7th BRICS Summit held in Ufa, Russia

The seventh BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit was held from 8 to 9 July 2015 in the Russian city of Ufa in Bashkortostan.
It was held under the theme BRICS Partnership – a Powerful Factor of Global Development.
The summit was attended by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Dilma Rousseff, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Jacob Zuma president of Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa respectively.
At the end of the summit, Ufa Declaration was released by the leaders that called for enhanced coordinated efforts in responding to emerging challenges, ensuring peace and security, promoting development in a sustainable way among the member countries.

What is Digital India?

• Digital India is a Programme to prepare India for a knowledge future.
• The focus is on being transformative – to realize IT + IT = IT
• The focus is on making technology central to enabling change.
• It is an Umbrella Programme – covering many departments.
  • It weaves together a large number of ideas and thoughts into a single, comprehensive vision so that each of them is seen as part of a larger goal.
  • Each individual element stands on its own. But is also part of the larger picture.
  • It is coordinated by DeitY, implemented by the entire government.
  • The weaving together makes the Mission transformative in totality
• The Programme:
  • Pulls together many existing schemes.
  • These schemes will be restructured and re-focused.
  • They will be implemented in a synchronized manner.
  • Many elements are only process improvements with minimal cost.
• The common branding of programmes as Digital India highlights their transformative impact.

Vision of Digital India

Centered on 3 Key Areas

• Digital Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen
• Governance & Services on Demand
• Digital Empowerment of Citizens

Nobel prize winners 2014

• Kailash Satyarthi

  Peace Prize

  India

  

• Malala Yousafzai

  Peace Prize

  Pakistan

  

• Patrick Modiano

  Literature

  Paris, France

  

• Shuji Nakamura

  Physics

PRADHAN MANTRI SURAKSHA BIMA YOJANA

RULES FOR THE PRADHAN MANTRI SURAKSHA BIMA YOJANA

DETAILS OF THE SCHEME:

The scheme will be a one year cover, renewable from year to year, Accident Insurance Scheme offering accidental death and disability cover for death or disability on account of an accident. The scheme would be offered / administered through Public Sector General Insurance Companies (PSGICs) and other General Insurance companies willing to offer the product on similar terms with necessary approvals and tie up with Banks for this purpose. Participating banks will be free to engage any such insurance company for implementing the scheme for their subscribers.
Scope of coverage: All savings bank account holders in the age 18 to 70 years in participating banks will be entitled to join. In case of multiple saving bank accounts held by an individual in one or different banks, the person would be eligible to join the scheme through one savings bank account only. Aadhar would be the primary KYC for the bank account.