Veteran environmentalist Ravi Chopra has resigned as Chairman and member of the Supreme Court’s High Powered Committee (HPC) for the Char Dham project. His belief that the HPC could protect this fragile (Himalayan) ecology has been shattered. The Supreme Court on December 14 allowed ...

Frank-Walter Steinmeier was re-elected to a second term as Germany's president on Sunday as a special assembly voted the veteran politician, seen as a symbol of consensus and continuity, back in to the prominent yet largely ceremonial post. This is also the final term for Steinmeier, which he ...

S. Kishore appointed as Chairman of Staff Selection Commission: Senior bureaucrat S. Kishore has been elected as Chairman of Staff Selection Commission (SSC). His appointment was approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. S Kishore is a 1989-Batch IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre.

The Jammu and Kashmir government has signed a pact with New Zealand for the transformation of the sheep farming sector in the Union territory. The year 2022 marks the 70th anniversary of the commencement of bilateral relations between India and New Zealand. According to the agreement, the ...

Current Affairs is the most important area in all competitive exams. But the difficulty level is very high. That’s why; many aspirants get confused, how to select Current Affairs for Preparation of Competitive Examination? In this Post, Daily Current Affairs 13 & 14 February 2022, we have ...

Every year on February 13th, World Radio Day celebrates radio as the mass media reaching the widest audience in the world. The day also recognizes the power of radio to promote diversity and build a more inclusive world.The day was Proclaimed in 2011 by the Member States of UNESCO and adopted by ...

The International Epilepsy Day is observed every year on the Second Monday of February across the world.In 2022, International Epilepsy Day falls on February 14, 2022. International Epilepsy Day seeks to raise awareness and educate the general public on the true facts about epilepsy and ...

National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has launched the ‘JIVA programme’ to promote natural farming under its existing watershed and wadi programmes in 11 states. To effectively implement the principles of agroecology long-term sustainability and transform the ...

Luc Montagnier, the French virologist and Nobel laureate whose co-discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus sparked a global search for an AIDS cure, has died. He was 89. He died on Feb. 8 at a hospital in a suburb of Paris. The noted virologist won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or ...

A visionary with strong academic leaning and having deep professional insight, CA. (Dr.) Debashis Mitra, has been elected as the President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) for the year 2022-23.  While Aniket Sunil Talati has been elected as Vice President of ICAI.

India has agreed to provide a grant to Sri Lanka to implement a ‘Unitary Digital Identity framework’, apparently modelled on the Aadhaar card. The Rajapaksa government will “prioritise” the implementation of the Framework as a national-level programme. The initiative ...

Burkina Faso's new military strongman, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has been declared President by the country's top constitutional body after a coup last month, legal sources said Thursday. The 2022 Burkina Faso military coup took place on January 24, 2022, which was led by Damiba. President ...