National: World Post Day observed every year on October 9. This aims to mark the anniversary of the establishment of Universal Postal Union. On this occasion, Department of Posts, Ministry of Communications, Government of India is celebrating National Postal week. The 7-day celebration was started from 9th October, 2020 & will be end on 15th

National: Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Minister for Science & Technology, Health & Family Welfare and Earth Sciences, inaugurated the “DBT-BIRAC Clean Tech Demo Park” at Barapullah drain site, near Sundial Park, Sarai Kale Khan, New Delhi, on 08th October 2020.The DBT-BIRAC Clean Tech Demo Park will be used to demonstrate innovative Waste-to-Value technologies with support from

BIAF 2020: The 13th edition of Bengaluru International Arts Festival (BIAF) 2020 is being virtually organised from 09 October to 18 October, 2020. BIAF has chosen the theme “Celebrating Harmony Through Arts” for this year. Normally it held for nine days at nine venues within the city. BIAF aim for the year 2020 is to

National: The first edition of National Startup Awards released by Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal on 6th October, 2020, at the National Media Centre, New Delhi. The first edition of the Awards invited applications across 12 sectors. These 12 sectors are Agriculture, Education, Enterprise Technology, Energy, Finance, Food, Health, Industry

National: Uttar Pradesh government signed the concessionaire agreement with Zurich Airport to begin the development of Jewar Airport on 07th October, 2020.Zurich Airport International AG won the bid last year in November for building the greenfield airport set to come up in Greater Noida’s Jewar. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi participated in the Abhinandan program

National: NITI Aayog, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, and Invest India organized a global symposium virtually, “India PV EDGE 2020” on Solar Manufacturing, on 06th October, 2020. The symposium was to catalyze cutting-edge PV manufacturing in India. The symposium comprised plenary session and subsequent sessions on “Wafers and Cells”, “Modules and Production Equipment” and

National: The first ever India-Russia webinar was organized under the aegis of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation. Webinar was based on the use of natural gas as motor fuel. It included two Technical sessions, on LNG as Transport Fuel and CNG as Transport Fuel. Swachhta