1. The Press Council of India (PCI) has set up a one-man inquiry committee to look into the facts of the alleged gangrape of a 23-year-old photo-journalist in Mumbai.
2. India and ASEAN on Wednesday decided to set a target of $100 billion turnover for the bilateral trade by 2015 between the two entities and reviewed the completion of legal scrubbing of India-ASEAN agreements on Trade in Services and Investment.
3. The government today announced that a a national e-mail policy to protect privacy of email users in the country will be released.
Replying to supplementaries in the Rajya Sabha, Communication and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal informed the House that in the proposed policy all government departments and Indian embassies are being asked to use NIC server for their email correspondence.
4. Union Minister Jairam Ramesh has been made the Chairman of the Common Minimum Programme implementation committee for Jharkhand.
5. Of the total 644 million home and work Internet users in Asia-Pacific as of March 2013, China accounted for a lion's share of 54 per cent followed by India (11.5 percent), Japan (11.4 percent), Southeast Asia (9.6 percent) and rest of APAC (13.5 percent).
6. The share of Indian immigrants among all foreign born in the US has grown to almost 5 percent of the country's 40.4 million immigrants in 2011, noted an article published in the Migration Policy Institute's online journal, the Migration Information Source.
7. The Cabinet on Thursday approved the bill which entails replacing the collegium system with a Judicial Appointments Commission wherein it will have a say in appointment of judges of the Supreme Court and the 24 high courts.
8. Kudankulam to start generating 1,000 MW of power by October end. The project, dogged by delays since December last following protests by locals over safety concerns, was given the go-ahead by the Supreme Court on May 6.
9. India and Iraq, which is second largest oil exporter to the country, on Friday inked a key pact for conclusion of a 13-year-old contract for exploration of a Iraqi block estimated to hold 645 million barrels of in-place reserves under a broad-based energy cooperation agreement.
10. Vodafone India, along with ICICI Bank, Wednesday launched its mobile money transfer and payment service 'M-Pesa'. It plans to roll out this service in Mumbai and Lucknow in the next couple of days.
11. The use of chemical weapons in Syria would constitute a "crime against humanity", UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on Friday, adding there was "no time to lose" in investigating an alleged attack which the opposition says killed hundreds.
12. India and ASEAN on Wednesday decided to set a target of $100 billion turnover for the bilateral trade by 2015
13. The government today announced that a a national e-mail policy to protect privacy of email users in the country will be released.
14. Union Minister Jairam Ramesh has been made the Chairman of the Common Minimum Programme implementation committee for Jharkhand.
15. A United Nations committee has found Australia guilty of nearly 150 violations of international law for indefinite detention of 46 refugees.
16. The 19th Delhi Book Fair started off on 23 August 2013 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The theme of the 19th Delhi Book Fair is "Libraries and Readership". The theme will focus on the role of libraries on the Indian society. The book fair will take place till 31 August 2013.
17. The share of Indian immigrants among all foreign born in the US has grown to almost 5 percent of the country's 40.4 million immigrants in 2011, noted an article published in the Migration Policy Institute's online journal, the Migration Information Source.
18. The Cabinet on Thursday approved the bill which entails replacing the collegium system with a Judicial Appointments Commission wherein it will have asay in appointment of judges of the Supreme Court and the 24 high courts.
19. The plane which departed for India on August 20 from Boeing's Long Beach, California, facility joins the first and second India C-17 airlifters, which arrived in June and July, respectively.
20. Kudankulam to start generating 1,000 MW of power by October end
21. Sushil Kumar, 30, said that he was approached through one of his team's foreign coaches to losethe 66kg-category final against Russia's Alan Gogayev.
22. India surpass Japan to become third largest Internet population.
23. According to ComScore, an American Internet analytics firm, Yahoo has grabbed the top slot among the 50 best US internet properties in the monthly report for July, released on Wednesday. Yahoo has recorded 196,564,000 unique visitors in last month. Google is lagging slightly behind with 192,251,000 visitors.
