Govt launches Green Highways Policy Aims at planting trees along 6,000 km of highways in the first year The government launched its Green Highways (Plantation, Transplantation, Beautification & Maintenance) Policy 2015 on 29th September, the aim of which is to help the environment, help local communities, and generate employment by planting trees...
Top features of INS Kochi from Kolkata class Guided Missile Destroyer The Indian Navy is all set to welcome INS Kochi, a second ship of the Kolkata-class Guided Missile Destroyer, in its contingent on September 30. Here are the top features of The indigenously-designed ship. 1 INS Kochi weighs over 7500 tonnes, spanning over...
Google to provide Wi-Fi hotspots at 500 railway stations Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a proposal for introduction of broadband connectivity, through Wi-Fi hotspots, at 100 railway stations. He said it will be expanded to 400 next year. The search engine giant also announced the the rollout of ten-language vernacular typing for...
Modi accused of flouting flag code Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked up a controversy after he autographed the Indian flag in New York to be gifted to President Barack Obama, evoking sharp reaction from the Opposition as well as the social media, a senior lawyer said signing on the national...
Swami Dayananda Saraswati passes away The Swami was admitted to the hospital 10 days back. His condition kept fluctuating all these days. Swami Dayananda Saraswati passed away at his ashram in Rishikesh on 23rd September night. He was 85. He had been ailing for quite sometime. Born in 1930 in Manjakudi, Natarajan, as...
Haryana poll law will hit 50% people: apex court Insisting on minimum educational qualification for those contesting the Panchayat elections will strike off 50 per cent from participating in the grassroots democracy for the sole reason that they are illiterate, the Supreme Court observed on 21st September. A Bench led by Justice...
India, Japan, U.S. plan to push ties to next level India, the U.S. and Japan are set to raise their trilateral engagement to the ministerial level, with a meeting of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry planned on the sidelines...
P.V. Chandran elected INS president P.V. Chandran was elected president of the Indian Newspaper Society for 2015-16 on 18th September. The annual general meeting of the INS here chose him to succeed Kiran B. Vadodaria. Mr. Chandran represents Grihalakshmi, a Malayalam magazine published by the Mathrubhumi group of publications, of which he...
Nehru museum director quits Mahesh Rangarajan has stepped down as director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) as he saw the BJP government questioning the nature of his appointment approved by the previous UPA government on its last legs. Minister of State for Culture (Independent charge) Mahesh Sharma told journalists...
Centre firm on withdrawing Indira, Rajiv stamps Amid a war of words between the Congress and the BJP over the government’s decision to discontinue postage stamps featuring the former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday that there was no question of reconsidering...
Indian govt\'s new Bharat Operating System likely to replace Microsoft Windows Indian government is finally set to launch the latest version of its own operating system dubbed as the Bharat Operating System Solutions, also known as BOSS. The operating system which was originally developed in 2007 by National Resource Centre for Free/Open...
IISc, IIT-D in top 200 rankings MIT and Harvard hold the top two positions in the world university rankings India has made its debut in the Quacquarelli Symonds’ (QS) list of top 200 universities globally. The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-D) have been placed...