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India’s Advanced Weather Satellite INSAT-3d Successfully Launched

India’s Advanced Weather Satellite INSAT-3d Successfully Launched India’s Weather Satellite INSAT-3D, carrying advanced weather monitoring payloads, was today launched successfully by Ariane-5 (VA214) launch vehicle from  Kourou , French Guiana. According to a Press Release issued by the Indian Space Research   Organisation   (ISRO) ,after a smooth countdown lasting 11 hours and 30 minutes, the Ariane-5  launchvehicle  lifted off right on schedule at the opening of the launch  windowat  01:24 hours IST today.  After a flight of 32 minutes and 48 seconds ,INSAT -3D was placed in an elliptical Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO),very close to the intended one. The orbital parameters of INSAT-3D, as recorded, are : Parameter                                                                   Targeted                                    Achieved Perigee (km)                                                                249.9                                        249.9 Apogee (km)    

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World Population Day - July 11

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"When we devote attention and resources to the education, health and wellbeing of adolescent girls, they will become an even greater force for positive change in society that will have an impact for generations to come. On this World Population Day, let us pledge to support adolescent girls to realize their potential and contribute to our shared future." Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Message for World Population Day 11 July 2013 Preventing early pregnancy and poor reproductive outcomes among adolescents in developing countries. WHO Photo 2013 Theme: Focus is on Adolescent Pregnancy As the world population edged to 7 billion people in 2011 (up from 2.5 billion in 1950), it has had profound implications for development. A world of 7 billion is both a challenge and an opportunity with implications on sustainability, urbanization, access to health services and youth empowerment. In 1989, in its decision 89/46, the Governing Council of the United Nations Develo

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3 discovered Blocks offered to India; Iraq to consider investment in IOC’s Paradip Refinery India and Iraq to sign a number of MoUs for cooperation in various sectors Gas sale & purchase agreement signed between Turkmenistan and Afghanistan to complete commitment of four countries for  TAPI gas pipeline project Steering Committee for TAPI pipeline project decides to form TAPI Ltd in time bound manner; committed to complete the project by 2017 PIB

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Fake encounter

“The encounter was a joint operation between Gujarat police and Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) in the State,” the CBI said in the charge sheet. Spelling trouble for the Narendra Modi government, the CBI today held that 19-year-old Ishrat Jahan was killed in a “fake” encounter in 2004 and charge sheeted seven police officers in the case, saying it was a joint operation between Gujarat police and the Intelligence Bureau. Those against whom the chargesheet was filed for murder and criminal conspiracy include absconding Additional DGP P.P. Pandey and suspended DIG D.G. Vanzara. “The encounter was a joint operation between Gujarat police and Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB) in the State,” CBI said in the charge sheet, adding, “the encounter was fake.” The CBI told the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate H.S. Khutwad that their investigation has established offence against all seven police officers charge sheeted in the case. The investigation is going on ag

“Deepening Economic Linkages for Balanced, Inclusive & Sustainable Growth”. (IOR-ARC)

Shri Anand Sharma, Union Minister of Commerce & Industry today leaves for a two-day visit to Mauritius from July 4-5, 2013 to attend the Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) Economic and Business Conference. The theme of the Conference is “Deepening Economic Linkages for Balanced, Inclusive & Sustainable Growth”. The Ministerial level Conference proposes to bring together the Ministers of Commerce and Industry of the 20 IOR-ARC Member States (Australia, Bangladesh, Comoros, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Oman, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, United Arab Emirates and Yemen) and the six Dialogue Partner States (China, Egypt, France, Japan, UK and USA). Eighteen IOR-ARC Trade Ministers have confirmed their participation for the Conference. Shri Sharma would be meeting Mr. Taira Masaaki, Parliamentary Vice Minister for Economy, Trade & Industry, Japan and Mr. Richard M

Depreciation in Rupee Value (An Analysis)

The rupee is at historic low of 58.2-to-the dollar, having been subject to a sharp 7.5 per cent nominal depreciation since early May. Given the short-term perspectives of interested market observers, attention has been focused on some immediate triggers such as the signal of a possible retreat on monetary easing in the United States and India’s adverse report card in terms of GDP growth, inflation and above all the current account deficit. Since the former could strengthen the dollar, it is seen as having encouraged a reverse flow of capital to the United States in search of dollar denominated assets. On the other hand, poor numbers in India are seen as provoking a pull out of capital from the country. It is the resulting exodus of capital, visible recently in the debt market, that is seen as underlying the rupee’s decline. The role of these factors, among that of many others, as possible proximate explanations of the rupee’s descent cannot be denied. But a more fundamental underst

India's First Navigational Satellite launched!!

India’s first dedicated navigation satellite, the IRNSS-1A, developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation, was successfully put in orbit. The launch vehicle, PSLV-C22, bearing the 1,425-kg navigation satellite, blasted off the launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here at the scheduled lift-off time of 11.41 p.m. As the PSLV-C22 tore into the night skies and set off four stages of ignition and separation, all the while gaining in altitude and velocity, down on earth, twitchy mission controllers at the command centre awaited the final confirmation of the mission’s success. A round of applause greeted the successful kick-starting of the fourth stage of ignition, arguably the most critical component of the mission to place the satellite in the targeted orbit. About 20 minutes after the lift-off, the PSLV-C22 completed its task of injecting the IRNSS-1A into a sub geosynchronous transfer orbit with a 284-km perigee (nearest point to the Earth) and 20,650 km apogee (f

National e-Governance Plan(NeGP)

PM reviews National e-Governance Plan. The second meeting of the Prime Minister’s Committee on the National e-Governance Plan ( NeGP ) was held on 1 st July 2013 to review the progress of implementation of  NeGP . The  NeGP  was approved by Government of India in May 2006 with the vision to “Make all Government services accessible to the common man in his locality, through common service delivery outlets and ensure efficiency, transparency & reliability of such services at affordable costs”. 2.                    As per the decision of the last meeting of the Committee, two Expert Groups, viz., an Expert Committee for preparation of an HR policy for e-Governance headed by  Shri   Nandan   Nilekani  and an Expert Group on  NeGP  chaired by Dr Sam  Pitroda  were constituted. The recommendations of both the committees will be of immense benefit for fast tracking the implementation of all e-Governance initiatives in the country. During the meeting today, the implementation of th

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