SpaceX on 18 July 2016 launched its unmanned Dragon cargo
capsule to the International Space Station, carrying a key piece of equipment
that was lost in 2015 due to rocket explosion. The launch to the ISS is a
resupply mission for NASA. Dragon spaceship was packed with nearly 23000
kilograms of gear, including science experiments and equipment for the
astronauts living in space. After blasting off from Cape Canaveral,
OAKLAND, CA – Nate Thurmond, voted one of the 50 Greatest
Players in NBA history and a member of the Warriors organization for more than
four decades as both a player and a Community Relations Ambassador, passed away
this morning in San Francisco at the age of 74 after a short battle with
leukemia. Considered one of the best centers to ever play the game of
basketball, Thurmond was inducted into the
Tamil Nadu government on Monday launched the free bus pass
scheme for school and college students for the year 2016-17, with Chief
Minister J Jayalalithaa giving away smart cards to five beneficiaries. The
government scheme, aimed at benefiting students from poor backgrounds, covered
28.05 lakh students in 2015-16, an official release said.This year, 31.11 lakh
students will be provided free smart card bus passes
BEIJING: A seven-year-old giant panda has given birth to a
cub through natural mating at a breeding centre in China for the endangered
species, becoming the first to be born this way in the country this year. The
giant panda gave birth to a cub on Saturday at China Conservation and Research
Centre for Giant Pandas (CCRCGP). eepers do not know which male fathered the
cub, or the gender of the new addition. This is the
New Delhi: Government is expected to cross the Rajya Sabha
hurdle in getting the crucial Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill passed during
monsoon session, but the other important bill that has been on the Prime
Minister's priority list - the Compensatory Afforestation Fund (CAF) bill -
looks set to get stuck as the Congress decides to move an amendment to it in
the Upper House. The bill, passed in the Lok Sabha in
Senior Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leader and nominated Rajya
Sabha MP Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned from the Upper House on Monday. The
former Indian cricketer was asked to make way for Arun Jaitley to fight from
his constituency Amritsar during the 2014 General Elections. He was recently
appointed as Rajya Sabha MP. Sources close to Sidhu have told Indian Express that
he might be joining the Aam Aadmi Party.
This is the first time that any country got three sites
inscribed in the Word Heritage List at a single session of the committee
meeting, a Culture Ministry official said.UNESCO has listed Chandigarh's
Capitol Complex and Sikkim's national park, home to the world's third highest
peak Mount Khangchendzonga, among its World Heritage Sites, approving all three
nominations linked to India this session. Approval of the two sites
MUMBAI/ITANAGAR, Jul 17: Ace mountaineer Anshu Jamsenpa
emphasized on the need to exchange ideas, discuss newer techniques and interact
with fellow mountaineers on various adventure and mountaineering issues. Attending
the 15th Girimitra Sammelan 2016 at Mumbai, Anshu opined that Government of
India should formulate mountaineering policy on the lines of neighboring
country Nepal, citing
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh government has so far distributed
interest-free loan of Rs 924 crore to nearly 3.5 lakh farmers of the state for
the upcoming Kharif crop season. "Keeping in view the possibility of early
monsoon, the state government has begun distributing interest-free agriculture
loans to farmers for the coming Kharif season," Chhattisgarh State
Cooperative Bank (Apex Bank) chairman Ashok Bajaj said today.
India have beaten South Korea 4-1 in the Davis Cup Asia
Oceanic Group 1 tie in Chandigarh to move into the World Group Playoffs next
year. After taking a 3 nil lead on saturday, the last reverse singles match saw
a change in fortune for the visitors. Ramkumar Ramanathan failed to get going
in the final dead rubber and against Seong Chan Hong to lose the final set in
the tie-breaker. Seong helped South Korea get a point in the
Glamorgan teenager Aneurin Donald equalled Ravi Shastri's
record for the fastest double-century in first-class cricket with a stunning
innings against Derbyshire on Sunday. Donald's knock included 15 sixes, with
his 200 from just 123 balls equalling the mark set by former India
international Shastri in his home country in
Dipika Pallikal upstaged first seed Joshna Chinappa in four
set games to win Her second national title. econd seed Dipika beat Joshna in
the final of 73rd National Championship, held in Mumbai on Sunday.
