​ Ministry: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Objectives: Regulation of surrogacy, prohibition of commercial surrogacy and ethical surrogacy for needy infertile for legally married Indian couples. Key Provisions: National Surrogacy Board at Centre and State level. These boards will ensure effective regulation of surrogacy. Age of parents who opt for surrogacy has been defined. […]

US to create world’s largest protected marine area off Hawaii United States is going to create world’s largest protected marine reserve area named as Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument off the Hawaiian coast. It will be created by expansion of present national monument off Hawaii. US President Barck Obama will use his power to expand this […]

The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) just concluded its first slot of the Combined Graduate Level examination (CGL), Tier1-2016, on August 27, 2016. The first session was conducted from 10 am to 11.15 am today, August 27, across the country. Due to the online nature of  CGL Tier – 1 exam, many students have reported server […]

GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) committee has added Gorakhpur as a new test centre in its tentative list of 184 examination cities. These 185 examination cities are divided on the basis of the eight Zonal GATE offices, which includes the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, IIT Delhi, […]

Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has released the admit card for Combined Graduate Level Exam (CGL)- Tier 1 2016, on August 27, 2016.  SSC has released admit card for candidates who will take the CGL exam from September 3, 2016, onwards. Candidates should keep in mind that admit cards are to be downloaded only from their […]

The notification for the prestigious Xaviers Admission Test (XAT) has been released on 17th August. Registrations open from 17th August till 30th November. Applications with a late fee can be made till 11th December 2016. The exam will be conducted in a pen and paper mode. The organizers for XAT believe that a pen and […]

The chancellor of Sri Sri Ramaswamy Memorial University (SRM), Chennai, T R Pachamuthu, was arrested today, August 26, on charges of cheating, criminal breach of trust, and common intention, under IPC Section 420, 406,34, respectively. About 109 parents have lodged a complaint against Pachamuthu alleging that the latter had taken approx Rs.50 lakhs from each […]

​ Indian Administrative Service ​ Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is one of the three All India Services (AIS). The other two AIS are- Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFoS). Department of Personnel and Training under Ministry of Personnel and Public Grievances and Pension is the Cadre Controlling Authority. ​ Recruitment The three […]

Indian Revenue Service ​ Indian Revenue Service (IRS) is the largest Group ‘A’ Central Service among the organised services in Government of India. IRS has two branches, IRS (Income Tax) and IRS (Custom & Central Excise), which perform the role of levy and collection of direct and indirect taxes respectively. Customs is levied on goods […]

The decision to conduct the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in foreign countries was taken in the meeting of the IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) council. The primary motive driving this decision was to increase the number of foreign students in IITs. GATE 2017 will be conducted in Ethiopia, Singapore, the UAE, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. […]