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The first cargo truck under the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) Motor Vehicle Agreement for cross border movement reached Delhi recently.
The BBIN agreement was signed on June 15 last year in Thimphu, Bhutan to facilitate cross border movement of both passengers and cargo vehicles. Protocols to implement the agreement are being negotiated by the four countries for passengers and cargo vehicles separately.
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The first cargo truck under the Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) Motor Vehicle Agreement for cross border movement reached Delhi recently.
The BBIN agreement was signed on June 15 last year in Thimphu, Bhutan to facilitate cross border movement of both passengers and cargo vehicles. Protocols to implement the agreement are being negotiated by the four countries for passengers and cargo vehicles separately.
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India, the world’s third largest steel producer, too is facing a spate of cheap imports from China, Japan and Korea.
Steel sector in India accounts for the highest number of NPAs with the banks.
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India, the world’s third largest steel producer, too is facing a spate of cheap imports from China, Japan and Korea.
Steel sector in India accounts for the highest number of NPAs with the banks.
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TIHAYU: It is a Water Jet Fast Attack Craft (WJFAC). It was built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE), Kolkata. It was handed over to the Indian Navy recently. The craft has an endurance of around 2000 nautical miles at 12-14 knots speed and also boasts of modern habitability conditions with accommodation for 29 personnel. It is named after an island in the Andaman, “Tihayu”.
QS World University Rankings 2016-17: According to this, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in US is the world’s best university. MIT has occupied first place for the fifth consecutive year. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, remained India’s highest-ranked institution with 152nd rank overall.
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TIHAYU: It is a Water Jet Fast Attack Craft (WJFAC). It was built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE), Kolkata. It was handed over to the Indian Navy recently. The craft has an endurance of around 2000 nautical miles at 12-14 knots speed and also boasts of modern habitability conditions with accommodation for 29 personnel. It is named after an island in the Andaman, “Tihayu”.
QS World University Rankings 2016-17: According to this, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in US is the world’s best university. MIT has occupied first place for the fifth consecutive year. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, remained India’s highest-ranked institution with 152nd rank overall.
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Totaliser machines- Enhancing principle of ballot secrecy
Totaliser machine mixes votes from various booths before counting. As per the ECI’s suggestion, the results of votes polled in a group of 14 EVMs (hence, in 14 polling stations) would be calculated and announced together. Thus, there will be an overall, not booth-wise result after polling.
The totaliser is expected to prevent disclosure of voting patterns across polling stations, thus furthering a level of secrecy in voting.
This will allay the fears of voters against any pre-poll intimidation or post-poll reprisal by any candidate or political party.
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Totaliser machines- Enhancing principle of ballot secrecy
Totaliser machine mixes votes from various booths before counting. As per the ECI’s suggestion, the results of votes polled in a group of 14 EVMs (hence, in 14 polling stations) would be calculated and announced together. Thus, there will be an overall, not booth-wise result after polling.
The totaliser is expected to prevent disclosure of voting patterns across polling stations, thus furthering a level of secrecy in voting.
This will allay the fears of voters against any pre-poll intimidation or post-poll reprisal by any candidate or political party.
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What is a PTA?
A preferential trade agreement is a trading bloc that gives preferential access to certain products from the participating countries. This is done by reducing tariffs but not by abolishing them completely.
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What is a PTA?
A preferential trade agreement is a trading bloc that gives preferential access to certain products from the participating countries. This is done by reducing tariffs but not by abolishing them completely.
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The Leprosy Case Detection Campaign is a unique initiative of its kind in the world where each and every member of the targeted population will be examined by the search team constituted of one male and one female volunteer at household level.
House to house visits will be done by the search team as per the micro plan prepared for the local area to detect hidden and undetected leprosy cases.
The objective of the campaign is the early detection of leprosy in affected persons so that they can be saved from physical disability and deformity by providing them timely treatment and thus also halting the transmission of disease at the community level.
The first LCDC was launched during March-April 2016 in 50 districts of 7 states covering a population of about 6.8 crores. During this campaign 65427 suspected cases were identified out of which 4120 were later confirmed.
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The Leprosy Case Detection Campaign is a unique initiative of its kind in the world where each and every member of the targeted population will be examined by the search team constituted of one male and one female volunteer at household level.
House to house visits will be done by the search team as per the micro plan prepared for the local area to detect hidden and undetected leprosy cases.
The objective of the campaign is the early detection of leprosy in affected persons so that they can be saved from physical disability and deformity by providing them timely treatment and thus also halting the transmission of disease at the community level.
