Telangana forms own higher education council

• Navies of India and Singapore are conducting joint war drills in the Andaman Sea from May 22-28, to enhance understanding and inter-operability between the two sides. Every year, the two countries hold the SIMBEX-series of naval drills along the Andaman Sea . SIMBEX 14 will be the 21st exercise of the war games between the two navies. Bilateral naval cooperation between the two navies was first formalised when Singaporean Navy ships began training in anti-submarine warfare with us in 1994.SIMBEX stands for 'Singapore Indian Maritime Bilateral Exercise’. This year, the Indian Navy is being represented by IN ships Kuthar and Karmuk from the Eastern Naval Command. In addition, a maritime reconnaissance aircraft and a helicopter each from Andaman and Nicobar Command are also participating in the exercise. The Singapore Navy is represented by the missile corvette, 'Valour' and the patrol vessel, 'Independence'. 
• Narendra Kumar Verma was on 21st May, selected as M.D for the ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL). Mr. Verma is currently Director for Exploration in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) selected him. He succeeded Dinesh K Sarraf who was elevated as Chairman and Managing Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in March 2014.
  

  • ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL) is a Miniratna Schedule “A” Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) of the Government of India under the administrative control of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas.
  • It is a wholly owned subsidiary and overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC). 

  A union communications and IT ministry project on "mobile governance” on 21st May won the second prize at the prestigious United Nations' Public Services Awards. The project, called "mobile seva" was launched by the Dept. of Electronics and Information Technology’s (DeitY) in January 2012, and won in the category "Promoting Whole of Government Approaches in the Information Age" for Asia Pacific. The first prize in the category was bagged by the Korean health and welfare information service.