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NEW INDIA-UK JOINT RESEARCH PROGRAMME INITIATED POUND 45 MILLION PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCED TO SUPPORT AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE
- July 30, 2010
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Current Affairs Foreign Affairs A 45 million Pound partnership between Department of Bio-Technology, Government of India and Wellcome Trust, UK has been announced to support the development of innovative healthcare products at affordable costs. Two other new India-UK joint research projects – “Bridging the rural/urban divide” to provide technological solutions to improve the quality of life of rural inhabitants in [...]

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INDIA – UK COLLABORATION ON INDUSTRIAL ENERGY EFFICIENCY
- July 30, 2010
- By India Current Affairs
- Government
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Current Affairs Foreign Affairs Union Minister of Power, Shri Sushilkumar Shinde, and the Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Mr Greg Barker, met today in New Delhi for bilateral discussions. Among other issues of mutual interest, they discussed the question of industrial energy efficiency, and considered areas where bilateral collaboration could help inform analysis and [...]

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INDIAN OCEAN FORECASTING SYSTEM
- July 30, 2010
- By India Current Affairs
- Environment / Wildlife
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Current Affairs India Forecasting oceanographic parameters (both in surface and subsurface) at different time scales is extremely important for a wide spectrum of users ranging from the weathermen to fishermen, and from the navy to the off-shore industries. Currently, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) is forecasting the waves in the Indian waters as well as over the Indian Ocean. Recently, [...]

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APPLE, THE WORLD’S MOST VALUABLE BRAND IN FORBES LIST
- July 30, 2010
- By India Current Affairs
- Economy /Business
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Current Affairs Technology Apple Computers has emerged as the world’s most valuable brand in the 50 Top valuable brand list of the Forbes magazine. “This (Apple) is a company that has faced setbacks before and bounced back to become the world’s most valuable brand–worth USD 57.4 billion,” Forbes said, explaining the company’s number 1 position in its Top 50 world’s [...]

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PRODUCTION OF CRUDE STEEL INCREASES IN 2009-10
- July 30, 2010
- By India Current Affairs
- Industry
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Current Affairs Industry The production of crude steel in India has increased in the year 2009-10 in comparison to the year 2008-09. However, percentage of growth of steel has declined marginally in the year 2007-08 and 2008-09 in comparison to the year 2006-07. Following is the details of production of crude steel in the country: -

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MOBILE CLONING CASES
- July 30, 2010
- By India Current Affairs
- Science-Tech
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Current Affairs Technology. The Government has come to know through Telecom Service Providers that approximately 2150 cases of misuse of mobile cloning through duplication of subscriber identity in different parts of country have come to their notice during 2009-10. Cloning of subscriber identity takes place by duplication of SIM (Subscriber Identity Modules) in GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) and [...]

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IRRIGATION PROJECTS UNDER ACCELERATED IRRIGATION BENEFITS PROGRAMME
- July 30, 2010
- By India Current Affairs
- Agriculture
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currentAffairs Infrastructure So far, 281 major/medium projects have been funded under Accelerated Irrigation Benefits Programme (AIBP) of which, 121 projects are reported as completed, 5 projects have been deferred by the State Governments and remaining 155 are ongoing by the various State Governments. Apart from above, so far 10808 surface water Minor Irrigation Schemes of various States have been funded [...]

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SCHEMES FOR SENIOR CITIZENS IN INDIA
- July 30, 2010
- By India Current Affairs
- Government
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Current Affairs Social Issues The National Policy on Older Persons (NPOP), 1999 envisages State support to ensure financial and food security, health care, shelter and protection of life and property of senior citizens. The Government also enacted the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 which provides for maintenances of parents/senior citizens by children/relatives, establishment of old [...]

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INDIAN WORKERS ABROAD
- July 30, 2010
- By India Current Affairs
- India and the World
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Current Affairs Overseas Indians Indian workers emigrate for seeking employment in all categories of work ranging from low skilled to high skilled professional jobs. Data is available only for ECR (Emigration Check Required) category of workers going abroad. This category includes those workers who have not passed class 10 level school certificate and are emigrating to 17 notified countries. The details of ECR Category workers [...]

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