News – India & You
ISRO launching new satellite and boosting the manu...
August 2, 2016
ISRO is set to launch the geostationary weather satellite, INSAT-3DR, from India’s rocket port, Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on the south-eastern coast and has plans to boost manufacturing of all space-crafts.
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Holy offerings to conform to safety standards soon
August 1, 2016
Holy offerings are often freely distributed and commercially sold by religious institutions in India. Now they will have to confirm to the high safety and hygiene standards set by Food Safety Standards Authority of India.
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Kolkata hosts Pan Asian connectivity conference
July 31, 2016
‘Building Pan-Asian Connectivity’ conference held by U.S Consulate General-Kolkata, CAGS and the ORF in the Lincoln Room, American Center, Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, focused on the challenges to and opportunities of building bridges between India and South East Asia...
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Global Panorama Showcase in Kolkata focuses on tou...
July 29, 2016
The Global Panorama Showcase (GPS) concluded in Kolkata after three days of unique business meetings, knowledge sharing and networking among travel trade professionals of the eastern India.
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Organ Donors needed in India
July 28, 2016
Why organ donation still remains abysmally low in India? Zonal Transplant Coordination Center (ZTCC) predicts, “90% of the people in the waiting list (for organ donation) might die without getting an organ”. On 22nd July, the government of India constituted a committee that c...
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Kolkata marks the end of Dubai Cruise Tourism Road...
July 27, 2016
Dubai Cruise Tourism Roadshow concluded its six-city Indian tour in Kolkata today. Aimed at promoting cruising as a new form of holidaying in and exploring both Dubai and the United Arab Emirates region, this event saw participation in high numbers by members of the travel and to...
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LGBTQ travel in India
July 27, 2016
In an attempt to reach larger markets and target niches, travel agencies are offering tailor made tours and travel packages that cater to the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer(or LGBTQ) community, offering queer friendly establishments
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Indian Human rights activist to end the longest hu...
July 27, 2016
Most Indians may not know her. Having refused food and water since November 2, 2000, Sharmila is all set to end her hunger strike on 9th August this year and plans to contest polls inthe North East India state of Manipur, her home state.
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Great Indian artist and France lover S.H. Raza pas...
July 26, 2016
Syed Haider Raza or S.H. Raza, a prominent Indian artist who co-founded the Indian Progressive Artists Movement in the late 1940s to early 1950s, passed away at the age of 94. On 23rd July, he took his last breath in India after having lived in France for over six decades.
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Indian Railways’ first green corridor has ec...
July 26, 2016
The First ever Indian Railways Green corridor, the 114 km long Manamadurai – Rameswaram stretch of Southern Railway in Tamil Nadu, India, is the tract on which all the trains coaches now have bio-toilets thereby preventing discharge on tracks. This corridor is part of India’s...
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