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Robotics In Warfare: Various Issues, Developments; Recent Approaches In UN

It is taking the world by the storm, giving rise to many controversies and criticisms, and also got recently discussed in the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security)....

August 30, 2017

GK & Current Affairs Quiz: August 30, 2017

1. Who has been crowned as India’s first-ever Miss TransQueen 2017? [A] Reena Rai[B] Loiloi Haorongbam[C] Ragasya[D] Nitasha Biswas Show Answer Correct Answer: D [Nitasha Biswas] Notes:Kolkata-based Nitasha...

August 30, 2017

IIT Researchers develops bioartificial implantable pancreas

Researchers from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have successfully created an implantable bioartificial pancreas model grown within 3D silk scaffold. The bioartificial pancreas encapsulates insulin-producing beta cells,...

August 30, 2017

Cabinet approves MoU between India-Brazil for cooperation in Zebu Cattle Genomics and ARTs

The Union Cabinet has apprised Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between India and Brazil in October 2016 for cooperation in fields of Zebu Cattle Genomics and Assisted Reproductive...

August 30, 2017

Cabinet approves promulgation of GST (Compensation to States) Ordinance, 2017

The Union Cabinet has given its approval to the proposal of Union Finance Ministry to promulgate an ordinance to suitably amend the Goods and Services Tax (Compensation to...

August 30, 2017

Sumiteru Taniguchi, prominent nuclear disarmament campaigner of Japan, passes away

Sumiteru Taniguchi (88), the prominent nuclear disarmament campaigner and peace activist, has passed away in Nagasaki, Japan on August 30. He was the survivor of the 1945 atomic...

August 30, 2017

The Gobindobhog rice gets Geographical Indication (GI) status

Gobindobhog rice from Burdwan district of West Bengal has recently got the Geographical Indication (GI) status. As a result of getting the GI tag, rice from other regions...

August 30, 2017

Delhi police launches a skill development programme “YUVA”

Rajnath Singh, the Union Home Minister, has inaugurated the YUVA – a skill development programme and an initiative by Delhi Police under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)...

August 30, 2017

Uttar Pradesh government launches Startup Yatra programme from Lucknow

Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh chief Minister, has launched the Startup Yatra programme in Lucknow on August 30, 2017. Beside this, the government has also launch a mobile...

August 30, 2017

India and Canadawill jointly issue postage stamps with Diwali as theme

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently informed that India and Canada have mutually agreed to jointly issue a set of two Commemorative Postage...

August 30, 2017

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