INDIA: Govt launches 22 new schemes under Digital India programme …

Govt launches 22 new schemes under Digital India programme
Chennai floods: Rescue operations almost over, focus now on relief work
Chennai Floods: 3,500 people stuck at airport, Met warns of more rain, ‘next 48 hrs crucial’
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Govt launches 22 new schemes under Digital India programme    

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Initiatives in areas such as digital infrastructure, digital empowerment and on-demand govt services unveiled
Dec 29, 2015
New Delhi: The government on Monday expanded its Digital India programme, launching new initiatives and broadening the scope of existing ones, to make more services accessible to the masses. …

Chennai floods: Rescue operations almost over, focus now on relief work

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Chennai Floods: 3,500 people stuck at airport, Met warns of more rain, ‘next 48 hrs crucial’

Firstpost.com
Dec 2, 2015 22:35 IST
The latest:
– 3,500 people stranded at Chennai airport
– Chennai airport closed till 6 December
– Worst continuous rainstorms in 100 years …

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Govt mulls Europe-style water law to save resource

Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Nov 24, 2015
NEW DELHI: Concerned by the future projections of water availability in India, the government is mulling the legislation route to save the scarce resource from depleting any further. It plans to come out with a new draft National Water Framework Bill – on the lines of the one in effect in Europe – and improvising on the existing draft law of 2013. …

Ball set rolling for Lokayukta’s removal   

Thehindu.com
November 18, 2015
BENGALURU: Legislators on Tuesday initiated the process of impeachment of Lokayukta Justice Y Bhaskar Rao by submitting petitions seeking his removal to the Assembly Speaker and the Council Chairman. …

FinMin invites feedback for Budget

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September 23, 2015
From the usual refrain of increasing threshold of personal income tax from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs five lakh, the common man wants the government to announce a new fund for onions in the Budget for 2016-17. A few of them suggested to the government to do away with exemptions. …

Cross mark is now NOTA symbol     Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Sep 20, 2015
AHMEDABAD: The ‘None Of The Above’ (Nota) option on electronic voting machines (EVMs) finally got its own symbol — a small ballot paper with a black cross on it. The Nota symbol will make its debut in the forthcoming Bihar assembly elections and Surat bypolls. …

End of an era: ‘Missile man’ Dr APJ Abdul Kalam passes away after cardiac arrest   Firstpost.com
July 28, 2015
Shillong: Former President APJ Abdul Kalam, the ‘missile man’ who came to be known as ‘People’s President’ died on Monday after he collapsed during a lecture at the IIM in Shillong on Monday evening. …

The globality Of Hinduism: Hindutva’s attempt to put the Hindu creative brilliance in jail is doomed   Timesofindia.indiatimes.com
March 11, 2015
One of the attempted follies of our times is the conflation of Hinduism, essentially an eclectic way of life, into a codified belief system that seeks to mirror the major faiths it has interacted with; for instance, Islam and Christianity. Indeed, since the May 2014 electoral thrashing of Congress by the self-professed Hindutva party, BJP, this gross and distorted projection of Hinduism by fringe groups has grown. …

Bizarre India   Itimes.com

Youtube Video: Republic Day Celebrations, 26th January 2015

e-Voting a Possibility in Next General Election, Says CEO Bhanwar Lal   Newindianexpress.com
Jan 25, 2015
HYDERABAD:E-voting facility is likely to be introduced in the general elections in 2019 or 2024. This was hinted at by state’s chief electoral officer Bhanwar Lal at the National Voters Day celebrations organised by the United Federation of Resident Welfare Associations at Paryatak Bhavan here on Saturday. …

Are you a citizen or resident of India?   Business-standard.com
January 19, 2015
One of the secretaries in the Union government grew agitated when it was pointed out to him that though he might be holding an Indian passport, an Aadhaar number and a voter identity card, it did not necessarily mean he was a citizen of India. …

ET Global Business Summit 2015: India definitely a country of the future, says Paul Krugman   Economictimes.indiatimes.com
17 Jan, 2015
NEW DELHI: Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman had good news to offer at the Airtel Economic Times Global Business Summit, both general and particular. …

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