India Posts launched dedicated
E‐Commerce
Centre in Delhi
India
Posts on 11 May 2015 launched a dedicated E‐Commerce Centre in New
Delhi to cater the e‐ commerce business
enterprises. It was launched by Union Communication and IT Minister Ravi
Shankar.
Bhupendra Yadav to head panel
on GST
The
government has agreed the demand of Congress for forming a select committee of
the Rajya Sabha on the Goods and Services Tax, GST bill.
The
panel comprise of 21 - member and will be headed by BJP member Bhupendra Yadav.
Justice Cyriac Joseph appointed
interim Chairperson of NHRC
Justice
Cyriac Joseph appointed as the interim Chairperson of the National Human Rights
Commission (NHRC) by the President Pranab Mukherjee .
Former
NHRC chairperson- KG Balakrishnan.
BRICS U-17 football tournament
will be held in India
BRICS
Under - 17 football tournament will be held in India in 2016.
According
to the apex industry body ASSOCHAM, a memorandum of understanding is set to be
signed tomorrow with Brazilian representatives in New Delhi.
BRICS
nation includes - Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa.
UK’s Encore Award
Kolkata-born
writer Neel Mukherjee’s “The Lives of Others” has won the UK’s Encore Award for
the best second novel.
Mukherjee’s
first novel A Life Apart was published in 2010. The Lives of Others was
shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award.
Nikesh Arora will be Japan's SoftBank Corp president
Indian-born
Nikesh Arora appointed as the President of Japan’s multinational
telecommunications and internet company SoftBank Corp.
Lion Census report 2015
The
number of Asiatic lions in Gir sanctuary of Gujarat increased to 523, according
to 2015 Lion census report released in the first week of May 2015.
=14th
lion census.
=27
percent increase in the number of Asiatic lions.
=201
female lions, 109 male lions and 213 sub‐adults as well as cubs
in Gir sanctuary and in other protected areas in Gir Somnath, Junagadh, Amreli
and Bhavnagar districts of Saurashtra region of Gujarat.
=268
lions were sighted in Junagadh district and 44 lions in the Gir‐Somnath district while 174 lions were sighted in Amreli
distric.
Source: The Hindu
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