“Yuva Shakti is the driving force of India’s journey”, said the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and asserted that the next 25 years are important for building the nation. The dreams and aspirations of Yuva Shakti decide India’s direction and destination and Yuva Shakti’s passion decides India’s path, he added. Inaugurating the 26th National Youth Festival in Hubbali, Karnataka on Thursday, he said that India today is the 5th largest economy and “our goal is to take it into the top 3.” The Prime Minister reiterated emerging opportunities in the agriculture and sports sector and credited the power of the youth…
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To stay in power, authoritarian leaders around the world rely on their ability to steal huge sums of money from the public, and get away with it scot-free. Their methods are evolving and sophisticated, increasingly involving schemes that reach across international borders. The damage is stark: government corruption and its fallout pose a grave and growing threat to democratic values, individual livelihoods, and human rights across the globe. Against this backdrop, the 20th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) recently took place in Washington, DC. It brought together thousands of practitioners, policymakers, government officials, civil society organizations, and business representatives to exchange…
Many of us recently followed Twitter’s alarming suspension of journalists’ accounts on the platform. However, there are far-reaching, structural issues at Twitter that threaten press freedom and more broadly, people’s right to be informed. In response, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) sent a join open letter to Twitter’s Executive Team outlining recommendations to protect press freedom. These organizations are alarmed by the rapid deterioration of basic human rights standards and responsible platform governance that are contributing to a hostile environment for journalists, which could put them in physical danger and directly threaten media freedom…
‘Naatu Naatu,’ the peppy track from S S Rajamouli’s blockbuster movie ‘RRR,’ has won the Golden Globes for Best Original Song. This makes the Telugu movie a hot favourite to win the Oscars too where it has been nominated for the same category. Music director MM Keeravani, and singers Kaala Bhairava and Rahul Sipligunj were nominated in this category. As soon as the award was announced by actress Jenny Ortega, team RRR erupted in celebrations. Keeravani accepted the award for the team and thanked the team, especially Rajamouli for his “vision”. The movie though lost out for the ‘best picture-non…
Emphasizing the need for harmonious relations between all organs of the State as envisaged in our constitution, the Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said that democracy sustains and blossoms when the Legislature, Judiciary and Executive act in tandem and togetherness to realize the aspirations of the people. He inaugurated two-day 83rd All India Conference of Presiding Officers’ in Jaipur on Wednesday. He described India as the ‘Mother of Democracy’ and stressed that the essence of democracy lies in the prevalence of the mandate of the people and securing their welfare. Stating that in a democratic society, ‘the basic’ of any ‘basic…
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved a historic decision to set up and promote a national level multi-state seed cooperative society under Multi State Cooperative Societies (MSCS) Act, 2002. It will act as an apex organization for production, procurement, processing, branding, labelling, packaging, storage, marketing and distribution of quality seeds; strategic research & development; and to develop a system for preservation and promotion of indigenous natural seeds; through various cooperative societies across the country with support from relevant ministries especially Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) and national Seed…
Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the light and sound show ‘Jai Hind’ at Red Fort in New Delhi today. Union Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy, Minister of State for Culture, Smt. Meenakshi lekhi, Lt. Governor of Delhi VK Saxena and several other dignitaries were present on the occasion. In his address, Union Home Minister said that there will also be a Matrubhumi show, in which India’s history of thousands of years has been integrated in a wonderful manner. He said that this program is starting in the year of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and this journey of…
Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles, Piyush Goyal is on a three-day visit to the United States from 9-11 January 2023. He addressed two roundtables on January 09 (Monday) in New York: At the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); and hosted by the U.S. – India Business Council (USIBC) at Nasdaq. The discussion at CFR was moderated by Amb. Kenneth Juster and was attended by stakeholders from the industry, academia and think tanks. The Roundtable hosted by the USIBC at Nasdaq was moderated by Amb. (Retd.) Atul Keshap, President, USIBC, was attended…
An International Webinar titled “Inputs to Policy on Empowering Young Scientists” was conducted jointly by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India, the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS), and the Indian Institute of Technology – Banaras Hindu University. The webinar, organised on January 9, 2023, is a part of the Office of PSA’s initiative on Empowering Young Scientists with the aim to collate inputs on a new policy document to nurture and empower the next generation of young scientists and researchers (≤45 years) in India that would translate into excellence in scientific…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a lightening visit to Hyderabad on January 19 to launch various development works worth Rs 2,400 crore related to South Central Railways, besides flagging off the Vande Bharat Express train at Secunderabad. The developmental works to be launched by the Prime Minister include modernisation of Seunderabad railway station at a cost of Rs 700 crore, doubling of railway line between Secunderabad and Mahabubnagar at a cost of Rs 1,231 crore and works on Kazipet railway coach workshop at a cost of Rs 521 crore. Disclosing this to reporters after holding discussions with the…