Ethiopia”s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen will be on a visit to India from February 16-19 during which he will hold talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on a range of bilateral and global issues of mutual interest.
The extended range Astra Mark 2 would give India an edge over its adversaries and would add more lethality to its fighter jets in aerial combat, like the one which happened a day after the Balakot airstrikes on February 26, 2019.
In a bid to bring scientific research in India at par with the global standards, the union government is working on a new playbook for a coordinated high impact research funding. As part of this plan, it is working on developing an ‘Ease of Doing Science Index’ to ensure effective use of both disbursed funds (including flexibility of fund utilisation) and the researchers’ time to weed out sub-standard research.
Rustom-2, India’s medium-altitude long-endurance drone being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation, is targeted to achieve a huge milestone in April when it will take off from its test range in Karnataka’s Chitradurga to fly for more than 18 hours at a height of over 27,000 feet, people familiar with the development said.
The final production batch of Long Range Surface-to-Air Missile (LRSAM), designed and developed by DRDO in collaboration with various industry partners and integrated by BDL, was flagged off at DRDL, A P J Abdul Kalam Missile Complex here on Sunday.
The Government has announced liberalised guidelines for geo-spatial data. Giving details of the liberalised guidelines at a media briefing in New Delhi on Monday, the Union Minister for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences and Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Harsh Vardhan today said that by liberalizing the geo-spatial guidelines, the government has taken a historic decision that will lead to a One Lakh Crore Rupees Geo-Spatial economy.
National Food Security Mission (NFSM) was launched in 2007-08 to increase the production of rice, wheat and pulses through area expansion and productivity enhancement; restoring soil fertility and productivity; creating employment opportunities; and enhancing farm level economy. Coarse cereals were included from 2014-15 under NFSM.
MSDE and the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (Government of Japan) signed an MoC in October 2017, inviting candidates from India to Japan under the Technical Intern Training Program (TITP).
On Friday, finance minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman said Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi-led NDA government eliminated all ills from the MNREGA rural-employment guarantee scheme and invested the maximum Rs. 90,500 crore (US$ 12.43 billion) ever so far.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITY) worked comprehensively to prepare the elaborate paperwork to ban popular Chinese mobile applications like TikTok and WeChat last year, Times of India reports.
