Higher Education Empowerment Regulation Agency (HEERA) will be the new higher education watchdog that will replace the current regulators, the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). This will be the cleanest and the most sweeping reform in higher education that will eliminate all overlaps in jurisdiction and also do ...
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Cartosat-2 satellite is another ‘eye in the sky’
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in its 40th flight (PSLV-C38) launched, by the 44.4-metre tall rocket, as its primary payload the 712 kg Cartosat-2 series satellite for earth observation, and 30 co-passenger satellites of various countries together weighing about 243 kg (Total weight of 955 kg) into a 505 km polar Sun ...
GST: Key Challenges for Indian Economy
Goods and Services Tax (GST) that has finally transformed India from being a political union to a political and economic union in the true sense was in itself a challenge considering how it has taken 17 long years us to get there, and how tortuous the journey has been. GST is undoubtedly India’s biggest piece of economic reforms that has also been the most complex reform...
Why GST was extremely important for economy like India
Goods and Services Tax (GST) rolled out as soon the clock chimed midnight on Saturday, July 1, 2017, the One Nation - One Tax - One Market, is the biggest tax reform in Indian history that promises to change the way India does business and has potential to add up to 2 percent to India’s GDP. GST that subsumes around 17 c...
Shangri-La Dialogue Dominates on North Korea’s Nuclear & Missile Programme, Religious Extremism and South China Sea Disputes
Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier defence summit, launched in 2002 by British think tank the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and the Singaporean government, is the most important annual gathering of defence professionals in the Asia-Pacific region. It gets its name from the location of the meeting, the Shangri-La hotel in Singapore where it has been held since 2002. In
SBI props up its capital adequacy to more than 14.50% with the largest ever QIP of Indian market
Capital adequacy ratio of State Bank of India (SBI) was 12.85% as on 31 March, 2017. It was well above the minimum capital to risk-weighted assets ratio (CRAR) of 9% that commercial banks in India are required to maintain on an on-going basis, in accordance with the Reserve Bank of India guidelines, based on the Basel III reforms on capital regulation to the extent appli...
QS World University Rankings 2018 reveal dominance of US & UK in Higher Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) of USA tops the rankings for the sixth year running in the 14th edition of the QS World University Rankings ranking over 950 universities from 84 different countries. MIT is closely followed by Stanford, Harvard and the California Institute of Technology, three other US universities at 2nd, 3rd & 4<...
India Pacific Islands Sustainable Development Conference
India Pacific Islands Sustainable Development Conference hosted by the Government of India in Suva, Fiji on the 25th & 26th May 2017, represented by all the 14 Pacific Islands nations, marked yet another crucial step in India’s pioneering initiative in engaging with the Pacific Island Countries. The objective of the meeting was to facilitate the exchange of knowledge an...
India May Become Top Solar Energy Producer in the World by Harnessing Power of the Sun
Solar power tariffs in India have plunged to a new low of Rs 2.44 per unit. Solar energy is cheaper than coal-based electricity in India, for the first time ever; the average price charged by NTPC for electricity generated by its coal-fired plants is Rs. 3.20. India’s solar energy generation capacity continues to rise as it has added more than 10GW of solar capacity in the last three years - sta...
IIT Kharagpur Develops Smarter Ambulatory Healthcare Monitoring
AmbuSens, technology developed in the SWAN lab of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT- Kharagpur, is capable of wireless monitoring of various physiological parameters like ECG, heart-rate, temperature and blood-pressure, utilizing a unique mechanism to preserve patients’ data confidentiality while simultaneously using the analytic and computing power of cloud computing. It...