PM to inaugurate 3rd AIIB Annual Meeting 2018, Mumbai

In news: The Department of Economic Affairs & Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will host the 3rd Annual AIIB meeting on June 25-26, 2018 in Mumbai. The theme for this year’s meeting is – Mobilizing Finance for Infrastructure: Innovation and Collaboration. The AIIB is a development bank with a mission to improve socioeconomic standards. Its...

Mongolia to develop country’s 1st refinery

Context: Mongolia to develop country’s first oil refinery at Stantsiin Hooloi in Altanshiree Soum with the help of a USD 1 billion loan from India. The home minister, Rajnath Singh is on a 3-day visit to Mongolia to strengthen India’s relations with Mongolia and security cooperation. Engineers India Ltd. will assist with construction of the...

International Widows’ Day: June 23rd

Context: June 23, the world is commemorating International Widows’ Day as stipulated by the United Nations. According to UN Women’s 2018 Turning Promises into Action: Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is to assist nearly 10% of the 258 million widows globally live in extreme poverty. It was formally adopted on December 21, 2010...

PM Modi inaugurates nature center in New York

In news: PM Modi inaugurated the ‘YO1 Nature Cure Center’ in the Catskills area of New York on the occasion of 4th International Day of Yoga. YO1, which means youthful in Sanskrit, is the first of its kind nature cure center in America located in Monticello in the scenic region of Catskills. The centre will...

India’s 1st robotic telescope launched

In news: The Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO) at Hanle in Ladakh is Indian’s 1st robotic telescope & is the one of the world’s highest astronomical observatories at 4,500 m. It is a part of Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) program along US, the UK, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Israel. The telescope is...

FICCI awarded at X international IT forum

Context: The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) was awareded at X International IT Forum at Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. FICCI was awarded for its support and active participation at the forum, consecutively for two years. The forum brought together industry leaders from BRICS and SCO nations to interact in the fields of information...

Shinmoedake: Eruption of Japan Volcano

In news: Sinmoedake  recently erupted after a strong earthquake of 6.1 magnitude shook the country’s west Osaka region. A Japanese volcano that figured in a 1960s James Bond movie erupted explosively. Shinmoedake volcano is in the southernmost main island of Kyushu, Japan. It is located in a mainly rural area about 985 km from Tokyo. Few...

Indo-UN Small Satellites Programme (UNSSP)

In news: UNSSP is launched by ISRO to train 90 qualifying engineers from various countries to build and test three small satellites each year. ISRO’s Bengaluru-based U.R. Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) until recently known as ISAC will train the overseas students. Students will be hosted in Bengaluru for two months each year and work in...

Tajikstan: Country in news

In news: A high level global conference on “International Decade for Action: Water for Sustainable Development” was recently organised in Tajikstan. Tajikstan  lies in the heart of Central Asia. It is bordered by Kyrgyzstan on the north, China on the east, Afghanistan on the south, and Uzbekistan on the west and northwest. Tajikistan was a...

Convention on Supplementary Compensation (CSC)

In news: India ratified the Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage (CSC), an important multilateral treaty relating to liability and compensation for damage caused by a nuclear incident. The CSC was adopted on 12 September 1997, together with the Protocol to Amend the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage, and entered into...