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Appreciation matters: Always has, always will. Saturday evening again, my 16 year old son returns home late around 10 pm. May be that’s not so alarming, yet, he had been away the whole day. Normally, wherever he was, he would be home for a snack in the evening but of late he had stopped doing that. It was his summer break going on. I was not aware of the latest development......

What is eBasta: eBasta is a Mobile Application created by the Government of India for the Students to download the digital copy of NCERT and other state board books. The App was launched in line with the government's Digital India initiative. This project has created a framework to make school books accessible in digital form as e-books to be read and used on tablets and......

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched DD Kisan Channel at 4 PM on 26 May 2015. DD Kisan will be an Indian agriculture 24-hour television channel, which is owned by Doordarshan. The channel has been dedicated to agriculture and allied sectors, which disseminates real-time inputs to farmers on new farming techniques, water conservation and organic farming among other information. The......

The government on 13 May 2015 amended the Civil Services Examination rules to make the controversial aptitude test in prelims exam a qualifying paper. It is seen as a big concession to students from non-English and humanities background who dubbed the earlier pattern as 'elitist' and favouring those from public school and science background. (Find what new Civil Services......

Good and Service Tax (GST) is termed as the biggest indirect tax reform since 1947. A single rate GST will replace central excise, state VAT, entertainment tax, octroi, entry tax, luxury tax and purchase tax on goods and services to ensure seamless transfer of goods and services. GST subsumes various central indirect taxes including the central excise duty, countervailing duty,...

Bill Gates is great visionary. He had predicted quite a few thing so many years before when Internet was only fancy. Some of those points which he had predicted are as follows:  Bill Gates Predictions:  1> Automated price comparison services will be developed, allowing people to see prices across multiple websites, making it effortless to find the cheapest product for....