eBiz portal launched

 

Commerce and Industry Ministry has launched eBiz portal to provide Government-to-Business (G2B) services for India’s investor and business communities. The portal was developed by Infosys in a publicprivate partnership (PPP) mode. Infosys has been selected as the concessionaire/ project implementation partner, and is responsible for the design, development, implementation and maintenance of the eBiz solution. The online single-window concept was visualised to enable businesses and investors to save time and costs and improve the business environment. “The project aims to create a business and investorfriendly ecosystem in India by making all business and investment-related regulatory services across Central, State and local governments available on a single portal.

India, Bangladesh sign extradition treaty, new visa regime

 

India and Bangladesh has signed a liberalised visa agreement and a landmark extradition treaty that would pave the way for the deportation of jailed ULFA 'general secretary' AnupChetia and other wanted "criminals". The treaty would not be applicable for persons accused of offenses of political nature and only those with charges like murders, culpable homicide and other serious offenses would come under the purview of the deal. The offenders of small crimes awarded with less than one year jail will also not be wanted under the treaty. The two countries agreed to ink the extradition treaty in December 2012 alongside an agreement to liberalise visa regime while New Delhi earlier promised to put in efforts to track down two absconding and convicted killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and hand them over to Dhaka as two of them were believed to be hiding in India.

Zeman is first directly elected Czech President

A former left-leaning Prime Minister staged a big return to power by winning the Czech Republic’s first directly elected presidential vote.

With all the votes counted, Milos Zeman won 54.8 per cent of the vote for the largely ceremonial post, the Czech Statistics Office reported. His opponent, conservative Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, had 45.2 per cent.

Since Czechoslovakia split into Slovakia and the Czech Republic in 1993, the Czech Republic has had two Presidents elected by Parliament — Vaclav Havel and Vaclav Klaus.

