Miscellaneous

• Elephant and Indian Bustard to be included in India’s global conservation list

  February 12, 2020

• NIFM, Faridabad to be renamed as Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management

  February 11, 2020

• 1st look of biopic on APJ Abdul Kalam released

  February 10, 2020

• NCL establishes R&D centre ‘SARAS’ for sustainable coal mining

  February 10, 2020

• Astronomers discover Ultramassive Galaxy XMM-2599 from early universe

  February 10, 2020

• To fight novel coronavirus World Health Organisation calls for USD 675 million

  February 6, 2020

• Sourav Ganguly to be Indian team’s Goodwill Ambassador for Tokyo Olympics

  February 5, 2020

• GoI unveils new vaccine to control classical swine fever

  February 5, 2020

• Mo O’Brien becomes the 1st deaf person to row Atlantic Ocean

  February 5, 2020

• Bangladesh’s PM Sheikh Hasina inaugurates “Ekushey Book Fair”

  February 3, 2020

• Eimear Noone set to become Oscars’ first female orchestra conductor

  January 31, 2020

• SC allows introduction of African cheetah in India

  January 30, 2020

• 16th Mumbai International Film Festival begins

  January 30, 2020

• Nepal creates Guinness World Record for highest altitude fashion show event

  January 30, 2020

• India’s 1st underwater metro project in kolkata to be completed by 2022

  January 29, 2020

• “Samvidhaan” announced as the Oxford Hindi Word of the Year 2019

  January 29, 2020

• India’s 1st war memorial for animals set to open in Meerut

  January 28, 2020

• Government of India to sell 100% stake in Air India

  January 27, 2020

• ‘Women with Wheels’ service launched at Indira Gandhi International Airport

  January 24, 2020

• Reliance Jio becomes 1st Telecom to launch UPI Payments Feature

  January 24, 2020

• Russia will be focal theme country in IKBF 2020

  January 24, 2020

• SC sets up committee to Draft Legislation on Mediation

  January 22, 2020

• India start thermal screening of passengers arriving from China and Hong Kong

  January 22, 2020

• Kolkata host 9th International Children’s Film Festival

  January 20, 2020

• Union Fertilizers Minister launches APNA UREA – Sona Ugle” brand of HURL

  January 18, 2020

• 1st edition of Krishi Manthan begins in Gujarat

  January 17, 2020

• 5th Science Film festival starts in Goa

  January 16, 2020

• 1st ever Food Processing Summit hosted by Ladakh

  January 16, 2020

• Super Senior Citizens and PwDs now vote through Postal Ballot

  January 16, 2020

• Sebi defer deadline to April 2022 for split CMD post

  January 14, 2020

• Vice President of India to inaugurate “Classical Telugu Centre” in Andhra Pradesh

  January 14, 2020

• Works on laying of submarine cables between Chennai-A&N Islands inaugurates

  January 10, 2020

• Women weightlifter Sarbjeet Kaur banned for 4 years by NADA

  January 9, 2020

• Indian High Commission organizes “Art Exhibition” in Bangladesh

  January 8, 2020

• Home Minister lays foundation stone of Delhi Cycle Walk

  January 7, 2020

• UN declares Malala Yousafzai ‘Most Famous Teenager of The Decade’

  January 6, 2020

• Neutral pronoun ‘they’ voted Word of the Decade

  January 6, 2020

• KVIC opens 1st silk processing plant in Gujarat

  January 4, 2020

• India’s Malavath Poorna scales Antarctica’s Highest Peak

  January 4, 2020

• 28th World Book Fair to focus on Gandhi as writer

  January 3, 2020