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News 🗓 Thursday February 25 2021 👁 223
The three day Cultural Festival of the 11thRashtriyaSanskriti Mahostav-2021 at Raj Bhawan, Darjeeling concluded yesterday with a magnificent closing ceremony. Governor of West Bengal, Shri. Jagdeep Dhankhar, Member of Parliament, from Darjeelingand Member of Legislative Assembly were present at the closing ceremony.
On this occasion,theGovernor appreciated the efforts of all the o ...
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News 🗓 Thursday February 25 2021 👁 224
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate The India Toy Fair 2021 on 27th February at 11 AM via video conferencing.
Toys play a significant part in the development of a child’s mind and also help improve psychomotor and cognitive skills in children. In his Ma ...
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News 🗓 Thursday February 25 2021 👁 231
Columbia Pacific Communities hosts acclaimed poet and lawyer Pamarty Venkataramana in the 27th edition of #TheLivingRoomColumbia Pacific Communities hosts acclaimed poet and lawyer Pamarty Venkataramana in the 27th edition of #TheLivingRoom
The Living Room virtual ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday February 24 2021 👁 232
After the success of Production Linked Incentive Scheme in bringing investments in mobile phone (handsets and components) manufacturing, the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has approved the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme forIT hardware products.The target IT hardware segments under the proposed Scheme include Laptops, Tablets, All-in-One Personal ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday February 24 2021 👁 268
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has approved the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for IT Hardware. The scheme proposes production linked incentive to boost domestic manufacturing and attract large investments in the value chain of IT Hardware. The Target Segments under the proposed Scheme include Laptops, Tablets, All-in-One PCs andServers. ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday February 24 2021 👁 231
Manish Garg from Medlife joins DealShare as Chief Strategy Officer
· Mr Manish Garg was the Head of Supply Chain Management, Procurement & Offline Retail at Medlife
· Prior to Medlife, Manish has worked with Myntra and Amazon
Mumbai, 24thFebruary, 2021: One of the fastest growing e-tailer, DealShare today a ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday February 23 2021 👁 236
Entire Ahmedabad is now seen colored with various shades of cricket. Cricketing fever is tightly gripping the city with top cricketers to stay in the city for almost a month. After winning the second Test, the joy of cricket is skyrocketing and people are waiting eagerly for one more glorious victory against England. The inauguration of world’s biggest cricket stadium is another parallel at ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday February 23 2021 👁 273
Scientists have found a new Lead (Pb) free material which can efficiently convert waste heat to power our small home equipment and automobiles.
Thermoelectric energy conversion allows generation of electrical voltage when one end of a material is heated while keep ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday February 23 2021 👁 237
Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) during its 184th Meeting held on 22.02.2021 under the chairmanship of Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State for Labour& Employment (Independent Charge), Govt. of India has taken several significant decisions to improve its service delivery mechanism and to strengthen the medical infrast ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday February 23 2021 👁 274
Shri Hardeep S Puri, MoS, I/C, Housing and Urban Affairshas stated that National Urban Digital Mission will create the ideal space to harness immense synergies from the domain of urban and technology towards creating a citizen-centric governance that reflects Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘minimum government and maximum governance’. Speaking at the launch of National Urban Digital Mission (NUDM) and other initiatives here today, he said that Ministry has to work with and ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday February 23 2021 👁 230
The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi addressed the 66th Convocation of IIT Kharagpur today through a video conference. Union Education Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' and Union Minister of State for Education Shri Sanjay Dhotre were present on the occasion.
The Prime Minister said this day is not only important for the parents and teachers of the IIT but also for the New India as the students represent the entire country. He urged the students passing out, as they embark a new ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday February 23 2021 👁 236
Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar Enters Into A Strategic Investment With UnacademyMaster Blaster Sachin Tendulkar Enters Into A Strategic Investment With Unacademy
· Unacademy inks strategic partnership with Sachin Tendulkar wi ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday February 23 2021 👁 237
Afghanistan and India participate in IIHMR University’s talk on Public Health Actions for Universal Health Coverage in Developing CountriesAfghanistan and India participate in IIHMR University’s talk on Public Health Actions for Universal Health Coverage in D ...
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News 🗓 Monday February 22 2021 👁 273
Labour Bureau, Chandigarh organised the Training of Trainers for the five All India Surveys relating to Domestic Workers, Migrant Workers, Employment Generated by the Professionals, the Employment Generated in Transport Sector and the All India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey on 20th February, 2020. The training was presided over by Prof. SP Mukherjee, the Chairman of the Expert Group, Dr. Amitabh Kundu, the Co-Chairman of the Expert Group and Shri DPS Negi, Director General of Labour Bur ...
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News 🗓 Sunday February 21 2021 👁 231
Inviting Ideas for PM Narendra Modi's Mann Ki Baat on 28th February, 2021
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PM Narendra Modi looks forward to sharing his thoughts on themes and issues that matter to you. The Prime Minister invites you to ...
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News 🗓 Saturday February 20 2021 👁 235
The provisional payroll data of EPFO published on 20th February, 2021 highlights a positive trend for net subscribers base growth with addition of 12.54 lakh subscribers in the month of December, 2020. The data reflects increase of 44 % in net subscribers addition over the previous month of November, 2020. Year on year comparison of payroll data shows 24% growth for December 2020, indicating return to the pre-Covid levels of subscriber growth for EPFO.
Despite COVID-19 pandemic, EPFO adde ...
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News 🗓 Saturday February 20 2021 👁 235
Secretary (Food), Department of Food &Public Distribution, Government of India Shri Sudhanshu Pandey,reviewed the NFSA implementation and other allied matters with State Government of Gujarat at Gandhinagar.
He expressed that there is possibility of including more beneficiaries under coverage of NFSA to which State Govt informed that 30 lakh beneficiaries have been added in recent past and they are in process of identifying more beneficiaries through convergence with other central programs ...
