The registration for annual Registration for annual Amarnath Yatra begins began through the notified bank branches.

The two-month long pilgrimage will start on the 28^th of June this year via both Baltal and Pahalgam routes.

Any person below the age of 13 years or above 75 years, pregnant women and medically unfit people are barred for taking pilgrimage in south kashmir.

The Board has also issued advisory relating to health and do's and don'ts for the Yatris.

Yogacharyas and participants of the 29^th annual International Yoga Festival at Parmarth Niketan, Rishikesh took part in a special meditation at Maharishi Mahesh Yogiji's Ashram, near Parmarth Niketan.

The renowned band, 'The Beatles' stayed at Maharishiji's ashram in Rishikesh in 1968, where they wrote nearly fifty songs that soon became some of their biggest hits and 2018 marks the 50^th anniversary of their stay.

To mark the anniversary, many celebrations have been planned with the devotees of Maharishiji to remember and celebrate His life and teachings.

The event was led by Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji with participants from 94 countries by foot on a walking pilgrimage to Maharishiji ashram where there were sacred chanting and divine meditation.

Honourable Minister of AYUSH and Minister of Forests, Harak Singh Rawat was also present at the event.

The first cyber police station of Haryana has been established in Gurugram where cyber offences related cases will be registered.

Finolex flowguard plus specially designed as per international standards for plumbing & sanitation purposes.

The cyber police station was inaugurated today by chief executive officer, Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority, Gurugram, V Umashankar along with Commissioner of Police, Gurugram, Sandeep Khirwar in the office of ACP, DLF office, Gurugram.

The building of the police station has been provided by DLF in Phase 5.

Adequate trained manpower has already been deployed at the cyber police station.

If needed, cyber crime experts from outside will also be roped in this police station.

Banaswadi railway station, which until was just like thousands of other stations in the country, transformed into a facility run by an all-woman crew on International Women’s Day.

It’s the first station in the South Western Railway (SWR) zone and the fifth in the country to achieve this distinction.

The other all-woman stations in the country are Matunga (Mumbai), Gandhi Nagar (Jaipur), Chandragiri (Tirupathi) and Ajni (Nagpur).

Henceforth, the Banaswadi station will be operated by its female staff, including the station master, booking clerks and reservation clerks.

All 15 officials, including security personnel, posted at the station are now women.

Coinciding with the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to India, an Indon French Centre of Excellence (CoE) was inaugurated to impart vocational training to engineers in electricity, automation and energy management.

The centre has been set up jointly by the French government, French automation company Schneider Electric and the city-based New Horizon College of Engineering.

Nasscom has partnered with Facebook to launch Design4India studio, in an effort to bridge the gap between software engineers and design.

The Design4India studio has been set up at co-working space provider we work and will be a design studio for web, mobile, augmented reality and virtual reality platforms for start-ups and designers.

The Design4India Initiative is just over a year old with an objective to integrate design with tech, to create design success for the software product and start-up ecosystem in India.

Further, the Design4India Studio will aim to bridge the gap between design and technology by offering dedicated spaces for start-ups and designers to explore, innovate and build together.

Further, the studio will provide start-ups access to UX design process, resources, user testing and AR/VR toolkits to enhance their products; identify problems to inform product design or redesign; gain a competitive advantage through live testing; focus on data and design changes that will have the most impact in their business and help in rapid prototyping of new products or features.

In a first, the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation has installed pedestrian push buttons at certain junctions, allowing pedestrians to change the traffic signal.

Traffic signals on all four sides of the junction will carry the push buttons.

Once then pedestrians push the buttons, the signal will turn red for vehicles and will change to the green pedestrian sign.

 While co-working spaces in the cities are mushrooming, they usually offer a standard experience - a chair and desk with WiFi in an air-conditioned environment.

Monkey Business, a first of its kind co-working space in south Asia that provides onsite childcare was launched in South Point Mall, Gurugram.

Spread over 3,000 sq ft, Monkey Business is a haven where young parents can concentrate on work while their child plays and learns.

