India-Special-Important-Daily-NEWS-IN-HINDI -22-10-2016
After post offices, the Centre is now exploring the option of selling pulses through khadi bhandar outlets located across the country to cool down prices. A substantial quantity of pulses would also be sold through the commodities exchange NCDEX. With the festival season approaching fast, govt is leaving no stone unturned to ensure availability of all the essential commodities during ongoing festival
NEW DELHI: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) governing body on Friday approved that all faculty could work up till the age of 67, a top AIIMS authority confirmed to IANS. However, he said that the decision has to be approved by the Central government before being implemented. The source, however, also said that the 67 years norm won't apply to the Director, which is an
GOVERNMENT SCHEME-APPROVAL-DECISION -
DAILY-NATIONAL-INTERNATIONAL-NEWS-IN-ENGLISH-22-10-2016
Mr. Vinod Zutshi, Secretary Ministry of Tourism, launched the Implementation of the Sustainable Tourism Criteria for India (STCI) in association with Ecotourism Society of India (ESOI).He recalled the MOU signed in March 2016 between ESOI and Government of India to launch the STCI programme across India. Mr. Zutshi indicated the importance given to sustainable tourism in the
LEGAL-COURT BILL-ACT- DAILY-NATIONAL-INTERNATIONAL-NEWS-IN-ENGLISH-22-10-2016
Mr.Thaawarchand Gehlot, Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment chaired a Pre-legislative Consultation Meeting on ‘The Persons in Destitution (Protection, Care and Rehabilitation) Model Bill, 2016’ organized by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment. The purpose of the meeting was to seek opinions/views on the Model Legislation drafted by the Ministry and call upon the States/UTs to
German lawmakers have approved a bill that allows the country’s foreign intelligence agency to spy on European Union institutions and fellow EU member states. The legislation passed is part of a range of measures meant to improve oversight of espionage in the wake of the revelations by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. A panel of independent judges will have to be
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-HEALTH-
DAILY-NATIONAL-INTERNATIONAL-NEWS-IN-ENGLISH-22-10-2016
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has lost its main computer and science instruments shortly before it was due to make an orbital pass near Jupiter. The glitch followed an unrelated problem that prompted it to skip firing Juno’s braking engine, to steer the probe into a tighter regular orbit around Jupiter. The loss of the main computer, 13 hours before the close encounter, put the observation plans on hold until at least
APPOINTMENT-
DAILY-NATIONAL-INTERNATIONAL-NEWS-IN-ENGLISH-22-10-2016
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations celebrated Wonder Woman's 75th birthday on Friday by naming the comic book character as its new Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Woman and Girls, despite frustration from both inside and outside the world organisation that the spot should go to a real - and less sexualized - woman. The carefully choreographed ceremony was marred by
The World Free Zones Orgànisation (World FZO) has appointed P. S. Raman, Joint Development Commissioner (Retd), Santacruz Electronics Export Processing Zone, Special Economic Zone, Mumbai, as its Regional Representative for SAARC countries comprising Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The World FZO is an international multilateral
BHUBANESWAR: Renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has been declared as the brand ambassador for the 5th International Sand Art Festival to be held at Konark by the tourism department of Odisha. International Sand Art Festival is a popular annual event organised by Odisha Tourism from December 1 to 5 at Konark in Puri. Several sand artists from India and abroad will participate in the festival. As
Japan’s Morinari Watanabe elected President of International Gymnastics Federation. Morinari Watanabe(57) from Japan was elected as the Ninth president of the International Gymnastics Federation at the 81st FIG Congress in Tokyo. He will replace Bruno Grandi. Nelli Kim was elected vice president of the FIG along with China’s Luo Chaoyi (China) and Vasily Titov (Russia).