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News 🗓 Thursday February 18 2021 👁 234
Global Noble Ferroalloys Market – Industry Analysis and Forecast (2019-2027)Global Noble Ferroalloys Market was valued US$ 117.8 Bn in 2019 and is expected to reach 194.2 Bn by 2027, at a CAGR of 7.03 % during a forecast period. ...
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News 🗓 Monday February 8 2021 👁 232
Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs is implementing a Centrally-sponsored Scheme viz. the “Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM)” to reduce poverty and vulnerability of urban poor households by enabling them to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities. The Employment through skills Training and Placement (EST&P) component of the Misssion aims to provide skills to the urban poor to increase their income through ...
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News 🗓 Monday February 8 2021 👁 230
Government of India has launched Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan (GKRA) of 125 days on 20th June, 2020 with a resource envelop of Rs.50,000 crore, to boost employment and livelihood opportunities for returnee migrant workers and similarly affected citizens in rural area, in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. The objectives of the Abhiyaan were to provide immediate employment & livelihood opportunities to the distressed, to saturate the villages with public infrastructure and creation of livelihood assets to ...
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News 🗓 Monday February 8 2021 👁 274
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) administers the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 (herein after called as the Act) and the Limited Liability Partnerships (‘LLPs’) Act, 2008 and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016.
This was stated by Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, Union Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
Giving more details, the Minister shared the information pertaining to MCA:
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News 🗓 Monday February 8 2021 👁 230
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate the World Sustainable Development Summit 2021 on 10th February at 6:30 PM via video conferencing. The theme of the Summit is ‘Redefining our common future: Safe and secure environment for all’. H.E. Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana; Hon. James Marape, Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea; Mr Mohamed Nasheed, Speaker of the People’s Majlis, Republic of Maldives; Ms Amina J Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-Gen ...
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News 🗓 Thursday February 4 2021 👁 230
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) monitors the progress in filling up of backlog reserved vacancies for the Scheduled Castes (SCs)/Scheduled Tribes (STs)/Other Backward Classes (OBCs), which includes data in respect of Ministries/Departments, their Public Sector Banks/ Financial Institutions, Central Public Sector Undertakings.
DoPT has issued instructions to all Ministries/ Departments to constitute an In-House Committee for identification of backlog reserved vacancie ...
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News 🗓 Thursday February 4 2021 👁 230
Atal Bhujal Yojana (Atal Jal) is being implemented in identified water stressed areas of seven States, viz. Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. State wise details of number of districts, blocks/taluks and gram panchayats are given in the table below:
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News 🗓 Thursday February 4 2021 👁 273
Ganga Aamantran Abhiyan, a rafting and kayaking expedition on the Ganga River from Devprayag to Ganga Sagar, was organised between 10th October 2019 to 12th November 2019. The expedition encompassed five Ganga basin States, i.e. Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal with stops at 34 locations including Rishikesh, Haridwar, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Sonepur and Kolkata. The expedition was undertaken through an adventure sporting activity to connect people to the rive ...
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News 🗓 Thursday February 4 2021 👁 231
Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti launched Jal Shakti Abhiyan (JSA)-I, in 1592 blocks out of 2836 blocks in 256 water stressed districts of the country in two phases last year (1 July to 30 September and from 1 October to 30 November 2019) as a time bound campaign intended to improve water availability in these blocks. Under ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday February 3 2021 👁 272
Make in India initiative was launched by the Government on September 25, 2014 with the objective of facilitating investment, fostering innovation, building the best in class manufacturing infrastructure, making it easy to do business and enhancing skill development. The initiative is further aimed at creating a conducive environment for investment, modern and efficient infrastructure, opening up new sectors for foreign investment and forging a partnership between government and industry through pos ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday February 2 2021 👁 233
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Chauri Chaura Centenary Celebrations at Chauri Chaura, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, on 4th February 2021 at 11 AM via video conferencing. The day marks 100 years of the ‘Chauri Chaura’ incident, a landmark event in the country’s fight for independence. Prime Minister will also release a postal stamp dedicated to the Chauri Chaura centenary during the event. Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh will also be present on the occasion.
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News 🗓 Tuesday February 2 2021 👁 272
The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has started organising KRITAGYA- a National level hackathon in the month of August, 2020 to promote innovation in agriculture and allied sectors in the country.
Advantages of organising Agri-Hackathon are to give opportunity to the students along with faculties, innovators for showcasing their innovative approaches & technologies in agriculture and allied sectors.
Total number of applications received for this event are 784. ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday February 2 2021 👁 234
Archaeological Survey of India, an attached office of Ministry of Culture, Government of India vide Notification dated 28th August 2020 established Six new Circles by bifurcation of its existing Circles as per details given below:-
Rajkot Circle, Gujarat – by bifurcation of Vadodara Circle.
Jabalpur Circle, Madhya Pradesh – by bifurcation of Bhopal Circle.
Tiruchirappalli (Trichy) Circle, Tamil Nadu – by bifurcation of Chennai &am ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday February 2 2021 👁 272
Rs. 6309.91 crore have been released to States/UTs under Management and containment of Covid19 under the India Covid19 Health System Preparedness and Emergency Response Package during financial year 2020-21 (up to 19-1-2021).
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News 🗓 Tuesday February 2 2021 👁 274
Government of India has started COVID-19 vaccination for Health Care Workers in the country on 16th January 2021. All the States and Union Territories have been provided with the COVID-19 vaccines.
The State/UT-wise target population of Health Care Workers is as be ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday February 2 2021 👁 232
Ministry of Women and Child Development has extended the last date for submission of nomination for the prestigious Nari Shakti Puraskar-2020 till 6th February, 2021. ‘Nari Shakti Puraskar’ are conferred every year on the occasion of ‘International Women’s Day’ i.e. 8th March, by the Ministry of Women and Child Development for recognizing exceptional work done by individuals etc. in the area of empowerment of women.
