The “electrostatic dust mitigation and smog control device” designed and tested by the Chandigarh-based Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, a lab under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, will hit the market in a month after the completion of transfer of technology to the industry.
Currently, six languages enjoy the ‘Classical’ status: Tamil (declared in 2004), Sanskrit (2005), Kannada (2008), Telugu (2008), Malayalam (2013), and Odia (2014). The University Grant Commission (UGC) also awards research projects for promoting these languages. The UGC released funds worth INR 56.74 lakh in 2016-17 and INR 95.67 lakh in 2017-18, the Ministry of Culture said.
RailTel, a miniratna PSU under Ministry of Railways, which was tasked with the project has selected M/s Margo Network, a subsidiary of Zee Entertainment as the Digital Entertainment Service Provider (DESP) for providing Content on Demand (CoD) Service on trains and railway stations.
Jaishankar and Kamilov evaluated the initiative of the India-Central Asia Dialogue at the level of Foreign Ministers with the participation of Afghanistan which was held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan in January 2019. The next Dialogue will be held in India in 2020. Kamilov stated that he looks forward to participating in it.
India and Russia have begun negotiations on an agreement for long-term assured supplies of crude oil, especially from Russia’s Far East region, as New Delhi looks to diversify its energy sources and do away with over-dependence on West Asia, people familiar with developments said.
Sources said the CCS last week cleared the over Rs 6,150 crore acquisition cost of a wide range of advanced weapon systems and sensors for the four 7,300-tonne destroyers being constructed under ‘Project-15B’. The first of the destroyers, INS Visakhapatnam, is likely to be commissioned in 2021-2022 after some delay. It will be followed by her sister warships, INS Mormugao and INS Imphal, while the fourth is yet to be named.
“We would like to inform that Ministry of Railways has given its approval to IRCTC to operate 82901/82902 Ahmedabad-Mumbai Central Tejas Express (06 days a week). This train will have its inaugural run on 17th January, 2020 and will start its commercial run from 19th January, 2020,” IRCTC had said earlier this week in an regulatory filing.
The Foreign Minister said that Estonia is looking forward to working closely with India on global security issues if the country is elected to the Security Council for 2021-2022. “The future of the Council is a broader issue,” he said. “To defend the rules-based world order, the UN Security Council needs to be open and inclusive.”
Madagascar’s First Lady Mialy R Rajoelina met India’s ambassador to Madagascar Abhay Kumar and said she was convinced that the two countries can build a “strong partnership” together.
If you buy and sell products via online classified portals such as OLX and Quikr, you need to be careful while dealing with people claiming to be a part of the Indian Army.
