GOVERNMENT SCHEME-APPROVAL-DECISION -DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
Soon after the notification of Aadhaar regulations, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has written to all ministries and states to notify services, benefits and subsidies for which the 12-digit number will now be mandatory. "The notification shall mention the service, benefits or subsidies funded from the Consolidated Fund of India, which will require, as a condition precedent, a
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Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) was identified as a nodal agency to conduct the novel online programme ‘Niryat Bandhu@ Your Desktop’ for entrepreneurs, exporters, importers, IEC holders by Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT). DGFT implemented Niryat Bandhu scheme for mentoring new and potential exporters on the intricacies of foreign trade through counselling,
The Centre has decided that the Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for Kharif Crops grown in 2016 will be applicable from 1st September, 2016. The decision of the Government has been conveyed to the Agriculture Secretaries of all States and Union Territories by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare. The decision has been taken as harvested crops sown in Kharif may reach the
The Union Ministry of Tourism has approved projects worth 500 crore rupees for integrated development of tourism in Jammu and Kashmir under Swadesh Darshan scheme. The projects were approved by Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee for the scheme as part of Development Package of Prime Minister Reconstruction Plan. Key Facts The new projects are envisaged at tourist
Government has slashed prices of 10 more drugs while bringing eight new medicines under price control. Drug price regulator NPPA has reduced the prices of ten drugs, including of anti-coagulant enoxaparin and anti-epilepsy drug carbamazepine, in the range of 4.8 per cent to a tad over 23.3 per cent. On the other hand, medicines like paracetamol and antibiotics like cefadroxil and cefazolin have
LEGAL-COURT
BILL-ACT-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
Seeking implementation of its directive to make environment education a compulsory subject in school curricula across the country, the Supreme Court Friday asked the Centre to constitute a core committee to monitor and ensure that all state boards comply with the order. “Let Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) be the nodal agency to see our directions are complied with.
In a setback to India, the World Trade Organization (WTO)’s appellate body upheld the rulings of a panel which stated the Indian government’s power purchase agreements with solar firms were “inconsistent” with international norms. “The appellate body (of the WTO) upheld each of these panel conclusions appealed by India,” the WTO stated. The US had, in 2014, filed the complaint
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed an order of National Green Tribunal (NGT) directing them to seek prior environmental clearances (ECs) for their projects like dedicated freight corridor. "The order of the National Green Tribunal is stayed," a bench, comprising Chief Justice TS Thakur and Justice AM Khanwilkar, said. The bench was hearing pleas filed by Dedicated Freight Corridor
The Maharashtra government has defended in the Supreme Court its new law on dance bars, saying that the state “desires to regulate the dance performance in bar so as to protect the dignity of women performing dance in the bar rooms”. Submitting its affidavit on Friday, the state government said that the Maharashtra Prohibition of Obscene Dance in Hotels, Restaurants and Bar Rooms and Protection
STOCKHOLM: A Swedish appeals court decided to uphold the arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Friday, prolonging the six year long legal stand off with prosecutors and clearing the way for the Wikileaks founder to be questioned in London next month. Assange, 45, is wanted by Swedish authorities for questioning over allegations, which he denies, that he committed rape in
NEW DELHI: Observing that "copyright is not a divine right", the Delhi high court on Friday allowed Delhi University to issue photocopies of major textbooks published by leading publishers.The Justice held that the act of students getting books copied from DU's library or its authorised photocopy shop enjoys protection under Section 52 of the Copyright Act, which exempts
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-HEALTH-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) on 15 September 2016 announced an ambitious collaborative R&D programme to develop next generation, sustainable refrigerant technologies as alternatives to HFCs. This R&D initiative brings together Government, research institutes, industry and civil society to develop long term technology solutions to mitigate
APPOINTMENT-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
The President has appointed Smt. Alka Sirohi, Member, Union Public Service Commission to perform the duties of the post of Chairman, Union Public Service Commission, with effect from the September 21, 2016 (Forenoon). The appointment is till further orders or till completion of her term as Member on January 03, 2017, whichever is earlier. The post of Chairman. UPSC will fall vacant
Nadia Murad Basee Taha, who survived trafficking at the hands of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), on 16 September 2016, was appointed the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking. The appointment marks the first time a survivor of atrocities is bestowed with this distinction. The
BANKING-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
Deutsche Bank has been asked to pay a fine of $14 billion by the US Department of Justice to settle an investigation into mis-selling of mortgage-backed securities. The malpractices by several leading banks are cited as the primary reason for the 2008 financial crisis. The verdict comes on the eighth anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers. In late 2013, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay $1.9 billion to
ECONOMICAL-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
The total sown area as on 16th September, 2016 as per reports received from States, stands at 1059.48 lakh hectare as compared to 1022.61 lakh hectare at this time last year.It is reported that rice has been sown/transplanted in 382.00 lakh ha, pulses in 144.96 lakh ha, coarse cereals in 188.62 lakh ha, oilseeds in 188.33 lakh ha, sugarcane in 45.77 lakh hectare and cotton in 102.23 lakh ha. The details
POLITICAL-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
AWARD AND HONOUR
-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
Dharwad based Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank has bagged four awards for inclusive insurance for 2016 from Skoch Group. S Ravindran, chairman, received the award from Sameer Kochhar, chairman of Skoch Group, in Hyderabad. The bank, which operates in nine districts of Karnataka covering 57 taluks, has brought 28 lakh people under Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojna, PM
Vijaya Bank has bagged the second prize under Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar for the year 2015-16. The prize was accepted by Kishore Sansi, Managing Director & CEO Vijaya Bank, from President Pranab Mukherjee at Rashtrapati Bhavan Auditorium, New Delhi. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, MoS for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju and others also took part in the function.
