Aerial Delivery Research & Development Establishment (ADRDE), Agra conducted a flight demonstration of Controlled Aerial Delivery System of 500 kg capacity (CADS-500). ADRDE, Agra is an R&D laboratory of Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the flight demonstration is part of celebrating ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, commemorating 75 years of Independence.
The Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL), under the Ministry of Steel has been awarded with the prestigious Golden Peacock Environment Management Award for the year 2021 in the Steel Sector by the Institute of Directors. SAIL has been the winner of this award for successive three years.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the longest expressway of Uttar Pradesh Ganga Expressway in Shahjahanpur district.
Prime Minister said that the Ganga expressway will open new avenues of development to the region and for Jawan and Kisan of Uttar Pradesh this will be an expressway of infinite opportunities.
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test-fired the new generation nuclear-capable ballistic missile ‘Agni Prime’ from APJ Abdul Kalam island off the coast of Odisha in Balasore. Capable of eliminating an enemy 5,000 kilometres away India has successfully test-fired the new generation nuclear-capable ballistic missile ‘Agni P’.
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has launched the Unified Logistics Interface Platform’s (ULIP) hackathon – ‘LogiXtics’ to crowdsource more ideas which will benefit the logistics industry. The ULIP Hackathon was launched by Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog.
Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar has opened the new Integrated Command and Control Center (ICCC) under the Karnal Smart Cityproject. The new Command and Control Center will enable the functioning of advanced systems such as adaptive traffic control, automatic number plate recognition, detection of red-light violation and speed-violation
The Government of India and the Germany Development Bank - KfW (Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau) signed a 442.26 million euros loan pact for Surat Metro Rail project. The total cost of the project is 1.5 billion euros, of which KfW is financing 442.26 million euros The project is being co-financed by French Development Agency, AFD (Agence Francaise de Developpemet).
Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Shri Giriraj launched MIS (Management Information System) portal for rankings of States/UTs in Land Acquisition Projects under RFCTLARR Act, 2013. (Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013).
Four airports of Airports Authority of India (AAI) -- Varanasi, Pune, Kolkata and Vijayawada -- and three joint venture airports namely Hyderabad International Airport, Bangalore International Airport and Delhi International Airport have completed preliminary testing of the Digi Yatra biometric boarding system with registration only for the 'Day of Travel'.
The total length of national highways (NHs) in the country has increased from about 91,287 km in April 2014 to about 1,40,937 km till the end of November this year, during 2014-15 to the end of November 2021, projects for about 82,058 km have been awarded.
India’s Hansini Mathan Rajan defeated Syria’s Hend Zaza, the youngest athlete of this year’s Tokyo Olympics, to win the girls singles event at the 2021 ITTF Hopes and Challenge table tennis tournament in Amman. Playing in the U-12 category, the reigning cadet national champion outplayed Zaza. Parth Prabhakar was India’s entry in the boys singles event which was won by Iran.
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi hosted a roundtable interaction with representatives of Venture Capital and Private Equity Funds at Lok Kalyan Marg. Prime Minister sought suggestions towards improving Ease of Doing Business in India, attracting more capital and furthering the reform process in the country.
Former Supreme Court judge, Justice Girish Thakorlal Nanavati who headed two inquiry commissions formed to probe into the 2002 Godhra Riots & 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots passed away. Justice Girish Thakorlal Nanavati was 86.
He was elevated as the Judge of the Supreme Court of India with effect in March 1995 and he retired as an SC Judge in February 2000.