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This Festive Season Show Your Love And Respect With Diamonds
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This Festive Season Show Your Love And Respect With Diamonds

    You may have a huge profit in your business or you simply had won a lottery and to pay your gratitude towards almighty you may be in search of some fantastic idea. Feeding the poor is definitely your way of expression but gifting ornament is another wonderful option you have at your side. In most of the temples in North India, Navratras is an auspicious occasion when Pujas and other rituals are carried out on a large scale. In some of the temples the deity is adorned with new clothes, ornaments and accessories continuously for 9 days. People book in advance and offer these things to deity. To meet your choice, show your gratitude by offering all these things to Goddess Bhagwati. To buy diamond jewellery log into the website that is overran flowing with an endl...
This Is What Google’s New UPI App ‘Tez’ Has To Offer
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This Is What Google’s New UPI App ‘Tez’ Has To Offer

Alphabet Inc's Google has finally forayed into the payments space, by launching its app 'Tez' exclusively in India on Android and iOS. The app is now available on Play Store and App store for the users to download. Google’s VP for Next Billion Users Caesar Sengupta launched the app at an event in New Delhi in the presence of Finance Minister Arun Jaitely. Unlike a digital wallet Tez is built on UPI that allows for payments directly via bank accounts. It allows the users to do financial transactions like sending money, receiving payments directly into their bank accounts. The users can link the app directly to their bank accounts.The platform is built on the government's Unified Payment Interface (UPI). “Google Tez app is design for India and made in India. It supports seven Indian lang...
Hindi Diwas: All About The Love For Books
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Hindi Diwas: All About The Love For Books

The community of Hindi readers may appear thin or even non-existent to the larger English- reading crowd but it appears they are simply doing what they do best- quietly reading good literature in some corner. With Hindi confined to the dark ends of most bookshops and shelves groaning under the weight of English bestsellers, English classics, English comics and English magazines, it would seem to be the wide, wide world of English reading out there. But that is only part of the picture. On Hindi Diwas today, there is enough evidence to suggest that Hindi literature continues to be contemporary and relevant, notwithstanding the naysayers. Take Preeti Mishra, who is doing her PhD in linguistics from IIT Delhi. Her habit of casually reading Hindi stories while in school turned into...
67 Indian Startups Receive Tax Benefits From the Government
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67 Indian Startups Receive Tax Benefits From the Government

The government has extended tax benefits to 67 startups so far with a view to promoting budding entrepreneurs in the country, Minister of State for Commerce & Industry C R Chaudhary said today. In January 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had unveiled a slew of incentives to boost start-up ecosystem, offering them a tax holiday and inspector raj-free regime for three years, capital gains tax exemption and Rs 10,000 crore corpus to fund them. "3,576 startups have been recognised as on September 7 and tax benefits have been given to 67 innovative startups," Chaudhary said here while addressing the startup India states conference. The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), under the ministry, considered 671 startups for income tax exemption and of this 67 received the...
80 Customised Phones with Reliance Jio SIM Cards Given to Top Indian Government Officials
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80 Customised Phones with Reliance Jio SIM Cards Given to Top Indian Government Officials

New Delhi: At least 80 high-end Google Pixel “customised” phones with Reliance Jio SIMs have been given to top bureaucrats on a “trial” basis to ensure secure communication among them, according to a person in the IT ministry. The home ministry had drawn up a list of 100 officials from multiple ministries for the purpose, and 80 of these Google Pixel phones have been handed out so far, the person aware of the matter said. The rest 20 units are in the pipeline, he added. The project is at a ‘pilot’ stage and the sample distribution is for measuring the performance and security of the device. The Google Pixel phones were found to be compliant with the specifications given by the home ministry, and the “customisation” of the 4G phones was undertaken by the Centre for Development of Adva...
Cabinet Reshuffle: Nirmala Sitharaman Became The First Full-time Woman Defence Minister
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Cabinet Reshuffle: Nirmala Sitharaman Became The First Full-time Woman Defence Minister

PM Narendra Modi today announced a major reshuffle of his cabinet where nine new ministers took oath in this fresh reshuffle. Four ministers - Piyush Goyal, Nirmala Sitharaman, Dharmendra Pradhan, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi - were elevated to cabinet level. This third revamp of PM's cabinet, which would form the last of his government, introduced Nirmala Sitharaman as India's first full-time woman Defence Minister, and second woman Defence Minister after Indira Gandhi, who had held the Defence portfolio twice - from December 1-21 in 1975, and January 14, 1980 to January 15, 1982. Arun Jaitley will keep Finance, and Piyush Goyal has been assigned Railways. Goyal will also take charge as Ministry of Coal. Newly inducted Cabinet minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi will take control as the Minister...
IITKGP Innovates Technology For Safer Transport During Rain
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IITKGP Innovates Technology For Safer Transport During Rain

Researchers from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications at IIT Kharagpur have developed a technology that removes blur of rain from videos real-time and displays it on the windscreen of vehicles to reduce accidents. Accidents due to low visibility during heavy rain are a major concern all over the world and a technological solution was much awaited. Also, the solution needed to give real-time visual output with least errors as there is considerable risk involved in case any deviation in the imaging. The technology, Real-time Rain Removal from Videos, is a proprietary algorithm which has a big advantage for Driver Assistance Systems (DAS) that uses video information to impart traffic related information. "The technology is envisioned to be used to enhance the ...