Month: February 2016

Week 22-29th Feb,2016 • In order to enhance economic cooperation and strengthen financial stability, RBI has extended the $2 billion currency swap arrangement to SAARC […]

Week 22-29th Feb,2016 State-run Indian firm Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) is poised to seal a contract to build a $1.6 billion power plant in […]

Week 22-29th Feb,2016 • Polling for 2019 general elections will be conducted through paper trail-based electronic voting machines to “enhance transparency”. • The paper audit […]

Week 22-29th Feb,2016 • The birders of Goa have sighted a new bird Falcated Duck, a very rare vagrant species to the south of India, […]

Disappearing forests of Kudremukh: Week 22-29th Feb,2016 The Kudremukh National Park in the Western Ghats is a part of the world’s 38 ‘hottest hotspots’ of […]

Odisha: Whale deaths cause concern: Week 22-29th Feb,2016 Expressing deep anguish over carcasses of different species of whales being washed ashore of late, environmentalists underscored […]

India’s first nuclear submarine INS Arihant ready for operations, passes deep sea tests: Week 22-29th Feb,2016 • India’s first nuclear armed submarine is now ready […]

Pak parliament becomes first in world to run entirely on solar power: Week 22-29th Feb,2016 • Pakistan parliament on Tuesday became the first in the […]

A first: Naga Sadhus to take part in Mahamaham: Week 14-21 Feb, 2016   ● For the first time a group of Naga Sadhus from […]

National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property to restore murals on domes at Madras HC: Week 14-21 Feb, 2016 ● For years, salinity in […]