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New Delhi [India], Mar 4 : In a major step ahead, towards its goal of nurturing micro entrepreneurship and skilling 50 lakh drivers by 2020, taxi aggregator Ola has signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU) with Madhya Pradesh State Skill Development Mission (MPSSDM) and Directorate of Skill Development (Technical Education and Skill Development Dept.) Govt. of Madhya Pradesh here today.

In line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Skill India initiative, the MOU is focused towards training, skill development and empowerment of 25,000 driver partners in the next two years.

New Delhi [India], Mar 4 : The crucial Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meet, headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has commenced at Vigyan Bhavan with the agenda to get the council's approval on iGST (integrated GST), cGST (central GST) and sGST (state GST) drafts before the second half of the budget session of Parliament that begins on March 9.

However, the State GST and UT GST will not be on the council's agenda for today as the tax reform lies pending with the Law Commission for legal framing.

The government is keen to roll out the new regime from 1 July for which it is likely to hold 12 GST Council meetings in the next week to discuss and get it cleared.

New Delhi [India], Mar. 4 : NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN), which is in its second year of studying the Red Planet's atmosphere, was recently forced to perform unscheduled maneuver to avert a space-wreck.

In its first collision avoidance maneuver, MAVEN spacecraft carried out a rocket motor burn that boosted its velocity by 0.4 meters per second (less than 1 mile per hour) to steer clear of Mars' moon Phobos, NASA reported.

The correction was small, but it was enough for the spacecraft to avoid the crater-filled moon by about 2.5 minutes.

Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 4 : Research by the UK-based University of Southampton has found that methods used to predict the effect of species extinction on ecosystems could be producing inaccurate results. This is because current thinking assumes that when a species vanishes, its role within an environment is lost too.

However, scientists working on a new study have found that when a species (for example a group of sea creatures) is wiped out by a catastrophic event, other species can change their behaviour to compensate, exploiting the vacant role left behind. This leads to positive or negative effects on ecosystems, and in turn, either better or worse outcomes than current estimates would suggest.

New Delhi [India], Mar. 04 : Vodafone has launched world's largest recruitment programme for women who took break in their careers.

The ReConnect programme is designed to attract talented women who have left the workplace for several years (in most cases to raise a family) and who would like to return to work on a full-time or flexible basis but are struggling to make the professional connections needed or refresh the skills required.

The programme will operate across 26 countries with a target of 1,000 ReConnect recruits within three years.

ReConnect will complement other Vodafone global initiatives focused on encouraging and supporting women in the workplace including the Group's groundbreaking global maternity policy announced in March 2015.

New Delhi [India], Mar 3 : Online training aggregator Hunarr has announced its foray into the finance sector in a bid to add more options for its users.

Expansion to newer domains is an effort to ensure that all users coming to the portal have access to courses they are interested in. In addition to augmenting its service portfolio, Hunarr will also refer candidates to B-Schools for full-time or part time MBA courses, majorly in Finance and also provide leads to the likes of Bombay Stock Exchange.