Dipika, ranked 19th on the Women's PSA circuit and five years junior to
her city rival, has re-entered the scene after
India's first multi-city marathon 'The Great India Run' was
flagged off by Sports Minister Vijay Goel, Union Minister of State for Home
Kiren Rijiju and former World Championship bronze medallist Anju Bobby George
at the India Gate here today. According to reports, the 1,480 kilometres long
ultra-marathon will feature 15 of the best ultra marathoners from Asia, Africa,
US and Europe in its inaugural edition. Rijiju said
Bengaluru: A six-year-old boy in Bengaluru on Sunday set a
new Guinness World Record in limbo-skating. The kid, Om Prakash Gowda, held his
body parallel to the ground and skated under 35 cars in a row, covering a
distance of 65 meters with his face just inches off the ground. Gowda smashed
the previous Guinness record of 48.21 metres made in 2012. "So today, the
new record that has been set by Om
London: A heroic British military dog who is said to have
saved a thousand lives by sniffing out hidden explosives in warzones around the
world has been honorned with a memorial. Buster, an arms and explosive search
dog with the Royal Air Force, completed five tours of duty in Afghanistan,
Bosnia and Iraq and saved countless lives by searching out improvised explosive
devices. The springer spaniel retired in 2012 and died
New Delhi: The Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi, on June 29 cleared the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission. A K
Mathur panel had recommended overall 23.55 percent hike - basic pay plus
allowances - for Central government employees and pensioners. Although,
the government has accepted the suggestion about hike of 14.27 percent in the
basic pay, suggestions relating to
The Nirbhaya case will come up for hearing in the Supreme
Court on Monday during which the apex Court will hear the appeals filed by the
four rapists who have been sentenced to death. The convicts have
challenged their sentence in the Supreme court, which has allotted two extra
hours to hear the case. All four accused had been given the death sentence by a
trial court, which was upheld by the Delhi High Court in
The Central Information Commission has issued fresh notices
naming top leaders of six national parties asking them to appear before it in
cases filed by activists for not responding to RTI queries. The named notices
were issued after one of the complainants R K Jain alleged that Registrar of
CIC had adopted double standards in handling his complaints against the six
national political parties - BJP, Congress, BSP, NCP,
Scientists have developed a new robot - with human sized feet
laced up in a pair of sneakers - that closely imitates the walking motion of
humans, making it more energy-efficient and better at navigating uneven
terrain. The bipedal robot steps with a heel-toe motion that copies human
locomotion more closely than flat-footed robot walkers can, according to
Christian Hubicki, a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of
BHOPAL: Three indigenously-developed 155 mm 'Dhanush'
artillery guns have been handed over to the Indian Army by the Jabalpur-based
Gun Carriage Factory (GCF). "Three 155 mm howitzers (Dhanush) have been
handed over to the army recently for user's trial," GCF's Joint General
Manager and PRO Sanjay Shrivastava said. GCF is an ordnance factory, which
received its first order of 500 transport carts in 1905.
Turkish musician Kudsi Erguner was on 10 July 2106 appointed
as the UNESCO Artist for Peace by the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova.
Erguner was appointed for the post at a ceremony held at the Congress Center in
Istanbul (Turkey) after the opening ceremony of the 40th session of the World
Heritage Committee, which ends on 20 July 2016.
18 July: Nelson Mandela International Day. Nelson Mandela
International Day was observed across the world on 18 July 2016 to honour the
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela (1918-2013). The day is aimed at
inspiring individuals to take action to help change the world for the better.
The Day was celebrated for the first time on 18 July 2010 as per a UN General
Assembly resolution of November 2009.
