Chelsea centre back and vice captain of England national team Gary Cahill said that Antonio Conte, the clubs new Manager, added spirit and discipline to the team. He further added that the players were feeling the benefits of the intense pre- season campaign. “Players know exactly what their role should be at each individual time […]
Munger in South Bihar has become the first fully electrified district in the state. A total of 27 districts are being electrified under “Deen Dayal Upadhyay Rural Electrification Scheme.” “The deadline for completion i.e. 20 August 2016 was extremely challenging, yet the company was able to complete the task well before deadline,” said Ashoka Buildcon, […]
A new study by Down To Earth magazine has unearthed clear links between air pollution and the incidence of deaths by lightning. According to an article in the magazine, published by the Center for Science and Environment or CSE, areas with high particulate pollution tend to experience more number of extreme weather events. Lightning deaths […]
BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) said they developed a portable kit to detect toxic chromium in drinking water and tap water, lakes, rivers as well as ground water at a cost of Rs 16 per sample. Existing kits for onsite detection of Hexavalent Chromium are currently imported and the cost of analysis is beyond Rs100 […]
New waves of Cyber attacks called Operation Ghoul that started on the 8th and the 27th of June 2016 threatens the Middle East region, Kaspersky Lab said. “The attackers try to lure targets through spear phishing emails that include compressed executables. In the majority of cases, CEOs, COOs, managers, supervisors and engineers recieve the email […]
National Panthers Party activists held a protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar,New Delhi demanding Governor Rule in Jammu and Kashmir State “to save the state from devastation.” Valley was in unrestrained death toll has reached 65 since the July 8 killing of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani. The state is currently under the rule of a […]
Banwarilal Purohit has been appointed as the Governor of Assam, Najma A. Heptulla as the Governor of Manipur and V.P. Singh Badnore as the Governor of Punjab. Prof. Jagdish Mukhi has been appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Najma A. Heptulla is a former union minister in charge of minority affairs […]
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will be delegated power to approve plans for rectifying road design in black spots in an effort to reduce accidents on national highways, minister of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping Nithin Gadkari said. Nithin Gadkari addressing a video conference of Regional Officers of the Ministry and NHAI highlighted […]
National Highway Authority of India said that it has partnered with Power Finance Corporation under their “Adopt a Green Highway Program” to plant trees on an 87 km stretch of NH 7 in Nagpur. Power Finance Corporation will donate Rs. 13 crore for plantation and five year maintenance under their CSR funds for the project. It will […]
The Women and Child Development Ministry will be start a new initiative for providing birth certificates and Aadhaar Cards to street children, women and child welfare minister Maneka Gandhi said. Gandhi was speaking at a function organized by NGO Dayaa Foundation established by Rajanikanth’s wife Latha. Aadhaar is a unique identification project started by the […]
Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Kerala have committed to be 100% open-defecation free by March 2017, minister for urban development Venkaiah Naidu said at a workshop in Delhi. By the same time, the number of open defecation free cities will rise from 122 to 739 by the time, Naidu added. The Minister said that 21 lakh […]
Ancient camping site dating 8500 BC has been discovered by Archeological Survey of India (ASI) at 14,000 feet above sea level on the way from Saser La to Ladakh. While exploring in Nubra valley, S.B. Ota, Joint Director General in ASI observed successive layers comprising burning residue on the serpentine road that gradually climbs along the […]
Following Narendra Modi’s Independence day speech Power ministry has decided to electrify remaining 7,876 un-electrified villages before 1st May 2018. The project, which was taken on mission mode last year, will now see squeezing the implementation schedule to 12 months and also dividing village electrification process into 12 stages, with defined time lines for monitoring. Modi on […]
Larsen and Toubro has been chosen as one of the partners to implement the smart city project in Nagpur which is said to be India’s first integrated smart city, said the company. The announcement came after a letter of intent was handed over by Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister of Maharashtra to company representatives at a […]
Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation approved construction of 37,013 cr houses for urban poor in the States of Karnataka and Haryana with an investment of Rs 1,491 cr. An Inter ministerial Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee chaired by Dr.Nandita Mukherjee has approved construction of 36,254 houses for economically weaker sections in Karnataka with […]
As any trial user of Reliance Jio’s new 4G network knows, calling phones on rival networks is currently a hit and miss affair with a high chance of being greeted with the ‘all routes are currently busy’ message. It’s the oldest trick in the book that incumbents have traditionally used to thwart new entrants — […]
Ravindra Jadeja will likely find his place in the playing eleven for team India against the West Indies in the Third test match to be played at Gros Islet in a few hours from now. Team rumours say that Amith Mishra may give way to the southpaw after exhibiting a very ordinary performance in the […]
Government of India stepped into a new era of procurement today with the inauguration of its e-Marketplace. It will now be possible for government officials to buy common use items in 26 categories like computers, office equipment, stationery, via the portal. Apart from goods, the system also allows for requisitioning services, such as engaging a […]
The RBI’s decision to maintain the policy rates was in expected lines said Smt. Arundhati Bhattacharya, SBI chairman. Appreciating the move by RBI to go into Open Market Operation (OMO) she added that transmission of rates will happen gradually over the next few months as credit growth picks up pace. Dr. Rudra Sensarma, Professor of […]
Japanese telecom major DoCoMo said it was not aware of any new decision by the finance ministry on the issue of payment of arbitration amount by Tata Sons. A report by the Press Trust of India yesterday claimed that the Finance Ministry had rejected a proposal by the Reserve Bank of India to give an […]
