Agni-II launch successfully executed by Army’s Strategic Forces Command (SFC) and more:
1. Agni-II launch was successfully executed by Army’s Strategic Forces Command (SFC). The Missile after its launch from the Wheeler Island travelled more than 2,000 km in 700 seconds and hit the target are in Bay of Bengal accurately. It is nuclear-capable missile which can carry warheads of one tonne.The success of the launch marks the preparedness of the Army to handle it independently. Read more…
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FCRA cancelled licenses of 4,139 NGOs in TamilNadu
4,139 NGOs, most of them located in Tamil Nadu, will now be prohibited from receiving contributions from foreign sources. These NGOs have lost their Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) registration as they violated the FCRA. 19% of the total NGOs blocked are based in Tamil Nadu, state witnessing protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear power plant. India has a total of about 43,451 registered NGOs. Tamil Nadu has the largest number…
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GAIL to sign a gas purchase agreement with Turkmenistan’s national oil firm in TAPI pipeline;Donna Summer dies
1. Cabinet allowed state-run gas-firm GAIL (India) Ltd to sign a gas purchase agreement with Turkmenistan’s national oil firm, for supplies from a planned multi-national pipeline, the proposed 1,700-km (1,056-mile) Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India line (TAPI) will have a capacity to carry 90 million cubic metres a day (mcmd) gas for a 30-year period and will be operational in 2018. 2. Country’s largest private mobile operator Bharti Airtel and Axis Bank made a partnership to provide banking services through…
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AUSTRALIA will give more than $300 million in assistance to Afghanistan;Parimarjan Negi won Asian continental chess championship
1. AUSTRALIA will give more than $300 million in assistance to Afghanistan to help sustain and support the nation’s security forces after Australian troops withdraw from the country. Australia will contribute $100 million a year to the Afghan National Security Forces from 2015. 2. Aziz Qureshi was sworn in as the fifth Governor of Uttarakhand by Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice Barin Ghosh at a simple ceremony in Raj Bhavan here on…
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