Littering railway tracks and platform will cost you a fine of Rs 5000
from now onwards
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The ruling has been given by National Green
Tribunal to help the cleanliness drive in the country.
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The bench, headed by NGT Chairperson Justice
Swatanter Kumar, also passed a slew of instructions to Railways and other
authorities on how to keep the premises clean.
Department of Consumer Affairs launches a web portal "GAMA"
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GAMA (Grievances Against Misleading
Advertisements) was launched for redressal of grievances against
misleading advertisements.
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It also introduced "Grahak Suvidha
Kendras" - one stop consumer service centers, in six cities of Ahmedabad,
Bangalore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Patna and Delhi.
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These new initiatives aims to enhance consumer
awareness and strengthen support services to them across the country.
For every convict, there are more than 2 undertrials in Indian jails
As per the data compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau at the
end of 2013, there were 4,11,992 inmates in the jails of the country, out of
which the number of convict prisoners was 1,29,608 and the number of
undertrials was 2,78,503.
'Prisons' is a state subject under Entry 4 of List II of the 7th
schedule to the Constitution and prison administration is primarily the
responsibility of the state governments.
IOC & NOC will setup a petroleum product pipeline
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Indian Oil Corporation is in talks with Nepal
Oil Corporation for setting up a petroleum product pipeline from Raxaul in
India to Amlekhganj in Nepal.
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The proposed pipeline, measuring some 38 Km,
would come up at estimated cost of around Rs 200 crore.
GOI gives its approval for establishment of All India Institute of
Ayurveda
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The Government has approved for establishment of
All India Institute of Ayurveda at Sarita Vihar, New Delhi.
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It has been conceived as an Apex Institute of
Ayurveda with 200 bedded referral hospital for imparting education in the field
of Ayurveda at MD and Ph.D level.
India will host the first Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk
Reduction
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India will host the first Asian Ministerial
Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction of the post-2015 era.
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The Conference is set to endorse a Regional
Implementation Plan of the new post-2015 framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
(DRR).
Snapdeal plans to acquire logistics firm GoJavas to boost its delivery
operations
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The deal, estimated to be in the range of
150-200 crore, is the 6th acquisition by the Snapdeal till date.
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The 2nd biggest e-commerce platform of India, is
also going to acquire mobile recharge platform, Freecharge, for about Rs 2,800
crore.
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GoJavas - which works with eCommerce
companies like HealthKart, Jabong, Yepme and Lenskart - covers over 2500
pincodes in the country for its delivery operation.
EVMs to carry photos of candidates from May 1, 2015 - Election
Commission
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Election Commission has announced that
Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and ballot papers will carry photographs of
candidates from 1 May 2015.
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This move of EC seeks to avoid voters being
misled by several namesakes in the election fray. In this regard EC has issued
an order to all political parties and State Chief Electoral Officers for
implementation.
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EC also has modified the relevant provisions of
law under the Conduct of Election Rules giving effect to the photo ballot
papers and EVMs.
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Henceforth, the photo of candidate will appear
between the name and election symbol on the ballot sheet and EVM. While
for designing the new photo ballot papers, the EC has specified election
candidates to supply stamp size recent photograph with specification of 2.5 cm
width and 2 cm height.
Astra - Indigenously developed air-to-air missile successfully test
fired
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The all-weather 'Beyond Visual Range (BVR)'
missile can destroy enemy aircraft at supersonic speed.
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This 3.8 metre long missile is the smallest of
the DRDO-developed missiles.
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The missile can reach up to 110 km when fired
from an altitude of 15 km and 44 km when launched from an altitude of 8 km and
21 km when fired from sea level.
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India’s ingenuously developed Beyond Visual
Range (BVR) air-to-air missile Astra was successfully tested on 18 March 2015
from a Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft. The test was undertaken at the
Integrated Test Range located at Chandipur in Odisha.