24. The head of World Footbal's governing body FIFA says he is increasingly confident that Brazil will host a successful 2014 World Cup.
2. India and ASEAN on Wednesday decided to set a target of $100 billion turnover for the bilateral trade by 2015 between the two entities and reviewed the completion of legal scrubbing of India-ASEAN agreements on Trade in Services and Investment.
3. The government today announced that a a national e-mail policy to protect privacy of email users in the country will be released.
Replying to supplementaries in the Rajya Sabha, Communication and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal informed the House that in the proposed policy all government departments and Indian embassies are being asked to use NIC server for their email correspondence.
4. Union Minister Jairam Ramesh has been made the Chairman of the Common Minimum Programme implementation committee for Jharkhand.
5. Of the total 644 million home and work Internet users in Asia-Pacific as of March 2013, China accounted for a lion's share of 54 per cent followed by India (11.5 percent), Japan (11.4 percent), Southeast Asia (9.6 percent) and rest of APAC (13.5 percent).
6. The share of Indian immigrants among all foreign born in the US has grown to almost 5 percent of the country's 40.4 million immigrants in 2011, noted an article published in the Migration Policy Institute's online journal, the Migration Information Source.
7. The Cabinet on Thursday approved the bill which entails replacing the collegium system with a Judicial Appointments Commission wherein it will have a say in appointment of judges of the Supreme Court and the 24 high courts.
8. Kudankulam to start generating 1,000 MW of power by October end. The project, dogged by delays since December last following protests by locals over safety concerns, was given the go-ahead by the Supreme Court on May 6.
9. India and Iraq, which is second largest oil exporter to the country, on Friday inked a key pact for conclusion of a 13-year-old contract for exploration of a Iraqi block estimated to hold 645 million barrels of in-place reserves under a broad-based energy cooperation agreement.
10. Vodafone India, along with ICICI Bank, Wednesday launched its mobile money transfer and payment service 'M-Pesa'. It plans to roll out this service in Mumbai and Lucknow in the next couple of days.
11. The use of chemical weapons in Syria would constitute a "crime against humanity", UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on Friday, adding there was "no time to lose" in investigating an alleged attack which the opposition says killed hundreds.
12. India and ASEAN on Wednesday decided to set a target of $100 billion turnover for the bilateral trade by 2015
13. The government today announced that a a national e-mail policy to protect privacy of email users in the country will be released.
14. Union Minister Jairam Ramesh has been made the Chairman of the Common Minimum Programme implementation committee for Jharkhand.
15. A United Nations committee has found Australia guilty of nearly 150 violations of international law for indefinite detention of 46 refugees.
16. The 19th Delhi Book Fair started off on 23 August 2013 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The theme of the 19th Delhi Book Fair is "Libraries and Readership". The theme will focus on the role of libraries on the Indian society. The book fair will take place till 31 August 2013.
17. The share of Indian immigrants among all foreign born in the US has grown to almost 5 percent of the country's 40.4 million immigrants in 2011, noted an article published in the Migration Policy Institute's online journal, the Migration Information Source.
18. The Cabinet on Thursday approved the bill which entails replacing the collegium system with a Judicial Appointments Commission wherein it will have asay in appointment of judges of the Supreme Court and the 24 high courts.
19. The plane which departed for India on August 20 from Boeing's Long Beach, California, facility joins the first and second India C-17 airlifters, which arrived in June and July, respectively.
20. Kudankulam to start generating 1,000 MW of power by October end
21. Sushil Kumar, 30, said that he was approached through one of his team's foreign coaches to losethe 66kg-category final against Russia's Alan Gogayev.
22. India surpass Japan to become third largest Internet population.
23. According to ComScore, an American Internet analytics firm, Yahoo has grabbed the top slot among the 50 best US internet properties in the monthly report for July, released on Wednesday. Yahoo has recorded 196,564,000 unique visitors in last month. Google is lagging slightly behind with 192,251,000 visitors.
24. The head of World Footbal's governing body FIFA says he is increasingly confident that Brazil will host a successful 2014 World Cup.
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