The Budget Session, 2017 of Parliament commenced on 31st January, 2017 and subject to exigencies of government business, will be adjourned sine die, 12th April, 2017.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is drawing up guidelines to regulate organic food. The regulator will put up draft guidelines for organic packaged food and commodities in the public domain for suggestions next month.
India and Indonesia have decided to hold their first-ever joint air combat exercise as well as enhance maritime security cooperation, according to sources. India and Indonesia have already been conducting joint army drills but now they were moving ahead and planning for joint air force exercise.
To foster competition among states, the government's think tank Niti Aayog has decided to rank the states/UTs on the basis of digital transactions.
India continues to languish near the bottom in an international intellectual property index, ranking 43rd out of 45 global economies, according to a report by the US Chamber of Commerce's Global Intellectual Property Center (GIPC).
The Commerce Ministry has approved the pilot Revenue Insurance Scheme for plantation crops for protecting the growers from the risks such as yield loss, pest attacks and income decline caused by fall in prices.
Parliament passed a bill seeking to enable the Centre and state governments to specify industrial units which will have to pay wages only either through cheques or by transferring into bank accounts.
The Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved ‘Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan’ or PMGDISHA to make six crore rural households digitally literate. The outlay for the project is ₹2,351.38 crore.
Shri Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution congratulated the State Government of Gujarat on becoming the first State in the country for establishing Cashless System for distribution of foodgrains.
A new pecking order has emerged for foreign tourist arrivals in India. The US, the traditional top source for arrivals, has lost the spot it held for years to Bangladesh. India’s neighbour has for the first time become the biggest source market for foreign tourists coming to the country.
India is taking its first steps to evolve a policy on synthetic biology, an emerging science whereby new life forms can potentially be made in labs and existing life forms — such as bacteria and other microbes — can be tweaked to exude specific proteins or chemically useful products.
The Specified Bank Notes (Cessation of Liabilities) Bill, 2017 (demonetisation bill) was passed in Lok Sabha. The bill, to formally make the banning of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes a law, was introduced in the Lok Sabha.
The Lok Sabha passed the Payment of Wages (Amendment) Bill, 2017 which seeks to enable employers to pay wages to workers through cheque or directly crediting to their accounts.
Country’s solar power generation capacity stood at over 9 GW as on December 31, 2016 with Tamil Nadu having the largest output capability followed by Rajasthan and Gujarat, Parliament was informed.
Low level of atmospheric oxygen in Earth’s middle ages held back evolution for two billion years, a new research has claimed, raising fresh questions about the origins of life on our planet.
Aiming to curb global warming and facilitate enough carbon space for growth of domestic industry and the economy, India has agreed to freeze production and consumption of Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in 2028 and start reducing it from 2032 onwards.
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan in 2016 hit their highest recorded level, the UN said today, with nearly 11,500 non-combatants -- one third of them children -- killed or wounded.
Para athletes have won 4 medals at RIO Olympics for India in 2016 and brought glory for the country in International Sports Arena.
India has been asked to send the name of its nominee for inclusion in a global team to assist a United Nations committee which decides on banning terror outfits and their leaders.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched Measles Rubella (MR) vaccination campaign in the country at a function in Bengaluru.
