What Is A Cold Wave? Various parts of India, especially North India, have been experiencing a severe cold wave. Warnings for the severe cold waves have been issued in several northern states. A cold wave is different for the plains and the mountains. According to the Indian Meterological Department (IMD) if the temperature goes below […]
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Street For People Challenge And Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge
Street For People Challenge And Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge: The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) announced eleven winning cities for the Streets for People Challenge and ten winning cities for the pilot stage of the Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge. Streets for People Challenge is a city-led design competition. It supports cities across the country to […]
Houthis Attack: UAE
Houthis Attack UAE: The roots of the Houthi movement can be traced to “Believing Youth” (Muntada al-Shahabal-Mu’min), a Zaydi revivalist group founded by Hussein al-Houthi and his father, Badr al-Din al-Houthi, in the early 1990s. Badr al-Din was an influential Zaydi cleric in northern Yemen. Inspired by the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the rise […]
World Employment And Social Outlook Trends (WESO Trends) 2022 : ILO
World Employment And Social Outlook – Trends (WESO Trends) 2022: ILO The International Labour Organisation (ILO) released a report titled World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends (WESO Trends) 2022. The Outlook remains fragile because the future path of the pandemic remains uncertain. The WESO Trends includes comprehensive labour market projections for 2022 and 2023. […]
National Centre For Good Governance (NCGG)
National Centre For Good Governance (NCGG): In order to promote inclusive good governance, strengthening of local institutions and effective implementation of government programmes, the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG), Government of India and National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj (NIRD & PR), Hyderabad signed MoU on 17th January 2022. The main purpose […]
International Roaming SIM Cards: Revised T and C
International Roaming: As part of the policy reforms initiated in telecom sector, the Department of Telecom (DOT) has issued the “Revised terms & conditions for issue/renewal of NOC for sale/rent of International Roaming SIM Cards/ Global Calling Cards of Foreign Operators in India”. The revised terms & conditions strengthens the mechanism to protect the interests […]
Sustaining Food Production under Environmental Stress
Sustaining Food Production under Environmental Stress: Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh addressed the India-UK meet on “Sustaining Food Production under Environmental Stress” through virtual mode. The Workshop is being organized jointly by National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, an institute under Department of Biotechnology, Government of India and University of Birmingham, UK and supported by […]
North East Cane and Bamboo Development Council
NECBDC: NECBDC sponsored a training programme on “Bamboo Shoot Processing and Preservation” which was conducted by the NECBDC empanelled cluster M/s Delicacies food processing Center, Meghalaya the same venue from 13th to 17th, December 2021. North East Cane and Bamboo Development Council (NECBDC) is under the Ministry of DoNER, Govt. of India. Formerly known as […]
Segregation of Domestic Hazardous Waste
Domestic Hazardous Waste: Segregation of domestic hazardous waste remains a distant dream for most Indian cities in absence of robust framework and infrastructure. Indore is the only city in the country that safely handles its domestic hazardous waste. Domestic Hazardous Waste is any chemical or product that can cause serious illness or pose an environmental […]
Open Data Week
Open Data Week: The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has announced the initiation of the Open Data Week to encourage the adoption of open data and promote innovation across India’s urban ecosystem. It is being conducted during the third week of January, i.e., from 17th January 2022 to 21st January 2022. The idea […]
