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A team of six MTech students from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad has won the ‘Smart India Hackathon 2019’ and prize money of Rs 75,000. The team, known by the name ‘SNAAPP’ claims to have coded non-stop for 36 hours to create a mobile app that can manage the hierarchical system

In another inspring example of indigenisation of defence equipment, 5 Metre Short Span Bridge was formally handed over to the Indian Army on 20 March 2019 in a ceremony at the Talegaon facility of Larsen & Toubro Limited. The Bridge is indigenously designed & developed and is the result of close

State Bank of India has launched cardless withdrawal of cash at over 16,500 of its ATMs through the Yono mobile app platform for the first time in the country. “The ATMs enabled for this service will also be termed as Yono Cash Point. Customers can initiate the cash withdrawal process on the Yono

The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), under Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, has put out list of 390 anti-cancer non-scheduled medicines with MRP reduction up to 87%. The revised prices has come into effect from 8 th March, 2019. On 27 th February, 2019, NPPA had put 42 anti

In a decision bound to further the outreach and accessibility of Doordarshan, Prasar Bharati has brought 11 more State DD Channels, including five channels of North-Eastern States, on the Satellite footprint of India through DD Free Dish. It is for the first time that the States of Chhattisgarh, Goa

The Cabinet Meeting Chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the grant of Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) facilities to World War-II Veterans, Emergency Commissioned Officers (ECOs), Short Service Commissioned Officers (SSCOs) and pre-mature retirees. As a result, over 43,000

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the setting up of 50 new KendriyaVidyalayas under Civil/Defence Sector all over the country. The Vidyalayas are proposed to be opened in the Civil/Defense Sector and once they are fully functional they will provide quality

As a four-year-old in 1947, Amir Singh Virk held on to a tender memory — that of his older cousin bandaging his toe after he’d slipped and fallen. What Amir didn’t realise was that the cousin, Dalbir Singh, would slip away from his life for the next seven decades. The extended family lived in a

The National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS) 2018-19, conducted by an Independent Verification Agency (IVA) under the World Bank support project to the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBM-G), has found that 96.5% of the households in rural India who have access to a toilet use it. The NARSS

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, today, launched the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM-SYM) Yojana at Vastral in Gujarat. He also distributed the PM-SYM pension cards to select beneficiaries. Over two crore workers at three lakh Common Service Centers across the country witnessed the launch

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched One Nation, One Card for transport mobility at a function in Ahmedabad today. The indigenously developed National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) is the first of its kind in India. This Payment Eco-system for transport consisting of NCMC Card, SWEEKAR (Swachalit

An underwhelming move towards complete local manufacturing of mobile phones notwithstanding, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is studying the possibility of introducing a phased manufacturing programme (PMP) for items such as LED products, LED and LCD television sets and set