The government of India has said that a major contract through capital procurement route, for procurement of 1,86,138 Bullet Proof Jackets (BPJs) has been signed. The impending requirement of the Indian Army for effective BPJs, has been met after successful conduct of stringent field evaluation trials. The contracted Bullet Proof Jackets have contemporary and state-of-the-art […]
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, our first official ambassador in Hollywood, did a photoshoot with American rapper Pharrell Williams who was also in India during the Hindu festival of Holi. The Bollywood beauty owned the entire photoshoot (Sorry Pharrell!) and looked really cool while the rapper looked cool too but didn’t wear Indian attire (which we were […]
The Jawahar Lal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) has been working on an innovative transport solution to achieve seamless and faster movement of cargo from the port to respective destinations through Direct Port Delivery. Four successful bidders have won the mandate for five routes- from JNPT to Gujarat, to Goa and Bengaluru, to Nashik, Nagpur, Aurangabad, […]
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has issued an advisory to all states to take necessary precautionary measures in view of calls on social media for Bharat Bandh on April 10 by some groups. MHA has advised the states to beef up security and make appropriate arrangements to prevent any untoward incident, including issue of […]
Thatta, Sindh, was simmering ever since the gangrape video of a 19-year-old Hindu boy surfaced. Half a dozen men, with many, connected to the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), gangraped a Hindu boy named Prakash, shot the assault and circulated the video online to further browbeat the survivor’s family. In […]
The share of India’s Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) in world’s International Tourist Arrivals during 2016 was 0.71%, whereas the share of India’s International Tourist Arrivals (which includes Foreign Tourist Arrivals and the arrival of Non-Resident Nationals) in world’s International Tourist Arrivals during 2016 was 1.18%. This information was given by K. J. Alphons, Union Minister of […]
India, Japan, and the United States held the 9th Trilateral Meeting at Joint Secretary/Director General/Assistant Secretary level in New Delhi on 4 April 2018 to hold consultations on regional and global issues of mutual interest. In a press note, the Ministry of External Affairs of India said: In accordance with the directions received from their […]
It may come as a rude shock to Indians that now, even a senior raking minister from Sri Lanka, that too a Buddhist, has been denied entry into Hindu the 11th Century Lingaraja (Shiva) Hindu Temple in Bhubaneswar. The Sri Lankan Minister of Buddhist Affairs, Gamini Jayawickrama Perera, was denied the entry and he told Press, […]
At the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, K.P. Sharma Oli, Prime Minister of Nepal, accompanied by his spouse Radhika Shakya, will be paying a State Visit to India from April 6-8, 2018. A high-level delegation will accompany Prime Minister Oli. During the visit, Prime Minister of Nepal will call on President and Vice President […]