Bengaluru-based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Bollywood actors Katrina Kaif and Juhi Chawla are among recipients of the Priyadarshini Global Awards 2016 which will be presented here on September 19. Other recipients of the awards, instituted by a socio-cultural and educational organisation Priyadarshini Academy, in various fields are from Israel, Switzerland and UK. The
Mumbai: Known to the world for her flawless beauty and dream-like body, Kats has managed to add yet another feather to her already glossy hat. This time, she wins the prestigious Smita Patil award for her contribution to Indian Cinema. While it is no secret that her acting skills has always been scrutinised, the internet world is beyond shocked to learn about her latest achievement. From calling
JAIPUR: A decorated soldier of the 1965 Indo-Pak war who rose to become a union minister, Capt Ayub Khan was laid to rest at his village Nuah in Jhunjhunu district with full military honours on Friday. He was born in 1932 in a Kayamkhani Muslim family of soldiers. His grandfather and father too served the Indian Army and now his cousins and their sons are continuing the family tradition.
Sports Minister Vijay Goel conferred Arjuna Awards on cricketers Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane at a function in New Delhi. Sharma was given the award for 2015 and Rahane for 2016. Earlier, the two cricketers could not receive the awards from the President Pranab Mukherjee as they were participating in international tournaments. The Arjuna Awards, instituted in 1961, are given to
SPORT-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
Indian football giants East Bengal on 16 September 2016 won the Calcutta Football League (CFL) for the seventh consecutive time. The team defeated Mohammedan Sporting 1-0 at the Kalyani Stadium. East Bengal bettered its own record of winning it six times straight from 1970 to 1975.
The 2016 Track Asia Cup concluded on 16 September 2016 at the Cycling Velodrome in IG Stadium in New Delhi. Hong Kong topped the chart with 18 medals which comprise 11 Gold, four Silvers and three bronze.On the other hand, India the hosts of the tournament ended their campaign at second position with 16 medals, including five gold, four Silver and seven bronze. India's Deborah Herold, in
ENVIRONMENT-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
Arctic ice cover in 2016 reached the second lowest minimum on record, tied with 2007. The sea-ice extent on 10 September stood at 4.14 million sq km, some way short of the 3.39 million sq km record low in 2012. Arctic sea-ice cover grows each autumn and winter, and shrinks each spring and summer. It has long been regarded as a sensitive indicator of change to the Earth's climatic system.
NEW DELHI: The Union transport ministry will notify the introduction of BSVI emission norms for all vehicles from April 2020, overriding a demand from auto manufacturers to push its rollout by five years. The Bharat Stage (BS) norms regulate the amount of pollutants a vehicle is allowed to emit in India. The urgency to maintain the deadline for the introduction of BS-VI, with the strictest yet limit
PANAJI: Environment ministers of BRICS countries on Friday agreed on a memorandum of understanding and announced the setting up of a joint working group institutionalizing their co-operation on environment-related issues, an official said. "The ministerial declaration highlights key arrangements which were adopted with mutual consensus. The areas agreed for mutual co-operation
NEW DELHI: An international rally will be organised in 70 cities across the world, including 50 in India, on Sunday to express solidarity against growing cases of animal cruelty in the country and to put pressure on the government to enact strict laws on the issue. "An international rally urging the Indian government to enact powerful laws against animal cruelty will take place on September 18 in
Supermassive black holes are voracious beasts. Their tremendous gravitational pull sucks in everything that gets too close, including stars. For the first time, astronomers have clearly observed at infrared wavelengths what happens after a black hole eats a star: it burps back up a brilliant flare of light that echoes through space. Two studies published this week - one by scientists at NASA, the
The Maharashtra Cabinet on Friday gave its approval for the demerger of Ratnagiri Gas & Power Pvt Ltd (RGPPL) into Ratnagiri Power Company and Ratnagiri LNG Company. The liquefied natural gas company will re-gasify imported LNG and pool with domestically available gas during the low-demand season. The state’s approval was needed since the government owns a 13.5 per cent stake in
BUSINESS-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
BOOK IN NEWS--15-09-2016
FOREIGN TOUR-FOREIGN RELATION- INTERNATIONAL
-NEWS-15-09-2016
Chinese communities are celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, a harvest festival which takes place on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Lunar calendar. People celebrate the festival by gazing at the moon, as well as eating ‘moon cakes’ made of wheat flour and stuffing. The festival is also celebrated in Singapore, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Taiwan. To the Chinese, Mid-Autumn Festival
STATE -DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
After launching Amma Canteens, Amma Cement and Amma Mineral Water, Jayalalithaa government in Tamil Nadu today unveiled plans to build "Amma Marriage Halls" at 11 locations in the state at an estimated cost of Rs 83 crore. In a statement, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister said that these marriage halls will be helpful to the poor people as they have to pay high rents for conducting functions like