The first LCDC was launched during March-April 2016 in 50 districts of 7 states covering a population of about 6.8 crores. During this campaign 65427 suspected cases were identified out of which 4120 were later confirmed.
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Gas4India campaign
The center has launched Gas4India campaign, aimed at promoting the use of gas in the country.
What is it?
Gas4India is a unified cross-country, multimedia, multi-event campaign to communicate the national, social, economic and ecological benefits of using natural gas as the fuel of choice to every citizen who uses, or will use in the near future, gas in any way- cook, travel, light their homes, and power their business.
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Gas4India campaign
The center has launched Gas4India campaign, aimed at promoting the use of gas in the country.
What is it?
Gas4India is a unified cross-country, multimedia, multi-event campaign to communicate the national, social, economic and ecological benefits of using natural gas as the fuel of choice to every citizen who uses, or will use in the near future, gas in any way- cook, travel, light their homes, and power their business.
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महाराष्ट्र सरकारचे लोकराज्य मासिक गुजरातीतून पुन्हा सुरू होणार आहे.
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Govt approves 6 start-up centres
The Central government has approved six proposals to set up centres of excellence to promote and fund start-ups under the National Initiative for Development and Harnessing Innovation (NIDHI), a programme steered by the Department of Science and Technology.
The government has earmarked ₹500 crore to scale up the start-up eco system, under which seed funding of up to ₹10 lakh will be given to develop a prototype and access fabrication facilities in incubators.
About NIDHI:
NIDHI (National Initiative for Development and Harnessing Innovations), an umbrella program is pioneered by the Department of Science & Technology(DST) for nurturing ideas and innovations (knowledge-based and technology-driven) into successful startups.
NIDHI focuses on building a seamless and innovation driven entrepreneurial ecosystem especially by channelizing youth towards it and thereby bringing in the positive impact on the socio-economic development of the country.
The program aims to provide technological solutions not only to the pressing needs of the society but also targets to create new avenues for wealth and job creation.
NIDHI, by design connects and strengthens all the links of the innovation chain from scouting to sustaining to securing to scaling to showcasing, because a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
The key stakeholders of NIDHI includes various departments and ministries of the central government, state governments, academic and R & D institutions, mentors, financial institutions, angel investors, venture capitalists, industry champions and private sectors.
NIDHI strongly addresses the new national aspirations by massively scaling up DST’s experience of three decades in promoting innovative startups.
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Govt approves 6 start-up centres
The Central government has approved six proposals to set up centres of excellence to promote and fund start-ups under the National Initiative for Development and Harnessing Innovation (NIDHI), a programme steered by the Department of Science and Technology.
The government has earmarked ₹500 crore to scale up the start-up eco system, under which seed funding of up to ₹10 lakh will be given to develop a prototype and access fabrication facilities in incubators.
About NIDHI:
NIDHI (National Initiative for Development and Harnessing Innovations), an umbrella program is pioneered by the Department of Science & Technology(DST) for nurturing ideas and innovations (knowledge-based and technology-driven) into successful startups.
NIDHI focuses on building a seamless and innovation driven entrepreneurial ecosystem especially by channelizing youth towards it and thereby bringing in the positive impact on the socio-economic development of the country.
The program aims to provide technological solutions not only to the pressing needs of the society but also targets to create new avenues for wealth and job creation.
NIDHI, by design connects and strengthens all the links of the innovation chain from scouting to sustaining to securing to scaling to showcasing, because a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
The key stakeholders of NIDHI includes various departments and ministries of the central government, state governments, academic and R & D institutions, mentors, financial institutions, angel investors, venture capitalists, industry champions and private sectors.
NIDHI strongly addresses the new national aspirations by massively scaling up DST’s experience of three decades in promoting innovative startups.
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Common Services Centers (CSCs) are a strategic cornerstone of the Digital India programme. They are the access points for delivery of various electronic services to villages in India, thereby contributing to a digitally and financially inclusive society.
CSCs enable the three vision areas of the Digital India programme:
Digital infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen.
Governance and services on demand.
Digital empowerment of citizens.
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Common Services Centers (CSCs) are a strategic cornerstone of the Digital India programme. They are the access points for delivery of various electronic services to villages in India, thereby contributing to a digitally and financially inclusive society.
CSCs enable the three vision areas of the Digital India programme:
Digital infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen.
Governance and services on demand.
Digital empowerment of citizens.
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