The Nari Shakti Puruskar is awarded t ...
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News 🗓 Monday February 1 2021 👁 272
Presenting the first ever digital Union Budget, Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman stated that India’s fight against COVID-19 continues into 2021 and that this moment in history, when the political, economic, and strategic relations in the post-COVID world are changing, is the dawn of a new era – one in which India is well-poised to truly be the land of promise and hope.
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News 🗓 Monday February 1 2021 👁 278
The Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs, Smt Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2021-22 in Parliament today, which is the first budget of this new decade and also a digital one in the backdrop of unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. Laying a vision for AatmaNirbhar Bharat, she said this is an expression of 130 crore Indians who have full confidence in their capabilities and skills. She said that Budget proposals will further strengthen the Sankalp of Nation First, Doubling Farmer&rsqu ...
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News 🗓 Monday February 1 2021 👁 230
Union Budget for the Financial Year 2021-22, presented by the Finance Minister Smt Nirmala Sitharaman in the Parliament on February 01, 2021 has given historic push to defence modernisation by increasing defence capital outlay by 18.75 per cent.
Defence allocation in the budget has been increased to Rs 4,78,195.62 crore for the Financial Year 2021-22. Excluding Defence Pension, the total allocations for Defence Services and other organisations/Departments under Ministry of ...
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News 🗓 Friday January 29 2021 👁 231
Ministry of Tourism has dedicated three virtual pavilions, Dekho Apna Desh, Statue of Unity & Incredible India in Bharat Parv 2021. Due to pandemic situation, this year the Bharat Parv has been organized on a Virtual platform www.bharatparv2021.com from 26th Jan to 31st Jan 2021.
The Statue of Unity pavilionin virtual Bharat Parv -2021 provides detailed information about the destination with High R ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday January 26 2021 👁 325
Every year, the officers of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs and its field offices are considered for grant of Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificates and Medals for “Exceptionally Meritorious Service rendered at the Risk of Life” and for Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificates and Medals for “Specially Distinguished Record of Service” on their achieving and maintaining excellence in discharge of their duties. Thes ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday January 26 2021 👁 264
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi interacted with Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) awardees, here today, via video conferencing. Union Women and Child Development Minister, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani was also present on the occasion.
Congratulating the Rashtriya Bal Puraskar Awardees on their achievement, the Prime Minister said that this year’s awards are special as the recipient earned them in the difficult times of COVID-19 pandemic. During the interaction, the Prime Minister ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday January 26 2021 👁 295
India’s military might, cultural diversity, social and economic progress will be on display during the 72nd Republic Day celebrations at the majestic Rajpath in New Delhi on January 26, 2021. Representing India’s strides in indigenous defence technologies, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) con ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday January 26 2021 👁 298
11th National Voters’ Day was celebrated across the country today on January 25, 2021 with the President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind gracing the national level event held at New Delhi in a virtual, online mode. Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Law & Justice, Communications and Electronics and Information Technology graced the event as the Guest of Honour. The Chief Election Commissioner Shri Sunil Arora, Election Commissioners Shri Sushil Chandra, Shri Rajiv Kumar, and Secretary ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday January 19 2021 👁 301
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PM Narendra Modi looks forward to sharing his thoughts on themes and issues that matter to you. The Prime Minister invites you to share your ideas on topics he should address on the 73rd Episode of Mann Ki Baat.
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News 🗓 Tuesday January 19 2021 👁 310
NITI Aayog will release the second edition of the India Innovation Index 2020 on 20 January in a virtual event. The index will be released by NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Dr Rajiv Kumar in the presence of NITI Aayog Member Dr VK Saraswat and CEO Amitabh Kant.
The release of the second edition of the index—the first was launched in October 2019—demonstrates the Government’s continued commitment towards transforming the country into an innovation-driven economy.
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News 🗓 Tuesday January 19 2021 👁 325
“I have travelled all over India in search of content for my films”.
“It is important for any film-maker to understand the elements of sociology and politics”.
“I think a writer or director should be sensitive about the society. You can put across your point without being offensive to anyone”.
These are the words of John Mathew Matth ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday January 19 2021 👁 304
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in India will establish a Quantum Computing Applications Lab in the country, in collaboration with AWS, to accelerate quantum computing-led research and development and enable new scientific discoveries. The MeitY Quantum Computing Applications Lab will provide quantum computing as a service togovernment ministries and departments, re ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday January 19 2021 👁 304
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will release financial assistance of around Rs. 2691 crores to 6.1 lakh beneficiaries in Uttar Pradesh under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) on 20th January, 2021 at 12 noon via video conferencing. Union Rural Development Minister and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh will also be present on the occasion. The assistance would include release of first installment to 5.30 lakh beneficiaries and second installment to 80 thousand beneficiaries who have alre ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday January 19 2021 👁 327
Government of India has decided to celebrate the 125th Birth Anniversary year of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in a befitting manner at national and international level, beginning from 23rd January 2021. A High Level Committee, headed by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has been constituted for deciding the programs, and to supervise and guide the commemoration.
In order to honour and remember Netaji’s indomitable spirit and selfless service to the nation, Government of India has decid ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday January 19 2021 👁 312
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will release financial assistance of around Rs. 2691 crores to 6.1 lakh beneficiaries in Uttar Pradesh under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) on 20th January, 2021 at 12 noon via video conferencing. Union Rural Development Minister and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh will also be present on the occasion. The assistance would include release of first installment to 5.30 lakh beneficiaries and second installment to 80 thousand beneficiaries who have alre ...
