National Crop Insurance Awareness Campaign for Fasal Bima Yojana ⇒ Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar launched the Crop Insurance Awareness Campaign for Fasal Bima Yojana during the Crop Insurance Week. It was launched as a part of Government’s India@75 campaign ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, commemorating 75 years of India’s […]

National 2020 Kuvempu Award ⇒ Odia poet Dr Rajendra Kishore Panda has been selected for the Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar for the year 2020. Dr. Panda has published 16 poetry collections and a novel. About Award: The national award has been instituted in memory of the late poet laureate Kuvempu. Founded in 1992, Rashtrakavi Kuvempu Trust

National Approval for revised implementation strategy of BharatNet ⇒ The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, accorded approval for revised implementation strategy of BharatNet through Public Private Partnership mode in 16 States of the country. BharatNet will now extend upto all inhabited villages beyond Gram Panchayats. The revised strategy also includes creation,

National First-of-its-kind initiative ‘FIRE’ ⇒ Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), a statutory body of Department of Science and Technology in collaboration with Intel India launched the first-of-its-kind initiative called ‘Fund for Industrial Research Engagement (FIRE)’. A first-of-its-kind research initiative has been launched on 29 June 2021 to advance deep tech-based research in India. It

National NATRAX- the High Speed Track ⇒ Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Shri Prakash Javadekar inaugurated NATRAX- the High Speed Track (HST) in Indore on 29 June 2021. About HST: NATRAX, a world class High Speed Track of 11.3 km is developed in an area of 1000 acres of land. NATRAX is the