Current Affairs

The government has cleared a $8 billion plan to build India's most advanced warships, defence sources said, just months after ordering new submarines to close the gap with the Chinese navy in the Indian Ocean.

New Delhi, Feb 16 : The Civil Nuclear Cooperation agreement between India and Sri Lanka topped the list of agreements signed between the two countries during the state visit of the Sri Lankan President to India.

You can call it the Narendra Modi government’s first big ticket achievement in the field of diplomacy: the nuclear agreement signed between India and Sri Lanka in New Delhi on Monday as visiting Sri Lankan President MaithripalaSirisena and Prime Minister Modi watched.

In a first of its kind nation-wide study carried out by the Thyroid Epidemiological Study team led by Dr. A. G Unnikrishnan researchers revealed that one in ten adults in India suffers from hypothyroidism, with 50 per cent being women.

Scientists have conducted tests that show teixobactin could provide a platform for new treatments to combat superbugs.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is getting tougher on extending unlimited credit to the country's banks to try to ensure they push interest rate cuts through the financial system and to stop them from making what one official called a "mockery" of its operations.

Israel's security relationship with India is out in the open after years of being under wraps, the Israeli defence minister said on Thursday, vowing to play a bigger role in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's drive to build an industrial base.

Big developing countries such as China and India are routinely breaking international trade rules on agriculture and the U.S. government should take action to stop them, representatives of U.S. corn and rice growers said on Thursday.

India's monsoon crop acreage.
Monsoon rainfall by region.
Normal versus 2014 actual monsoon onset.