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News: Communications minister unveiled new broadband products developed by the government’s telecom research arm, Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT), on the launch of Digital India programme. C-DoT has developed two WiFi products long distance and solar-powered WiFi to address connectivity issues in rural areas, hilly terrain, highways in dense vegetation ...

News: The Prime Minister has handpicked Kruti Tiwari, an IIT-JEE topper Kruti Tiwari as the band ambassador for the project Digital India. Kruti will be spreading knowledge about the project which includes array of products such as Bharat Net, Digital locker and National Scholarship Portal. The government initiative will ensure ...

News: The Excalibur is an improved version of the INSAS rifle and fires 5.56×45 mm ammunition. It has full-automatic capability over the INSAS. barrel is shorter by 4 mm, has a side folding butt stock and features a Picatinny rail, a universal mount that allows a range of weapon sights ...

News: Corporation Bank is the first bank to launch the MUDRA card based on the RuPay platform. MUDRA card is a part of the Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana which aims to fund the unfunded under non-farm micro units in manufacturing, trading and services with affordable credit up to Rs 10 ...

News: The first stage of the city challenge competition for inclusion of cities and towns in the government’s Smart cities mission got underway. States have to nominate the assigned number of cities and towns from each state based on four broad criteria and a total of 13 sub-criteria. The four broad ...

News: Government schemes for skill development and housing are ready to be checked on the high number of landless casual labourers struggling with poverty. Plan is to massively scale up the skilling programme to address the widespread income deprivation. Every third of India’s rural households are landless and depend on ...

News: The ‘Make in India’ initiative is giving a new lease of life to some relatively-unknown varieties of indigenous fabrics. Fabrics like Ikkats and Uppada silk are being adopted and revived. Mumbai-based fashion designer Anita Dongre has made an initiative which takes craftsmanship to the cities from the rural areas so that unemployed ...

News: In regard to the ongoing ‘Digital India Week’, Union Rural Development Minister has launched an online mobile application for better planning of Panchayat assets and the official Twitter handle of the Ministry of Panchayat Raj. The mobile app “m-asset” can be used by citizens to capture photographs and geographical coordinates of various assets available ...

News: Vedanta company Sterlite Technologies Ltd, is into development and delivery of products, solutions and infrastructure for telecom & power transmission networks globally and has recently signed an agreement with Ericsson to work together in driving Smart Sustainable City initiatives in India. Vedanta Group Chairman Anil Agarwal said “PM’s Digital India ...

Bio toilets to be installed on trains marking completion of the first year of the launch of Swachh Bharat Campaign by Prime Minister. Indian Railway has undertaken an initiative to make 367 km of tracks free from discharge of human waste from toilets on trains in the current fiscal. To begin ...