New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the 750-megawatt “game-changer” Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Power Project, Asia’s largest, in Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district. The Prime Minister dedicated the ultra mega solar power plant, which the government has said will reduce emission equivalent to approximately 15 lakh tonne of carbon dioxide every year, to the nation through video conferencing. “Solar energy is going to be a major medium of energy needs not to be only today but in the 21st century. Because solar energy is sure, pure and secure,”…
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WhatsApp Rolls Out Animated Stickers Support to All Users !!
WhatsApp has started rolling out animated stickers for Android and iOS users. Animated sticker packs are now showing up alongside the regular sticker packs in the in-app Sticker Store. There is a play button next to these animated sticker packs, differentiating them from the regular ones. In both the WhatsApp for Android and WhatsAppp for iOS apps, newly introduced animated sticker packs include Rico’s Sweet Life, Playful Piyomaru, Bright Days, Moody Foodies, and Chummy Chum Chums. The animated stickers support is rolling out for WhatsApp for Desktop app as well….
Read More‘Story of global revival will have India playing leading role’: PM Modi at India Global Week !!
New Delhi: The story of global revival will have India playing a leading role, PM Narendra Modi said while addressing the India Global Week 2020 on Thursday. Stressing on India’s contribution to global development, PM highlighted that Indians are natural reformers and highlighted India’s efforts towards self-reliance with global inclusiveness. In his first address to the global audience in the post-COVID-19 era, PM Modi said, “In these times, it is natural to talk about revival. It is equally natural to link global revival and India. There is faith that the story of…
Read MoreGoogle scrapped Cloud initiative in China, other markets !!
Google abandoned plans to offer a major new cloud service in China and other politically sensitive countries due in part to concerns over geopolitical tensions and the pandemic, according to two employees familiar with the matter, revealing the challenges for U.S. tech giants to secure business in those markets. In May, the search giant shut down in the initiative, known as “Isolated Region” and which sought to address nations’ desires to control data within their borders, the employees said. The action was considered a “massive strategy shift,” according to one…
Read MoreFacebook, Instagram, TikTok: Army asks personnel to remove 89 apps from phones by July 15 !!
New Delhi: Amid rising tensions with China and concerns over data privacy, the Indian Army on Wednesday asked its personnel to delete 89 apps from their phones. Issuing an order, the Army asked personnel to delete popular social media apps such as Facebook, Truecaller, Instagram & games like PUBG from their mobile phones. The latest instruction comes as a bid to plug leakage of sensitive national security information from phones of armed forces personnel. The personnel have also been asked to delete dating apps such as Tinder and Hinge and…
Read MoreWorking to raise health spending to 2.1% of GDP, says finance panel and all the latest news !!
As India battles the Covid-19 pandemic, fifteenth finance commission chairman NK Singh on Tuesday said the commission was working towards a financing model to raise federal public-health spending to about 2.1% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) over the next five years. The NK Singh-led finance commission for the first time will devote an entire chapter on public health financing when it submits its final report, which is under preparation , he said. On Tuesday, Singh led a brainstorming session on the country’s health sector and the current Covid-19 pandemic…
Read MoreGadkari seeks forest clearance for infra projects, nudges ministries !!
New Delhi: Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday chaired a meeting of the ‘group on infrastructure’ with railway minister Piyush Goyal and environment minister Prakash Javadekar seeking to expedite clearances for several pending highway and infrastructure projects. The road transport and highways minister raised the issue of outstanding forest clearance for 187 highway projects. It was also noted that many of the projects had not yet applied for Stage II forest clearance. Environment minister Javadekar was asked to direct the forest officers posted in states to follow and implement the…
Read MorePM Modi announces launch of Aatmanirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge, invites startups, tech community to participate !!
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 4 announced that the launch of a challenge to facilitate members of the Indian tech and startup community in creating world-class ‘Made in India’ apps. “To help our start-up and tech community achieve this objective, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology along with Atal Innovation Mission are coming up with the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Innovation challenge. This shall run in two tracks: Promotion of Existing Apps and Development of New Apps.” The challenge aims to promote those who may have the such a working product or if feel they have the…
Read MoreZoom speaks up on rival JioMeet sharing the same features, UI design !!
From the time the lockdown started across the globe, video conferencing platform Zoom witnessed an unprecedented spike in usage. And it made sense, people were working from home and they needed a platform to easily coordinate all those important office meetings, teachers and professors needed to conduct classes and the list goes on. Zoom encashed on this opportunity so well that other video-conferencing platforms like Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp etc started adding features to keep up. These included increasing the number of people allowed to chat at a time, backgrounds etc. Many…
Read MoreIndian govt launches Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge to promote existing apps, launch new one !!
Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) and MyGov in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission, Niti Aayog has announced the Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge for Indian tech entrepreneurs and startups. Working towards the aim of creating an AatmaNirbhar Bharat, this competition will promote existing apps and also help develop new ones. In the first leg that has been launched today the best Indian apps that are already being used by citizens, and appear to have the potential to scale up and become world-class apps in their own categories,…
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