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1Railways supply chain goes digital
Indian Railways is soon to be launching a digital contract to improve the business and transparency. 100% of E-tenders and E-auctions already started the system. The main aim of this digitization is for the flexibility and fast flow of material, information, etc.
Railway Ministry Official stated that the Digitization of the supply chain is a tool for efficient, fast, transparent and seamless transactions.
National
2Tata Power, Adani Power shares slump as SC sets aside tribunal order
The Supreme Court order by the Appellate Tribunal For Electricity allowing compensatory tariff to Tata Power Ltd and Adani Power Ltd, sending down shares of both companies.
The tribunal, in April last year, had said the two companies needed to be compensated as the change in Indonesian laws on coal export prices were outside the control of these companies.
National
3Syria war: G7 fails to agree sanctions on Russia after ‘chemical attack’
The Group of Seven industrialized nations on urged Russia to pressure the Syrian government to end the six-year civil war, but rejected a British call to impose new sanctions on Moscow over its support of President Bashar Assad.
The G-7 members – Germany, France, Britain, Canada, Japan and current president Italy, as well as the U.S. – are also trying to grasp what the U.S. administration’s foreign policy is, amid conflicting signals from Washington.
International
4Metal has been detected in Atmosphere of Mars
Nasa’s Maven space probe has detected the presence of electrically-charged metal ions in Mars’s ionosphere.
The probe has detected iron, magnesium and sodium ions over the last two years leading researchers to believe they hold a permanent presence.
MAVEN has made the first direct detection of the permanent presence of metal ions in the ionosphere of a planet other than Earth
Technology
5Govt should intervene to save Kulbhushan
Indian man Kulbhushan Jadhav’s death sentence in Pakistan was strongly condemned by MPs in parliament who urged the government to do everything possible to save him and bring him back to India.
India strongly condemns the death sentence. Basic norms of law and justice were violated. I want to tell the house that the government will do whatever it takes to make sure Kulbhushan Jadhav gets justice.
International
6Banning online pre-natal sex determination content dangerous
The Supreme Court observed that a general prohibition on all online content about pre-natal sex determination will curtail the fundamental right to know of a genuine information-seeker who is driven by curiousity.
“Pre-natal sex determination ads is an offence. But a general prohibitory order against all online information pertaining to sex determination is dangerous. We will be curtailing the right to know under Article 19 (1) (a) of the Constitution,” a three-judge Bench led by Justice Dipak Misra observed orally.
National
7Pakistan Defence Minister told that Kulbhushan Jadhav can appeal before Army Chief and President
Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said that the former Indian Navy official, Kulbhushan Jadhav, accused of espionage, can appeal against his sentence to Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and President Mamnoon Hussain.
Kulbhushan Jadhav acted on behalf of Indian government and there was no doubt that he was involved in subversive activities.
International
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