India Innovation Index 2019. NITI with the Institute for Competitiveness has released the India Innovation Index 2019. The index, developed on the lines of the Global Innovation Index, would help the innovation ecosystem of Indian states and Union Territories (UTs) to design policies to drive innovation across regions. For a country as large as India, the state of innovation […]
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UN Human Rights Council Venezuela has won a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, despite widespread criticism of its poor human rights record. UNHRC – It was established in 2006 as part of the UN’s reform process. It replaced the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. UNHRC is an inter-governmental body within the United
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Rangdum Monastery It is the 18th century built monastery. at the head of the Suru Valley, in Ladakh. Rangdum Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery belonging to the Gelugpa sect. Van Dhan Internship Programme Van Dhan Internship Programme” organised by TRIFED under Ministry of Tribal Affairs has recently been launched by the government. 18 interns (to be called Minister’s interns) from some of
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mHariyali App The mobile app was launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. It is aimed to encourage Public engagement in planting trees and other such Green drives. The App provides for automatic geo-tagging of plants and will also enable nodal officers to periodically monitor the plantation. Global Hunger Index Global Hunger Index
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Nobel Prize in Economic The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is the biggest prize in economics. To Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Michael Kremer of Harvard. It is for their work into the causes of poverty and their experimental approach to alleviating global
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