Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavana Award, instituted to commemorate the lasting contribution made by late Rajiv Gandhi former Indian Prime Minister to promote peace, communal harmony and fight against violence and carries a citation and cash award of ₹10 lakh, will be awarded in its 24th edition this year in 2018 to Gopalkrishna Gandhi, for his outstanding contribution ...
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Hydropower Generation in India: Effects of Climate Change
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar research team, led by Vimal Mishra, which included Syed Azhar Ali, Saran Aadhar and Harsh Shah from Department of Civil Engineering, has thrown important insights on the impacts of observed Climate Variability and Projected Future Climate Change on Stream-flow and Hydropower Production in India. As per their obse...
G20 Digital Economy Ministerial Meeting to Bridge Digital Divide
“Digitalization changes all parts of our economy, politics and society and brings the world closer together”, said Christian Hirte, German Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, in support of G20 Digital Economy Ministerial Meeting in Salta, in the north-west of Argentina, held on August 23 & 24, 2018 with an agenda focused on <...
Exercise Pitch Black Hosted by Royal Australian Air Force
Exercise Pitch Black, a biennial three week multi-national large force employment exercise, conducted from Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Base in Darwin and RAAF Base in Tindal, aims to foster international co-operation between participating partner forces through the development of capabilities such as intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance, was held from 24 July to 18 August 2018 in ...
Convocation of Gujarat Forensic Sciences University
Gujarat Forensic Sciences University, engaged in teaching and research in different areas of Forensic Sciences, is first of its kind super specialised university in the world, which was started with an aim to provide education of international standards to the students in the area of forensic science, criminology, behavioural science and other allied subjects, has successfully completed three ye...
56th Annual Convocation of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Innovation was the buzzword of the 21st century said Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing 56th annual convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay in Mumbai on August 11 2018 and added that IITs have built brand India globally and their success has helped India become one of the world's largest pools of technical manpower. PM
“O-SMART” to Harness Vast Ocean Resources
Blue Economy will get a boost as “Ocean Services, Technology, Observations, Resources Modelling and Science (O-SMART)”, the umbrella scheme of Ministry of Earth Sciences; has been approval by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday August 29, 2018. Technologies being developed under O-SMART will help in harnessing the vast ocean resources t...
US Indo-Pacific Command Reflects Growing US India Relationship
US Pacific Command was renamed as US Indo-Pacific Command, underscoring the growing importance of India to the Pentagon, in a move widely seen as a public expression of America’s keenness to count India as key partner in its strategic planning. US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced on Wednesday May 30, 2018, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, during a change of comma...
Who will dominate the 21st Century?
21st Century belongs to Asian Countries as its proponents claim that the two most populous countries, China and India, which are expected to grow rapidly economically, are in Asia, and then it's only natural that they will play a bigger role in the World's affairs. Assuming certain demographic and persisting economic trends lead to forecasts that predict the rising economic and ...
BJP Wrests in Himachal Pradesh with Overwhelming Majority
Himachal Pradesh has the record of changing governments every election since 1985, and this time too Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), following aggressive campaign, wrested power with an overwhelming majority winning 44 seats in 68 members Assembly, reducing Congress to just 21 seats with most of the Cabinet Ministers of Congress also losing elections. Results were declared on 18 December 2017 of t...