Day: February 5, 2019

Air Force Rescue Operation during Kerala Floods

open view news desk During Kerala Floods, Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out 517 sorties of Fixed Wing aircraft, airlifting 3787 persons and 1350 Ton of load and 634 sorties of Helicopters, winching 584 persons and airlifting 247 Ton of load. Bills of approximately Rs.102.6 crores have been […]

Promoting Intellectual Property Rights in Defence

open view news desk Several Ordnance Factories and Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs) have been carrying out innovative research on the development of certain materials, components / sub-assemblies / assemblies leading to performance upgradation of the existing system / platforms. A need was felt to create a structured […]

Stocks extend gain for 3rd day on fag-end rally; RIL jumps 3.52 pc

Mumbai :  The benchmark BSE Sensex Monday recovered from the day’s low to end 113 points higher, as equities pulled off a fag-end rally led by RIL amid fresh inflows by foreign funds ahead of the RBI’s monetary policy review. After gyrating nearly 400 points between the day’s low […]

Report of Shekatkar Committee

open view news desk The Committee of Experts (CoE) constituted by the Ministry of Defence under the chairmanship of Lt. Gen (Retd) DB Shekatkar to recommend measures to enhance combat capability and rebalance defence expenditure of the armed forces, submitted its report in December 2016. The Report was […]

Nayib Bukele declares victory as new Salvadoran president

San Salvador :  Nayib Bukele, the popular former mayor of San Salvador, claimed victory Sunday in the Central American country’s presidential elections. “At this moment we can announce with total certainty that we have won the presidency,” the 37-year-old Bukele told supporters. A few minutes before his declaration, the […]

Digitization of 2.83 lakh manuscripts consisting of 2.93 crore pages of manuscripts done under NMM: Dr. Mahesh Sharma

open view news desk Ministry of Culture launched National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) in 2003 for documentation, conservation/preservation and digitization of manuscripts. Till date it has documented about 43.16 lakh Manuscripts in different scripts and languages. For conservation and preservation of manuscripts, the cases are dealt on the […]

Creation of National Virtual Library of India as one of the components of National Mission on Libraries

The objective of National Virtual Library of India (NVLI) is to facilitate creation of a comprehensive database on digital resources of India on information about India in an open access environment. Salient features of NVLI are : – Federated searching through multilingual user interfaces. Virtual learning environment E-Governance […]

Trump campaign takes steps to prevent a challenge within GOP

Washington :  Worried about a potential Republican primary challenge, President Donald Trump’s campaign has launched a state-by-state effort to prevent an intraparty fight that could spill over into the general-election campaign. The nascent initiative has been an intense focus in recent weeks and includes taking steps to change state […]

Iran parliament approves new health minister

Tehran : Iran’s parliament Monday gave an overwhelming vote of confidence to President Hassan Rouhani’s pick as health minister, after his predecessor resigned over budget cuts and criticism of the allocation of state funds. Saeed Namaki was voted into office with 229 votes out of a total 259. He […]

Trump comments spark Iraqi demands for US exit

Baghdad :  Iraqi politicians on Monday hit back at Donald Trump after the US president said he plans to keep American forces in the country to spy on Iran. In an interview with CBS television, Trump reaffirmed his determination to pull the United States out of “endless wars” in […]

Headlines