Ex-Air staff chief OP Mehra passes away
New Delhi: Former chief of Air Staff Om Prakash Mehra, 96, passed away at Army Research and Referral hospital on Sunday. Mehra also served as the Governor of Maharashtra (1980-82) and Rajasthan (1985-87). His cremation was held on Monday at Brar Square in the Delhi cantonment.
Parrikar inaugurates cloud system of Army
New Delhi: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday inaugurated here a highly encrypted Cloud system of the Indian Army, similar to that of Google, which will store personnel as well operational data. The ‘Army Cloud' includes a central data centre, a near line data centre, both in New Delhi and a disaster recovery site for a replication of its critical data along with virtualised servers and storage in an environmentally controlled complex.
Govt sets target of 1%
global tourism share
New Delhi: Union Tourism Ministry has set a target of one per cent share of international tourist arrivals by 2016-17 from current 0.68 per cent, said Union Tourism and Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma while addressing the Parliamentary Consultative Committee meeting here on Monday. The ‘Swadesh Darshan’ and Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Augmentation Drive (PRASAD) schemes and the working of Zonal Cultural Centres were taken up for the discussion in the meeting, said a statement from the Ministry.