ComIndian Railway used drone to inspect Freight Corridor project <br />Drone is an unmanned flying robot which can be remotely handled through software. <br />On 17 April 2016 Indian Railway for the first time used drones to inspect the ongoing work on the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) project and to assess the ground situation in the aftermath of train accidents. <br /> <br />Satyanand Munjal, co-founder of Hero Group passed away <br />On 14 April 2016 Satyanand Munjal, co-founder of Hero Cycles group, passed away. <br />He died at Model Town, Ludhiana. He was 99. <br /> <br />Supercomputer 'Param Kanchenjunga' presented <br />On 17 April 2016 Sikkim Governor Shrinvas Patil formally presented Supercomputer named ‘Param Kanchenjunga’ at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Sikkim. <br />It is named after Kangchenjunga Mountain. <br /> <br />International Day for Monuments and Sites observed with theme "The Heritage of Sport" <br />International Day for Monuments and Sites traditionally called World Heritage Day was observed across the world on 18 April 2016. This years theme was ‘The Heritage of Sport’. <br />The theme was decided by the International Council for Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) in the light of Olympics 2016 that will be hosted in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 2016. <br /> <br />Dipa Karmakar became first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for Olympics <br />Indian artistic gymnast Dipa Karmakar on 17 April 2016 created history by becoming the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for Olympics. <br />Karmakar has been listed as the 79th gymnast among individual qualifiers in the list of women’s artistic gymnast who have qualified for the Rio Olympics. <br /> <br />Union Government released report of Technical Committee on Large Scale Integration of Renewable Energy <br />Union Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy Minister of State Piyush Goyal on 18 April 2016 released Report of the Technical Committee on Large Scale Integration of Renewable Energy, Need for Balancing, Deviation Settlement Mechanism and associated issues in New Delhi.