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News 🗓 Monday January 18 2021 👁 331
PadharoMhare Des, Digital CovidRelief Concert Series to support folk artists dons a new avataar for Episode 3: MakarSankrantiMela
Jaipur: MakarSakrantiMela Episode by PadharoMhare Des, a Digital COVID Relief Concert Series initiated to support Folk Artists from Rajasthan by raising additional funds was a huge hit among the audience.
The Digital concert broadcasted its third episode, MakarSankrantiMela, a celebration of new hope and harvest, on S ...
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News 🗓 Thursday January 7 2021 👁 375
Ms Anasuiya Uike, Governor CG lanching the eSamadhan Portal
eSamadhan being demonstrated by Shri T.N.Singh, ASIO
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News 🗓 Wednesday January 6 2021 👁 354
Trust is the Foundational Imperative of 2021: Indian Employees Lead in Willingness to Trust and Earn Trust, Cites Global Survey
Indian workers lead the world in the belief that trust in the workplace must be earned (90%) and that trust is higher at their organization today than before the COVID-19 crisis (67%).
MUMBAI India, 6 January, 2021 — As the world steps into 2021 with hope and optimism, global r ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 30 2020 👁 321
The media is how we get information on our daily basis. Unfortunately, many conventional media sources are not independent and unbiased. Common conventional media get a lot of pressure from politicians and economic powers, that´s why is important to always question everything they say.
Because of this, it is good to know that there are alternative news sites which you can access in order to read or listen an alternative viewpoint coming from independent unbiased journalis ...
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News 🗓 Sunday December 27 2020 👁 357
The 1000-year old heritage art – the Monpa Handmade Paper of Arunachal Pradesh – which was driven to the extinction, has come to life once again, with the committed efforts of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).
The art of making Monpa handmade paper originated over 1000 years ago. Gradually the art became an integral part of local custom and culture in Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh. Once produced in every household in Tawang, this handmade paper was a major so ...
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News 🗓 Sunday December 27 2020 👁 343
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will flag off the 100th Kisan Rail from Sangola in Maharashtra to Shalimar in West Bengal on 28th December 2020 at 4:30 PM via video conferencing. Union Ministers Shri Narendra Singh Tomar and Shri Piyush Goyal will also be present on the occasion.
The multi-commodity train service will carry vegetables such as cauliflower, capsicum, cabbage, drumsticks, chillies, onion, as well as fruits like grapes, oranges, pomegranate, banana, custard apple etc. Loading and ...
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News 🗓 Sunday December 27 2020 👁 331
My dear countrymen, Namaskar. Today is the 27th of December. Just four days later, 2021 is about to usher in. In a way, today’s Mann Ki Baat is the concluding Mann Ki Baat of 2020. The next Mann Ki Baat will commence in 2021. Friends, numerous letters written by you are there in front of me. The suggestions you sent on Mygov too are there. Many have expressed themselves over the phone. Most of the messages comprise experiences of the year gone by and resolutions for 2021. Anjali from Kolhapur ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 25 2020 👁 318
Minister for Ayush, Shripad Y Naik, says people started learning the real value of Yoga during the pandemic; praises The Yoga Institute for 102 years of excellent service
· Nispanda, the institute’s forthcoming app, ‘is meditation delivered in the palm of your hands’: Minister Naik
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News 🗓 Thursday December 24 2020 👁 421
Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot launched a Mobile Application “Swachhata Abhiyan” in the presence of Ministers of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Ram Das Athawale and Shri Krishan Pal Gurjar in New Delhi today. In the absence of any authentic data base regarding the location of insanitary latrines, it has been decided to seek the help of NGOs, Social Organisations and general public for collection and compilation of the data. A mobile a ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 24 2020 👁 340
Nearly 1,20,000 students in around 3000 ITIs pan-India can be benefited by this digitized e-learning module via the Bharatskills portal
The usage of Bharatskills learning platform has increased multifold from around 90,000 users in March 2020 to more than 16.55 Lakh users having accessed the portal as on date
The Directorate General of Training (DGT) joined hands with Microsoft and NASSCOM Foundation to provide a di ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 24 2020 👁 323
International Science Film Festival of India (ISFFI) is a major attraction of India International Science Festival 2020. This year, the ISFFI has received 634 science film entries from 60 countries. This is a vital platform to attract enthusiasts and young film-makers towards science film making and contribute in science popularization.
Speaking at the inaugural session of ISFFI, Dr. Har ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 24 2020 👁 345
Science policymakers underscored the importance of attracting youth towards science and cultivating an innovative spirit from a very young age to develop scientific temper at a discussion on DD news.
“The biggest challenge is to attract youth into scien ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 24 2020 👁 336
Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Shri Nitin Gadkari inaugurated and laid foundation stone for 18 highway projects in Rajasthan today. Shri Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister, Rajasthan presided over the virtual function, which was attended by Union Ministers Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Gen (Retd) V K Singh, Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Shri Kailash Choudhry, former Union Minister Col Rajyavardhan Rathor, former CM-Rajasthan Smt Vasundhara Raje and several Ministers from the State.
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News 🗓 Thursday December 24 2020 👁 334
Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Shri Nitin Gadkari today announced that FASTag is being made mandatory for all vehicles in the country from new year. Addressing a virtual function today, he said, FASTag will be enforced from 1st of January, 2021. Enumerating its benefits, he said, it is useful for the commuters as they will not need to stop at toll plazas for cash payments. It also saves time and fuel.
The FASTags were launched in the year 2016, and four banks togeth ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 24 2020 👁 329
The Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar launched the DGNCC Digital Forum, here today. This Digital Forum hosted on the DGNCC website, will provide a platform to National Cadet Corps cadets all over the country to share their experiences of various NCC activities.
