The parking system has been created in collaboration with NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India). The facility has been initially started with ICICI FASTag and will be rolled out through other major banks gradually. Non-FASTag vehicles would continue to use the existing parking system, read a statement by the organisation.
“The major reason behind the population of the bird not increasing is primarily because it is a very slow breeder. It lays just one egg in a year and that too in an open place in the dry grasslands. The egg(s) are mostly destroyed by predators such as fox, pigs, dogs, lizard, mongoose and cattle.
Foreign contributions to India are regulated through the FCRA, 2010. Ninety NGOs in Telangana, 168 in Andhra Pradesh, 94 in Karnataka, 53 in Kerala, 217 in Tamil Nadu and eight in Pondicherry have all been banned by the Union government for allegedly not complying with foreign funding laws.
The government’s FACT Check module, which is to be initially manned by information service officers, will work on the four principles of find, assess, create and target (FACT), which involves round-the-clock monitoring of online news sources and publicly available social media posts. Since misleading information often finds traction through online influencers who are not bound by standards of ethics applicable to traditional media outlets, the team will also identify themes or stories that promote false and misleading information relating to the government and its agencies.
The Bangalore International Airport Pvt Ltd (BIAL) has proposed to develop a technology where Indian passport holders flying back to the country will simply need to use their biometrics like an iris scan to register their arrival
The ‘Brown to Green Report 2019’, released by the the Climate Transparency on Monday, however, noted that India is the only country among G20 nations that is close to 1.5 degree Celsius temperature rise ‘pathway’ – a scenario which the scientific community has pitched for at this juncture to save the world from the disastrous consequences of average temperature rise.
COP13 will run from February 17 to 22, 2020, with a high-level event preceding it on February 16.
It has ranked the Communist Party of India (Maoist) as the deadliest terror organisation globally after the Taliban (Afghanistan), IS or the so-called Islamic State, Al-Shabaab (Africa), Boko Haram (Africa) and the Communist Party of the Philippines.
Officials said the external affairs ministry shared about this initiative during the PRAGATI meeting chaired by PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday. Sources said the PM flagged the ordeal that several students face after joining foreign institutes due to misinformation about them and sought some solution to the problem.
A five-judge bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi unanimously ruled that the disputed 2.77 acres of land would go to the deity Ram Lalla and that a Centre-run trust will build a temple on it.
