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MoU signed between NRL & BPC to export petroleum products through IBFPL pipeline
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) and Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) to export petroleum products to Bangladesh. It was signed by General Manager (Planning and Development) of BPC, Mustafa Qudrat-I-Elahi and NRL’s General Manager ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
MakeMyTrip acquires travel startup website Mygola.com
Online travel services provider MakeMyTrip.com has acquired Mygola, a startup travel guide firm. The acquisition was done through MakeMyTrip’s Innovation Fund, which invests in early-stage or start-up companies in the travel technology space. With this acquisition, MakeMyTrip will get a ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
Japan's Maglev train makes new world speed record
Japan’s state-of-the-art Magnetic levitation technology (Maglev) train has clocked a new world speed record smashing through the 603 kilometre per hour mark in a test run near Mount Fuji. The new record has surpassed its previous record of 581 kilometre ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
Xi Jinping conferred with Nishan-e-Pakistan award
Pakistan Government on 21 April 2015 conferred Nishan-e-Pakistan, top civilian award on Chinese President Xi Jinping. He was bestowed with this award for his outstanding contribution in promotion of relationship between the two countries by Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain. About ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
Renowned historian Christopher Alan Bayly passes away
Sir Christopher Alan Bayly, a renowned historian passed away on 20 April 2015 in Chicago, United States. He was 70. As a historian he was specialised in global, Indian and British Imperial history. His works were based on the 18th ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
2015 Pulitzer Prize Winners
All the Light We Cannot See, a novel based on Second World War by author Anthony Doerr has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. While, The New York Times has won two prestigious Pulitzer prizes for coverage of the Ebola ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
Earth Day is being observed on 22 April
Earth day is being observed on the 22nd April every year. This day seeks to build support for environmental protection around the world. This year’s theme for the day is ‘It’s Our Turn to Lead’ and is 45th anniversary of ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
Indian Railways launches E-Samiksha to monitor rail projects online
Indian Railways on 21 April 2015 launched E-Samiksha, an online monitoring mechanism. E-Samiksha aims at monitoring implementation of various ongoing projects of Indian Railways on real-time basis including Rail Budget proposals. It was launched by Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
ICICI Bank launches Tap-n-Pay, a near-field communications-enabled payment service
India’s largest private sector lender Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) Bank has launched a payment service Tap-n-Pay. It was launched by bank in collaboration with Tech Mahindra. This payment service is based on the near-field communications (NFC) ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2015
Former Odisha CM Janaki Ballabh Patnaik passes away
Former Chief Minister (CM) of Odisha and senior Congress leader Janaki Ballabh Patnaik passed away on 21 April 2015 in Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh. He was 89. Patnaik had served as CM of Odisha for three times and was ..