Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved the enhancement of funding under the Technology Development Fund (TDF) scheme to 50 crore rupees per project from 10 crore rupees.
The Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), a unit of the NCERT has been awarded the UNESCO's King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the use of ICT in Education for the year 2021.
The World Bank has slashed its growth forecast for India for the current financial year to 7.5 percent, a hefty 1.2 percentage points down from its previous forecast of 8.7 percent.