Current Affairs

Bangladesh on 20 August 2015 became the first country to receive funds from the United Nations (UN) for its fast growing solar home systems. The UN Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) issued 395286.

Socio-Economic and Caste census (SECC)-2011 is a study of socio economic status of rural and urban households and allows ranking of households based on predefined parameters.It has threecensus components which were conducted by three separate authorities...

Digital Guddi-Gudda Board is innovation of Jalgaon district Maharashtra was adopted as a best practice under BetiBachaoBetiPadhao(BBBP) scheme by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development.

Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Science and Technology and the minister for theMinistry of Earth Science (MOES), inaugurated the 12th International Symposium onAntarctic Earth Sciences (ISAES) on 13th July 2015.

The central government will soon unveil a programme to develop new national highways with focus likely to be on connecting border areas. Union Minister for Transport, Roads and Highways NitinGadkarisaid,”We are going to announce ‘RashtriyaMahamarghs’ (national highways) under the ‘Bharat Mala’ programme soon.”

India and Georgia on 13 July 2015 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the field of election management and administration. The MoU was signed by Chief Election Commissioner of India NasimZaidi and Tamar Zhvania.

India and Kyrgyzstan on 12 July 2015 signed four agreements/Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs) to strengthen bilateral relations as well as regional and international issues of mutual interest, in warm and friendly atmosphere.

India and Myanmar on 16 July 2015 issued a joint statement on bilateral cooperation after the conclusion of the first meeting of the India-Myanmar Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) in New Delhi.

India and Singapore on 21 July 2015 signed Technical Agreement (TA) on sharing white-shipping information to enhance maritime cooperation between the two navies. The agreement was signed during the visit of Navy chief Admiral R K Dhowan to Singapore.

India and Tajikistan on 13 July 2015 signed two agreements/Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs) to further strengthentheir defence cooperation which is a strong pillar of strategic partnership between both the friendly nations.