International Conference on NexGen Technologies for Mining
and Fuel Industries
- NxGnMiFu-2017 was inaugurated in New Delhi Today
Pre-loaded Sim Card for Tourists arriving in India on E-visa launched
- This initiative will facilitate the foreign tourists in communicating with their acquaintances immediately after their arrival in India
- The initiative has been launched in association with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd., (BSNL)
- Sim cards will be pre-loaded with a value of Rs. 50 talk time and 50 MB data and will be activated on immediate basis
- BSNL would distribute pre-loaded SIM Cards to foreign tourists arriving in India on e-Visa. This facility will be initially available in the Indira Gandhi International Airport (T3 Terminal), New Delhi and later will be expanded to remaining 15 international airports, where e-Visa facility is currently available.
- It should also be noted that earlier, the Ministry of Tourism had also launched a 24 x 7 Tourist Helpline 1800111363 in Twelve foreign languages so that the foreign tourists can get the required information in their own language
PSLV-C37 successfully launches 104 satellites in a single flight
- This is the 39th journey of launch vehicle-PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle)
- Out of 104 satellites
- Cartosat-2 series
- Two ISRO Nano-Satellites (INS-1 & INS-2)
- 96 satellites from USA
- 1 satellite each from Netherlands, Switzerland, Israel, Kazakhstan and UAE
About PSLV
- The first flight of PSLV was in 1993
- It is a 4 stage launch vehicle
- The maximum number of satellites that it had carried last time was 10 satellites in 2008
- It has broken the records set by Russian Space agency which had sent 37 satellites at a go and NASA which had sent 29 in a go
About Cartosat
- These are indigenously built earth observation satellites
- The Cartosat-2 will be the 5th in the Cartosat series
- The images from Cartosat-2 series satellite will useful for
- Cartographic applications
- Urban and rural applications
- Coastal land use and regulation
- Utility management like road network monitoring, water distribution,
- Creation of land use maps
- Change detection to bring out geographical and manmade features and various other Land Information System (LIS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) applications.
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