th Prime Minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the 1984 assassination of his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, to become Read more
✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS 1. Addressing a UNSC briefing on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said, Whether it is in Afghanistan or against India, groups like LeT, JeM continue to operate with Read more
1. PM Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of various projects worth 83 crore rupees at the historic Somnath Temple in Gujarat today (20 Aug) through video conference. 2. Union Minister Jitendra Singh has said that govt will Read more
✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS 1. Cabinet approves Disaster Management MoU between India and Bangladesh. Actually Resilience and Mitigation signed between India and Bangladesh in March this year during the visit of Prime Minister Modi to Bangladesh. Both the countries will also exchange Read more
1. On the occasion of World Photography Day on 19 August, 2021, a biopic of acclaimed photographer-photo journalist, Raghu Rai will be streamed by Films Division on its website and YouTube channels. Raghunath Rai Chowdhry, known as Raghu Rai, is Read more
✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS 1. United Kingdom expresses willingness for collaborating with India on Green Hydrogen Energy.* India has already retired 16369 MW of inefficient thermal units till March, 2021. India’s ambitious target of having 450 MW of installed Renewable Capacity by Read more
1. India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage has crossed 56 crore mark. 2. PM Modi chairs meeting of Cabinet Committee on security following events in Afghanistan : Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Principal Secretary to Read more
The Delhi University Teachers’ Association, DUTA expresses its categorical objection to the inaccurate statement made by the Minister of Education on the floor of the Lok Sabha on 26.7.2021 in response to an unstarred question (No. 1035) about the number Read more
✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS 1. The Afghanistan airspace has been closed for commercial flights, Air India’s nonstops enroute from the US to India are being diverted so that they do not enter the Afghan airspace. 2. Flights will divert to Doha or Read more
1. Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated the world’s second-largest refurbished state-of-the-art National Gene Bank at the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), Pusa, New Delhi. 2. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu visited Karnataka, Read more