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Pravin Kumar Purwar has been appointed as the new Chairman-Managing Director (CMD) of BSNL, reports the Economic Times. Current CMD Anupam Shrivastava’s term and tenure will end in June this year, from when Purwar will take over. Shrivastava was appointed as CMD in January 2015. In 2014, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) appointed […]
Acknowledging that country’s telecom industry was under financial stress, Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had constituted a committee chaired by Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan to spell out revival plans for Telecom sector. About Aruna Sundararajan Committee Background: As the Indian telecom sector is under stress for a long time Union Minister has decided to
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The win was only confirmed three hours after the race finished following an investigation into whether Verstappen unfairly ran Leclerc off the track. Ferrari’s Leclerc seemed in control of the race after Verstappen made a bad start to drop from second to seventh. But Red Bull pitted Verstappen 10 laps later than Leclerc and Verstappen
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In accordance with the decision of the Prime Minister for finalizing a five-year vision plan for each Ministry, the Department of Higher Education of HRD Ministry has finalized and released a five-year vision plan named Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP). This report has been prepared after a detailed exercise done by the Experts
The government has constituted a committee on the Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) on 1 July to review, negotiate and reduce the high wind and solar power purchase prices and submit its report in 45 days. As per G.O RT No. 63, the committee comprises Ministers Buggana Rajendranath Reddy (Finance) and Balineni Srinivasa Reddy (Energy), Advocate
Lok Sabha on July 1, 2019, passed a bill that proposed to make university or college as a unit instead of the department for the purpose of providing reservation for filling teachers posts in central educational institutions. The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Bill 2019, will allow filling about 8,000 existing vacancies in
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Tamil Nadu Government has declared Tamil Yeoman (Cirrochroa thais) as the state butterfly of the state based on the recommendation of state forest department. With this, Tamil Nadu became the fifth state in the country to announce its state butterfly. Maharashtra was the first to declare Blue Mormon (Papilio polymnestor) as its state butterfly, followed
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates ,The International Security Alliance’s First Joint Exercise (ISALEX19) hosted by the UAE Ministry of Interior (MoI) kicked-off. The exercise witnessed the participation of 50 representatives from law enforcement agencies from the International Security Alliance (ISA) countries including members of tactical teams; swift intervention units; and media, communications, civil defense and
India dropped one place in the annual banking statistics report released by the Swiss National Bank (SNB). India is now positioned at the 74th rank in terms of money parked by the Indian individuals and enterprises in the Swiss banks. While India has slipped one place, the United Kingdom continued to maintain its top position
India slips to place to 74th in terms of money in Swiss Banks Read More »
‘One Nation One Ration Card’ scheme, which will allow portability of food security benefits, will be available across the country from July 1, 2020. This means poor migrant workers will be able to buy subsidised rice and wheat from any ration shop in the country, so long as their ration cards are linked to Aadhaar.
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