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Pakistan has become the first country in the world to introduce the typhoid vaccine approved by the World Health Organization (WHO). A two-week campaign targeting over 10 million children in the age group of 9 months to 15 years will be launched in the Southern Sindh province with the support of Geneva-based Gavi Vaccine Alliance. […]
National Press Day is observed across India on 16th November every year to mark the presence of an independent and responsible press in India. The day marks the establishment of the Press Council of India on 16th November, 1966. It is the self-regulatory watchdog of the press, for the press and by the press, and operates […]
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched a web portal and a mobile application called ‘e-Ganna’ for sugarcane farmers of the state. This app and portal will ensure transparency in the process of getting slips, and facilitate sugarcane supply by farmers to mills and check irregularities. It will also help in eradicating cane mafia and […]
Ravi Prakash, an Indian PhD scholar of the ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Bangalore, has won the 25,000 US Dollar BRICS-Young Innovator Prize for inventing an affordable indigenous milk chilling unit for smaller and marginal rural dairy farmers. He was part of a 21-member delegation sent to Brazil by the Department of Science and Technology […]
The 39th India International Trade Fair is scheduled to be held in New Delhi from 14th November to 27th November, 2019 under the theme ‘Ease of Doing Business’. This year, the Partner Country is The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan while The Republic of Korea will be the Focus Country. Bihar and Jharkhand will be the […]
The Public Service Broadcasting Day is observed across India on 12th November every year to commemorate the first and last visit of the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi to the studio of the All India Radio, Delhi in 1947 to address the displaced people from Pakistan who were temporarily settled in Kurukshetra, Haryana after […]
National Education Day is observed every year in India on 11th November to commemorate the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first education minister of independent India, who served from 15th August, 1947 to 2nd February, 1958. The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development announced on 11th September, 2008 that the day will be observed every year […]
The “Accidental and Suicidal Deaths in India report” for the year 2016 has been released by the National Crime Records Bureau on 8th November, 2019. As per the report, around 8,684 deaths occurred due to natural forces and around 4,09,537 persons died in accidental deaths in 2016. Out of all the accidental and suicidal deaths, […]
Union Food Processing Industries Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ launched three books – Guru Nanak Bani’, ‘Nanak Bani’ and ‘Sakhian Guru Nanak Dev’ – on the teachings of Guru Nanak Dev in New Delhi. Published by the National Book Trust (NBT), the move aims to spread the message of […]
Tiger Triumph, the first ever tri-services India-US amphibious exercise is scheduled to be conducted from 13th November to 21st November, 2019 off the coasts of Visakhapatnam and Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh. This exercise will include events and field training that simulate moving humanitarian assistance and disaster relief force from ship to shore. It aims to build […]