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Indian, French companies ink pacts worth 13 billion euros

Indian and French companies have exchanged 19 contracts and agreements worth over 13 billion euros in sectors including new and renewable energy, smart grid, nuclear energy, aviation, cement,...

March 10, 2018

India, France sign strategic pact on use of each other’s military bases

India and France have inked strategic pact providing for use of each other’s military facilities including opening naval bases to warships. It was signed during official state visit...

March 10, 2018

CP TPP: 11 countries sign revised TPP trade pact without US

11 Pacific Rim countries have formally entered into Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership or CP TPP or TPP11 in Santiago, Chile. It is revised version of...

March 10, 2018

Supreme Court allows passive euthanasia, living will

The Supreme Court (SC) allowed passive euthanasia and right to give advance medical directives or ‘Living Wills’, stating that human beings have the right to die with dignity...

March 10, 2018

IREDA & European Investment Bank ink Loan Agreement for Renewable Energy Financing in India

Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) and European Investment Bank (EIB) have signed loan agreement for second line of credit (LoC) of Euro 150 million on non-sovereign basis...

March 10, 2018

Diu becomes first Union Territory to run 100% on solar power

Diu has become the first and only Union Territory in the country to be fully run on solar energy. The UT generates total of 13 megawatts (MW) of...

March 10, 2018

Rajasthan passes bill for death penalty for child rape of girls below 12

Rajasthan Assembly has passed Criminal Laws (Rajasthan Amendment) Bill, 2018 by voice vote to amend Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860 to add provisions providing for death penalty for...

March 10, 2018

First ever ‘crime-free zone’ along India, Bangladesh international border launched

The director generals of Border Security Force (BSF), India and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have declared 8.3 km stretch of Indo-Bangladesh border as first ‘crime-free zone’. The stretch covers...

March 10, 2018

UPSC Recruitment 2018 for Translator, Legal Officer and Other Posts

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has invited applications for the post of Translator(Tibetan), Legal Officer and other posts. The total number of posts is 16 and the break-up of...

March 10, 2018

AIIMS Jodhpur Recruitment 2018 for Nursing Officer and Other Posts

All India Institute of Medical Science, Jodhpur, an autonomous Institute of national importance and  one of the new AIIMS and apex healthcare being established by the Ministry of...

March 10, 2018

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