▼ Mumbai University signs MoU with Indian Railways to promote technology [02-27-15]
The university will start specialized courses at the Post Graduate level related to rail technology. This institute will help the Indian Railways in developing cutting-edge indigenous technologies and turn as a net exporter of such technologies.
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▼ Madad, e-portal launched by MEA [02-27-15]
This website will provide a platform for Indian citizens living abroad to file consular grievances online. This concept will introduce transparency, clarity and a high degree of accountability in the process of grievance redressal.
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▼ SAFAR-Air- First air quality checking mobile app to be launched [02-24-15]
SAFAR is an acronym for System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research which was first launched in Delhi in 2010 during the Commonwealth Games. At present the App service is available only for Pune and Delhi city and it will be available in Mumbai by May 2015.
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▼ Mridaparikshak, mini-lab for soil analysis launched in Bhopal [02-24-15]
Mridaparikshak is a digital mobile quantitative minilab/soil test kit to provide soil testing service at farmers’ doorsteps and determines all the important soil parameters i.e. soil pH, EC, organic carbon, available nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur and micronutrients like zinc, boron and iron.
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▼ Prithvi II, India's indigenous surface to surface missile successfully launched [02-24-15]
Prithvi-II has a strike range of 350 km and is 8.56 metres in length, 110 cm in girth and weighs 4,600 kg. It is thrusted by liquid propulsion twin engines and uses advanced inertial guidance system with manoeuvring trajectory. The Prithvi-II missile, developed by the DRDO, has already inducted into the Indian Armed forces.
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▼ Swine Flu is also known as H1N1 [02-24-15]
The first case of the flu in India was found on the Hyderabad airport on 13 May 2009 when a man traveling from US to India was found H1N1 positive.
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▼ BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile successfully test fired [02-24-15]
BrahMos has a range of 290 km and can carry a conventional warhead of up to 300 kg.
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▼ ICCI Bank launches India's first digital bank Pockets [02-24-15]
There will be a digital wallet, a physical prepaid card and primary savings account. Pockets allow funds transfer of funds from e-mail ID, mobile number and friend’s Facebook account and so on.
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▼ National Dalit Movement for Justice launches ATM system for Dalits and Adivasis [02-24-15]
The tool was launched with an aim to monitor atrocities perpetrated against Dalits and Adivasis and to deliver timely and speedy justice.
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▼ National Science Foundation Career Award 2015 conferred on Gurdeep Singh [02-24-15]
He was given the National Science Foundation Career award for his research on Nano sheets. He is an assistant professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering at Kansas State University.
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▼ Crime and Criminal Tracking Network Project System launched in HP [02-24-15]
This 19 Crore Rupee project funded by the Union government will help in connecting 114 police stations in the state besides 13 district headquarters, 26 sub-divisional police officers and three police ranges. Himachal was the first state in the country to launch this project prepared by the Union Home Ministry after Mumbai attack of 26/11.
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▼ Udayanotsav- Annual Rashtrapati Bhawan function [02-24-15]
The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee will open the annual“Udyanotsav” of Rashtrapati Bhavan on February 13, 2015.
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▼ China launched first Maritime Silk Road Cruiser liner [02-24-15]
On its maiden voyage Cruiser Liner will visit three South-East Asian nations including Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
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▼ Silk worm egg cold storage plant launched in Mysore [02-24-15]
Up to 1.0 crore disease free layings (dfls) can be comfortably preserved in this plant. In effect, with this plant, the total storage capacity of the Mysore facility would go up to 1.5 crore dfls. Cold Storage Plants are indispensable in silkworm egg production system, principally to enable uninterrupted and continuous supply of basic and commercial silkworm seed.
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▼ Sheetala and Dashwamedha ghats of the River Ganga supported by Wi-Fi on 8thFebruary 2015 [02-24-15]
Inaugurating the service in Varanasi, Union IT and Telecommunication Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that eight more Ghats of the city will be equipped with WiFi connectivity in the coming months. Mr. Prasad said that this is a step forward in materialising the Prime Minister's dream of 'Digital India'.
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▼ Security related website provides critical information about security apps [02-23-15]
The MySecurity platform is being created for individuals, companies, students, NGOs etc to develop and deploy security applications which may be useful to people.
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▼ NASA New Horizons documents the planet Pluto [02-23-15]
The new images, taken with New Horizons’ telescopic Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), are the first acquired during the spacecraft’s 2015 approach to the Pluto system which culminates with a close flyby of Pluto and its moons on 14 July 2015.
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▼ United Kingdom passes law about creating babies from multiple parents [02-23-15]
This process will reduce genetic diseases from mother to Child. This proposal was accepted by 382 MPs and 128 MPs were against this.
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▼ Raad- Indigenously developed test missile developed and testfired by Pakistan on 2ndFebruary 2015 [02-23-15]
On 2nd Feb’15, Pakistan conducted a successful flight test of the indigenously developed Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM), Raad. The Raad missile, with a range of 350 kilometres, will enable Pakistan to achieve strategic standoff capability on land and sea.
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▼ DRDO to set up new missile launching facility at Krishna Delta Complex [02-23-15]
The approval was granted by the Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife chaired by Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
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