PM Narender Modi Launched Digital India week Compaign asking, “ if indians can work in Google. Why cant be Google made in india?”
- He launched his ambitious Digital India Project with an aim to create Digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.
- Project to generate employment for 18 lakh people in the country.
- Modi stressed on minimum government and maximum governance through Digital India,
- E-governance is easy governance and economic governance. We have to empower citizens.” “E-governance will soon become m-governance, that is mobile governance,” he said.
Greece becomes first developed nation to default on International Monetary Fund (IMF) debt after missing the deadline for payment of 1.7 billion dollar (1.5 billion euro) to IMF.
- Eurozone finance ministers refused to extend its bailout to Greece after it rejected the the proposal given by the troika viz., International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Commission (EC) and European Central Bank (ECB).
- According to proposal, “Greece needs to raise its primary surplus within two years in order to avail the 15.5 billion Euros of funding, which in turn required pension and tax reforms for which the Syriza government is reluctant to”.
World Bank cleared a $650 million loan for Eastern freight rail corridor that will span 1,840 kms (1,140 miles) across the northern heartland of the country.
- It will help speed up the carrying of goods between Ludhiana in the western region and Kolkata in the east, and is part of a series of new freight lines the World Bank says India needs to ease congestion on its network.
- The loan is the third from the World Bank to help fund the freight corridor. Last year the bank approved a $1.1 billion outlay and in 2011 $975 million.
Jagmohan Yadav appointed as the Director General of Police (DGP) of Uttar Pradesh.
- He is 1983 batch Indian Police Service officer.
- He is the 8th police chief of Uttar Pradesh in the last three-and-a-half years of the Samajwadi Party (SP) rule.
- He succeeded AK Jain who retired as DGP on 30 June 2015.
- Jain, in reality, retired on 31 March 2015 but was given three months extension by the state government.
State-owned power equipment maker BHEL commissioned Sudan’s largest power plant.
- Bhel has executed this project on Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) basis.
- It has designed, manufactured, supplied and installed the complete power project (4 units of 125 MW each) including associated civil works.
- The project uses crude oil from South Sudan as fuel, for which Bhel has designed special boilers. All the major equipment for the project — boilers, steam-turbines, generators, Controls & Instrumentation (C&I), transformers — have been manufactured in-house.
- The Kosti plant is Bhel’s largest oil-fired thermal power plant in the overseas market.
- It is also Bhel’s first crude oil fired thermal power plant in Africa and comes on the heels of the successful completion of Bhel’s 28 MW Nyaborango Hydro project in Rwanda.
SBI, country’s largest bank signed MoU with online travel company MakeMyTrip.com to capitalise on the business opportunities of the booming e-commerce and m-commerce ecosystem.
- The alliance includes partnership with personal banking unit for consumer facing propositions – including EMIs on purchase of holidays & international travel, customized travel products like Forex cards and travel products that inspire SBI customers to travel.
- It also includes partnership with SME & Acquiring Business — MMT suppliers, such as 2-3 star hotels, franchisees, Trade & Travel partners will get access to SBI products, loans, bank guarantees, PoS payment instruments at preferential rates and partnership with cards for promoting card usage which will help in pushing the agenda of a less cash economy.
- MakeMyTrip constitutes about 46% of the bookings in the online space and a lot of product work is being done in the $22-23 billion travel industry ecosystem.
Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu inaugurated the Integrated Security System (ISS) at 6 railway stations in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The system was inaugurated Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), Dadar, Kurla and Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT), Kalyan and Thane.
About ISS :
- ISS is advanced security systems that aims at improving security on Railway premises and also ensure safety of the people and avert terror attacks in extreme case.
- The system has a total of 118 CCTV cameras. They will beam the live images of railway stations under its coverage on six monitors.
- In the first of the project which was completed in June 2015 it covered four stations CST, Dadar, Kurla and LTT.
- The second phase is expected to be completed by December 2016. Apart from this, he also inaugurated a modified foot over bridge (FOB) to facilitate passenger movement at Diva.
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Matti Makkonen, Finnish telecom engineer and father of messaging service (SMS) technology passes away following serious illness. He was 63.
About Matti Makkonen :
- Matti Makkonen was born on 16 April 1952 in Suomussalmi, Finland. He had graduated as an electrical engineer from the Oulu technical college in 1976.
- He had served as vice president of PTL and was actively involved in the development of the GSM-technology from 1984 to 1988. In 1989, he was appointed as President of the mobile communication unit which was later renamed as Telecom Finland.
- In 1984, he had pioneered the idea of sending messages via mobile networks but failed to patent it was merely idea and was not actual implementation.
- He was awarded The Economist’s Innovation Award in the computing and telecommunications category.
19th Commonwealth Chess Championship :
Former world junior champion and Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta won the 19th Commonwealth Chess Championship.
He won the gold medal after settling for a quick draw with his opponent Arghyadip Das in the ninth and final round played at Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Runner up : Arghyadip Das came second winning the silver medal and M R Lalith Babu won the bronze medal in men’s section.
In the women’s category : Padmini Rout won the gold medal. While S Vijayalakshmi and S Meenakshi won silver and bronze medal respectively.
