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Electric Vehicles (EV)

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India Government targeting to make India an Electric Vehicle country by the year 2030. Where Diesel/Petrol engine cars/busses will be demolished and replaced by smokeless & noiseless electric vehicles. Types of electric vehicles are

New Dzire sedan

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Maruti Suzuki launched the New Dzire sedan, set to shake up the Indian passenger vehicle market.: Maruti Suzuki's New Dzire authentic sedan styling, plush interiors, superior comfort and convenience  features like Auto Gear Shift take India’s bestseller sedan to a whole new level.  The New Dzire sedan, launched nationally by Maruti Suzuki on May 2017 as stated in press release , looks set to shake up the Indian passenger vehicle market. Its smooth sedan styling, more plush and roomy interiors, superior overall comfort and advanced safety features make the New Dzire even more aspirational - and desirable.  Designed especially for India when it was first launched in 2008, Dzire has been India’s best-selling sedan through most of the last decade, and has clocked sales of over 1.38 million cars so far. This third generation New Dzire takes the brand to a whole new level – an authentic sedan designed for the young, aspirational and “indulgence seeking” Indian cu...

E-waste: An arising theat to environment & health

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Electronic waste or e-waste is a combination of used or discarded electronic products that have exceeded their shelf life. It can be defined as items of all types of electrical and electronic products and its parts that has been discarded by the user as waste without the intention of reuse. It includes discarded electronic devices ranging from large household items to small consumer goods like computers, office electronic equipment, radio sets, electronic entertainment products, cell phone, television sets, refrigerator, Washing machines, fax machines, DVDs and CDs, printers, telephone sets, ACs, music systems, calculators, electrical appliances and their components.  

NASA Live - Earth From Space LIVE Feed | Incredible ISS live stream of E...

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Live video of Earth from space - as seen from the Nasa ISS live stream aboard the International Space Station.  The International Space Station - ISS - circles the earth at 240 miles above the planet, on the edge of space in low earth orbit. The station is crewed by NASA astronauts as well as Russian Cosmonauts and a mixture of Japanese, Canadian and European astronauts as well. As seen from the Nasa space video ISS live stream on the International Space Station -  A real astronaut view of Earth! Live ISS stream of planet earth from space courtesy of nasa HDEV High Definition Earth Viewing Cameras aboard the international space station.

NASA Live - Earth From Space LIVE Feed | Incredible ISS live stream of E...

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What is Domain ?

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A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the DNS. Used Abbreviations & meanings Any name registered in the DNS is a domain name. Domain names are used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes. In general, a domain name represents an IP resource, such as a personal computer used to access the Internet, a server computer hosting a web site, or the web site itself or any other service communicated via the Internet. In 2015, 294 million domain names had been registered. Domain names are organized in subordinate levels (subdomains) of the DNS root domain, which is nameless. The first-level set of domain names are the TLDs, including the gTLDs, such as the prominent domains com, info, net, edu, and org, and the ccTLDs. Below these top-level domains in the DNS hierarchy are the second-le...

Centre/s for Digital Government and Knowledge Societies

From Eligible Indian Academic Institutions of Higher Learning, Request for Proposal (RFP) to establish “Centre/s for Digital Government and Knowledge Societies” to promote knowledge creation in the area of e-Governance on dated 28 th December 2016. National e-Governance Division (NeGD) proposes to establish ‘Centre/s for Digital Government and Knowledge Societies’ without creating any permanent liabilities as part of the following brief.

Government is committed for inclusive development through e- governance

Addressing at 20th National Conference on e-Governance concluded in Visakhapatnam the Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology and Law & Justice Shri P.P. Chaudhary stated that there is a need for bridging the digital divide between the urban and rural areas & Union government promotes research and development and innovative eco-system of Information Technology and also encourages acquisition of the Intellectual Property Rights by Indians as it is stated in a press release by Press Information Bureau, Government of India.   The Minister further said that Cyber Security is the need of the hour and artificial intelligence will provide solutions to the problem of cyber security. There is also need for development of Nano technology and Nano electronics which helps for imparting value based education based on Mission mode Nano Electronics & India will be in a position to manufacture electronics devices and products in the country very soon. ...

Scientists are attempting to bring back an 7 ft. enormous ancient cow

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Scientists are close to bringing back a huge ancient cattle species called an auroch. Aurochs roamed Europe for thousands of years until the last of their kind died in the Jaktorow Forest in Poland in 1627.  They were 7 ft (2.13 m) tall and weighed around 1,000kg. For the complete story click here....   For purchasing at "Clothing, Shoes, Watches, Handbags, Luggage & Sunglasses" categories using an SBI credit card will be provided the cash-back amount to a maximum of Rs.1500 for minimum purchase of Rs.1500 is made.

Digitize India calls for your participation

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Learn about the Digitize India Platform Government of India initiates the documents digitization of any type of organizations. DIP or Digitize India Platform (DIP) is an initiative of the Government of India under the Digital India Programme to provide digitization services for scanned document images or physical documents for any organization. The aim is to digitize and make usable all the existing content in different formats and media, languages, digitize and create data extracts for document management, IT applications and records management.

PROMOTING CASHLESS INDIA: GOVT'S NEW WEBSITE

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Govt of India lunched a new website " Cashless India " promoting digital payments under Digital India programme. PROMOTING CASHLESS INDIA: GOVT'S NEW WEBSITE With the aim to promote Digital Payments and converting India to a less-cash society, a large number of policy and implementation initiatives are being taken by the Government for its procurement, service offering and disbursements.

Google Input Tools: Chrome Extension

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Will journalism survive the digital onslaught ?

By Dalim Phukan Of late, the news indus- try is facing unprecedented uncertainty and upheaval throughout the world. The rise of the internet – alongside developments in news aggregation, online search and social media – has transformed how news is produced, distributed and accessed. It has had a profound impact on the economics of the news industry. Advertising revenue for European newspapers has declined dramatically in recent years, and in Asia a similar downturn seems likely soon. The ‘death of newspapers’ has long been predicted. Although consumption of news from television had affected sales prior to the internet, the advent of the digital media has taken this trend to new dimensions. In 2012, the Centre for Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism predicted that within five years, only the largest and smallest newspapers would survive. Later that year, Rupart Murdoch predicted that there might be no more newspapers within a decade. ...

The US Military's Secretive X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts

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The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane has been zipping around Earth since May 2015 while it performs a number of hush-hush activities.The current mission is the fourth for the robotic X-37B, which is also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) which is looks a lot like NASA's iconic space shuttle, but the two types of vehicles don't resemble each other in size and X-37B is just 29 feet (8.8 meters) long, with a wingspan of 15 feet (4.6 m). Like the space shuttle, the X-37B lands on a runway, plane-style, but does everything autonomously (in contrast to the piloted shuttle, which usually carried a crew of seven astronauts). For the full story about "The US Military's Secretive X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts" CLICK HERE

In the last 10 years, Google Translate has grown from supporting just a few languages to 103, translating over 140 billion words every day.

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In the last 10 years, Google Translate has grown from supporting just a few languages to 103, translating over 140 billion words every day.  Zero-Shot Translation with Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System