The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, will receive the United Nations' highest environmental honor, the ‘UNEP Champions of the Earth’ award at a special ceremony in Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra, New Delhi on October 3.
The award announced on 26th September, on the sidelines of 73rd UN General Assembly at New York City, will be presented by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
The Prime Minister will also address the gathering. Prime Minister Modi has been selected in the leadership category for his pioneering work in championing the International Solar Alliance and for his unprecedented pledge to eliminate all single-use plastic in India by 2022.
The annual ‘Champions of the Earth’ prize is awarded to outstanding leaders from government, civil society and the private sector whose actions have had a positive impact on the environment.
Reserve Bank has imposed a penalty of five crore rupees on Federal Bank for non-compliance of certain RBI directions among other deficiencies.
In a press release issued yesterday, ....
1. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi gave awards to top Ranked State, District, and State with maximum citizen participation based on the National Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2018 co....
The provisional gross collections of Direct Tax up to September this year is higher than the collections for the corresponding period of last year. It is 16.7 percent higher at 5.47 lakh cro....
Facing enquiry over charges of nepotism and conflict of interest, ICICI Bank managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) Chanda Kochhar on Thursday quit the bank.
She quit ....
The case of Kulbhushan Jadhav, the Indian national who was sentenced to death by a Pakistani court on spying charges, will be heard by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from 18th Febr....
Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, CCEA, has increased the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all Rabi crops for the current financial year which will be marketed in 2019-20 season.
....
Russian President Vladimir Putin will reach New Delhi this evening on a two day visit to India.
He will attend the 19th India-Russia Annual Bilateral Summit in New Delhi. During th....
