Friday 15 May 2015

15th May'15- Top Headlines


1) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that India will grant e-visas to Chinese tourists..
2) India this year has announced ‘Visit India Year’ in China to attract more tourists in order to boost tourism revenues.
3) Mr. Modi and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang decided to increase the number of border meeting points of their military personnel from the existing four.
4) Petrol and diesel process hiked again, Petrol prices were on Friday raised by Rs 3.13 a litre and diesel by Rs 2.71 per litre.
5) Abhinav Bindra shot 624.6 and missed a final berth by one point in the shooting World Cup in Fort Benning, US, on Wednesday.
6) Two gas-based power plants of GMR Energy in Andhra Pradesh have got letter of intent for gas allocation for four months beginning June.
7) Switzerland vows to join India’s fight against black money.
8) Former Chief Minister of Karnataka B.S. Yeddyurappa will visit the district on May 22 to speak to party workers about the gram panchayat polls.
9) During his padyatra, Rahul Gandhi meets families of farmers in Adilabad.
10) Global tech giant Google is in discussions with the Arunachal Pradesh government to run a pilot for deploying Chromebook laptops for school students.
11) Google announced the launch of a Chromebook range in the country targeted at the education sector.
12) The XOLO Chromebook will be available in the next few days on Snapdeal at Rs. 12,999, while the Nexian Air Chromebook is available on Amazon at the same price.
13) Scientists have found a towering rock structure deep under East Asia by using 3-D supercomputer simulations of data from 227 earthquakes that hit the region during 2007-2011.
14) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday clicked a selfie with his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang . Mr. Modi’s selfie, an integral part of his overseas trips, was immediately liked on Facebook by its founder Mark Zuckerberg.
15) Former Union minister S.S. Ahluwalia is likely to be the chairman of the Joint Committee of Parliament panel on land bill.
16) Rahul Gandhi calls Telangana CM Chandrasekhar Rao ‘mini Modi’.
17) The Hyundai ix25 is possibly one of the most awaited cars of the year and has been spied being tested just outside Hyundai's Chennai factory.
18) Modi govt's one year only wastage of time: Nitish Kumar.
19) Rahul Yadav, co-founder & CEO of Housing.com is back in news. Just a day after he announced transferring his entire share holding worth Rs 150-200 crore to the company's employees, he has now challenged fellow IIT alumnus Ola and Zomato CEOs to return half of their stakes.
20) SBI launched contact-less card called sbiINTOUCH

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