Thursday, January 7, 2016

Swedish Cup Grand Prix



Indian shooter Apurvi Chandela shot her way to a second successive gold medal and emerged as the 'Shooter of the Tournament' she won her first gold medal of the tournament on 5 january 2015 with a world record score of 211.2.The silver and bronze went to Swedish shooters Astrid Steffensen (207.6) and Stine Nielsen (185.0).

World’s first slum museum



Dharavi in Mumbai is to get the world’s first slum museum,The museum will showcase some of the myriad objects that are produced every year in Dharavi.The small mobile museum will open in February for two months and display everything from pottery and textiles to recycled items.Following the success of Slumdog Millionaire,the slum has become a tourist attraction and guides offer tours of its hundreds of workshops.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

first state to sign MoU

 Jharkhand will become the first state to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Centre, on 5 january 2015, for the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY) reforms for state-owned power distribution companies (discoms).Through UDAY Jharkhand will also derive an overall net benefit of approximately 5,300 crore rupees.MoU was signed between the state government, Union Ministry of Power and state power distributor Jharkhand Bijli Vitaran Nigam Ltd (JBVNL).


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