India at Bali WTO Meet Bats for Duty Free Quota Free Market Access for LDCs...
Bali (ABC Live): The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Mr. Anand Sharma addressed the Plenary Session of the 9th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) at Bali Today....
View ArticleNearly 230 Million Children Do Not Have Their Birth Certificate in World
New York (ABC Live):11 December 2013 – Nearly 230 million children under the age of five have not had their births officially recorded, excluding them from education, health care and social security,...
View ArticlePost Elections Government Has to Take Hard Steps to Manage Indian Economy:...
New Delhi (ABC Live): Dr. Raghuram G. Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India talked about financial reforms at the Delhi Economics Conclave 2013 at Delhi on December 11, 2013. “The economy is...
View ArticleIndia’s Water Requirement for Irrigation Will Come Down by 10 percent in...
New Delhi (ABC Live): The Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012-17) Document inter-alia indicates that agriculture consumes around 80% of our country’s available water resources at present. The National...
View ArticleNHAI Converts 14,000 km Highway into Four Lanes by 2012
New Delhi (ABC Live):About 14,000 km length of National Highways has been converted to four lanes during the last ten years i.e. 2004 to 2012 by National Highways Authority of India. As compared to...
View ArticleIndia Not to Relax Compensation Provisions for US Nuclear Supply Company...
New Delhi (ABC Live): The Government is not going to relax the rules relating to compensation prescribed in Section 17(b) of Nuclear Civil Liability Act, for an American company, Westing House Corp....
View ArticleIGIA Owns Airport Collaborative Decision Making for Perfect Landing, Takeoff
New Delhi (ABC Live):Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Shri K. C. Venugopal informed the Lok Sabha today that Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), Delhi has recently introduced an advance...
View ArticleBanking Company Gets Exemption from Competition Act Over Acquisition,...
New Delhi (ABC Live):The Government, vide notification dated 08.01.2013 has already exempted a banking company in respect of which a notification under section 45 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949...
View ArticleIndia Registers 0.5 Degree Centigrade Temperature Rise Since 1902
New Delhi (ABC Live):Spatial pattern of trend in mean annual temperature anomalies, for the period 1902-2012, suggests significant positive (increasing) trend (0.50C in general with few pockets of...
View ArticleMexico Confirms Safely Recovery of Stolen Radioactive Source
Mexico City (ABC Live): Mexico has told the IAEA’s Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) that it has safely recovered the dangerous radioactive source that had been abandoned in a field after being...
View ArticleJNNSM All Set to Establish India As Biggest Solar Power Hub: World Bank
New Delhi(ABC Live) 12 December, 2013 – Launched in 2010, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission Phase 1 (JNNSM) is well-poised to make India a global leader in the development of solar power. In...
View ArticleObesity Becomes Bane of Many Deadly Diseases: World Innovation Summit for Health
DOHA, QATAR:(ABC Live): Health leaders must look beyond their own health systems and develop partnerships with other sectors such as education, labor, agriculture, and finance in order to tackle the...
View ArticleIndia Adds 15 Drugs in Its Ban List During 2013
New Delhi (ABC Live): The Government has suspended the manufacture for sale, sale and distribution of following drugs in 2013 as the use of these drugs was likely to involve risk to the human health:...
View ArticleIsrael–Palestine Peace Deal by April 2014: United States
JERUSALEM (ABC Live): U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians is within reach by April of 2014. Israel would release more Palestinian...
View ArticleIndian Government Allots Rs.1350 Crores to Increase 4058 PG Seats in Medical...
New Delhi (ABC Live): To ensure availability of trained human resources in health sector, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has implemented a new centrally sponsored scheme with a funding pattern...
View ArticleIndia Houses 1484958 TB, MDR-TB Cases
New Delhi (ABC Live): India accounts for the highest number of TB and MDR-TB cases in the world. Though the incidence rates of TB and MDR-TB are low in our country as compared to other countries, this...
View ArticleAmended Code of Conduct for Ministers Requires Them to Uphold Political...
New Delhi (ABC Live): The Cabinet has approved revision of the Code of Conduct for Ministers in the Government of India as well as the State Governments. It is now proposed to include a new para in...
View Article42.5 percent Children Under 5 Years Are Undernourished:NFHS
New Delhi (ABC Live):The National Family Health Survey (NFHS) provides the data on nutrition indicators at National & State level. As per NFHS-3,(2005-06), 42.5 % children under 5 years are...
View ArticleNational Commission for Women Gets 458 Complaints of Sexual Harassment of...
New Delhi (ABC Live): The numbers of complaints of sexual harassment of women at work places registered with National Commission for Women (NCW) during the last two years and current years shows the...
View ArticleRussian Soldier Drives BMP- 2 Tank to Nearby Town to Buy Cigarettes
Kaliningrad (ABC Live): In Kaliningrad, Russian military Solider Arthur Vilgert was accused of causing more than 1.8 million rubles of damage to the Defense Ministry of Russia by driving an infantry...
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