# Infant mortality rate India, which had the ignominious reputation of being the only country in the world where a larger proportion of the girls below one year of age died than boys, finally saw its male and female infant mortality rate equalise in 2020. However, in 16 states IMR remained marginally higher for female […]

# Indonesia Atleast 125 people were killed and mire than 320 injured in a stampede at a football stadium in Indonesia on Saturday. Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo ordered that all matches in Indonesia’s top league must be stopped untill an investigation is carried out. Violence broke out after the game ended around 10 PM, with […]

# 5G India on Saturday took a mega generational leap in mobile telephony as the ball was set rolling for the launch of 5G network. Prime minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the services promising a leg up in economic activities and citizen empowerment through the high speed network that boasts of minimum speed of 100 MBps. […]

# RBI Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy committe on Friday voted 5-1 to increase its key policy rates by 50 basis points, the forth rise in five months. The latest repo rate hike, aimed at reigning in inflation, will make all borrowings including home loans more expensive. Several banks including SBI have already hiked […]

# Dadasaheb phalke award Veteran actor Asha parekh will be conferred the Dadasaheb phalke award for 2020, the highest recognition in the field of Indian cinema. Union Minister and Broadcasting minister Anurag thakur announced on Tuesday. Asha parekh, 79, will receive the award from President Draupadi Murmu at the 68th National film awards on September […]

# Supreme Court ‘Tarikh pe tarikh’ may well become a thing of the past as the Supreme Court gets strict with lawyers seeking adjournments and such pleas, even from senior lawyers, are now being denied. Shedding its usual practice of adopting a liberal approach, especially with regard to senior lawyers who are unable to appear […]

# Road safety In a first, the Bureau of Indian standards (BIS) will establish a National road safety code for national highways (NHs), expressways, state highways (SH) and Major district roads (MDR). The safety code will specify the safety benchmark in engeenering, construction, enforcement and energy care. Only the NHs and SHs networks have nearly […]

# TTD Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), the richest hindu endowment body in the world, has announced that it owns 960 properties across the country valued at ₹ 85705 crores. According to officials, the figure has been arrived at as per government calculation and that the actual market value of the properties would be atleast 1.5 […]

# IITs The cream of the JEE toppers – the top 100 – has overwhelmingly picked IIT Bombay at the close of first round admissions of 2022-23. This made IIT Bombay most sought after tech college, with Delhi and Madras a distant second and third. Ninety three of top 100 have opted for the Powai […]

# NIA In a major pan India crackdown on radical Muslim outfit popular front of India, coordinated searches were conducted by the National investigation agency (NIA) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) and local police. NIA raided several locations including premises of top leaders of the extremist outfit across 15 states and as many as 110 leaders […]