BHUBANESWAR: Odisha health and family welfare minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak resigned on Friday amid mounting opposition pressure over the SUM Hospital fire on Monday that killed 25 people."Health minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak has sent me his resignation letter. He has resigned on moral ground. I have accepted his resignation and sent it to the governor," chief minister Naveen
BANKING-DAILY- NATIONAL-INTERNATIONAL-NEWS-IN-ENGLISH-22-10-2016
The government has taken swift action to contain the damage from the debit card data security breach crisis. It has ordered a probe and directed Reserve Bank and India and affected banks to submit a report on the breach which compromised nearly 3.25 crore debit cards in the country. The government has also assured customers that their stolen money will be returned and there is no need to panic . At a
The RBI relaxed foreign investment norms in financial services firms, startups and in investments by foreign regulated capital investors.Foreign Venture Capital Investors (FVCIs) can invest in Indian startups without prior permission of the RBI. The Reserve Bank of India also allowed banks to approve extension of external commercial borrowings on their own provided the debt is unpaid and has not
ECONOMICAL-DAILY
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Friday barred as many as eight “vanishing” companies and 40 directors from accessing the capital market for the next five years for violating listing agreement. Vanishing companies are those that failed to file statutory returns with the Registrar of Companies and stock exchanges for two years. Besides, the companies and their directors are not
India has announced that it will oppose possible attempts by some developed countries to push for negotiations on global value chains at the World Trade Organisation in the mini-ministerial meet beginning in Oslo. GVCs — an arrangement where the different stages of the production process are located across different countries — is an idea being actively pushed by the OECD group of developed
RBI has simplifying the external commercial borrowing norms.RBI has delegated powers to banks to approve requests from borrowers for extension of matured but unpaid ECB.Under the extant ECB guidelines, banks can approve requests from borrowers for changes in repayment schedule during the tenure of the ECB. Further, powers have also been delegated to banks to approve cases of conversion
RBI has simplifying the external commercial borrowing norms.RBI has delegated powers to banks to approve requests from borrowers for extension of matured but unpaid ECB.Under the extant ECB guidelines, banks can approve requests from borrowers for changes in repayment schedule during the tenure of the ECB. Further, powers have also been delegated to banks to approve cases of conversion
AWARD AND HONOUR -
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State Bank of Patiala has been conferred “Special Award for Excellence in MSME lending” for its performance in lending to the MSME sector during the year 2013-14 and 2014-15 with a growth of Rs 2597 crore (annualized 23%) and Rs 994 crore (annualized 7.10%) respectively, covering the entire range of services. S A Ramesh Rangan, Managing Director and Devendra Kumar, General Manager,
The Sports Journalists’ Association of Mumbai (SJAM) named cricket legend Sunil Manohar Gavaskar for it’s Lifetime Achievement award . The award will be presented at the golden jubilee celebrations of SJAM on December 11, 2016 in Mumbai. The SJAM’s first Lifetime Achievement award was presented to badminton legend Nandu Natekar in September 2013.
The Milan city council bestowed honorary citizenship on His Holiness the Dalai Lama despite strong objections from Chinese government.The Nobel Peace Prize laureate accepted the honor inside a theater at the University of Milan-Bicocca campus before an audience of mostly students. The Chairman of the Council of Milan, Lamberto Bertole, honoured the Dalai Lama with the Milan Honorary Citizenship
SPORT-DAILY--NATIONAL-INTERNATIONAL-NEWS-IN-ENGLISH-22-10-2016
FIFA committee ratified the D.Y. Patil Stadium in Mumbai as a venue for the U-17 World Cup, to be hosted by India next year. Navi Mumbai became the second venue to be approved after Kochi got the green light to host next year’s marquee youth tournament.Mumbai Stadium Selected for World
Barcelona: Brazilian superstar Neymar signed a new five-year contract with Barcelona on Friday that will keep him at the Spanish champions until 2021, saying he felt "at home" at the Camp Nou. The deal, which was agreed in June, includes a buy-out clause of up to 250 million euros (USD 272 million) as Barca seek to ward off interest from potential suitors across Europe. Manchester United were
Indians finish on Podium at IWF World Weightlifting c’ships. India created history at the IWF Youth (Boys & Girls) World Weightlifting Championships at Penang, Malaysia, bagging a silver and a bronze medal in the 56kg weight category. Jeremy Lalrinnunga finished second with a lift of 108kg in snatch and 127kg in clean & jerk for a total effort of 235kgs. Muthupandi Raja clinched the bronze with an
ENVIRONMENT-DAILY-
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We all hear about how the glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice, and so threatening to raise our sea levels -- perhaps quite dramatically. But mountain ranges across the globe are also strewn with far smaller glaciers that are suffering perhaps an even bigger wallop from rising temperatures -- and now, new research suggests their retreat could, quite literally, be deadly in some cases to