Speaking at this event, Defence Secretary said that this forum will help NCC cadets to share their experiences, opinions and suggestions on NCC training, Social Service and Community Development and ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 24 2020 👁 336
Indian Naval Ship Kiltan arrived at NhaRong Port, Ho Chi Minh City on 24 December 2020 as part of Mission Sagar-III. This Mission is part of India’s Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) assistance to Friendly Foreign Countries during the ongoing pandemic.
The ship will deliver 15 Tons of HADR Stores for the flood-affected people of Central Vietnam, which will be handed over to Vietnam’s Central Steering Committee for National Disaster Prevention and Control. This assis ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 24 2020 👁 323
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi addressed at the centenary celebrations of Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan today through video conference.
Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said Visva-Bharati's hundred year journey is very special and a mat ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 24 2020 👁 323
WHILE COVID 19 MAY HAVE HALTED GROWTH IN REAL ESTATE, 2021 LOOKS PROMISING FOR THE SECTOR: STATES RAKESH REDDY, DIRECTOR, APARNA CONSTRUCTIONS & ESTATES PVT LTD.
2020 witnessed an unexpected turn of events for economies across the globe. The pandemic brought regular life to a standstill interrupting the growth trajectory of many industries. Companies who were offering consumer-centric products or services, operating with a large field force or those that re ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 24 2020 👁 336
18 years old flagship campaign of ‘Say No to Dowry’ initiated by Narayan Seva Sansthan18 years old flagship campaign of ‘Say No to Dowry’ initiated by NSS
Conducts the 35th Mass Wedding Ceremony on 27th December 2020
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News 🗓 Thursday December 24 2020 👁 331
IIM Udaipur Becomes the National Finalist in Global Management Challenge (GMC) India 2020IIM Udaipur Becomes the National Finalist in Global Management Challenge (GMC) India 2020
Team IIMU GSCM from IIM Udaipur became the National Finalists
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 23 2020 👁 347
CSIR-National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources (CSIR-NISCAIR), Ministry of Earth Sciences (MOES) and Vijnana Bharati (VIBHA) jointly organised the inaugural session of Vigyanika-International Science Literature Festival on the opening dayof IISF 2020 on the virtual platform to mark the birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan.Addressing the participants and invitees, Dr Ranjana Aggarwal, Director, CSIR-NISCAIR & CSIR-NISTADS stated that the event ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 23 2020 👁 347
IISF-2020
Union Minister for S&T, ES and MoHFW, Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurated the Global Indian Scientists & Technocrats (GIST) meet which is being organized as a part of the Indian International Science Festival (IISF) 2020. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Harsh Vardhan observed, “India is blessed with a large S&T Diaspora spread across the globe who ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 23 2020 👁 326
Gender parity is a global concern and world-wide countries are acknowledging the drawbacks of gender imbalance in sustainable development. One of the pillars for achieving self-reliance is accelerating gender equality by including more women in science, technology and innovation (STI). To discuss the status, the challenges and the way forward, a specific event has been designed in the India International Science Festival 2020 ‘Women Scientists and Entrepreneurs’ Conclave. The ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 23 2020 👁 323
Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Shri Nitin Gadkari will inaugurate and lay foundation stone for 18 highway projects in Rajasthan tomorrow. Shri Ashok Gehlot, Chief Minister, Rajasthan will preside over the virtual function, to be attended by Union Ministers Gen (Retd) V K Singh and several Ministers from the State.
These projects for inauguration and foundation laying carry a road length of nearly 1127 kilometers, involving construction value of Rs. 8,341 ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 23 2020 👁 347
Country’s largest power producer, NTPC ltd has been conferred “Excellence” in the prestigious CII-ITC Sustainability Awards 2020 in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Domain. NTPC has been honoured in the Corporate Excellence Category, Commendation for Significant Achievement.
The recognition was received by Shri D. K. Patel, Director (HR) in the august presence ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 23 2020 👁 337
The fisheries sector has been recognized as a powerful income and employment generator as it stimulates growth of a number of subsidiary industries and is a source of cheap and nutritious food, at the same time it is an instrument of livelihood for a large section of economically backward population of the country. Fishery sector occupies an important place in the socio-economic development of the country. "Fisheries is a fast-growing sector in India, which provides nutrition and food security to a ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 23 2020 👁 332
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) along with Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has announced the launching of “CoWIN”, a Grand Challenge for strengthening the COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network (CoWIN) system, a digitalised platform to be used to effectively roll out and scale up the mechanism for COVID Vaccine Distribution System, nationally.
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said “India‘s innovators have played a crucial role in ou ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 23 2020 👁 337
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh here today reviewed the planning of Aero India-21. Department of Defence, Ministry of Defence apprised the minister that the event conforms to current International Guidelines for Exhibitions and that the event is planned to be a Business focused exhibition. The public, which is usually enthralled with the visuals of the Air Display, will witness this year’s edition in Virtual mode to make way for the Safe in-person interactions between global A&D Businesses so ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 23 2020 👁 344
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has today approved major and transformatory changes in the Centrally Sponsored Scheme ‘Post Matric Scholarship to students belonging to Scheduled Castes (PMS-SC)’ to benefit more than 4 Crore SC students in the next 5 years so that they can successfully complete their higher education.
The Cabinet has approved a total investment of Rs. 59,048 Cr of which Central Government would spend Rs. 35,534 C ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 23 2020 👁 324
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will release the next instalment of financial benefit under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) on 25th December 2020 at 12 noon via video conferencing. With the push of a button, the Prime Minister will enable the transfer of more than Rs. 18,000 crores to more than 9 crores beneficiary farmer families.
Prime Minister will also have a conversation with farmers from six different States during the event. The farmers will share their experiences w ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 23 2020 👁 373
SENIOR RESIDENTS AT COLUMBIA PACIFIC COMMUNITIES (CPC) PRESENT A HUMBLE UNIQUE INITIATIVE FOR THE SPEECH AND HEARING IMPAIRED THIS CHRISTMAS
Senior residents at Columbia Pacific Communities learned sign language to digitally deliver a special performance for an audience of over 400 speech and hearing impaired people ahead of Christmas.
