Miscellaneous

With a vision to stop India’s best brains from taking up scholarships for frontier research abroad, the Union Cabinet has approved the PM Research Fellowships (PMRF) for students of higher education institutions like the IITs, IISERs and NITs, which will also be the country’s most lavish paid scholarships to date. The PMRF includes monthly scholarships of Rs 70,000 to Rs ...

Paving the way for the implementation of the Budget announcement regarding “Pay as you use” tolling in India, the National Highways Authority of India is executing a pilot project to study the implement ability of the system in the country. The pilot project involves implementing a satellite based electronic toll collection system running on GPS/GSM technology for around 500 commercial ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Veteran Bollywood actor Jeetendra has been accused of sexually harassing his cousin 47 years ago. The survivor filed a complaint against the actor on Wednesday. Jeetendra, whose real name is Ravi Kapoor, is the complainant’s maternal cousin. A complaint has been filed with the Himachal Pradesh’s Director General of Police. As per the complaint, the alleged incident took ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU An engineer in the UAE, who sneaked into the Sharjah International Airport runway to catch a plane to meet his fiancee back home, is not regretting his actions, saying he acted out of love, a media report said today. The 26 year old civil engineer, identified only as RK, was arrested by the Sharjah Police after he ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Information and Broadcasting ministry is considering expansion of Doordarshan’s round-the-clock news broadcast to around 100 countries with a view to reach out to the diaspora and put across India’s perspective on domestic and international issues, a senior official said Currently, DD India primarily produces various cultural and general entertainment programmes for broadcast in overseas countries. It ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) has decided to launch operation digital board in all schools in next five years. It will be jointly organized by centre, state, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and community. It will improve the quality of education. Students will be empowered with 360-degree information with interesting learning experience and teacher accountability will ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Sardar Bhagwan Singh PG Institute, Balawala honoured Mountaineer Amisha Chauhan for her achievement of being the first Indian women to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in just 54 hours. Harinder Pal Kaur, w/o late founder Director felicitated Amisha Chauhan with a token of appreciation on 15 January. Present on the occasion were SP Singh, Chairman, Dr Gaurav Deep Singh, ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Sending kids to school has an inbuilt tax advantage for parents. This is because tuition fee qualifies for tax benefit under Section 80C of the Income-tax Act, 1961. The amount of tax benefit is within the overall limit of the section of Rs 1.5 lakh a year. For tax purposes, the fee reduces the total gross income ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU In view of New Year celebrations at various places in Gurugram, Haryana minister Kavita Jain today directed fire officers to conduct surprise inspections of fire-fighting equipment and emergency exits at such places and initiate action, in case of any irregularity. In a statement issued here, she said the state government was committed towards the safety of the ...

Just last month, on November 25, a little baby girl was born to a couple in Tennessee in the US. The catch is that embryo that formed into their baby was not their own, but was actually cryogenically frozen back in 1992. An American woman has given birth to a healthy baby girl from an embryo that was frozen a ...