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4 July

Metrino pilot project worth Rs.4,000 Cr sanctioned to Delhi

News: Steps have been taken to overhaul the highways sector, including a Rs. 4,000-crore Metrino pilot project to decongest Delhi. Under the project, fully automatic and driverless small vehicles known as pods will travel suspended under an overhead network. The ring road work from Manesar to Eastern pass, worth Rs. 6,000-crore, will ...

4 July

Implementation of new projects rise by 8.4%, stalled projects decline

News: CMIE has reported a 8.4% rise in projects under implementation in the quarter ended June 30, the fastest since the September 2012 quarter. Private sector projects under implementation have risen by 0.8% in the June quarter. Since March 2014, projects worth about 2% of GDP have been unstalled. Progressing steadily, they ...

4 July

India abstains in vote on Israel’s Gaza offensive at UN

News: India is abstained from voting on a Palestine-backed United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution condemning Israel for its Gaza offensive. 41 countries voted in favour, only the US voted against the resolution in UNHRC in Geneva . The resolution calls upon the parties concerned to cooperate fully with ...

4 July

Government clears 16 defence licence proposals

News: The government had issued 73 industrial licences to the defence sector since June 2014, against 50 such licences granted between 2011 and May 2014. These include 16 proposals with a proposed investment of Rs.613 crore, cleared at a licensing committee meeting chaired by the secretary of the Department of ...

4 July

Transforming national highways into green corridors

News: For transforming India’s 90,000 kms of national highways into green corridors, the government will soon implement an ambitious policy under which one per cent of the road construction cost will go towards planting trees, by creating a brigade of 1,000 contractors for this task. Nitin Gadkari said if the cost of road ...

4 July

HRD Ministry maps colleges and varsities

News: HRD Ministry would soon come out with a set of four key parameters, expected to be ‘teaching-learning’, ‘academic performance’, ‘outreach’ and ‘impact’ of the institute nationally and globally, for ranking of Indian institutes across streams. It was chaired by both higher education and school education secretaries and attended by ...

3 July

Govt launches mobile app for better planning of panchayat assets

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 ...

3 July

Nationwide mobile number portability

News: Mobile phone users will be able to retain their numbers when they relocate to any part of the country even if they change operators as full mobile number portability (MNP) comes into effect. MNP has been available within circles since 2011, this is the first time it will be ...

2 July

Krishi Sinchai Yojana will see Rs 50,000 crore spent over five years: Jaitley

News: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that the Cabinet has approved funds amounting to Rs 50,000 crore over the five years to ensure that the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana is a success. The major objective of tthis irrigation scheme is to achieve convergence of investments in irrigation at ...

2 July

Bengaluru schoolgirls develop Sellixo android app

News: Five girl students from Bengaluru, made India proud by becoming world-beaters at the Technovation Challenge 2015 held at San Francisco on June 24, for developing mobile app named Sellixo. Team Pentechan, all 9th standard students (14 years old), from the New Horizon Public School (NHPS) reached the summit at the ...

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July, 2015