Companies too can hire seats for their women employees, especially new moms.

The thoughtfully designed play zone includes a nap area, a feeding and diaper changing room.

The Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Ananthkumar announced that the Government of India approved the setting up of a Plastic Park in Deoghar District, Jharkhand.

The project would be set up at a cost of Rs.120 crores in an area of 150 acres and a range of polymer products including woven sacks, moulded furniture, water tanks, bottles, pipes mosquito nets, etc would be manufactured.

It has great potential for attracting investment for setting up an ecosystem for plastic industry and generate employment opportunities for the local populace, the Minister informed.

Addressing the media, Shri Ananthkumar informed that the project is likely to provide direct employment generation to about 6000 people and indirect employment to over 30000 people.

The Minister also requested the State government of Jharkhand to facilitate land/ building infrastructure to set up a Central Institute for Plastic Engineering & Technology (CIPET) alongside the Plastic Park so that invaluable human resource may be trained there to become plastic engineers and technicians.

This human resource is of vital importance as the plastic industry is growing at a rapid pace and the polymer consumption in India would double from the current 10 million metric tonnes to 20 million metric tonnes by 2022, the Minister added.

The coming up of the Plastic Park, CIPET and the Plastic Recycling unit would build an ecosystem that would encourage setting up of Plastic Industry at Deoghar, thereby making it a ‘Plastic Hub’ in the future.

Krem Puri was discovered in 2016.

However its actual length was found between 5 February and 1 March 2018.

It was measured by the Meghalaya Adventurers’ Association (MAA).

It is 24,583 metres long.

This cave is over 6,000 metres longer than the world record-holder Cueva Del Saman, a sandstone cave in Edo Zulia, Venezuela.

It has also become India’s second longest cave in the general category.

The longest India cave is the Krem Liat Prah-Umim-Labit system in the Jaintia Hills in Meghalaya.

Eighty-six years after the city got electricity, overhead power cables in Varanasi are being dismantled after a project to lay underground lines over 16 sq-km has been finally completed.

Laying cables for 50,000 consumers through the serpentine lanes and congested markets in one of the world’s oldest cities was quite a challenge for Powergrid, the company conducting the integrated power development scheme (IPDS) project.

Demographics-wise Seoul and some Turkish cities on the riverfront were considered complicated.

While implementing IPDS in Varanasi, realised this is the most complicated city to lay infrastructure for underground cables.

Former Union minister of state for power and coal Piyush Goyal announced the Rs 432-crore project for underground cabling work under IPDS for Varanasi in June 2015.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Rs 45,000 crore IPDS for the country in Varanasi in September 2015.

The pilot project was rolled out in Kabir Nagar and Ansarabad.

The first-ever International Exhibition of Graphic Prints in the country ‘Print Biennale India 2018’ opened, at the Rabindra Bhavan Galleries of the Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi.

National Academy of Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, is hosting it with a record number of 17 countries taking part in it.

The eminent Artist-Printmaker, Shakti Barman was the Chief Guest.

The inaugural ceremony was attended by the Biennale Commissioner Ms. Anupam Sud and its steering committee members Ananda Moy Banerji, Dattatraya Apte, R S Sham Sunder, Ms Paila Sen Gupta and Vijay Bagodi.

The 1^st Print Biennale India, 2018, is an endeavor that is a quest for discovering new artistic trends in printmaking Nationally & Internationally.

Printmaking is a means of fine expression.

The direct consequence of this was the definition of the role Printmaking was to play in society and the broader and more indirect consequence were the ideological reaction this imposed.

 A Rs. 5 crore insect museum with the state-of-the-art amenities was unveiled by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswamy at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.

The museum, established at a 6,691 sqft area, is fully dedicated to insects and claimed to be the first of its in the country.

It would display insects preserved as specimens as also live ones depicting their different developmental stages, images, videos and models of their unique behaviour, habits and habitats.

The uniqueness of the museum is visible in the lobby, which depicts the theme, "BUGS ARE KINGS," while the exhibiting area comprises seven radial walls (bay) on the right side and an undivided wall on the left side.