- The 47-member UNHRC, at its ongoing 30th session here, approved by consensus the crucial resolution led by the US and the UK, and backed by Sri Lanka, a move hailed by international advocacy groups.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his ambitious flag ship project `Make in India' to turn around the nation's manufacturing sector.Buoyed by its success, the government is now all set to launch version 2.0 of this high-profile initiative.
- Tony de Brum and the people of the Pacific island group shared the honorary portion of the 2015 Right Livelihood Award, also referred to as the “Alternative Nobel"
- India is now witnessing the highest growth in domestic air traffic globally.
- The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Thursday said India's domestic passenger traffic demand grew the fastest among seven major aviation markets of the world -Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, Russian Federation and the US. “India's domestic demand surged 18.3% in August (2015).
- In a first, copters to lay transmission lines to prop up projects in J&K. Close on the heels of PM Narendra Modi rocking a galaxy of US I-Way stars, an American engineering company is poised to shake up India's brick-and-mortar power sector by using helicopters to lay transmission lines for the first time in the country.
Thanks and Reference to: Times of India News Paper
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