The World Bee Day theme for the year 2020 is "Bee Engaged".
As per Food and Agricultural Organization database, in 2017-18, India ranked eighth in the world in terms of honey production (64.9 thousand tonnes) while China stood first with 551 thousand tonnes of honey production.
The New York-based Private equity firm KKR has announced to invest Rs USD 1.5 billion in Jio Platforms for a stake of 2.32%.
This is fifth such investment in Reliance Jio followed by Facebook, Silver Lake, Vista Equity Partners and General Atlantic.
The Operators began shutting down the Philippsburg nuclear power plant in southern Germany.
Germany has half a dozen more nuclear plants but they will be shut down by the end of 2022.
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has formed a six-member committee to prepare a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for phased resumption of training on sports once the coronavirus-forced national lockdown is lifted.
It will be headed by SAI secretary Rohit Bharadwaj.
The Union Environment Ministry has allowed a proposal to set up a desalination plant inside the eco-sensitive zone of Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park.
The project will be coming up at Kuthiraimozhi village in Kadaladi Taluk of Ramanathapuram.
The Indian economist Abhas Jha has been appointed by the World Bank to a key position on climate change and disaster management in South Asia region.
The Former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Jayalalithaa's house 'Veda Nilayam' is set to become a memorial house.
Israel has named a street in Tel Aviv after celebrated Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore as a tribute on his 159th birthday.