India lost the world’s fastest-growing economy title to China.  In the January-March quarter, India registered 6.3% whereas China recorded a growth of 6.4% in the March Quarter.   India had been ahead of China for two years. The country’s economic growth rate of India slowed to 5.8% during the fourth quarter of 2018-19 due to low agriculture and mining output along with subdued consumer demand.   India’s economic […]

India, US, Japan, and Australia came together to support ASEAN-led architecture mechanism for a rule-based order to promote the free, open, prosperous and inclusive indo-pacific region in a meeting held at Bangkok, Thailand.The meeting at Bangkok is to counter China’s military expansion into the Indo-pacific region. The Quad Countries: Senior officials of the four countries also highlighted their efforts to maintain universal

The Under-20 Eurasian Athletics Championships held at Almaty, Kazakhstan, India team won 5 gold and 3 silver medals National teams from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Iran, India, and Tajikistan participated in a 2-day event held on May 29-30, 2019. Sreekiran bagged the boys’ 800m gold with a time of 1:54.62 Rohit Yadav added the fifth gold medal

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has accorded the status of legal person or entity to animals, granting them the “corresponding rights, duties, and liabilities of a living person”.  The Bench also provided guidelines for the accord. Guidelines: It has fixed load to be carried by animals and banned their deployment for pulling vehicles inextreme cold and heat conditions. 

Telangana Day is celebrated on June 2 each year from 2014 after its bifurcation from Andhra Pradesh.  This year marks the fifth Telangana State Formation Day.  It is the 29th state of the country after the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act was passed in the Parliament.  The celebrations are held in all the 30 districts of the state. Telangana was officially formed on 2 June

Indonesia’s Anton Aditya subowo re-elected as President of Badminton Asia for another four year period. There were around seven people who were selected as the vice-presidents.  India’s Badminton Asia’s president Himanta Biswa Sarma .  Around 40 countries were voted for the posts of President, Vice President, and Secretary-General. About Badminton Asia:  2019 Badminton Asia Mixed Team Championships officially crowned the best

Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), India’s top oil and gas producer, has toppledIndian Oil Corp (IOC) to regain the crown of being the country’s most profitable public sector company.  Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) reported a 34% jump in its 2018- 19 fiscal net profit to Rs.26,716 crore.  Whereas, IOC registered a net profit of Rs.17.274 crore for the

Flight Lt. Mohana Singh becomes the first woman fighter pilot to fly by day on a Hawk advanced jet aircraft. She landed after a grueling 4-aircraft combat sortie at Kalaikunda Air Force station in West Bengal. The other women officers – Bhawana Kanth and Avani Chaturvedi – joined the fighter stream in June 2016. Last week, Flight Lt.

National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) data showed that India has 20.6 health workers per 10,000 people.  It is less than the World Health Organization’s (WHO)minimum overreach of 22.8 per 10,000 people.Distribution of health workers: Rural areas with 71 % of India’s population have only 36% of health workers. It is uneven between the urban and rural areas. Delhi highest

An international collaboration of astronomers with the University of Warwick, I-JK, have discovered an exoplanet, Next-Generation Transit Survey(NGTS)- 4b, the Forbidden Planet, in the Neptunian Desert. It is smaller than Neptune but 3 times the size of the Earth. The Research was led by Dr. Richard West including Professor Peter Wheatley, Dr. Daniel Bayliss and Dr.