Pune district has recorded the maximum number of chikungunya cases in Maharashtra from January to September this year. While 92 per cent of chikungunya cases in Maharashtra have been reported from Pune, the city also ranks second in reporting the number of dengue patients. These are the official figures released by the state health department. During a telephonic conversation with Dr
Maharashtra, India’s most industrialised state and the highest taxpayer, is also the most indebted state in the country. Total liabilities of the state have shot up by 34.50 per cent in the last four years to Rs 379,360 crore (budget estimate) in fiscal 2016, and it continues to occupy the top slot among the states in the country, says a study on ‘States finances’ by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
In tune with the Central government’s programme of making the country free from open defecation, Andhra Pradesh has taken the lead and on October 2, it will be declared as the first State in the country to be declared as open defection free State. This was announced by Minister for Urban Development P. Narayana on the concluding day of the third BRICS Urbanisation Forum, here on
From electronic goods and four-wheelers to petrol and spices, a number of consumer durables and food products are set to get costlier with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government approving a hike to value-added tax (VAT) for the second time this fiscal, citing rising expenses on the state’s various infrastructure development schemes. The state cabinet on Friday decided to increase the price
SUMMIT-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
China cites the case of Shenzen city producing 4,300 MW of electricity for municipal solid waste. Experts suggest promotion of new cities based on ‘economic logic’ to avoid poverty traps .South Africa’s Minister calls for liveable and sustainable human settlements in urban areas . Placing water and sanitation management in urban areas among the most daunting challenges in the context of rapid
DEFENCE -DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
In a demonstration of India’s commitment to its ties with Mozambique and of Indian Navy’s increasing footprint and operational reach, Indian Naval Ship Trikand has arrived at Maputo on a three days visit, as part of deployment of the Western Fleet to the countries on the East Coast of Africa and Island nations in the Western Indian Ocean. The ship is part of the Indian Navy’s Western
Indian Navy’s guided missile destroyer, Mormugao was launched in Mumbai today. Built by government-run Mazgaon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL), which also plans to outsource work for 10 blocks to include private ship building yard in the programme, Mormugao is the second ship of Project 15B and will be one of the most advanced warships of the force. The vessel belongs to
SURVEY AND REPORT-NEWS-15-09-2016
New Delhi: India has slipped by 10 positions to 112th, out of 159 countries and territories, as it "fared badly" across categories including legal system and regulation, according to the Economic Freedom of the World: 2016 Annual Report. Although China, Bangladesh and Pakistan lagged behind India at 113th, 121st and 133th ranks respectively, Bhutan (78), Nepal (108) and Sri Lanka (111) were better
PASSES AWAY-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
VANCOUVER: Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella, who blended magical realism and baseball in the book that became the smash hit film "Field of Dreams," has died. He was 81. His literary agent Carolyn Swayze said in a statement that Kinsella's death on Friday in Hope, British Columbia was doctor-assisted. Details about his health were not disclosed. Assisted deaths became legal in Canada
NEW YORK: Pulitzer-winning US playwright Edward Albee, author of such masterpieces as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" died Friday at age 88, The New York Times reported. Albee died at his home in Montauk, New York, after a short illness, according to his personal assistant, Jakob Holder, the Times said. Considered one of the most important American playwrights of his time, Albee,
MISCELLANEOUS-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
COMMITTEE-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
A Central government appointed Committee today came down heavily on AAP government in Delhi, saying it had splurging exchequer’s money on advertisements projecting Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his party in violation of Supreme Court guidelines and asked the ruling party to reimburse it. The three-member committee, headed by former Chief Election Commissioner B B
AGREEMENT-DAILY-NEWS-15-09-2016
India and Nepal on 16 September 2016 signed three MoUs and agreements to enhance the bilateral agreement between the two nations. The agreements were inked during the four-day-visit (from 15 September to 18 September 2016) of Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda to India.The inked MOUs and agreements are: MoU for project management consultancy services for
State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd (ONGC) has signed definitive agreements with Russia’s national oil company Rosneft PJSC to acquire an additional 11% stake in its unit, JSC Vankorneft, which has a licence to produce hydrocarbons from the Vankor field in Siberia. The definitive agreement was signed in Moscow by Narendra K. Verma, chief executive officer and managing
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