Category: Breaking News

Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, MoS, Civil Aviation, General Dr. V K Singh (Retd.) along with Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Shri Pradeep Kharola virtually flagged off two flights today strengthening the international & domestic aerial connectivity of Madhya Pradesh. The event marked the commencement of Indigo’s new direct flights on the Gwalior – Indore (Madhya Pradesh) – Delhi route & resumption of Air India’s Indore (Madhya Pradesh) – Dubai (UAE) direct flight.   Shri Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh graced the event virtually…

Minister for Women and Child Development Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani chaired the National Conference, 2021, which was held on the 30th and 31st of August atKevadia, Gujarat, and was attended by Dr MahendrabhaiMunjpara, Minister of State for WCD and Ministers from various States, as well as Principal Secretaries of States/ UTs Women and Child Development / Social Welfare Department. The National Conference was a platform to discuss and deliberate on better implementation and governance of schemes and programmes of the Ministrynamely, the new initiatives on the three key missions: Mission…

Shri Ram NathKovind, the Hon’ble President of India, will award the President’s Colour to Indian Naval Aviation at the ceremonial parade to be held at INS Hansa, Goa on 06 Sep 21. During the occasion, a Special Day Cover will be released by the Postal Department. The ceremony is expected to be attended by the Governor of Goa, RakshaMantri, Chief Minister of Goa, Chief of the Naval Staff several other civil and military dignitaries. The President’s Colour is the highest honour bestowed on a military unit in recognition of its…

The Indian Navy has signed a Contract with Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Limited (BEL) for supply of the first indigenous, comprehensive Naval Anti Drone System (NADS) with both hard kill and soft kill capabilities.   The contract was signed by the Indian Navy and BEL at New Delhi, in the presence of senior Naval officers and DRDO representatives. Indian Navy has provided consistent support and has played a lead role in the joint development of the anti drone system by DRDO and BEL.   NADS, developed by DRDO and manufactured by BEL, is the first indigenously developed anti-drone…

The government on Friday launched a simulator to facilitate research and hardware design for quantum computing that is expected to have exponentially higher computing capacity compared to the traditional computers available at present. Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar, while launching the quantum computing simulator QSim, said quantum computing will address the future requirements of computing.   The government on Friday launched a simulator to facilitate research and hardware design for quantum computing that is expected to have exponentially higher computing capacity compared to the traditional computers…

The Medanta chairman pointed to the fact that Covid-19 vaccine drive for kids is yet to be announced.   Dr. Naresh Trehan, Chairman and Managing Director, questioned on Sunday if states are in a “rush” to reopen schools.   “Is it that we should be patient for another few months, then a vaccine arrives and children get vaccinated…or are we in a rush to open schools,” he questioned. He stressed that the children in India aren’t being vaccinated yet.   Children in India are not being vaccinated. If enough children…

Google and Microsoft have both been racing to place their search engines as default on both iOS and macOS and the competition is heating up.   Google will be paying Apple $15 billion USD to remain the default search engine on iPhone, iPad, and Mac in 2021, in order to remain the default search engine across the Apple ecosystem, which includes several devices such iPads, Macs and especially iPhones.   A report states, Google has generated $11.2 billion in revenue from its mobile app store in 2019, offering a clear view into the service’s financial…

RailTel Corporation of India Ltd said it has implemented an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based attendance system for 48,000 government schools across Assam. RailTel has completed the work of deploying an AI-based identification system for capturing attendance and management of SDMIS (Student Database Management Information System) for government schools in Assam, the company said in a statement.   “The system covers 48,000 schools in all 33 districts. RailTel has configured, customised, and deployed this AI-based identification system for capturing attendance across all the elementary, secondary, and higher secondary schools,” it added.   The total project…

On 29.08.2021, V.O. Chidambaranar Port created a new record for handling a vessel with highest parcel size. The Singapore flagged vessel ‘M V Ince Ankara’, arrived from the Port of Mina Saqr, UAE, with 93,719 Tonnes of Lime Stone, consigned for M/s. Chettinad cements, bettering the previous record for handling the highest parcel size by the vessel ‘MV Bastions’, with 92,935 Tonnes of Coal handled at the Port on 14th May, 2021.   The vessel berthed at Berth No.IX, on 26th August, 2021, commenced its discharge using 3 Harbour Mobile cranes capable of discharging more than…

In India, just like anywhere in the world, MSMEs are an integral part of the value chain, offering diversified products on one hand and delivering intermediate goods for the large-scale industries on the other. It is one of the largest employment generator and backbone of Indian economy. India is home to more than 6.3 crore MSMEs, which have the ability and capability to access international markets and work as ancillaries to larger international firms. In terms of exports, the sector holds high potential in various sub-sectors such as textiles, leather…