BharatNet broadband, base for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project, Digital India, for providing last-mile connectivity with High Speed Rural Broadband Network for Enabling Digital India is progressing well as 2.39 lakh kms of OFC has already been laid and Optical Fibre Connectivity is now available at more than 1 lakh Gram Panchayats (GPs) under Phase I. Launch of Phase II, with signing ...
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Bharatmala to Spur the Economy
Bharatmala Pariyojana, ₹5.35 lakh crore road construction package with a capital outlay of ₹ 6.92 lakh crore, the biggest ever infrastructure project, a part of the “New India” that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wishes to create by 2022, was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister on Tuesday 24 October 2017, to build 34,800 km of roads nationwide, that...
All India Institute of Ayurveda – Centre of Excellence
All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), the first ever, having a perfect blend of Ancient Wisdom with Modern Diagnostic Tools and Technology, modelled on the lines of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in Delhi on the occasion of 2nd ‘Ayurveda Day’ on 17 October ‘17. Expressing his government's commitment to ach...
Nobel Prize in Literature to Kazuo Ishiguro a Citizen of the World
Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017 has been awarded by the Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien) on Thursday 5 October 2017, to the British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
According to Sara Danius, of the Swedish...
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Developing Cryo-electron Microscopy
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 has been awarded on Wednesday October 4, 2017 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to three biophysicists Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson, "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution". Cryo-electron microscopy is “a c...
Nobel in Physics for finally Capturing Gravitational Waves
Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 has been awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy on Tuesday October 3, 2017 to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne, three Americans members of the LIGO-Virgo detector collaboration, for their pioneering role in the detection of gravitational waves; "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the obse...
INS Kiltan to Augment Navy’s Strike Capability
INS Kiltan, the latest indigenously-built anti-submarine warfare stealth corvette was commissioned into the force on Monday 16 October 2017 by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the Eastern Naval Command, Visakhapatnam; in presence of navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba; augmenting the Indian Navy’s strike capability in the Indian Ocean Region. It will boost force’s capability to detect and targe...
India’s Farm Sector, Famine & Food Security
India Globally ranks Second in the World in Agricultural Sector and eleventh and twelfth in Services and Industrial sectors respectively; but for the Farm Sector the situation in India is paradoxical, as this sector on the one hand is of utmost importance and on the other hand the country faces structural handicaps that have prevented it from ro...
India and European Union to Deepen Strategic Relations & Economic Cooperation
India and the European Union (EU) 14th annual Summit was held in New Delhi on Friday 6 October 2017; between Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, and Mr. Donald Tusk, President of the European Council and Mr. Jean Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission. The summit gave a political impetus to the process for a fair and free trade agreement. It has given the two sides a much cle...
Stubble Burning Dropping Pollution to Severe Levels
Satellite images from NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) FIRMS (Fire Information for Resource Management System) Web Fire Mapper, of Tuesday 31 October 2017 clearly revealed that stubble burning became more aggressive in Punjab and Haryana, leading to haze, smoke and other environmental and health concerns, despite numerous warnings by a green court and environmental authori...