Indian Military contingent to march on
Mascow Victory day in Mascow on 9 May
1. A
70-member marching contingent of the Grenadiers Regiment from the Indian Army
will take part in 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade at Red Square on 9 May
2. This
will be the first time an Indian military contingent will be participating in
the Moscow Victory Day celebrations.
3. This
year’s parade marks the 70th anniversary of the day of Nazi Germany’s surrender
to the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1945.
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Assamese Filmmaker Bidyut Chakraborty
passes Away
1. Renowned
Assamese filmmaker and actor Bidyut Chakraborty was passed away in a
private nursing home in Guwahati.
2. In his
film career he had directed several Assamese movies including Goon Goon Gaane
Gaane, Dwaar and Raag-Biraag.
3. His
directorial film Rag-Birag is based on a novel written by Jnanpith award-winner
Mamoni Raisom Goswami.
4. Apart
from direction, Chakraborty acted in several Assamese movies and serials.
Justice Meenakshi Madan Rai sworn in as
first Lady Judge of Sikkim HC
1. Meenakshi
Madan Rai sworn in as the first lady Judge of the Sikkim High Court.
2. Her
oath of the office was administered by the Governor Srinivas Patil at Ashirwad
Hall at Raj Bhavan in Gangtok.
3.Rai
is also the third High Court judge who hails from the small border state.
Government of India Form task Force to
Interlinking all Rivers
1. Union
Government on 14 April 2015 constituted a task force on interlinking of rivers
in the country.
2. The
Task Force will be chaired by former Secretary of Ministry of Water Resources B
N Navalawala and comprises experts and senior officials.
Terms of References of Task Force:
1. Consider
alternative plans in case of infeasible links in the present National Perspective
Plan (NPP) apart from examining the existing links which are laid out as per
the NPP under both Himalayan and Peninsular components.
2. Facilitate
interlinking of intra-basin and intra-state Rivers, along with that of
inter-state and inter-basin links.
3. Suggest
different means of funding mechanisms for the interlinking of rivers project.
4. Provide
guidance norms of appraisal for individual projects in respect of economic
viability, environmental impacts, socio-economic and preparation of
resettlement plans.
5. Device
suitable mechanisms in order to bring speedy consensus among the states.
Union Ministry of Home Affairs renamed
Tourist Visa on Arrival scheme as e-Tourist Visa
1. Union
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) determined to rename Tourist Visa on
Arrival-Electronic Travel Authorization (TVoA-ETA) scheme as e-Tourist Visa
(eTV) scheme.
2. The
renamed scheme will come into impact from 15 April 2105.
3. MHA
determined to vary the identity of the scheme after it noticed that the
identify of the scheme (TVoA-ETA) created confusion amongst travelers and
additionally it had acquired requests of identify change from some Indian embassies.
4. The
new identify eTV scheme was chosen after the committee constituted for the goal
carried out a contest on mygov.in and chosen e-Tourist Visa (eTV) because the
applicable new identify.
6. The
committee comprised of officers from Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of
External Affairs and Bureau of Immigration (BoI).
Electronic Travel Authorization
(TVoA-ETA)
1. The Union
Government launched Tourist Visa on Arrival enabled by Electronic Travel
Authorization (TVoA-ETA) on 27 November 2014.
2. The
scheme was launched for 44 nations at 9 airports to facilitate brief period
worldwide travellers.
Arun Jaitley inaugurated Vividh Bharati
Service of Delhi on FM Mode
1. Union
Information and Broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated the Vividh
Bharati Service of Delhi on FM Mode in a functionality held at
premises of New Broadcasting House of All India Radio (AIR).
2. The
service shall be accessible on 100.1 Megahertz frequency.
3. The service will even be accessible on cell
phones.
4. Apart
from this, Jaitley additionally introduced that the DD Kisan channel shall be
launched in May 2015.
About Vividh Bharati
1. The
Vividh Bharati is a service of All India Radio. It was conceptualized
to fight Radio Ceylon in 1957.
2. Bharati radio channel was launched on 2 October
1957. The service offers amusement for almost 15 to 17 hours a day.
China quashed bid of Taiwan to turn into
full member of AIIB
1. The
Chinese Government quashed the bid of Taiwan to turn into a full member of the
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for lack of applicable identify.
2. Taiwan
made a final-minute software to be a part of the AIIB as a founding member on
the deadline day of 31 March 2015 beneath the identify of Chinese-Taipei. The
identify was utilized by the International Olympic Committee and the Asian
Development Bank.
3. Taiwan
will now search to be a part of the financial institution as a standard member,
rather than a founding member.
Ri Su Yong, the Foreign Minister of North
Korea, visited India
1. Ri
Su Yong, the Foreign Minister of North Korea, visited India from 12
April to 14 April 2015.
2. He
was on a 3-day go to to India and this was the primary-ever go to of
a international minister of North Korea to India.
3. During
the go to, international minister degree talks have been held masking problems
with mutual curiosity together with India’s safety considerations have been
mentioned.
Zomato acquires Delhi based data firm MaplePOS
1. Online
restaurant guide Zomato acquired MaplePOS, a cloud-based point
of sale product for
restaurants developed by Delhi based MapleGraph.
2. After the
acquisition, Zomato has renamed MaplePOS product to ‘Zomato Base’ which will
help the company and
its restaurant partners to manage business into online orders and payments.
3. MaplePos, a
sale product offers various features of restaurants such as inventory and menu management,
and has in-built payment solution to accept debit and credit card payments.
4. MapleGraph
was founded in 2011 by Varun Tangri, Arun Tangri and Abhishek Rohilla.
BSF launches nationwide tele-medicine
programme for troops
1. Border
Security Force (BSF) on 14 April 2015 launched nationwide satellite-based
tele-medicine programme
for its troops.
2. The
programme will address medical and health-related problems of its troops
deployed in far-flung frontier
areas and difficult regions in the hinterland in case of an emergency or
illness.
3. It will be
operated and hosted from the BSF’s Kadamtala-based composite hospital in
Siliguri, West Bengal.
4. The
full-time team of doctors at hospital will be connected with BSF posts along
the Indo-Pak and Indo Bangla
frontiers.
5. The hospital
has been equipped with required technology including satellite phones and the VSAT platform to
host the programme.
6. The
programme will be made fully operational in 2015 which marks 50th year of BSF’s
Raising.
Turkey begins construction of first
nuclear power
1. Turkey
on 14 April 2015 began the construction of its first nuclear power plant
located at Akkuyu in Mersin province on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
2. It
will be built by Akkuyu Project Company, a subsidiary of Russia’s nuclear
agency Rosatom.
3. In
2010, Turkey and Russia had signed an agreement to set up $20 billion Akkuyu
nuclear project.