Vietnam begins dredging on South China Sea reef Vietnam has begun dredging work on a disputed reef in the South China Sea, satellite imagery shows, the latest move by the Communist state to bolster its claims in the strategic waterway. Vietnam has emerged as China's main rival in the South China Sea, actively asserting sovereignty over both the Paracel and the Spratly groupings in their
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Showing posts with label INTERNATIONAL current affairs. Show all posts
Friday, 9 December 2016
Sunday, 4 December 2016
Emirates launched world’s shortest service on largest plane Airbus A380
Emirates launched world’s shortest service on largest plane Airbus A380 Emirates on December 1, 2016, launched the world’s shortest scheduled service on an Airbus A380, flying it from Dubai to Doha within 80 minutes and 70 minutes in return journey. The A380 flight landed at Hamad International Airport in Doha covering a total of 379 km route, the shortest on which the world’s largest passenger
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Arunachal Pradesh and Thailand signs MoU to promote cooperation and collaboration.
Arunachal Pradesh and Thailand signs MoU to promote cooperation and collaboration.
Arunachal Pradesh and Thailand signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on November 29, 2016 for promoting cooperation and collaboration between the states. The MoU was signed between Surindra Rajabhat University Regional Development Strategies (SRRURDS) Foundation of Surin
Wednesday, 27 July 2016
India - US to collaborate for first time in R&D in traditional systems of medicine for various diseases
The Ministry of AYUSH is mandated to promote and propagate AYUSH systems of medicine across the globe. To achieve the objective, the Ministry of AYUSH signs Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) for ‘Country to Country’ cooperation in the field of Traditional Medicines; sets up AYUSH Academic Chairs in foreign Universities/ Educational Institutes; establishes AYUSH Information Cells in the premises of the
Monday, 18 July 2016
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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,
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Nigel Farage quits as UKIP leader
Britain’s main pro-Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage on Monday resigned as head of the far-right, anti- immigrant UK Independence Party (UKIP) saying he “couldn’t possibly achieve more”, just two weeks after Britons voted to leave the European Union (EU). Mr. Farage (52) said he felt he had done all he could to achieve a vote for the United Kingdom to leave the EU in a referendum on June 23 and now he
China plans $9 billion loan for Bangladesh
The upgrade was part of USD 30 billion plan by Bangladesh to modernise its railway system and China is ready to play an active role in this regard, an article in the state-run Global Times said. China plans to provide Bangladesh with a whopping USD nine billion low-interest loan to build six rail projects including one close to the Indian border, official media here reported on Tuesday. Bangladesh wants to
Monday, 4 July 2016
BRICS' meeting on energy efficiency begins
BRICS nations will chalk out a plan for enhancing cooperation in energy efficiency when they meet at Visakhapatnam for a two-day deliberation. India, a member of BRICS, will also showcase its efforts in energy saving, energy efficiency, particularly the LED street lighting programme and PAT (Performance Achievement & Trade) programme for industrial energy efficiency. "The first meeting of
Sunday, 3 July 2016
RIMPAC 2016: World’s largest international maritime exercise kicks off
The multinational exercise Rim of the Pacific Southern California 2016 has kicked off, occurring in and around Southern California through Aug. 4. RIMPAC SOCAL, helmed for the first time by Naval Surface Mine Warfare Development Center (SMWDC), allows U.S. and partner nation participants to train together with sea and shore based commands. Participants will receive relevant and realistic
Friday, 1 July 2016
Iceland named world’s safest vacation spot
Iceland has been named as the world’s safest vacation spot. Based on the recently released Global Peace Index (GPI) ranking, the Institute for Economics and Peace charted the world’s safest destinations. Iceland also called the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic island country situated between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean. The country has a population of 332,529 and covers an area of
UN rights council creates role of expert to protect LGBT people, India abstains
While the predominantly Muslim countries rejected the resolution, countries like India, South Africa and the Philippines abstained from backing it. The UN Human Rights Council agreed on Thursday to appoint an independent investigator to help protect homosexuals and transgender people worldwide from violence and discrimination. After a heated debate lasting almost four hours, the 47-member state
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
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Dadasaheb Phalke awardee and senior music-biz journalist Chaitanya D Padukone today on the birth anniversary of music maestro R D Burman launched a book on the interesting anecdotes never known before about the legend. ‘R D BurMania’–PanchaMemoirs’, is a book nothing less than a goldmine for the legion of ardent Pancham Da across the globe as it contains loads of information and never known
Sachin Tendulkar, lone Indian in McCullum's all-time XI
LONDON: Batting icon Sachin Tendulkar is the lone Indian to find a place in former New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum's list of all-time cricketing XI with West Indian legend Vivian Richards as the captain. McCullum's team comprises four Australians in Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne and Mitchell Johnson, three West Indians in Vivian Richards, Brian Lara and Chris Gayle, two
Indian buffalo meat not competitive to US beef exports: Report
WASHINGTON: India, one of the largest exporters of beef, is unlikely to pose a challenge to the export of American beef due to the poor quality of its buffalo meat and lack of animal health regulations, an official report has said. "So far, it appears that Indian water buffalo meat exports, although relatively low cost, are mostly non- competitive with US beef exports, primarily due to quality preferences and
Russia's Sistema to acquire 17 per cent of its subsidiary in India
NEW DELHI: Russian oil-to-telecom conglomerate Sistema JSFC will acquire 17.14% in Sistema Shyam Tele-Services Ltd (SSTL) from the Russian government. "Under the agreement, payment for the shares will be made to the Russian federal budget in instalments over a period of five years as follows: 30% in 2016, 25% in 2017 and 15% in each of 2018, 2019 and 2020," the company said on
Taiwan 'to test-fire missiles in US' as China tensions rise
TAIPEI: Taiwan plans to test-fire its newest anti-missile system for the first time in the United States next month as relations with rival China deteriorate, a defence source and media reports said Monday. Relations between China and Taiwan have cooled rapidly under the island's new Beijing-sceptic president Tsai Ing-wen, who took office in May, ending an eight-year rapprochement. The test of the
Chinese building materials park in Andhra Pradesh at $6.4 billion
HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh has announced signing one of the largest memoranda of understanding with China's Association of Small and Medium Enterprises for a building materials and logistics industrial park spread over 10,000 acres, involving $6.4 billion (approximately Rs 36,889 crores) in three phases. The memorandum of understanding was signed by a team of delegation led by AP chief
Monday, 27 June 2016
India among Asia's least exposed to Brexit: Morgan Stanley
India's economy will be among the least impacted in Asia by the UK's vote to exit the European Union given its relatively low exposure to trade, according to Morgan Stanley. "Increased uncertainty in the external environment due to UK's vote should add to downward pressures on growth and inflation in the region," Morgan Stanley economists including Chetan Ahya in Hong Kong wrote in a report. "Hong
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Government
decides to bring the provisions of amended RBI Act regarding constitution of
MPC into force on 27th June, 2016 so that statutory basis of MPC is made
effective; Rules governing the procedure for Selection of Members of
Monetary Policy Committeeand Terms and Conditions of their Appointment and
factors constituting failure to meet inflation target under the MPC Framework
notified
Saturday, 25 June 2016
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Pune, June 25 : : Prime
Minister Narendra Modi will launch 'Smart City' projects, one of the flagship
programmes of the NDA Government, at a special function at the Shiv Chhatrapati
Sports Complex in Pune on Saturday, reports said. The Smart City project is
part of the Governments integrated urban planning and development in the
country, The Prime Minister will launch 14 projects for Pune, along
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