On India-US agenda, a plan to share defence intel from Ladakh to South China Sea

The 3rd two plus two ministerial meeting next week will see both India and the United States consolidating military-to-military relationship between the two democracies to move towards institutionalised intelligence-sharing agreement and go beyond tri-services exercises into unmanned, space and underwater platform domains, people familiar with the matter said. On October 26-27, Defence Minister […]

Harsh Vardhan launches CuRED, CSIR partnered clinical trials website

Union health and science and technology minister Harsh Vardhan launched CuRED, a website that gives comprehensive info about the numerous Covid-19 clinical trials that the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) is engaged in partnership with industry, other government departments and ministries. CSIR Ushered Repurposed Drugs (CuRED) provides information […]

Good news for central govt employees; Cabinet approves 2019-2020 bonus

Ahead of Dussehra, the Centre announced bonus pertaining to year 2019-2020 which will benefit 30 lakh non-gazetted employees. The total financial implication of this will be Rs 3,737 crore. Both productivity-linked bonus and non-productivity linked bonus have been approved, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday announcing the decisions approved […]