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13 Aug

President Murmu To Launch Frigate ‘Vindhyagiri’ In Kolkata On August 17

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsScience & Tech

President Droupadi Murmu will introduce frigate 'Vindhyagiri', the sixth ship of the Project 17A programme at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited, Kolkata, on August 17(Thursday), the Indian Navy said on Sunday. "The newly christened Vindhyagiri stands as a symbol of India's determination to embrace its rich naval heritage while propelling itself towards a future of indigenous defence capabilities," the Navy said in a statement.

14 Jun

India’s Union IT Ministry introduces new guidelines to ban online games

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Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Union Minister for IT has told ANI that the fresh guidelines has been introduced to ban three types of online gaming system in India. According to the new guidelines, within ninety days of the laws' introduction, certain Self-regulatory organisations, will now have to approve online games. The announcement follows the revelation of a sizable conversion racket that was using online games as a platform to persuade children into converting to a certain religion. The government has already created a plan for the impending restrictions, Chandrasekhar informed ANI. The Minister said, "We have established a framework related to…

03 Jun

Apollo launches 5G-connected ambulance service in Kolkata

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsHealth, Science & Tech

Apollo launches 5G- connected ambulance service in the capital of West Bengal, Kolkata. The ambulance will be equipped with all necessary devices which will help in the advancement of ambulance in emergency services. The devices include medical equipment, patient monitoring apps and telemetry devices that transmit vital health data to the hospital with minimal delay. It also has onboard cameras which is connected to a fast, low-latency 5th generation network. The fixing of camera will help to track the location of patient's which will help the nearest ambulance to detect the location in a critical situations. "The 5G-connected ambulances use…

23 Apr

Government introduces over 250 network towers to provide 4G mobile connectivity in border areas of Arunachal Pradesh

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, Science & Tech

Government intoduced more than 250 network towers to give access to 4G mobile network in border areas of Arunachal Pradesh on Saturday. This initiative by the centre will help the people of those villages who were deprived of this facility since independence by connecting them digitally. Over 70 thousand subscribers are expected to be benefitted from the service.

04 Apr

NASA, Ready To Venture Next Moon Mission, First Crew Under Artemis

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsScience & Tech

NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) declared that the 4 astronauts have been selected who are set to go around the Moon on Artemis II , it is the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to begin a long-term presence at the Moon for science and exploration through Artemis. “The Artemis II crew represents thousands of people working tirelessly to bring us to the stars. This is their crew, this is our crew, this is humanity's crew,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Hammock Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen, each has…

19 Feb

APJ Abdul Kalam Satellite Launch Vehicle Mission-2023 launched from Tamil Nadu

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, Science & Tech

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Satellite Launch Vehicle Mission 2023 was launched on Sunday with the initiative of The Martin Foundation in collaboration with Dr APJ Abdul Kalam International Foundation and Space Zone from the Pattipolam village of Chengalpattu district in Tamil Nadu. Students from standard 6 to 12 across the country were trained to design and develop 150 PICO satellites, that have been launched through the rocket. The mission has brought a new opportunity for the students to know in detail about Engineering, Technology and Mathematics.

10 Feb

PM Narendra Modi flags off 2 Vande Bharat trains from Mumbai

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsEconomy, Science & Tech

On friday two Vande Bharat trains were officially inaugurated by PM Modi, one will operate between Mumbai and Solapur and the other between Mumbai and Shirdi. The event was held in Mumbai, with, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde, Union Railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis. “For the 1st time 2 Vande Bharat trains launched. They'll connect financial centres like Mumbai & Pune to centres of our devotion. It'll benefit college-going & office-going people, farmers & devotees”, the prime minister said.

18 Nov

Skyroot, Digantar: The private firms helping India fly high in space

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsScience & TechISRO

"We started with a leap of faith." That's what Naga Bharath Daka tells when asked about Skyroot Aerospace, the Indian space-tech start-up he co-founded with a partner in 2018. Motivated by the promise give by the space sector, he and associate engineer Pawan Chandana left their secure government jobs at the ISRO- the country's government-run space agency - to set up Skyroot, that designs and make rocket components to send satellites into space. This week, Skyroot is trying to form a history by launching India's first privately developed rocket from ISRO's Sriharikota space centre in east of India. India's funding…

29 May

Mark Zuckerberg Distances Facebook From Twitter.

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Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took pains to distance his company from Twitter and its fight with US President Donald Trump on Thursday, as the White House moved to scrap a law protecting social media companies.Republican Trump, who accuses social media firms of bias against conservatives, without evidence, stepped up his attacks on Twitter after the company put a fact-checking label on two of his tweets about mail-in ballots on Tuesday for the first time.“We have a different policy I think than Twitter on this,” Zuckerberg told Fox News, Trump’s preferred broadcaster.Both sites take down content that violates their terms…

18 May

The National Commission For Women Asked Tik-Tok India To Immediately Remove A Video.

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The National Commission for Women has asked Tik-Tok India to immediately remove a video showing a man committing violence against women and directed the Maharashtra police to take action against the person responsible for making the clip.The NCW in a letter to Grievance Officer of Tik-Tok India Anuj Bhatia, said it has come across a Twitter post in which a Tik-Tok video shows a man committing violence against women.It also asked the Maharashtra police, in a letter, to immediately take action against the person responsible for making the video.