Mumbai, December 23, 2020:Continuing with their practice of celebrating community life every Ch ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 23 2020 👁 350
Minister Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Govt of India Unveilsthe Stamp of The Late Shri Prabhu Dayal Agarwal – Marking His 100th Birth AnniversaryMinister Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Govt of India Unveilsthe Stamp of The Late Shri ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday December 22 2020 👁 337
Making the 600 million youth who will enter the workforceemployable will call for a rebooting of the education system states TeamLease Skills University
Mumbai, 21stDecember, 2020:If our education systemhas to become a game changer, it will require an overhaul states TeamLease Skills University’s latest whitepaper “Skills University: Making the Transition from Employment to Employability.”According to the analysismaking t ...
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News 🗓 Tuesday December 22 2020 👁 325
MyGate Commences ‘Breaking the Pandemic Chain’ Movement by Introducing FDA-compliant I2Cure BioShield to 15,000 Societies
Mobilises the distribution of one of the first COVID-defence antimicrobials to protect
2.5 million families
Mumbai, 21stDecember, 2020: MyGate has collaborated with I2Cure to secure its 15,000 gated communities against the pandemic spread. I2cure’s patented BioShield&tra ...
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News 🗓 Sunday December 20 2020 👁 321
Ministry of Tourism, Government of India organised the domestic tourism road show in Goa today through its IndisTourism office in Goa . This event was organised in collaboration with Goa Tourism and Travel and Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG).
This B2B event and second in series of domestic tourism Road Shows in the Western and Central Region that the Ministry of Tourism has planned to conduct since the Covid–19 outbreak was inaugurated byMs. Rupinder Brar , Additional Director General, ...
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News 🗓 Sunday December 20 2020 👁 341
The Second edition of Fit India Cyclothon is getting huge response all over the country.Union Sports Minister Shri Kiren Rijiju recently launched this event via social media. This mega cycling event started on 7th December 2020 and participants from across the country are participating in this. Till 15 December, 12,69,695 people participated in the Fit India Cyclothon and completed 57,51,874 kilometers of cycling. It includes 3,11,458 participants of Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS); 4,14,354 participa ...
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News 🗓 Sunday December 20 2020 👁 341
India International Science Festival (IISF-2020) is the largest ever science festival going to be held on virtual environment. In this festival, 41 events on different themes will be organised and these themes are directly related with the society and the general public. Young researchers and scientists are the key stakeholders of this science festival. The target audience of many of the events of IISF2020 is young scientists and students. Young Scientists’ Conference is one of such events. In this ...
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News 🗓 Sunday December 20 2020 👁 383
As part of IISF – India International Science Festival, the International Science Film Festival of India (ISFFI) seeks to promote science popularization among citizens and aims at attracting talented young science filmmakers and science enthusiasts. Science film is an effective tool for science communication to foster and create an excitement of science amongst people at large; it also helps inculcate a scientific temper among the audience thereby shaping the analytical thinking, a prerequisite for ...
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News 🗓 Sunday December 20 2020 👁 349
India International Science Festival (2020) is being organized by the Ministry of Science & Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences in collaboration with Vijnana Bharati (VIBHA). Dr. Shekhar C. Mande, speaking to All India Radio, said that in view of the clarion call of the Prime Minister, the central theme of IISF 2020 is ‘Science for Self-Reliant India and Global Welfare’ to strengthen the vision of ‘Aatmnirbhar Bharat’.
Dr. Mande added that along with othe ...
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News 🗓 Sunday December 20 2020 👁 316
The Arunachal Pradesh government is procuring another 1 lakh tri-color Khadi face masks for its school children. As the state government prepares to re-open schools for class VIII students from January 4, 2021, it has placed a repeat purchase order for 1 lakh cotton masks. Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) will deliver the masks by December 27.
The repeat order comes just over a month after KVIC supplied 60,000 face masks to the Arunachal Pradesh government in November this year. T ...
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News 🗓 Sunday December 20 2020 👁 319
The provisional payroll data of EPFO has been released on 20th December, 2020. It reveals that EPFO has added 11.55 lakh net subscribers in the month of October, 2020. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, EPFO has added around 39.33 lakh subscribers during the current financial year (from April to October, 2020). The data published comprises of members who have joined during the month and whose contribution has been received by EPFO for the wage month.
Year-on-year comparison shows that October, 2020 ...
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News 🗓 Sunday December 20 2020 👁 313
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will address the centenary celebrations of Aligarh Muslim University on 22 December, 2020 at 11 AM via video conferencing. Prime Minister will also release a postal stamp during the event. Chancellor of the University His Holiness Syedna Mufaddal Saifudin and Union Education Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank will also be present on the occasion.
About AMU
AMU became a University in 1920, through an Act of Indian Legislative Counc ...
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News 🗓 Sunday December 20 2020 👁 321
The Vice President of India, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu today called upon the people to regularly practice Yoga and meditation and return to our traditional food habits to beat the stress caused by modern lifestyle and prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Virtually launching the Society of Coronary Surgeons in Hyderabad, he pointed out that the scientific community has concluded that inappropriate lifestyle was the major cause for the raise in the cardio-vascular diseases (CVD) incidence. &ldqu ...
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News 🗓 Saturday December 19 2020 👁 341
Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh visited DRDO’s Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Complex during his visit to Hyderabad on 19th Dec 2020. Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri G Kishan Reddy and Dr G Satheesh Reddy, Secretary, Department of Defence R&D and Chairman, DRDO accompanied him during the visit. Cluster DGs, Lab Directors and Programme Directors briefed the dignitaries about the ongoing projects and technological developments. On this occasion, Hyderabad based DRDO labs ...
