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‘A Future for the World’s Children?’, a report that ranks 180 countries, comparing performance on child flourishing, was released by a Commission of the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and The Lancet on 19th February, 2020. India ranked 77th on a sustainability index that takes into account per capita carbon emissions and 131st on a […]
Union Cabinet on 19th February, 2020 approved the constitution of the 22nd Law Commission of India, which will give recommendations on different aspects of law, which are entrusted to it. The Commission will function for a period of three years from its date of official constitution. The Law Commission of India is a non-statutory body […]
Government of India on 11th February, 2020 renamed the National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM) in Faridabad as the Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management (AJNIFM) after the former Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award, posthumously in 2020 in the field of Public Affairs. NIFM […]
Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari will represent India at the 3rd High Level Global Conference on Road Safety for ‘Achieving Global Goals 2030’ that is scheduled to be held on 19th February and 20th February, 2020 in Stockholm, Sweden. The two-day conference aims to bring road safety on the global agenda […]
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 15th February, 2020 decided to align the financial year of the central bank (July-June) with that of the government’s fiscal year (April-March) from 2020-21. It aims to provide better estimates of the projected surplus transfers to the government for budgeting purposes. The decision, which will end eight decades […]
World Pangolin Day is celebrated every year on the third Saturday of February month to create awareness about these unique mammals and their rapidly declining population in Asia and Africa. The demand for pangolins comes mostly from China, where pangolin scales are believed to have high medicinal properties and its flesh is considered a delicacy. […]
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has updated its list of developing and least-developed countries, removing India, Thailand, Vietnam, Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia from the list. With this, these countries are exempted from getting special preferences under the methodology for countervailing duty (CVD) investigations that was released in 1998. The US removed India from the list on account […]
World Radio Day is celebrated every year on 13th February to increase awareness about radio among media and public. This year theme is Radio and Diversity. The first World Radio Day is celebrated in 2012. The day is celebrated by UNESCO on 13th February, the anniversary of the day that the United Nations established the United […]
National Winter Games under Khelo India Program will be organised in Gulmarg (J&K), the world-famous Ski destination, for five days from 7th March, 2020. The event aims to develop sports across the nation. It will witness 30 events under four disciplines including snowboarding, snow skiing, cross country, and snow show. Khelo India was first held in 2018 […]
Amazon Data Services India Private Limited (ADSIPL) is to set up two data centres at a cost of Rs 11,624 crore ($1.6 billion) on the outskirts of Hyderabad. They would help in developing an Amazon Web Services region in Telangana. The Government of Telangana has framed a dedicated policy for data centres under which the […]