NIC-CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team), a dedicated body to detect, prevent and mitigate the impact of cyber-attacks on the National Informatics Centre (NIC), was inaugurated on 11 December 2017 by Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister of Law & Justice and Electronics & Information Technology. NIC has a key role in e-governance at the National, State and District levels. Almost all In...
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Nayachar Island’s Study: Species Succession from Nascent Stage
Nayachar, an island in the in the Hooghly River, off Haldia in Purba Midinipur District of West Bengal, derives its name from the Bengali words Naya meaning New and Char meaning a strip of sandy land rising out of the bed of a river or the sea above water-level. It was created in the Indian Sunderbans by river silt deposits, and remained largely submerged, rising occasionally above the water le...
In 15th RIC Trilateral India tries Semblance of Balance
15th Russia-India-China (RIC) Trilateral Meeting held in New Delhi on 11 December 2017 can be construed as India’s attempt to get a semblance of balance in its ties with Moscow and Beijing. Foreign ministers of the RIC Sushma Swaraj (Minister of External Affairs of India), Wang Yi (China) and Sergey Lavrov (Russia) called for cooperation between the three countries in order to take decisive and ...
e-Sansad & e-Vidhan & Whip
Rolling out of e-Sansad and e-Vidhan in Parliament and State Legislatures has been proposed to digitize and make their functioning paperless. This was announced by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar after inaugurating the 18th All India Whips’ Conference in Udaipur on 8 January, 2018.
- e-Sansad and e-Vidhan are mission mode projects of Gove...
Foreign Direct Investment
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been further liberalized in key sectors including Single Brand Retail Trading (SBRT) and Construction Development, as the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on Wednesday January 10, 2018 approved amendments intended to liberalise and simplify the FDI policy so as to provide ease of doing business in the country. It has been felt tha...
FDI Policy Liberalized to Attract More Investment
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been further liberalized in key sectors including Single Brand Retail Trading (SBRT) and Construction Development, as the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on Wednesday January 10, 2018 approved amendments intended to liberalise and simplify the FDI policy so as to provide ease of doing business in the country. It has been felt tha...
4th India-Australia-Japan Trilateral Dialogue Stressed on Peace, Democracy, Economic Growth & Maritime Security
4th India-Australia-Japan Trilateral Dialogue was hosted in New Delhi on 13 December 2017 by India’s Foreign Secretary Dr. S. Jaishankar with Australia’s Secretary of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Ms. Frances Adamson and Japan’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Shinsuke J. Sugiyama. They stressed their commitments to peace, democracy, economic growth and on a rule-based order in th...
India’s Joining Wassenaar Arrangement Boosts its Credentials to Enter Nuclear Suppliers Group
Wassenaar Arrangement (WA), an elite export control regime, decided at its plenary meeting held on 6-7 December 2017 in Vienna to admit India as its new member. India’s entry into the Arrangement as its 42nd Participating State on 8 December 2017 would be mutually beneficial and further contribute to regional and international security and non-proliferation objectives and is expected to raise co...
Transforming India Invites ASEAN to Participate in Growth Story
Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing ASEAN Business & Investment Summit in Manila on 13 November 2017 vowed to bring India’s economic and business ties with the region up to the level of their exceptionally good political and people-to-people relations, stating that the Act East policy of his government puts ASEAN region at the centre of engagement. He expected that the ASEAN business community reco...
Sagardhwani Joins Oceanographic & Atmospheric Research
INS Sagardhwani, Kochi based, Marine Acoustic Research Ship (MARS), owned and maintained by the Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), a Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) laboratory, has recently joined an international campaign to revisit the first major interdisciplinary oceanographic research programme, International Indian Ocean Exploration (IIOE),Continue Reading...