81-year old leader of National Conference party of Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah has been detained under the stringent Jammu & Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA) of 1978, which enables authorities to detain any individual for two years without trial.
India has formally launched an initiative to fund 1000 scholars from South East Asian countries to pursue PhD at its 23 Indian Institutes of Technology.
It is a joint initiative of the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
The GST Network has decided to make Aadhaar authentication mandatory for new dealers from January 2020 to check malpractices in GST. Aadhaar authentication was earlier optional.