Tribal Affairs Minister held a video conference with States/UTs on “Tribal livelihoods and safety” in New Delhi on 13 May which was attended by Chief Ministers, Deputy Chief Ministers, State Ministers for Tribal Affairs, and state ministers for Forests from more than 20 states/UTs along with senior State officials. The Union Minister reviewed the working […]
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The Under-5 Mortality Rate in India has dropped by 49 per cent since 2000, but there is a six-fold variation in the rate between states and an 11-fold variation between various districts. These are the findings of two scientific papers on child survival by the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative. The study highlighted that there
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The FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2021 has been rescheduled between 17 February and 7 March. The recommendations were made by the FIFA-Confederations COVID-19 Working Group, the Bureau of the FIFA Council. FIFA announced that the tournament will keep original eligibility criteria which are the players born on or after 1 January 2003 and on
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New Development Bank of BRICS countries have fully disbursed $1 billion emergency assistance loan to India to help it contain the spread of COVID-19 and reduce human, social and economic losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The ‘Emergency Assistance Program Loan’ to India was approved by the NDB Board of Directors on 30 April. The
Anunta announced that it has received the Regional Partner of the Year Award for the Services Excellence category. Anunta was honoured under the Services Excellence category. Anunta’s innovative solutions work on the next generation users including cloud based-desktop services was recognized. The VMware Partner of the Year Awards various categories including Services Excellence, Partner Value,
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Tourism Ministry organized the 18th Dekho Apna Desh webinar series on 12 May 2020. It was titled ‘Odisha-India’s Best kept secret’ and took the participants on a virtual journey into Odisha. The webinar gave a brief introduction to the State of Odisha and highlighting on the key selling proposition of Odisha such as its ancient
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, and the Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have used data science models to analyse and predict the total number of infected people for different States in India in the next 30 days. The researchers used the Susceptible Infectious Susceptible (SIS) models, along with the model-free daily infection-rate
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Haryana is geared to provide tap water connection to all rural households by December, 2022. Haryana expects to be among the leading states to accomplish the ambitious target of providing a tap connection to each rural household. Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation reported there are 28.94 lakh households in Haryana, out of which 18.83
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Delhi Police has inducted in service India’s first thermal detection headgear that will enhance the social distancing while still enabling the policemen to perform their duties. Indian Robo Store group in partnership with the Delhi Police has invented this headgear that has been given the name Thermal Corona Combat Gear (TCCH). The first of its
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External Affairs Minister of India S Jaishankar participated in the virtual meeting of Foreign Ministers of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member countries on 13 May where foreign ministers and diplomats from eight different countries attended the meeting. The Meeting aimed to discuss the cooperation to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussion on the global challenges, preparedness,
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