Mehta panel for stressed assets
The Sunil Mehta Committee, set up to look into the faster resolution of stressed assets, has recommended the creation of an asset management company for the resolution of stressed loans worth more than Rs.500 crore
NITI Aayog releases First Delta Ranking of Aspirational Districts
First Delta ranking for Aspirational districts
More than 19,500 mother tongues spoken in India: Census
There are 121 languages which are spoken by 10,000 or more people in India, which has a population of 121 crore
Rise in FPI outflows
Overseas investors have pulled out nearly Rs 48,000 crore from Indian capital markets in the first six months of 2018.
Fall in the FDI growth rate
According to the latest data of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), FDI in 2017-18 grew by only 3 per cent to USD 44.85 billion.
India gets its 37th WORLD UNESCO World HERITAGE SITE.
India’s nomination of the “Victorian and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai ” has been inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list.
Monitoring govt. schemes in real time
In a bid to make data-driven decision making more than a mere buzzword, the Ministry of Rural Development launched the DISHA dashboard, a nifty tool that will make it easier to monitor governance by geography in real time.
PSLV bags first Australian order
The Indian PSLV launcher has broken into a rising Australian space market and bagged its first small but promising order from Down Under.
Decreasing ‘greenness’ in India’s forests
Most forests are green. But a recent study finds that this ‘greenness’ is consistently decreasing across more than 46 lakh hectares of various types of forest in India, particularly in core protected areas.
Mobile App ‘ReUnite’:App to track missing and abandoned children
Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu launched a
mobile application called ReUnite which helps to track and trace missing and abandoned children in India.