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Saturday, November 2, 2024
TopicSurvey of India

Topic: Survey of India

Survey of India ties up with private firm for ‘dynamic digital mapping’, cities set to get 3D ‘twins’

The digital twin cities will mirror real urban landscape and these high-resolutions maps are expected to help in urban planning, development, navigation & disaster preparedness.

3 institutions headless for a year—Indian research, scholarship has an institutional problem

The Survey of India in Dehradun, the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies in Shimla, and the National Library of India in Kolkata have been without a chief for over a year. But administrative life goes on.

How govt drone survey is clearing up land ownership in villages across India

Under SVAMITVA scheme, launched in 2021, maps are prepared to verify ownership of non-agricultural land in villages. States have used this to issue 1.32 crore property cards so far.

On Camera

As a Hindu Canadian, I am deeply hurt by cancellation of Diwali. My community is now sidelined

Canada faces serious foreign interference issues, but these challenges must not be weaponized to unfairly target friendly and important allies like India.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

Xi wanted to teach India about imbalance of power. We should take a budgetary lesson from it

While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.