The Union Commerce Ministry has launched an e-marketplace
portal for online purchase of goods and services by various central government
ministries and departments. It was launched by the Union Minister of State
(MoS) Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi. Key Facts The
e-marketplace portal has been developed by the Directorate General of Supplies
and Disposals (DGS&D). The e-
NEW DELHI: National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed RTO
DELHI to de-register all diesel vehicles which are more than ten years old. The
order is meant to be implemented immediately. This comes at a time when Supreme
Court has reserved its order on a petition by automaker against the 7-month old
ban on diesel vehicles above 2000cc. The automakers in their petition had asked
for big diesel vehicles to be
ISTANBUL: The World Heritage Committee on Sunday evening
agreed to put 12 new sites on the World Heritage List before ending its 40th
session in Turkey's Istanbul city. With nine others already approved on Friday,
the session has placed a total of 21 out of 27 nominations for this year on the
prestigious list, Xinhua news agency reported.
PANAJI: Taking cognizance of the likely impact of Mormugao
Port Trust's (MPT) capital dredging on benthic (the ecological region at the
lowest level of an ocean or a lake) biodiversity that sustains pelagic (open
sea) and demersal (living close to the floor of the sea) fish, a committee
appointed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has suggested an assessment of
the damage after the process of dredging is complete.
Ministry of Railways, Railway Board has initiated a proposal
to install TRI-NETRA systems on locomotives for enhancing the vision of
Locomotive Pilots in inclement weather. TRI-NETRA stands for - Terrain imaging
for diesel dRivers INfra-red, Enhanced opTical &Radar Assisted system.
TRI-NETRA system shall be made up of high-resolution optical video camera, high
sensitivity infra-red video camera and additionally a
HYDERABAD: India's first e-court was on Sunday opened at
High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad, which is the common high court for the
states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Inaugurating the e-court, Supreme Court
judge Justice Madan B Lokur said Telangana and Andhra Pradesh were first two
states in the country to be chosen for Integrated Criminal Justice System
(ICJS) project. While noting that the two
The States like Maharashtra and Gujarat having more than one
cricket association will have voting rights on rotational basis. The Supreme
Court on Monday accepted major recommendations of the Lodha committee on
administrative changes in the the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
States like Maharashtra and Gujarat having more than one cricket association
would have voting rights on rotational basis, the court
New Delhi, July 17 (ANI): In a bid to reduce paper work in
the day-to-day functioning of Parliament, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on
Sunday launched an e-portal for the members that will enable them to interact
with various branches of the secretariat online. Speaking on the occasion,
Mahajan said by reducing the use of paper, the government is not only
preserving the environment but also saving money. She said the
New York, July 16 (Just Earth News): The responsibility for
finding solutions to the problems affecting young people – such as unemployment,
low representation in political processes, and social exclusion – lies largely
with Governments, according to a United Nations report on youth engagement
released on Friday. The World Youth Report on Youth Civic Engagement, compiled
by the UN Department of Economic and
The new sites added to the list – designated by the World
Heritage Committee of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) as being of special cultural or physical significance – include the
transnational serial site of the Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an
Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement, along with the Antigua Naval
Dockyard and Related Archaeological Sites in Antigua
The win also saw Vijender climb to 15th in the world in his
category. A packed Thyagraj Stadium got more than it had bargained for as
Vijender Singh became the WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight champion with a
convincing win over Australian Kerry Hope here on Saturday even as pro boxing
made a rousing start in the country. Vijender remained unbeaten, this time by
unanimous decision, even though his reputation as
Cuttack, July 17 (IBNS): Manipur proved to be too strong for
Haryana in the final of the Junior National Football Championship for girls as
they overpowered their counterparts by an unassailable margin of 4-1. Ratanbala
Devi scored on the either side of the break and Hemolata Devi nailed a
second-half brace for the Highlanders whereas Renu scored the solitary goal for
Haryana. Sudam Marndi, Minister of Sports & Y.S,
Chennai-based Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd (NLC), a
Navratna public sector undertaking (PSU), has evinced interest in establishing
a 300-Mw solar power plant in Odisha's Balasore district. The cost of setting
up the plant is not known though creating 1 Mw solar capacity entails an
investment of Rs 7-8 crore. "The exact location of the proposed solar
power plant is yet to be firmed up. Neyveli Lignite is keen on setting up
Mahindra Aerostructures, a subsidiary of Mahindra &
Mahindra is the 1st Indian company to receive a contract from European
aviation major Airbus HelicoptersAirbus Helicopters as Tier I supplier.
