Category: Breaking News

As part of India’s ongoing Chairship of BRICS in 2021, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will chair the 13th BRICS Summit on 9 September 2021 in virtual format. It will be the third time that India will be hosting the BRICS Summit after 2012 and 2016.   The meeting will be attended by the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro; President of Russia, Vladimir Putin; President of China, Xi Jinping; and President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa. India’s National Security Adviser, Ajit Doval, President of the New Development Bank; Marcos Troyjo;…

Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh and Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari will Inaugurate Emergency Landing Field (ELF) and also witness aircraft operations on Emergency Landing Field (ELF) on NH-925 0n 09/09/2021  at Gandhav Bhakasar Section (NH-925) South of Barmer (Rajasthan).This is the first time that National Highway will be used for emergency landing of aircrafts of  IAF. NHAI had developed a 3.0 Km section of Satta-Gandhav stretch of NH-925A from Km. 41/430 to Km. 44/430 as an Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) for Indian Air Force, which is…

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi addressed the inaugural conclave of Shikshak Parv today via video conferencing. He also launched Indian Sign Language Dictionary (audio and text embedded sign language video for the hearing impaired, in conformity with Universal Design of Learning), Talking Books (audiobooks for the visually impaired), School Quality Assurance and Assessment Framework of CBSE, NISHTHA teachers’ training programme for NIPUN Bharat and Vidyanjali portal (for facilitating education volunteers/ donors/ CSR contributors for school development).   Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister congratulated the teachers who have received the…

Chandigarh now has its first pollen calendar, which can identify potential allergy triggers and provide a clear understanding for clinicians as well as allergy sufferers about their causes to help limit their exposure during high pollen loads.   About 20-30% of the population suffers from allergic rhinitis/hay fever in India, and approximately 15% develop asthma. Pollens are considered major outdoor airborne allergens responsible for allergic rhinitis, asthma, and atopic dermatitis in humans.  Pollen calendars represent the time dynamics of airborne pollen taxa in graphical form in a particular geographical area.…

Ahead of the third wave of coronavirus infections that is expected to hit the country as early as mid-September, India aims to increase its medical oxygen production capacity to 15,000 tonnes per day.   This indicates a 50 percent jump from the maximum output of almost 10,000 tonnes reached earlier this year during the peak of the second COVID-19 wave. The idea is to avert another situation where hospitals run short of the gas and relatives of patients have to go helter-skelter in search of oxygen cylinders.   Linde India…

According to claims made by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, satellite-based internet service Starlink will have the capability of data transfer at a speed as high as light. The Starlink network currently relies on a dish, satellites and ground stations. If what Musk claims goes according to plan, it would mean that the company is aiming to get rid of these ground stations that have proved to be a hindrance to fast data transfers due to the long time they take to communicate with the satellites. With lasers, the transmission speed, as Musk claims, is expected to be around 40 per…

Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) is planning to hold a nationwide campaign beginning September 15 against “the malpractices of foreign-funded e-commerce companies” such as Amazon, Flipkart, others in India.   “Greatly peeved by the ongoing malpractices of foreign-funded e-commerce companies in India, the traders across the country have joined hands together to fight out major global e-commerce through an aggressive nationwide agitational campaign,” CAIT said in a statement.   The Supreme Court of India had last month rejected the demands of Amazon and Flipkart to quash the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) probe against…

The former CFO and board member of Infosys TV Mohandas Pai blasted at a scathing article against the software major that got published in ‘Panchjanya’. He stated that ascribing conspiracy theories to Infosys is the writing of ‘crazy minds’ and that the company has always stood for India.   Panchjanya is a magazine linked to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the article published in it accused Infosys of negligence over glitches in the Centre’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) portal and the new Income Tax (I-T) portal, while questioning and criticizing its motives.   “Infosys deserves to be…

To avoid confidential digital data falling into the wrong hands, Google has temporarily locked down an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, according to a person familiar with the matter. This comes amidst the growing fear over the digital paper trail left by former officials and their international partners.   In the weeks since the Taliban‘s swift takeover of Afghanistan, reports have highlighted how biometric and Afghan payroll databases might be exploited by the new rulers to hunt their enemies.   Alphabet Inc‘s Google has confirmed in a report on Friday that Afghan government…

Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), the premier Telecom R&D Centre of the Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, Government of India, observed its 38th Foundation Day celebrations yesterday.   C-DOT has continued to organize technical workshops and seminars on contemporary themes related to the newly emerging dimensions of Telecom & ICT to mark its Foundation Day celebrations. Since the Covid pandemic is still there, C-DOT, this year organized the international technical conference in virtual mode as part of GB Meemamsi Lecture Series 2021, wherein several field experts, telecom veterans and…