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News 🗓 Saturday December 19 2020 👁 458
Shri.Ravi ShankarPrasad, Minister of Communications and Electronics &IT and Shri. Sanjay Shamrao Dhotre, Minister of State for Communications and Electronics & IT, presented the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Telecom Skill Excellence Awards including cash award of Rs 50,000 and Rs 30,000 respectively , to both awardees on 18.12.2020 in the presentation ceremony organized in Electronics Niketan,CGO Complex,New Delhi, in presence of Members of Digital Communication Com ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 18 2020 👁 411
In a significant development and in line with the commitment to skill development and vocational training, the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India, the Ministry of National Education and Youth, Government of the French Republic and Schneider Electric, today announced the inauguration of first Center of Excellence(CoE) for skill development in power sector in the campus of National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE) located at Gwal Pahari, Gurugram (Haryana)to creat ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 18 2020 👁 342
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has published a draft notification GSR 757(E) dated 11th December 2020, seeking comments from the public for adoption of E20 fuel, i.e, blend of 20% of ethanol with gasoline, as an automotive fuel and for the adoption of mass emission standards for this fuel. The notification facilitates the development of E20 compliant vehicles. It will also help in reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons, etc. It will help reduce the oil import bill, thereby saving ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 18 2020 👁 334
In an endeavour to address the inadequacies of capacity constraints and improve its modal share in total freight eco system of the country, Indian Railways has come up with Draft National Rail Plan.
A long term strategic plan called the National Rail Plan has been developed to plan infrastructural capacity enhancement along with strategies to increase modal share of the Railways. The National Rail Plan will be a common platform for all future infrastructural, business and financial planni ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 18 2020 👁 396
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi addressed Kisan Sammelan held across Madhya Pradesh through video conferencing. He also inaugurated and laid foundation stone for cold storage infrastructure and other facilities.
Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister stressed, no matter how hard the farmer works, if there is no proper storage of fruits-vegetables-grains, then the farmer is bound to suffer huge losses. He urged the business world to contribute in developing modern storage facilitie ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 18 2020 👁 353
Introducing Salesforce Hyperforce
The world’s #1 CRM, available on major public clouds
Mumbai— Dec 14, 2020 — Salesforce, [NYSE: CRM], the global leader in CRM, today announced SalesforceHyperforce, a reimagination of the company’s platform architecture built to securely and reliably deliver the Sal ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 18 2020 👁 321
जेजेटी विश्वविद्यालय को मिला प्रख्यात शिक्षाविदों का साथ
जयपुर 14 दिसंबर, 202 ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 18 2020 👁 318
Aparna Enterprises brings Italy’s renowned faucet brand Paffoni to India
· Becomes the master distributor for all Paffoni products in India
· The association is expected to grow Aparna Unispace (Aparna Enterprises retail division) revenues by 20% in FY 2021-2022
Mumbai, 17th December, 2020: Aparna Enterpri ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 18 2020 👁 345
FYERS launches Single Margin Account to drive trading flexibility across segments
Mumbai, December 17, 2020: With the aim to offer a unified trading experience across segments and eliminate the cumbersome process of transferring funds between capital and commodity segments, one of the the fastest growing investment & trading platform FYERS, today, announced the launch of its Single Margin Account. The Single Margin account allows fungibility of funds, ...
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News 🗓 Sunday December 13 2020 👁 358
Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister for Labour & Employment (I/C) and Shri G. Kishan Reddy, Minister of State for Home Affairs jointly dedicated new services and equipment at ESIC Medical College, Hyderabad yesterday.
The services and equipment dedicated are:
Innovative Portable Point of Care RTPCR, a user friendly, quick sample p ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 11 2020 👁 454
The Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians 2020 was awarded to Dr. Carolina Araujo, Mathematician from the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in a virtual ceremony on 9th December 2020.
The prize awarded annually to a researcher from a developing country funded by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India in collaboration with ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics), and the International Mathematical Union was give ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 11 2020 👁 350
Indian Railways through its 21 Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) is organizing mega recruitment drive in three phases starting from 15th December, 2020 for filling up about 1.4 lakh vacancies in which more than 2.44 Crore candidates will be appearing in different cities across the country. Preparations for conduct of exams are in full swing.
First phase of the Exam will commence from 15th Dec, 2020 till 18th Dec.2020 for CEN 03/2019 ( Isolated and Ministerial categories). This will be followed ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 11 2020 👁 323
Indian Railways has launched another major IT initiative towards according priority for the well-being of its work force. TheHospital Management Information System (HMIS) has been launched by Dr. B. P Nanda, Director General, Railway Health services, Railway Board through virtual meanstoday i.e. on 11th December, 2020 in the presence of Sri Gajanan Mallya, General Manager, South Centra ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 11 2020 👁 308
Shri Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs launched a programme of Socio-Economic Profiling of PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their families today, as an additional component of PM SVANidhi Scheme, in the presence of representatives of various Central Ministries and State officials. Under this, a complete profile of each PM SVANidhi beneficiary and their family members will be prepared. Based on the profiled data, benefits of the various eligible Central S ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 11 2020 👁 334
Union Minister of Education Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ addressed the 26th National Annual Conference of Sahodaya School Complexes as the Chief Guest via video conferencing today.
On the occasion, the Minister released Conference Souvenir titled SAMARTHAN - which is a compilation of the best teaching practices in the country. He also released CBSE Manuals on Inclusive Education, Joyful Learning and Physical Education for classes XI and XII.
Addressing the Conference, M ...
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News 🗓 Friday December 11 2020 👁 327
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi addressed International Bharathi Festival 2020 through video conferencing and paid tributes to the Bharathiyar on his Jayanti. The festival is being organised by Vanavil Cultural Centre to celebrate the 138th birth anniversary of Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi. The Prime Minister Congratulated the Scholar Shri Seeni Viswanathan, for receiving the Bharathi Award for this year who was presented the award during the event.
