Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited European Investment Bank (EIB) and Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) Ltd. have signed a loan agreement for a second line of credit (LoC)…

Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) is a Public Sector Enterprise of the Department of Atomic Energy and fully owned by the…

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development India is to become the 69th member of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The London-headquartered EBRD is a multilateral development bank…

Rare Disease A rare disease, also referred to as an orphan disease, is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population. Most rare diseases are genetic, and are…

Conservation Assured | Tiger Standards (CA|TS) CA|TS is an important tool in the achievement of the Convention on Biological Diversity - CBD’s Global Aichi Targets. CA|TS is a management tool…

MILAN The Indian Navy will host the multi-national MILAN series of exercises at Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar islands from March 6 to March 13, 2018. MILAN is a…

LOKPAL The ‘Lokpal’ is the central governing body that has jurisdiction over all members of parliament and central government employees in case of corruption The main function is to address…

Rat hole mining Coal mining operations conducted by drilling a long narrow tunnel downwards from surface are known as rat hole mining. In India, this form of mining is prevalent…

Exascale computing  It refers to computing systems capable of at least one exaFLOPS, or a billion billion calculations per second. Such capacity represents a thousandfold increase over the first petascale computer that came into operation…

International Commission on Stratigraphy The International Commission on Stratigraphy is the largest and oldest constituent scientific body in the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).  Its primary objective is to…