Padma Shri awardee and centenarian teacher from Odisha, Nanda Kishore Prusty, who was fondly called Nanda Sir, passed away at a private hospital here on Tuesday, family sources said. On 9th November 2021, he was conferred with the Padma Shri award for his contributions in the field of education. He belonged to Kantira village in Jajpur district, Odisha. Nanda […]
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An autobiography titled ‘At Home In The Universe’ by Bala Krishna Madhur was released by R.C. Sinha, IAS (Rtd), advisor to the Ministry of Road Development in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The book is the autobiography of Bala Krishna Madhur, a former Chief Executive Officer at DHFL Property Services Limited, and one of the key personalities in establishing Dewan Housing. The book offers
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Ropesh Goyal from IIT Kanpur won ‘Young Geospatial Scientist’ Award In recognition of his unparalleled contribution to the development of the Indian Geoid Model and calculation software. AS Kiran Kumar, Member of Space Commission, Government of India, and former Chairman of ISRO, presented the award to Goyal during the inaugural ceremony of DigiSmart India 2021 conference organized by Geospatial World. The ‘Young Geospatial
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India has emerged as the fourth most powerful country in Asia. It has been ranked fourth among the 26 countries, with an overall score of 37.7 out of 100 and territories in Indo-Pacific for comprehensive power as per the Lowy Institute Asia Power Index 2021. India’s overall score declined by 2 points compared to 2020. India
India successfully test-fired the air version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the integrated test range of Chandipur, off the coast of Odisha. Describing the mission as a “major milestone” in the development of BrahMos, the sources said that the air version of the missile was test-fired from supersonic fighter aircraft Sukhoi 30 MK-I. BrahMos is a joint venture between DRDO (India) and NPO
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PayPhi, Phi Commerce’s API (Application programming interface) first digital payments platform has become the first certified tokenization service for NPCI Tokenization System (NTS) that supports the tokenization of RuPay cards. Tokenization of cards as an alternative to storing card details with merchants. NPCI’s NTS platform enables PayPhi Tokenization service to provide partner merchants and aggregators
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Shivalik Small Finance Bank (SSFB) signed a partnership agreement with fintech firm, Indiagold to launch India’s first Loan against Digital Gold. Digital gold is an affordable medium to own and save with gold without the trouble of physically handling and storing the asset, SSFB said in a statement. This agreement will enable customers to use their digital gold balance
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Canada has joined Australia, Britain, and the United States in a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, with China dismissing the moves as “political posturing” and a smear campaign. The announcement came after the White House, the Australian government, and the UK government confirmed diplomatic boycotts of the Winter Games in February to protest Chinese
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France-based World Inequality Lab published its report titled “World Inequality Report 2022”. This report is published by Mr. Lucas Chancel, the co-director of the World Inequality Lab of the Paris School of Economics. It was coordinated by famed French economist Thomas Piketty. In 2021 the top 10 percent and top 1 percent of the Indian population
NITI Aayog has announced the launch of the e-Sawaari India Electric Bus Coalition in partnership with Convergence Energy Service Limited (CESL) and World Resources Institute, India (WRI India), and supported by Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI). The objective of the initiative is to share knowledge of various stakeholders – Central & State Govt. agencies, transit
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