Month: February 2019

Honey-Trapping in Armed Forces

open view news desk The details of cases of honey trapping in the Armed Forces for the years 2015, 2016  &  2017  are as under:- Year Army Navy Air Force 2015 02 Nil 01 2016 Nil Nil Nil 2017 02 Nil Nil Service personnel and their families are […]

Sensex drops over 100 pts; bank, auto stocks fall

Mumbai :  The BSE benchmark Sensex Monday fell over 100 points tracking selloff in banking, auto and metal stocks amid mixed cues from global markets. The 30-share index was trading 109.53 points, or 0.30 per cent, lower at 36,359.90. Similarly, the 50-share NSE Nifty fell 31.75 points, or 0.29 […]

Blast at Central Ammunition Depot at Pulgaon

open view news desk Multi-tier system of Safety Audit and Quality Audit is already in existence for assuring quality of ammunition and compliance of safety norms in the process of manufacture.  In addition to this, for defect noticed at production stage, detailed investigation is carried out by Failure […]

15% direct tax collection growth target for FY20 ‘realistic’: Rev Secy

New Delhi :  The finance ministry has set a “realistic target” of 15 per cent growth in direct tax collection at Rs 13.80 lakh crore for next year, which is lower than 20 per cent increase estimated in the current fiscal, Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey said Monday. The […]

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 […]

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