KVIC has received order of 1.80 lakh double-twisted handcrafted cotton fabric Khadi masks from Indian Red Cross SocietyWhile KVIC in the past has also got orders of 7 lakh masks from J&K government along with that of 20,000 from Indian Railways
1 min read30 Jul 2020France has donated 120 ventilators and 50,000 COVID-19 testing kits to India to combat the spread of the virus French Ambassador Emmanuel Lenain handed over medical supplies to RK Jain, Secretary-General of Indian Red Cross Society on Tuesday
2 min read28 Jul 2020At a time when the country was facing severe blood shortage due to restriction in movement, the society collected blood through in-house donations and from around 2000 blood donation camps organized
2 min read25 Jun 2020A humanitarian expert from the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Operations (ECHO) has also been deployed to further assess the Kerala flood situation
2 min read23 Aug 2018Red Cross says Assam , Manipur flood survivors are at risk of contracting malaria, encephalitis diseases as water levels begin to recede leaving behind conditions ripe for mosquito-breeding
2 min read5 Aug 2017Time ran out on a proposal for rare inter-Korean military talks, with North Korea refusing to respond to South Korea's offer to open dialogue to ease simmering tension
2 min read21 Jul 2017South Korea offers to hold military talks with the North with an aim to ease tensions after Pyongyang tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on 4 July
3 min read17 Jul 2017This month marks the sixth anniversary of the onset of the Syrian civil war. The conflict has left over 400,000 dead and wrenched some 10 million out of their homes
4 min read20 Mar 2017A Nigerian Air Force fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram extremists mistakenly bombed a refugee camp, killing over 100 refugees and wounding aid workers
1 min read17 Jan 2017Reconstruction has been slow and uneven and most of the $4.1 billion that donors pledged in June last year remains unspent because of political squabbling
2 min read25 Apr 2016The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared