News Snippets

1 Rajasthan gears up with a Law Against Mob Lynching

2 Green Signal to Death Penalty for ‘Honour Killing’ in Rajasthan

3 Karnataka Govt. pulls gears up to promote over 40 GI Products

4 Safe Cities Index (SCI) 2019

5 HP Passes Bill against Forced Conversion

6 Fit India Movement

7 India Signs UNISA

8 UNIDO and Solar Energy Institute Sign Agreement

9 Visit of Zambian President Edgar Chagwa Lungu to India

10 FATF Places Pakistan on Black List

11 China Lends Support to Kailash Mansarovar Yatra

12 SARAL Index Launched

13 Textile Ministry Signs MoU for Skill Training

14 Pradham Mantri Laghu Vyapari Yojana

15 Merger of 10 Public Sector Banks into Four

16 Alignment of Financial Year of RBI with Govt.’s Fiscal Year

17 Government Mandates Used Cooking Oil for Biodiesel

18 KABIL Set up to Ensure Supply of Critical Minerals

19 Meghdoot: New Mobile App Launched to Assist Farmers

20 IPCC Report on Land and Climate Change

21 World Biofuel Day Observed in India

22 Gogabeel: Bihar’s First Community Reserve

23 Greta Thunberg’s ‘Climate Strike’ Becomes a Global Movement

24 Government to launch Genome India Initiative

25 Government Clears ITMS for Mumbai

26 GJ 357 d: NASA’s TESS Discovers 1st Nearby Super-Earth

27 India’s 1st Large-Scale Trial of Two New TB Vaccines Launched

28 NASA Takes First High-Resolution Measurements of Interplanetary Shock

29 ISRO lays the Foundation Stone for the Space Situational Awareness Control Centre

30 Virgin Hyperloop One Signs an agreement to build a Hyperloop