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National Internet Exchange of India Launches ‘Digital Payment Gateway’

National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) is a not-for-profit Company under the aegis of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) with the mission to make the internet accessible to everyone. To facilitate its customers and partners, NIXI has gone digital by enabling digital payments across its three business units by integrating payment gateways on all its customer-facing websites for ease of use.

75 Nutrition Smart Villages will Strengthen India’s Campaign Against Malnutrition

The initiative has been undertaken in line with the Prime Minister’s call to all the academicians, agricultural scientists and all the institutions to adopt and transform 75 villages. Under the initiative, A total of 75 villages will be adopted by AICRP centres and ICAR-CIWA, for which the AICRP centres will adopt 5 villages each with the remaining to be adopted by ICAR-CIWA with an aim to develop 75 Nutri-Smart villages.

India on its Way to Becoming Fastest Growing Economy in World: FinMin Report

The Survey had said growth will be reinforced by supply-side drive from modifications and easing of regulations, boost for infrastructural investments, improvement to manufacturing sector through Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes, recovery of stifled demand, rise in flexible consumption subsequent to rollout of vaccines and pick-up in credit given passable liquidity and low interest rates.

IISER Researchers Conduct Largest Gut Metagenome Study in India

The human gut contains 300-500 types of bacteria that help in digestion, protect us from infections, produce essential vitamins and neurochemicals. In 2011, German scientists classified human beings into three “enterotypes”, depending on the kind of bacteria that dominates the gut – Prevotella, Bacteroides or Ruminococcus.

Journey of An Innovator to An Innovation Influencer

hri Sundaram Verma, a native of Danta (Ramgarh), a village in the Sikar district of Rajasthan, was supported by National Innovation Foundation (NIF) – India, an autonomous body of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India for his Green Grassroots Plantation Techniques for Combating Desertification and undertaking research on arid zone crops.

Terrorist Threats Emanating from Afghanistan, Afghan Humanitarian Crisis Focus of Delhi Dialogue of NSAs

Security chiefs of India, Russia, Iran and five Central Asian countries on Wednesday deliberated here on the way forward in Afghanistan on how to tackle the terrorist threats emanating from that country and to help the Afghan people tide over the huge humanitarian crisis, as National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said that the developments in Afghanistan have important implications not only for the people of that country but also for its neighbours and the region.