The Prime Minister said d ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 10 2020 👁 406
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the three lane 1.5 km long Koilwar bridge over Sone river in Bihar through Video Conferencing today. A sum of Rs 266 crore has been spent on the bridge. The existing two lane bridge for both rail and road traffic is 138 years old. A six-lane bridge is being made in its place, of which, a three-lane carriageway has been opened for public. After completion of the other carriageway, the traffic on NH-922 and NH-30 will ease substa ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 10 2020 👁 330
Union Minister for Minority Affairs Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has said that the last date for submission of application forms for Haj 2021 has been extended up to 10th January 2021. Embarkation Points-wise estimated cost per Haj pilgrim has also been reduced. Shri Naqvi was addressing a press conference after chairing a meeting of Haj Committee of India at Haj House, Mumbai, today.
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News 🗓 Thursday December 10 2020 👁 327
"The media has an important role in dealing with anti-India forces. It is the responsibility of all of us, including the media persons, to ensure that our media is not misused by the anti-India forces against our own country." said Minister of State for DefenceShripadNaik at the valedictory function of media communication course organized by the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) for defence personnel on Thursday. On this occasion, the Director-General of IIMC Prof. Sanjay Dwivedi, A ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 10 2020 👁 333
The 5th India Water Impact Summit (IWIS), organised by the National Mission for Clean Ganga and Center for Ganga River Basin Management and Studies (cGanga)began today with the theme of comprehensive analysis and holistic management of local rivers and water bodies with focus on Arth Ganga - river conservation synchronised development.
The summit was inaugurated by the Jal Shakti Minister, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. He said that NamamiGange is one of the largest, holistic a ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 10 2020 👁 320
Human Rights Day was celebrated by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in New Delhi today. Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Shri Nityanand Rai was the Chief Guest at the programme. In his address through virtual mode, Shri Rai said human rights have existed in India since the Vedic period. The lines, Sarve Bhavantu Sukhina Sarve Santu Niramaya in the Vedic Mantras, contain the spirit of the whole of humanity. He said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi is always sensitive to mankind an ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 10 2020 👁 337
Defence Research and Development Organsiation (DRDO) designed 5.56x30 mm Protective Carbine has successfully undergone the final phase of User trials on 7th December 2020 meeting all the GSQR parameters. This has paved the way for induction into the services. This was the last leg of trials in a series of User trials which have been carried out in extreme temperature conditions in summer and high altitudes in winter. JVPC has successfully met the stringent performance criteria of reliability and ac ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 10 2020 👁 316
BSNL, in partnership with Skylotech India, announced today a breakthrough in satellite-based NB-IoT (Narrow Band-Internet of Things), in pursuance of the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modis vision of a truly Digital India starting with fishermen, farmers, construction, mining andlogistics enterprises. With this solution, India will now have access to a ubiquitous fabric of connectivity for millions of yet unconnected machines, sensors and industrial IoT devices.
This new ‘Made ...
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News 🗓 Thursday December 10 2020 👁 328
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the New Parliament Building today. The new building is an intrinsic part of the vision of ‘AatmaNirbhar Bharat’ and will be a landmark opportunity to build a peoples’ Parliament for the first time after independence, one which will match the needs and aspirations of ‘New India’ in the 75th anniversary of independence in 2022.
Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said today is a milestone in Indi ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 9 2020 👁 344
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will address the International Bharati Festival, 2020 on December 11, 2020 at 04:30 PM via video conferencing. This year the festival is being organised in virtual mode and will see participation of several national and international poets and artists. The festival is being organised by Vanavil Cultural Centre to celebrate the 138th birth anniversary of Mahakavi Subramanya Bharati
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 9 2020 👁 335
Khadi’s acceptance in various government offices is quickly catching pace. The latest government agency to have adopted Khadi is the Delhi Police which is purchasing elegant Khadi Silk Sarees for its women front desk executives at its establishments.
Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has received a purchase order for 836 Khadi Silk sarees worth Rs 25 lakh from Delhi Police that will be supplied in less than two months. The dual-tone sarees will be made of high quality Tasar-K ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 9 2020 👁 318
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval for Atmanirbhar Bharat RojgarYojana (ABRY) to boost employment in formal sector and incentivize creation of new employment opportunities during the Covid recovery phase under Atmanirbhar Bharat Package 3.0.
Cabinet has approved an expenditure of Rs. 1,584 crore for the current financial yearand Rs.22,810 crore for the entire Scheme period i.e. 2020-2023.
The salient features of the Scheme are ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 9 2020 👁 321
To encourage and recognize individuals and organizations doing exemplary work in the field of water resources management, the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Jal Shakti has invited the entries forNational Water Awards for the year 2020in the following 11 categories:
1) Best State,
2) Best District (2 Awards each in five zones; total 10 Awards),
3) Best Village Panchayat (3 Awards each in five zones; total 15 Awards),
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 9 2020 👁 317
Secure communications are vital for defence and strategic agencies world over and distribution of encryption keys from time to time is an important requirement in this context. Sharing of keys over the air or wired links requires encryption, which in turn requires encryption keys to be pre-shared. Quantum based communication offers a robust solution to sharing the keys securely. Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) undertook the project for development of this technology.
A mi ...
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News 🗓 Wednesday December 9 2020 👁 320
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval for provision of a Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) Scheme for providing Mobile Coverage in Arunachal Pradesh and two Districts of Assam,namely KarbiAnglong and Dima Hasao, under the Comprehensive Telecom Development Plan (CTDP) for North Eastern Region (NER).
The project envisages to provide mobile coverage to 2374 uncovered villages (1683 in Arunachal Pradesh and 691 in two districts of Assam) a ...
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