Month: June 2017

Arun Jaitley to chair the 17th GST Council Meeting

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The Union Minister for Finance, Defence and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitley will chair the 17th Meeting of the GST Council scheduled to be held on Sunday, 18th June, 2017 at Vigyan Bhavan in the national capital. The one day Meeting will also be attended among others by the Finance Ministers of different States and UTs (having elected assembly) as they are also the members of the GST Council.   The main agenda items of the 17th GST Council Meeting include confirmation of the minutes of the 16th GST Council…

NBCC employees contributes to ‘Bharat Ke Veer Corpus’

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The Union Minister for Urban Development, Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation and Information & Broadcasting, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu handed over a cheque of Rs. 1 crore to the Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh, for contribution to ‘Bharat Ke Veer Corpus’ on behalf of NBCC (India) Ltd.   The contribution has been made by the employees of NBCC (India) Limited, from their Performance Related Pay for the FY- 2015-16, for the welfare of the family members of the Armed forces and paramilitary forces who have sacrificed their lives for…

SAP India launches ‘code unnati’ with ITC and L&T Public Charitable Trust

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With an aim to strengthen the Government of India’s Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyaan (PMGDSA) to enable employability through digital literacy, SAP has launched ‘code unnati’, a multi-year, collaborative digital literacy and software skills development initiative along with ITC and Larsen & Toubro Public Charitable Trust. Under the project, SAP partners with 6 diverse non-profit organizations to impart digital literacy to children, adolescents, the differently-abled and other citizens and drive employment-led software skills development for the underprivileged. This initiative envisions to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals of –…

Implementation of GST e-way bill postponed by few months – Centre

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The centre suggested that the “implementation of the ‘e-way bill’ system could be postponed by a few month. The ‘e-way bill’ requires movement of goods above Rs 50, 000 to be pre-registered online, on the GSTN website. The GST Council headed by finance minister Arun Jaitley along with representatives from the states had sat in April come out with the draft e-way bill rules.   The GST Council agreed to rope in the National Informatics Centre (NIC) to work along with the GST-Network (GSTN) to assess if an all India…

Portea Medical expands digital health initiatives with new project

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Portea Medical has expanded its digital health initiatives with the launch of a project in collaboration with patient engagement solution, Physitrack.   Under the initiative, Portea Medical’s physiotherapy patients around India can access customized video-based exercise programs prescribed by Portea physiotherapists, educational content, clinical questionnaires, as well as consult with Portea physiotherapists via their smartphone, tablet or computer through the Portea App which been integrated with PhysiApp from Physitrack.   This allows physiotherapists from Portea Medical’s team to provide more precise care based on detailed insights and influence patient recovery…

Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries launches World Food India Website

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The Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) has marked the beginning of its global food processing event – World Food India with the launch of exclusive website for the upcoming event. World Food India will be the largest gathering of investors, manufacturers, producers, food processors, policy makers, and organizations from the global food ecosystem. World Food India is being held in New Delhi from 3rd to 5th November 2017. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is the National event partner.   World Food India website, www.worldfoodindia.in, is designed to provide quick and…

Transgender Will Be Given Equal Benefits of Social Welfare

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Transgender will no more be excluded from the Indian society. After categorising transgender into the third gender by the Supreme Court, Odisha became the first Indian state to give social welfare benefit to the transgender.   To survive and live a honourable life rather than asking for money on the roads, the transgender community will be given the social status of below poverty line under which they will be allowed to avail all the government schemes and facilities. This includes government schemes that provide free housing, 100 days of paid…

Esri India announces Yoga Day app

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Ahead of the International Yoga Day, Esri India has announced the availability of an app to help yoga enthusiasts locate a Yoga Centre and join the International Yoga Day celebrations on 21st June. This app – Yogamplify is available through web and mobile phones.   Using Yogamplify app, Yoga event organizers can list their International Yoga Day events and provide details like location, timing, chief guest and capacity. This information will be placed on an interactive map. Yoga enthusiasts can view the yoga events organized near their locations on the…

Virtual reality video game opens up drug discovery to non-scientists

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Driven by a goal of engaging the public in scientific discovery, Gaurav Chopra, an assistant professor of chemistry at Purdue University partnered with ITaP’s Envision Center and Purdue students to develop a virtual reality video game that allows a player ­– even one with little knowledge of chemistry – to potentially discover a new treatment for disease by manipulating drug compounds into the binding pockets of protein “targets.”   The target proteins loaded into the game have been identified as playing some role in disease and finding a compound that…

DoNER Minister chairs meeting with MPs from Northeast to discuss GST

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The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh had a detailed discussion with Members of Parliament from Northeast on the various facets of GST which, like other States of the country, is expected to roll out in the eight States of North Eastern region also from the 1st of July.   At a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee for Ministry of DoNER, attended among others by prominent political leaders and…