As part of the enhanced outreach programme of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), a new platform named “Samwad with Students” (SwS) was launched in Bengaluru yesterday. Through the SwS initiative, ISRO aims to ‘constantly engage youngsters across India to capture their scientific temperament. The new conversation mission will inspire students cutting across schools and colleges.’ […]
India and Pakistan today exchanged, through diplomatic channels simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad, the list of nuclear installations and facilities covered under the Agreement on the Prohibition of Attack against Nuclear installations between India and Pakistan. The Agreement, which was signed on 31 December 1988 and entered into force on 27 January 1991 provides, […]
The Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) for MIG Scheme has been extended by the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs by another 12 months i.e..till 31.03.2020. Announcing this at a Press Conference, Hardeep S Puri, Minister of State has informed that “the growth and performance of CLSS for MIG scheme has been very good and […]
Prime Minister of Bhutan Lotay Tshering is on a visit to India and during this visit, it was announced that the Bhutan government has taken the decision to launch the RuPay Cards. Ex-President of India, Pranab Mukherjee had dedicated RuPay cards, India’s own card payment network to the nation on May 8, 2014, at a […]
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched a newly designed web page here yesterday for Drone Olympics (https://aeroindia.gov.in/Drone), scheduled to be held at Aero India – 2019 at Air Force Station, Yelahanka, Bengaluru. The web page is open for registration of UAV players interested in taking part in the maiden event of the Aero India. It is […]
Mishra Dhatu Nigam (MIDHANI) is having production capacity to manufacture high nitrogen steel (HNS) for armour applications. This steel is planned to be produced in commercial scale as part of transfer of technology from Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL). Atal Bhashantar Yojana to provide employment for Interpreters They have claimed that HNS is having better […]
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is instituting the Atal Bhashantar Yojana for training language experts towards creating a pool of ‘Specialised Interpreters’ for interpretation to and from Hindi language in Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. Under Atal Bhashantar Yojana Scheme, one candidate each will be selected through a multi-stage selection process, in the above […]
Bogibeel Bridge is evoking a lot of curiosity. But did you know who supplied the major portion of the steel used in the Bogibeel Bridge? Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) supplied around 35400 metric tonnes of steel for the construction of Bogibeel Road-cum-Rail Bridge on the river Brahmaputra. This quantity is little more than […]
The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu has called up on the pharmaceutical industry to work towards making India an International Capital of Generic Medicines. Addressing the 70th Indian Pharmaceutical Congress at Amity University, Noida yesterday, Naidu said that India becoming the largest provider of generic medicines globally with the Indian generics accounting for […]
Today, on 17 December 2018, Experimental Test Pilots and Test Engineer from IAF’s premier testing establishment ASTE, flew India’s first military flight using blended bio-jet fuel on the An-32 transport aircraft. The project is a combined effort of IAF, DRDO, Directorate General Aeronautical Quality Assurance (DGAQA) and CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum. On 27 July 2018, […]
