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India’s export of organic food products rose by 51% in terms of value (USD Million), to USD 1040 million (Rs 7078 crores) during financial year 2020-21 compared to the previous fiscal (2019-20)
 

 The construction of national highways in the year 2020 surpassed that of the year 2019

Here's some good news for private sector employees. The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation is likely to declare interest rate of 8.5 per cent on their EPF savings for the financial year 2019-20 at one go

 

 Wipro founder-chairman Azim Premji has donated a humongous sum of Rs 7,904 crore. This has made him top the list of philanthropists in India

The concerns of the opposition parties over the proposal of not having the Question Hour during the forthcoming Monsoon Session of the Parliament has made headlines in the media. However, a reality check revealed that this spirit of commitment to Question Hour, given its importance as stated by the opposition did not reflect in the House during the five-year period of 2015-2019

 In the letter of dissent shot off to AICC president Sonia Gandhi, the signatories rue the loss of youngsters and how Congress has failed to have an introspection since its political debacle 2019 
 

On the first anniversary of abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A, Prime Minister Narendra Modi performed bhoomi pujan for the Ram temple in Ayodhya. With two of the promises mentioned in the Lok Sabha 2019 manifesto fulfilled, what next for Modi? 

The Meghalaya health minister said that the Union AYUSH ministry has also agreed in principle to sanction 13 of the 19 AYUSH health and wellness centres for Meghalaya proposed during 2019-20

During the India-Pakistan crisis in 2019, India showed restraint and acted in a balanced way, said former US National Security Advisor (NSA) John Bolton

Before the present NDA came to power in India in 2014, with a repeat return in 2019, the erstwhile governments, (reference is inferential), have mostly compromised for their vote bank politics, to try to secularize the acts of terrorism in some parts of India particularly in the state of Jammu and Kashmir

From 2014 to 2019, India’s stature rose significantly. The dignity of the poor was enhanced. The nation achieved financial inclusion, free gas and electricity connections, total sanitation coverage, and made progress towards ensuring ‘housing for all’.

HI Level 'basic' coaching course is a part of a meticulously-designed coaching programme, known as the Hockey India Coaching Education Pathway which was launched in 2019

The number of women working India Inc has risen from 19 percent in 2016 to 25.7 percent in 2019. This year, it is expected to increase to 26%.

The passage of Sanskrit Universities Bill 2019 in the Rajya Sabha would lead to the conversion of three Sanskrit universities to deemed-to-be universities

Five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, one of the world's most recognisable and highest-paid sportswomen, on February 26, announced her retirement at the age of 32. "Tennis - I'm saying goodbye," Sharapova said in an article for Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines. She added, "After 28 years and five Grand Slam titles, though, I'm ready to scale another mountain - to compete on a different type of terrain." Sharapova burst onto the scene as a supremely gifted teenager and won her Grand Slams before serving a 15-month ban for failing a drugs test at the 2016 Australian Open. The Russian former world number one's ranking is currently 373rd. Sharapova has hardly played in the past year because of long-standing shoulder problems. Watch this video to know more about her illustrious career.