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6 August

Lok Sabha passes bill to deal with cheque bounce cases

News: The amendments in the Negotiable Instruments Act will have implications for over 18 lakh cheque bounce cases pending in various courts, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha said while piloting the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Bill 2015 in the House. It will help small traders, large corporates especially telecom ...

6 August

Criminal tracking proposal: Home Ministry wants CCTNS to study pattern of crime nationwide

News: The home ministry’s proposal before the Union Cabinet on extending the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) till 2017 involves preparation of analytical reports for the first time to understand pattern of crime taking place in different parts of India. The proposal also involves integrating CCTNS applications ...

6 August

Government ropes in National Informatics Centre to create networked system for NATGRID project

News: NAT SAR is an enterprise that will digest information from databases like banking information, railways, telephone records and airlines and would be able to pass smart, actionable inputs to investigative agencies. NAT SAR as a complex system that will be at the heart of the national policing and intelligence ...

6 August

India, Egypt to enhance ties for waterways development

News: India, at present, has only five National Waterways and many of the stretches are not functional. Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari called on his Egyptian counterpart to discuss ways to improve bilateral ties in the waterways and ports sectors. The talks to enhance cooperation in the area ...

6 August

Centre Sanctions Widening of Raipur-Vizag NH-26

News: For easy access between Visakhapatnam and Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur, the Central Government has taken up the four-laning of National Highway 43 (NH-43) which is now renumbered as NH-26. While Visakhapatnam would get fresh business opportunities, Chhattisgarh will get access to the port and the international airport in Andhra Pradesh. ...

6 August

Haryana to issue photo id to those ‘suffered’ Emergency

News: The Deputy Commissioners (DCs) of all districts will publish a draft list of persons, dead or alive, who had suffered during the Emergency days of 1970’s period. They (the DCs) will prepare the photo identity cards, along with Aadhaar number, for every such individual who is alive and is ...

6 August

First railway university in Vadodara

News: The Educational Consultants India Limited (EdCIL), a public sector unit of the Human Resource Development ministry is finalising the project and university will have its main campus at the National Academy of Indian Railways at Vadodar. The academy provides training to all levels of Indian Railway officers, from probationers ...

5 August

ISRO to launch a US satellite in space for the first time

News: Isro has a track record of launching satellites for 19 countries including space-faring nations, but this is the first time the US would be using an Indian vehicle, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, to put one of its satellite in orbit. Having successfully launched a Mars mission, India is ...

5 August

Since 2010, India has exported Rs 2600 crore defence items

News: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said, defence exports by Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs), Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) and private sector companies (based on NOCs) totalled Rs 290.51 crore in 2010-11. Parikkar, while giving statistics, also said that percentage of ‘Procurement from Indigenous sources’ out of total procurement in the ...

5 August

NSA Ajit Doval defends Yakub’s execution, slams Tharoor

News: National Security Adviser Ajit Doval today defended death penalty where “larger interest of the nation” is involved and deprecated those who questioned the execution of 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon. Disapproving of former Union minister Shashi Tharoor’s remarks in the aftermath of Memon’s hanging, Doval said something ...

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August, 2015