CURRENT AFFAIRS

• 08, Mar 2021

India's ace shuttler PV Sindhu settled for a silver medal in the BWF Swiss Open Super 300 at Basel, as she went down against World No. 3 Spaniard and reigning Olympic champion Carolina Marin 12-21, 5-21, in the final of the women's singles event yesterday. The World Cha

• 08, Mar 2021

In Boxing, continuing his splendid run, Manish Kaushik clinched gold as Indian boxers concluded their impressive campaign at the Boxam International Tournament with 10 medals in Castellon, Spain. The 2018 Commonwealth Games silver medallist Kaushik, beat Denmark’s Nikolai

• 06, Mar 2021

In Swiss Open Badminton, Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth progressed to the semi-finals after winning their respective matches in Basel, Switzerland. Sindhu secured a 21-16, 23-21 win over Busanan Ongbamrungphan while Srikanth defeated Kantaphon Wangcharoen 21-19, 21-15

• 06, Mar 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the valedictory session of the Combined Commanders’ conference at the Statue of Unity in Kevadia, Gujarat today. According to the official sources, jawans and junior commissioned officers also participated in the conference for the first

• 06, Mar 2021

Telecom spectrum was auctioned after a gap of five years, but it didn’t fetch a fortune. If spectrum across seven bands worth Rs 3.92 lakh crore was up for sale, only Rs 77,800 crore worth was sold. The government reasoned that the sum exceeded its expectations, but truth is, it

• 06, Mar 2021

NEW DELHI: Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) chairman Bibek Debroy on Friday said that while giving the message that tax rates will remain stable, the Union Budget 2021-22 focussed on promoting growth by driving reforms to boost consumption, investment and gover

• 05, Mar 2021

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies have agreed to extend most oil cuts by one month into April, offering small exemptions to Russia and Kazakhstan. They decided after the demand recovery from the Coronavirus pandemic was still fragile despite a recent

• 05, Mar 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will receive the CERAWeek Global Energy and Environment Leadership Award today. He will also deliver a keynote address at the Cambridge Energy Research Associates Week -2021 via video conferencing. CERAWeek was founded in 1983 by Dr. Daniel Yergin.

• 05, Mar 2021

The United Nations Human Rights Investigator on Myanmar urged the Security Council to impose a global arms embargo and economic sanctions on the military generals and move the atrocities to the International Criminal Court for prosecution. In a report to the UN Human Rights Cou

• 05, Mar 2021

Newly formed Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir Union Territories will have a separate cell in National Commission for Women (NCW). The Commission's Chairperson Rekha Sharma said that by the end of this month, separate cell for the new UTs will be created. Four days ahead of Inte