India and the United States signed the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement (BECA). BECA, along with the two agreements signed earlier — the Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement(LEMOA) and the Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement (COMCASA) — completes a troika of“foundational pacts” for deep military cooperation between the two countries. BECA will …
The Centre has issued a notification laying down safety requirements such as visual display, handrail andseat belt anchorages for construction equipment vehicles (CEVs). This is to ensure safety while these vehicles are running on public roads along with other vehicles, the Ministry ofRoad Transport and Highways (MoRTH) said. Certain safety requirements are …
In the first funding for NTPC Ltd under Japan Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC)’s GREENinitiative, India’s largest power producer today entered into foreign currency loan agreement withJapanese Government’s financial institution for JPY 50 billion (approx. USD 482 million). GREEN initiative stands for Global Action for Reconciling Economic growth and Environment preservationinitiative. The facility …
The Centre has streamlined the procedures to submit statements regarding the working of a patentedinvention on a commercial scale, giving additional flexibilities to the patentee. The Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2020, which came into effect on October 19, 2020, has further streamlined therequirements related to filing of Form 27 and submission of verified English …
The second meeting of the India-Central Asia Dialogue was held under the chairmanship of the ExternalAffairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar. Foreign Ministers of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan as well as First Deputy ForeignMinister of the Kyrgyz Republic participated in the meeting. The Foreign Minister of Central Asian Countries welcomed the provision …
Ministry of Earth Sciences dedicated Flash Flood Guidance services, first of its kind for South Asiancountries namely India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka on 22 October 2020. It has been developed by India Meteorological Department. Under it, an automated mode of dissemination is to be established with the stakeholders along …
Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate India Energy Forum on 26 October 2020. This the 5th such eventorganized by NITI Aayog and Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. Around 45 CEOs of major Oil and Gascompanies will attend the event this year. India Energy Forum is an annual event organized by NITI Aayog and …
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has introduced ‘facial recognition system‘ which willenable students to download their digital academic documents of classes 10, 12. This computer application matches human face from a digital image already stored in the database. The computerand the human interact to map facial features. Further, a …
Union Minister for Culture and Tourism virtually launched “Life in Miniature” project, a collaborationbetween the National Museum, New Delhi, Ministry of Culture, and Google Arts & Culture. Several hundred miniature paintings from the National Museum, New Delhi can be viewed online on Google Arts& Culture by people around the world in a new …
The Minister for AYUSH inaugurated the Regional Raw Drug Repository (RRDR) today at All India Instituteof Ayurveda, New Delhi. This RRDR is the second in the series of repositories proposed by National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB),Ministry of AYUSH and will be dedicated to the Trans-Ganga Plain Region. In order to document the …