Padma Awards Announced

President has approved the conferment of  108 Padma Awards. These comprise 04 Padma Vibhushan, 24 PadmaBhushan and   80 Padma Shri Awards. 24 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 11 persons in the category of Foreigners, NRIs, PIOs and  Posthumous awardees. Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian awards, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan,Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz- art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year. The awards are conferred by the President of India at a function held at Rashtrapati Bhawansometime around March/ April. Padma Vibhushan SlNo. Name Discipline State/ Domicile 1.        Shri RaghunathMohapatra Art Orissa 2.        Shri S. Haider Raza Art Delhi 3.        Prof. Yash Pal Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh 4.        Prof. RoddamNarasimha Science and Engineering Karnataka   Padma Bhushan Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile   Dr. RamanaiduDaggubati Art Andhra Pradesh   Smt. SreeramamurthyJanaki Art Tamil Nadu   Dr. (Smt.) Kanak Rele Art Maharashtra   Smt. Sharmila Tagore Art Delhi   Dr. (Smt.) SarojaVaidyanathan Art Delhi   Shri Abdul Rashid Khan Art West Bengal   Late Rajesh Khanna Art Maharashtra #   Late Jaspal SinghBhatti Art Punjab #   Shri ShivajiraoGirdhar Patil Public Affairs Maharashtra   Dr. ApathukathaSivathanu Pillai Science and Engineering Delhi   Dr. Vijay KumarSaraswat Science and Engineering Delhi   Dr. Ashoke Sen Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh   Dr. B.N. Suresh Science and Engineering Karnataka   Prof. Satya N. Atluri Science and Engineering USA *   Prof. Jogesh ChandraPati Science and Engineering USA *   Shri RamamurthyThyagarajan Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu   Shri Adi Burjor Godrej Trade and Industry Maharashtra   Dr. NandkishoreShamrao Laud Medicine Maharashtra   Shri MangeshPadgaonkar Literature & Education Maharashtra   Prof. GayatriChakravorty Spivak Literature & Education USA*   Shri Hemendra SinghPanwar Civil Service Madhya Pradesh   Dr. Maharaj KishanBhan Civil Service Delhi   Shri Rahul Dravid Sports Karnataka   Ms. H. MangteChungneijang Mary Kom Sports Manipur   Padma Shri Sl No. Name Discipline State/ Domicile   Shri Gajam Anjaiah Art Andhra Pradesh   Swami G.C.D. Bharti alias BharatiBandhu Art Chhattisgarh   Ms. B. Jayashree Art Karnataka   Smt. Sridevi Kapoor Art Maharashtra   Shri Kailash Chandra Meher Art Orissa   Shri Brahmdeo Ram Pandit Art Maharashtra   Shri Vishwanath Dinkar Patekar alias Nana Patekar Art Maharashtra   Shri Rekandar Nageswara Rao aliasSurabhi Babji Art Andhra Pradesh   Shri Lakshmi Narayana Sathiraju Art Tamil Nadu   Smt. Jaymala Shiledar Art Maharashtra   Shri Suresh Dattatray Talwalkar Art Maharashtra   Shri P. Madhavan Nair alias Madhu Art Kerala   Shri Apurba Kishore Bir Art Maharashtra   Shri Ghanakanta Bora Borbayan Art Assam   Smt. Hilda Mit Lepcha Art Sikkim   Smt. Sudha Malhotra Art Maharashtra   Shri Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz Art Jammu and Kashmir   Shri Ramesh Gopaldas Sippy Art Maharashtra   Ms. Mahrukh Tarapor Art Maharashtra   Shri Balwant Thakur Art Jammu & Kashmir   Shri Puran Das Baul Art West Bengal   Shri Rajendra Tikku Art Jammu & Kashmir   Shri Pablo Bartholomew Art Delhi   Shri S. Shakir Ali Art Rajasthan   Sh. S.K.M Maeilanandhan Social Work Tamil Nadu   Ms. Nileema Mishra Social Work Maharashtra   Ms. Reema Nanavati Social Work Gujarat   Ms. Jharna Dhara Chowdhury Social Work Bangladesh *   Late Dr. Ram Krishan Social Work Uttar Pradesh #   Late Manju Bharat Ram Social Work Delhi #   Prof. Mustansir Barma Science and Engineering Maharashtra   Shri Avinash Chander Science and Engineering Delhi   Prof. Sanjay Govind Dhande Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh   Prof. (Dr.) Sankar Kumar Pal Science and Engineering West Bengal   Prof. Deepak B. Phatak Science and Engineering Maharashtra   Dr. Mudundi Ramakrishna Raju Science and Engineering Andhra Pradesh   Prof. Ajay K. Sood Science and Engineering Karnataka   Prof. Krishnaswamy Vijayraghavan Science and Engineering Karnataka   Dr. Manindra Agrawal Science and Engineering Uttar Pradesh   Dr. Jayaraman Gowrishankar Science and Engineering Andhra Pradesh   Prof. Sharad Pandurang Kale Science and Engineering Maharashtra   Smt. Vandana Luthra Trade and Industry Delhi   Ms. Rajshree Pathy Trade and Industry Tamil Nadu   Shri Hemendra Prasad Barooah Trade and Industry Assam   Shri Milind Kamble Trade and Industry Maharashtra   Ms. Kalpana Saroj Trade and Industry Maharashtra   Dr. Sudarshan K. Aggarwal Medicine Delhi   Dr. C. Venkata S. Ram alias ChittaVenkata Sundara Ram Medicine Andhra Pradesh   Dr. Rajendra Achyut Badwe Medicine Maharashtra   Dr. Taraprasad Das Medicine Orissa   Prof. (Dr.) T.V. Devarajan Medicine Tamil Nadu   Prof. (Dr.) Saroj Chooramani Gopal Medicine Uttar Pradesh   Dr. Pramod Kumar Julka Medicine Delhi   Dr. Gulshan Rai Khatri Medicine Delhi   Dr. Ganesh Kumar Mani Medicine Delhi   Dr. Amit Prabhakar Maydeo Medicine Maharashtra   Dr. Sundaram Natarajan Medicine Maharashtra   Prof. Krishna Chandra Chunekar Medicine Uttar Pradesh   Dr. Vishwa Kumar Gupta Medicine Delhi     Prof. (Capt.) Dr. Mohammad Sharaf-e-Alam Literature & Education Bihar   Dr. Radhika Herzberger Literature & Education Andhra Pradesh   Shri J. Malsawma Literature & Education Mizoram   Shri Devendra Patel Literature & Education Gujarat   Dr. Rama Kant Shukla Literature & Education Delhi   Prof. Akhtarul Wasey Literature & Education Delhi   Prof. Anvita Abbi Literature & Education Delhi   Shri Nida Fazli Literature & Education Madhya Pradesh   Shri Surender Kumar Sharma Literature & Education Delhi   Dr. Jagdish Prasad Singh Literature & Education Bihar   Late Shaukat Riaz Kapoor Alias SalikLakhnawi Literature & Education West Bengal #   Prof. Noboru Karashima Literature & Education Japan *   Shri Christopher Pinney Literature & Education UK *   Smt. Premlata Agrawal Sports Jharkhand   Shri Yogeshwar Dutt Sports Haryana   Shri Hosanagara NagarajegowdaGirisha Sports Karnataka   Subedar Major Vijay Kumar Sports Himachal Pradesh   Shri Ngangom Dingko Singh Sports Maharashtra   Naib Subedar Bajrang Lal Takhar Sports Rajasthan   Ms. Ritu Kumar Fashion Designing Delhi   Dr. Ravindra Singh Bisht Archaeology Uttar Pradesh   Note: * indicates awardees in the category of Foreigners / NRIs/ PIOs.                 # indicates awardees in the posthumous category.