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ASSAM Assam to provide textbooks to blind students The state government will provide free textbooks to visually impaired students of the state. The chief minister made the announcement while releasing a guidebook for visually challenged students for competitive examinations. He said his government had taken up various programmes aimed at uplifting … Read more
ASSAM Assam, Singapore sign MoU for skilling youths The Assam government signed MoUs with its Singapore counterpart for skilling over 78,000 rural youths in the state by 2019 and greening Guwahati. The skill development training will be imparted to 78,500 poor rural youths during 2016-19 under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana. … Read more
AWACS (Airborne Warning And Control System) a mobile, long-range radar surveillance and control centre for air defense. The system, as developed by the U.S. Air Force, is mounted in a specially modified Boeing 707 aircraft. Its main radar antenna is mounted on a turntable housed in a circular rotodome 9 m (30 feet) in diameter, … Read more
ASSAM India and World Bank Signed $200 Million Loan Agreement for Assam The Government of India and the World Bank signed a $200 million LoanAgreement for the Assam Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project. The Project will support Assam to facilitate agri-business investments, increase agricultural productivity and market access. The Project will be implemented in … Read more
ASSAM BSF mulling laser walls in Tripura BSF Tripura Frontier is contemplating to erect laser walls to guard unfenced and riverine patches of Indo-Bangla border in Tripura as part of ensuring effective guarding of border areas, according to official sources.In Tripura, the BSF has already started using sensor devices like Night Vision Goggles … Read more
ASSAM Assam to soon have ITI for the differently abled Assam is setting up an industrial training institute (ITI) for the differently abled. The ITI will have 60 seats for three different trades, with 20 seats per trade as per prescribed guidelines of the National Council for Vocational Training. At the foundation laying ceremony, Sonowal … Read more