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Mar12017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Coke, Pepsi Goes Off The Shelves In Tamil Nadu In Favour Of Locals Drinks

Tamil Naidu

It was announced during the Jallikattu protests which brought thousands of Tamil youths to the Marina beach, and now it has been put into practice. Starting on Wednesday soft drink brands owned by Coca Cola and Pepsi has gone off the shelves in shops across Tamil Nadu. According to reports some twenty lakhs small and large traders across the state have said no to the multinational companies, while they will continue to be available in some supermarkets. In January, the traders body had taken the decision to boycott the soft drinks and instead support local products. The move was in protest to what they alleged as the undue exploitation of the groundwater by companies even while local farmers struggle to find water to irrigate their crops. According to industry data PepsiCo and C...

Feb222017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Scam in Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘Mohalla Clinic’? Vigilance Department initiates probe over doctors earning Rs 4 lakh/month

Delhi

New Delhi: After receiving several complaints against Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government's 'Mohalla Clinic', the Vigilance Department has initiated an investigation to probe into the matter. According to the Vigilance Department, it has received complaints that doctors working for the Delhi government’s Mohalla Clinic are treating 533 patients per day in just four hours, as per a report in DNA. The above figure shows that every patient is being treated in record 36 seconds! Doctors 'earning' Rs 4 lakh/month? According to the letter by vigilance department, “Doctors in the mohalla clinics are making false entries of patients, hence making up to Rs 4 lakh per month. Everyone in the health department knows this, but are doing nothing,” as per the report in DNA. Noteworthy, the Vigila...

Feb182017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Priyanka seeking votes for murder and rape accused is unfortunate: BJP

Uttar Pradesh

The BJP today targeted Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over her poll campaign in Rae Bareli for the Congress-SP alliance, saying it was unfortunate that she was seeking votes for those accused of “rape and murder”. BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma referred to the rape charge against Gayatri Prajapati, a minister in the Akhilesh Yadav-led SP government in Uttar Pradesh who is contesting the ongoing state Assembly polls from Amethi, and the murder charge against another SP nominee Arun Verma, to target Priyanka. Amethi is a Gandhi family pocket borough and is represented by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha, while neighbouring Rae Bareli is represented by party chief and Rahul’s mother Sonia Gandhi in the Lower House of Parliament.”It is unfortunate that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra so...

Feb182017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Malayalam actor allegedly abducted, molested in moving car; one held

Kerala

A Popular south cinema actor was allegedly abducted in Kerala’s Kochi town and molested by a five-member gang who took pictures and videos before letting her off, police said on Saturday. The incident took place when the actor was reportedly returning home from a film shoot. The gang forcibly boarded her car when it stopped near a traffic signal and molested her for almost two hours inside the vehicle, police said. The 30-year-old actress lodged a police complaint later in the night. The actor has worked in more than 75 films in several languages including Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. She made her acting debut when she was 16 years old. Police arrested Martin, who was allegedly driving the actor’s car. After examining his call log, they found he was in constant touch with Suni...

Feb182017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Female students will play role in determining universities rankings

Education, National

Girls and women students will play a role in determining the rank of a university or an engineering or law institute in the annual government-backed survey, India Rankings, to be announced on April 3. A high percentage of women students in a particular institution could give it an edge in an otherwise close contest among institutions where every point makes a difference in their ranking. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, topped the first survey last year. The survey is conducted by the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) under the aegis of the union human resource development (HRD) ministry. “In this year’s survey, 2.5% weightage has been given for the percentage of women students in a campus. This is important as it will bring in greater gender parity in institution...

Feb182017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar honored with legendary award 2017

Entertainment, National

Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar has been honored with Legendary Award from The Brand laureate. This award goes to the people and company who have achieved their name in worldwide. Lata Mangeshkar has shared a picture of the honor on twitter. With this she also has tweeted, Heartfelt thank you to The Brand Laureate for honoring me with the Legendary Award 2017. This is to notice earlier Shahrukh Khan has been honored with this award in 2012. Before this South Africa’s former president Nelson Mandela, Nobel award winner Mohammed Yunus, Indian industrialist Ratan Tata, Appl’s late co-founder Steve Jobs, Facebook’s owner Mark Jukerburg, Formula-one winner Michael Schumacher have been honored with this award. After winning that honor, Lata Mangeshkar also thanked her well-wishers and tweeted...

Feb182017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Delhi man run over multiple times: What has made bystanders in our cities so insensitive?

Delhi

If reports are to be believed a 35-year-old man’s badly mutilated corpse was discovered on a busy stretch in south Delhi, who might have been run over by multiple vehicles. The autopsy reports have suggested that dead person, who is yet to be identified, had been either been hit by a heavy vehicle, such as a 16-wheel truck vehicle, and dragged along for several metres or possibly crushed by multiple vehicles as his injured body lay on the road. One really wonders if no one cared to stop and do anything? If only such an accident could be written off as a once in a while anomaly. In another incident of shocking public apathy on February 1, 18-year-old Anwar Ali, whose bicycle was hit by a bus, bled to death on a road in Karnataka as several bystanders simply watched and clicked photos of hi...

Feb182017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Aadhar Card Now Mandatory for college students to benefit Scholarship schemes

Education, National

Aadhar Card Now Mandatory for Central Government Scholarship Schemes For School and College Students. The government has announced that Aadhar card is must in order to avail Central Sector Scholarship Scheme.Union Human Resource Development Ministry (HRD) has said that to avail benefit under the Central Sector Scholarship Scheme for College and University students, applicants will now have to furnish proof of possession of Aadhaar card or undergo Aadhaar authentication. The notification issued by the ministry yesterday said those who are receiving these scholarships but don’t have an Aadhar card will have to apply for enrollment by 30th of June. Ministry said, the move brings in transparency and enables beneficiaries to get entitlements directly to and Aadhaar obviates the need for pro...

Feb152017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

DRDO confirms India is in talks with Vietnam for first missile sale

National

India is in talks to sell short range surface-to-air missiles to Vietnam, the head of India’s defence research agency said on Wednesday, in what would be its first transfer of such weapons to the Southeast Asian country. India has been helping the Vietnamese military with training and patrol vessels, but a further deepening of ties with missile sales could draw criticism from China that has been locked in a territorial dispute with Hanoi in the South China Sea. New Delhi is currently talking to a number of countries for sales of its surface-to-air Akash missiles, said S Christopher, chairman of state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). The move is in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s push to establish India as an arms exporter. “We are talking to coun...

Feb152017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Timeline: ISRO launches 104 satellites at one go

National

In its thirty ninth flight PSLV-C37, ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched the 714 kg Cartosat-2 Series Satellite along with 103 co-passenger satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. This is the thirty eighth consecutively successful mission of PSLV. The total weight of all the 104 satellites carried on-board PSLV-C37 was 1378 kg. PSLV-C37 lifted off at 9:28 am IST, as planned, from the First Launch Pad. The total number of Indian satellites launched by PSLV now stands at 46. After separation, the two solar arrays of Cartosat-2 series satellite were deployed automatically and ISRO’s Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network at Bangalore took over the control of the satellite. In the coming days, the satellite will be brought to its final op...