15/02/2018
Liberating India’s best colleges: HRD minister Javadekar has just announced the most far reaching reforms in higher education...
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Liberating India’s best colleges: HRD minister Javadekar has just announced the most far reaching reforms in higher education
By Arvind Panagariya and B Venkatesh Kumar With approximately one year left before voting for the next Lok Sabha elections begins, you would expect the government to be seized by populism. Not the Modi government....
20/12/2017
The Indian Institute of Management (IIMs) will now have greater autonomy after the passing if the IIM Bill 2017. The power to appoint the chairperson as well as, the director will now lie with the board of the institutes. The Chairperson of the board will be appointed by the board for a period of four years, while the Director of each IIM will be appointed by the board for a period of five years via a search-cum-selection panel.
IIM Bill 2017: Rajya Sabha passes bill that is expected to turn IIMs into quality institutions like Harvard
IIM Bill 2017: Good news for management aspirants as Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Indian Institute of Management Bill 2017. The bill was earlier, passed by Lok Sabha in July and by the Union Cabinet in January this year.
21/10/2017
Game of finance - Risky people..
10 years of financial crisis: 10 key people behind it
Ten years ago around July-September, the initial shocks of crisis started to appear across several organisations, banks, financial service firms and market regulators. We take a look at ten people who were in the thick of the action amid the catastrophic mess.
29/07/2017
Youth Should Take an Oath to Develop the Nation!
credits to The India Eye
14/06/2017
has notified the rules for withholding tax on payment exceeding Rs 50,000 to a resident by an individual or Hindu Undivided Family.
CBDT notifies rules for deduction of tax on rent payment exceeding Rs 50,000
In order to reduce the compliance burden, the Finance Act 2017 provides that the deductor is not required to obtain Tax Deduction Account Number and is liable to deduct tax only once in a tax year.
12/06/2017
OpenForge is similar to popular open source development platforms like GitHub and SourceForge, but it stands out because of its exclusive focus on government and civic applications. With this dedicated collaborative forum, the government aims to encourage the use of free and open source software (FOSS) for the development of source code for e-governance projects. The project could be anything from applications, frameworks, languages and libraries, to SDKs, APIs, datasets, components and plugins. Apart from the government, open source developers, corporations, startups and even students can use the platform to build modern, best-in-class software.
“This project reiterates our government’s open, share, and collaborate philosophy to e-governance through best information sharing, tracking and communication tool,”
OpenForge open source hub launched by government of India
OpenForge open source hub is similar to GitHub and SourceForge, but it stands out because of its exclusive focus on government and civic applications
02/05/2017
An android App for the computation of solar energy potential has been developed by Space Applications Centre (SAC), ISRO. It is a very useful tool for installation of PV solar panels for tapping solar energy.
The App provides monthly / yearly solar potential (in kWh/m2) and minimum / maximum temperature at any location. It also displays the location on the satellite image and provides azimuth / elevation angles as well as day length over different time periods in a year.
ISRO Develops "Solar Calculator" Android App - ISRO
Computation of solar energy potential is essential to select the locations for solar photovoltaic (PV) thermal power plants. The use of remote sensing observations from geostationary satellite sensors is ideal to capture space-time variability of surface insolation. An android App for the computatio...
10/04/2017
Do you know.. What is Vote on Account?
The Vote on Account is an interim arrangement under which approval of Parliament is obtained to withdraw money from the consolidated fund when the budget for new financial year is not passed.
“I congratulate the Finance Minister for completing the budgetary exercise and seeking the approval of both houses of Parliament, all the expenditure proposals, and all matters relating to the Finance Bill within March 31. “And after many years, I do not remember of after how many years, no Vote on Account was taken this particular year,” the President said.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley gets President Pranab Mukherjee’s pat for finishing Budget process by March 31
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today received a pat from President Pranab Mukherjee for completing the budget exercise by March 31 and not seeking a the Vote on Account, which happened for the first time in many years.
27/03/2017
Mental Healthcare bill passed by Indian Loksabha now,
This was passed by Myparliamentarians in winter session 2016 :-)
Mental Healthcare Bill decriminalising su***de attempt passed by Parliament
An estimated 6-7% of India’s population suffer from some kind of mental illness, while 1-2% have an acute condition.