NEW DELHI: The Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), a Supreme Court-appointed pollution watchdog, on Friday launched a mobile app "Hawa Badlo", aiming to improve air quality with public participation. Jointly developed by EPCA, Delhi's municipal corporations and concerned departments from Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana, the app provides a public platform to report the
BUSINESS-DAILY-
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In a setback to incumbent mobile operators, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has proposed a penalty of about Rs 3,050 crore on three telcos — Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular — for failing to provide sufficient interconnect points to Reliance Jio, leading to massive call failures.In a letter to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) secretary, Trai has recommended a penalty of
HCL Technologies announced to acquire Butler America Aerospace for USD 85 million to strengthening its position in the aerospace and defence engineering services space. Butler Aerospace provides engineering, design services and after market engineering services to US aerospace and defence customers.HCL Tech CEO Anant Gupta quits, C Vijayakumar to succeed. HCL Technologies CEO
Infrastructure major Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has signed MoU with the Maharashtra government for Nagpur smart city project .To laying of 1,200 km of optical fibre network backbone. To create 136 city wifi hotspots at key locations, establishing 100 digital interactive kiosks and developing city surveillance systems with 3800 IP-based cameras. The city also has identified a strip of approximately
STATE -DAILY-
NATIONAL-INTERNATIONAL-NEWS-IN-ENGLISH-22-10-2016
Petro-chemical complex would be set up in Andhra Pradesh with an investment of Rs 35,000 crore during this financial year, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan addressing a public meeting at Vangali near after Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu laid the foundation stone for Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE). Though the UPA government mentioned a
SUMMIT-DAILY--NATIONAL-INTERNATIONAL-NEWS-IN-ENGLISH-22-10-2016
The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a Global Conference on ‘National Initiative towards strengthening Arbitration and Enforcement in India’ in New Delhi today (October 21, 2016).Speaking on the occasion, the President said that while India has the basic legal and physical infrastructure to support international arbitrations, we need basic institutional reforms to strengthen our
A major conference on the future of the world’s cities and towns, known as Habitat III, has wrapped up in Quito, Ecuador, with delegations adopting a new framework that will set the world on a course towards sustainable urban development by rethinking how cities are planned, managed and inhabited.Conference has drawn around 36,000 people from 167 different countries to the lush
The first ever Global Conference to Strengthen Arbitration and Enforcement in India gets underway in New Delhi. The three daylong conference titled, “National Initiative On Strengthening Arbitration And Enforcement In India” was launched by the Government and Judiciary as a major initiative to change the face of dispute resolution in India. NITI Aayog, Ministry of Law & Justice, DIPP, National Legal
SURVEY AND
REPORT-DAILY-NATIONAL-INTERNATIONAL-NEWS-IN-ENGLISH-22-10-2016
According to New World Wealth, India’s financial hub Mumbai has been named among top 15 cities globally in terms of total wealth held, while London topped the list. Total wealth held worldwide amounts to $185 trillion (as of June 2016). Globally, there are 13,300,000 millionaires and 1,940 billionaires in total .Top 10 Cities in the World :
PASSES AWAY-DAILY-
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Former WWE manager and wrestler Jean "Frenchy Martin" Gagne passed away this morning after a battle with cancer, according to PWInsider. He was 66 years old. The Montreal Journal reported in early September that Martin had been moved to hospice care and was only expected to live a few more weeks. He told The Journal: "I led an extraordinary life. I am proud to have succeeded in the world of
COMMITTEE-DAILY-
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Hyderabad: Unhappy with the verdict given by Brijesh Kumar Tribunal on Krishna waters, the Telangana Cabinet on Friday constituted a sub-committee headed by Irrigation Minister T Harish Rao to study the implications of the verdict and prepare an action plan. The sub-committee will have ministers Tummala Nageshwara Rao, Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, Jupally Krishna Rao and Jagadishwar Reddy as
AGREEMENT-
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The Indo-Italian Joint Committee established under the Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement re-launch cooperation in the sectors of science, technology and innovation. The original agreement was signed between Italy and India in 2003.The Indian delegation led by Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Science and Technology, Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, while the
India on 21 October 2016 signed a 650-million US dollar loan agreement with the World Bank for the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor-III (EDFC-III) Project. The project will benefit industries of Northern and Eastern India, which rely on railway network for transportation of material inputs and exports. These industries also depend on railway network for transportation for the distribution of bulk
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