Airbus Helicopters has entered into an agreement with Mahindra Aerostructures
for the production of airframe parts for the AS565 MBe Panther. This agreement
is a part of a long term ‘Make in India’ partnership .
Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and French firm Safran
Helicopter Engines have agreed to establish a support centre in India for
national and international rotorcraft customers. The centre will provide
maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for Safran TM333 and HAL Shakti
engines that power HAL-built helicopters. Safran and HAL will provide their
customers with a first-class service including
The country’s first of its kind industrial park, exclusively
for women entrepreneurs, was launched today by Uttarakhand Chief Minister
Harish Rawat at the Federation House. to attract women to business and encourage
them to initiate start-ups in the state.The event was organized by FICCI Ladies
Organisation (FLO) . The park will be located in Uttarakhand’s Sitarganj
district and will be spread over 200 acres. A
To ensure smokeless kitchens across rural India, 14.13 lakh
LPG connections have been released to women of BPL families under the Pradhan
Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY). The scheme is currently under operation in 487
districts of 17 states. India is home to more than 24 Crore households out of
which about 10 Crore households are still deprived of LPG as cooking fuel and
have to rely on firewood, coal, dung –
Two bullet trains in China gave the world a first of
its kind visually stunning sight. Running at world record speeds in opposite
directions, the trains crossed each other on parallel tracks. This achievement
in the high-speed rail has added another feat in China’s long list. The two
trains”Golden Phoenix” and “Dolphin Blue” pass each other on the railway line
between Zhengzhou in central China’s Henan Province and Xuzhou in
Till now Bangalore was the silicon valley of India, where
people who set up their startups and work towards achieving their goal. But
lately, another city from Kerala has been catching up in this respect., the
Startup Village in Kochi has launched a digital incubator for students startups
– Start In College, making it the first of its kind in the entire world.
This has been the vision of the Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Kris
Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari reached
Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.He was received by Head of Presidential
Admin, Mongolia at the airport. Vice-President Ansari is leading the India
delegation for two-day 11th Asia Europe Meeting- ASEM-Summit . The ASEM summit
is a unique platform to bridge the two continents for constructive partnership
and exchange through political dialogue, economic
The great Sir Garfield Sobers received a special presentation
ahead of the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) between Barbados Tridents and
Trinbago Knight Riders at the Kensington Oval on Saturday morning. One of the
game’s greatest players, whose influence and legacy extends across the
Caribbean and beyond, Sir Garry will celebrate his 80th birthday later this
month and to mark this milestone, Hero CPL
Pema Khandu was sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Arunachal
Pradesh at Raj Bhawan in Itanagar on 17 July 2016. Governor Tataghata Roy
administered the Oath of Office and Secrecy to him. Chowna Mein was also
sworn-in as the Deputy Chief Minister. With this, Khandu, 37, also became the
youngest chief minister of the country. He has replaced Nabam Tuki, who
resigned from the post after stepping down as leader of
Yatra Online, Inc. and Terrapin 3 Acquisition Corporation on
14 July 2016 entered into a definitive merger agreement. The transaction values
Yatra at an enterprise value of 218 million dollars (1458 crore rupees). Yatra
in its statement said that it intends to be listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market
under the symbol "YTRA" following completion of the transaction. The
combined company will continue to be led by Yatra's
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