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Oct 21, 2017

Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar Resigns

Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar has submitted his resignation.
Kumar`s resignation comes months after Mukul Rohatgi resigned from the post of Attorney General of India.
Kumar was appointed as the Solicitor General of India in June 2014. He had replaced senior advocate Mohan Parasaran.

Oct 20, 2017

PM Celebrates Diwali with Troops

Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated Diwali with the troops arrived in the Gurez Sector along the Line of Control (LoC) in North Kashmir’s Bandipora district.
He was accompanied by Army chief General Bipin Rawat, Northern Command chief Lt General Devraj Anbu and Chinar Corps Commander Lt Gen J. S. Sandhu.
This is the second time that Modi is celebrating Diwali with troops in Kashmir after he became the PM. His first visit was in 2014.

Oct 19, 2017

Himachal Pradesh Elections 2017

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released a list of 68 candidates for the upcoming Himachal Pradesh elections 2017 on Wednesday. The state will go to polls on November 9. The counting of votes will take place a month later.
Former Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal will contest from Sujanpur. Dhumal has swapped his present Hamirpur seat with party MLA Narendra Thakur, who will now be the party candidate from the seat.

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport

Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) has ranked no. 1 in the Airports Council International's service quality in the category of 5 to 15 million passengers per annum.
The trophy was formally handed over for the year 2016.

IIT Kharagpur Partnering NGOs and Corporates

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur is gearing up to partner with corporate houses and NGOs to shape up their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives.
As per Prof. Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay, Helping the corporate and NGOs reach their CSR goals with our technology will be our way of giving it back to the society.

Oct 18, 2017

App for Efficient Poll Management

The Election Commission launched a new application to be used by electoral officers for efficient management of the poll process.
The app, RONET, will be put to full-fledged use for the first time in the coming Himachal Pradesh elections. It was used in a few constituencies during the Punjab polls earlier this year.
RONET also has an app for citizens that can be downloaded and used by citizens to register voter-related issues or model code of conduct complaints. They can also do electoral roll name search and access results directly on the app.

Three IITs among Top 50 Asian Institutions

Three Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) – Bombay, Delhi, and Madras – made it to the top 50 Asian universities ranking. The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asia University Rankings 2018 ranks IIT Bombay at 35th position, IIT Delhi at 41, and IIT Madras at 48.
The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, which ranked at 33 in 2017, dropped to 51st position this year.

Oct 17, 2017

India and Russia to Hold Military Exercise

India and Russia will hold a mega war game in October involving their armies, navies and the air forces for the first time to further ramp up military ties.
Exercise INDRA-2017, the first ever Tri Services Joint Exercise between Indian and Russian Armed Forces will be conducted in the Eastern Military District of Russia from October 19 to 27.
Exercise INDRA in its previous nine avatars has been conducted as a single service exercise.
The year 2017 marks a major milestone as this Exercise has been upgraded to involve all the three Services of the Armed Forces (Army, Navy & Air Force).

INS Kiltan Commissioned

Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman commissioned the third of four indigenously built Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) stealth corvettes INS Kiltan under Project 28 (Kamorta class) into the Indian Navy.
INS Kiltan is indigenously designed by the Indian Navy's in-house organization, Directorate of Naval Design and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE), Kolkata.
It's India’s first major warship to have a superstructure of carbon fibre composite material resulting in improved stealth features, lower top weight and maintenance costs.

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