India accounts for nearly half of the overall illegal medicines entering Switzerland, Swiss government data showed. Potency preparations accounted for the maximum of the illegally imported substances that were confiscated in 2016 by Swiss customs officials, the latest annual data showed.
Second edition of the joint exercise between the Indian and Oman Armies commenced with the Opening Ceremony at Bakloh, Himachal Pradesh.
The Trade Mark Rules, 2017 have been notified and have come into effect from 06th March, 2017. These Rules, which replace the erstwhile Trade Mark Rules 2002, will streamline and simplify the processing of Trade Mark applications.
The navy decommissioned Indian Navy Ship (INS) Viraat, the world’s oldest aircraft carrier, 58 years after she entered operational service with the Royal Navy in 1959. During this period, she has sailed over a million kilometres, enough to circumnavigate the world 27 times.
For the first time, an artificial intelligence system has beaten human professionals at a game of Texas hold 'em poker, scientists say.
The Hubble space telescope has captured a new image showcasing an incredibly massive galaxy located under 400 million light-years away from the Earth.
HDFC Bank announced the launch of an electronic virtual assistant (EVA), an artificial intelligence-driven chatbot, for customer services. Eva is India's first AI-based banking chatbot and can answer millions of customer queries across multiple channels instantly.
India will organise its first mobile congress in September with a special focus on reaching out to the South East Asian markets. There is Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and an edition in Shanghai.
Some of the main features of the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) and Integrated GST Bills, as finalised by the GST Council, are as follows:
Contrary to market perception, India's unemployment rate halved from 9.5 per cent in August 2016 to 4.8 per cent in February this year and among major states, a sharp decline was registered in Uttar Pradesh.
Moving a step closer towards implementing the goods and services tax (GST) from 1 July, the GST council approved two crucial supporting legislations for this ambitious tax reform.
Iran successfully test-fired a sophisticated Russian-made air defense system, the official IRNA news agency reported. The report said the test of the S-300 system came during a recent military exercise named Damvand, the name of Iran’s highest mountain.
North Korean weapons barred by UN sanctions ended up in the hands of UN peacekeepers in Africa, a confidential report says.
The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India, in collaboration with United Nations University and UNESCO, is organizing a three-day
10th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV) in Delhi from 7th March to Thursday, 9th March, 2017.
Justice (retd) Arijit Pasayat, deputy chairman of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigating Team (SIT) on black money disclosed that so far around ₹70,000 crore had been detected in black money, including over ₹16,000 crore by Indians stashing funds abroad.
Urban India fares worse than the rural parts of the country in terms of sex-ratio, both overall and at birth, according to the latest national health survey.
After months of difficulty, Pakistan succeeded in getting its official elected to the post of Secretary General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).
A new Chinese cruise ship has embarked on its maiden voyage to the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, state news agency Xinhua said, the latest effort by Beijing to bolster its claims in the strategic waterway.
The navy successfully test- fired an anti-ship missile for the first time from an indigenously built Kalvari class submarine, describing the launch as a significant milestone in enhancing its "sub- surface" warfare prowess.
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) handed over three of its products for induction into the Indian Army. The products are namely (i) Weapon Locating Radar (WLR), SWATHI, (ii) NBC Recce vehicle and (iii) NBC Drugs.
