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Malaysia may extend e-visa to Indian tourists
Malaysia plans to extend e-tourist visa facility to travellers from India as it hopes
to attract 10 lakh tourists from the country this year as against 7, 22,141, who
visited last year.
Railway Budget 2016: Suresh Prabhu’s 7
missions (Business Stnadard)
To make the functioning of railways more efficient, Railway Minister Suresh
Prabhu announced seven missions, including activities to increase the average
speed of superfast mail trains by 25 kilometres per hour in the next five years.
The seven missions are ‘25 Tonne’, ‘Zero Accident’, PACE (Procurement and
Consumption Efficiency), ‘Raftaar’, ‘Hundred’, ‘beyond book-keeping’ and
‘capacity utilisation’.
Under Mission Raftaar, Prabhu said the railways would target “doubling average
speeds of freights trains and increasing the average speed of superfast
mail/express trains by 25 kmph in the next 5 years”.
On Mission 25 Tonne, the Minister said there is need to augment the carrying
capacity to realise the goal of revenue enhancement.
Among others, Mission Hundred would focus on sidings and freight terminals.
Referring to Mission ‘Beyond Book-keeping’, he said though the railways are
moving from single entry to double entry systems and from cash based to
completely accrual based accounting, he does not consider them as great
reforms.
India's child mortality rate 48 deaths per 1000
births (Business Standard)
India has the third highest child mortality rate among SAARC countries with 48
deaths reported per 1000 live births.
According to World Bank data of 2015, country's under-five child mortality rate is
48 deaths per 1000 live births. Afghanistan has the highest rate at 91 followed by
Pakistan 81.
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24th-25th Feb
Malaysia may extend e-visa to Indian tourists
Malaysia plans to extend e-tourist visa facility to travellers from India as it hopes
to attract 10 lakh tourists from the country this year as against 7, 22,141, who
visited last year.
Railway Budget 2016: Suresh Prabhu’s 7
missions (Business Stnadard)
To make the functioning of railways more efficient, Railway Minister Suresh
Prabhu announced seven missions, including activities to increase the average
speed of superfast mail trains by 25 kilometres per hour in the next five years.
The seven missions are ‘25 Tonne’, ‘Zero Accident’, PACE (Procurement and
Consumption Efficiency), ‘Raftaar’, ‘Hundred’, ‘beyond book-keeping’ and
‘capacity utilisation’.
Under Mission Raftaar, Prabhu said the railways would target “doubling average
speeds of freights trains and increasing the average speed of superfast
mail/express trains by 25 kmph in the next 5 years”.
On Mission 25 Tonne, the Minister said there is need to augment the carrying
capacity to realise the goal of revenue enhancement.
Among others, Mission Hundred would focus on sidings and freight terminals.
Referring to Mission ‘Beyond Book-keeping’, he said though the railways are
moving from single entry to double entry systems and from cash based to
completely accrual based accounting, he does not consider them as great
reforms.
India's child mortality rate 48 deaths per 1000
births (Business Standard)
India has the third highest child mortality rate among SAARC countries with 48
deaths reported per 1000 live births.
According to World Bank data of 2015, country's under-five child mortality rate is
48 deaths per 1000 live births. Afghanistan has the highest rate at 91 followed by
Pakistan 81.
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