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News: Accessible India, the next sweeping initiative bearing the stamp of the Prime Minister’s Office, will introduce landmark initiatives over the next five years to make the country disabled-friendly. For starters, the government is working to introduce set-top boxes that will make TV programmes more useful for the visually impaired. Officials ...

News: Low-cost mobile device maker, Datawind will add two more manufacturing units in the country within next six months to meet its local requirements as the company has stopped importing finished products from China. “The new schemes and taxes now in place have made it beneficial for mobile devices companies ...

News: Fitted with powerful cameras, Special Purpose Aircraft may soon fly over the Ganga to survey the river as it courses through five states for a geospatial mapping of its basin to rid it off the pollution and encroachment. The survey would be conducted under the ambitious ‘Namami Gange’ programme of the ...

News: As a part of Accessible India,  Centre is roping in big corporates and asking them to take up a school, hospital, park, mall or other public building in their city for this purpose. The initiative will begin with the identification of public places that are inaccessible to the differently ...

News: Sony Corp has entered into an agreement to manufacture its Bravia line of televisions at Taiwanese contract manufacturer major Foxconn’s plant near Chennai. It is also evaluating the possibility of making smartphones in the country and may eventually set up its own plant in India. The government’s ‘Make in ...

News: Bharat Forge Chairman and Managing Director Babasaheb Kalyani, said India will make us third-largest economy after China. “Through the ‘Make-in-India’ campaign, our Prime Minister has envisaged to take the contribution of manufacturing sector in the GDP to 25 per cent in the next 10 to 15 years, which will ...

News: Pasighat is the only city in Arunachal Pradesh which fulfills the condition of having an existing master plan or a proposed one for being selected as a smart city under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme, launched by Union government. Basic objective of this mission ...

Blog: What if India had not invented the zero? Perhaps computers would not have seen the light of the day and the world would not be connected through information technology. With the Digital India programme, India may have an opportunity to inspire and transform the world yet again. Sixty years ...

News: The website “airmenselection.gov.in” was launched by Air Officer-in-Charge Personnel (AOP), Air Marshal S Neelakantan in tune with the national policy Digital India. Aspiring candidates for airmen selection would be able to apply online for all recruitment tests. Source: DefenceNews

News: Over 38 lakh urban poor have been provided with skill development training with assistance from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation. Skill development of urban poor to enable either self- employment or salaried employment was undertaken under the ‘Skill Training for Employment Promotion Amongst Urban Poor (STEP-UP)’ ...