Union Education and Skill development & Entrepreneurship Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan announced that the 6th edition of Prime Minister’s Interaction Programme with school students, teachers and parents “Pariksha Pe Charcha 2023” will be held on 27th January 2023 at Talkatora Indoor Stadium, New Delhi. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi conceptualized this unique interactive program – Pariksha Pe Charcha wherein students, parents, teachers from across the nation and also from overseas interact with him to discuss anxieties related to examinations and life after school. The event seeks to help in overcoming stress in order to celebrate life as an Utsav. This…
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In a major verdict, the Supreme Court on Monday upheld the validity of 2016 note ban. The top court ruled that demonetisation cannot be struck down on the grounds of proportionality. The Centre’s decision was upheld with a majority of 4:1. The five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice S.A Nazeer, B R Gavai, B V Nagarathna, A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian pronounced the verdict. SC pronounced its judgement on a batch of pleas challenging the government’s 2016 decision to demonetise notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 denominations. Justice Gavai said that we find the three purposes are proper purposes…
Dubai has scrapped its 30% alcohol tax in an apparent bid to boost tourism.It will also stop charging for personal alcohol licences – something anyone who intends to drink needs to carry. Dubai has been relaxing laws for some time, allowing the sale of alcohol in daylight during Ramadan and approving home delivery during the pandemic. This latest move is thought to be an attempt to make the city more attractive to foreigners, in the face of competition from neighbours. The two companies which distribute alcohol in Dubai, Maritime and Mercantile International (MMI), and African & Eastern, said they would…
CPJ recorded the highest number of jouornalists imprisoned globally for their work in 30 years, with 363 imprisoned as of December 1, 2022. Iranian authorities’ arrests of dozens of journalists amid a brutal crackdown on anti-state protests made it the world’s worst jailer of the press.CPJ’s annual prison census shows that governments are resorting to retaliatory charges and the abuse of legal structures to punish the press, such as by crafting legislation with vague wording that criminalizes factual reporting. Anti-state charges are used most frequently to imprison journalists, ranging from alleged terrorism to sharing information contrary to official narratives. Alarmingly, in 131…
Spearheaded by the Prime Minister, the Government of India sponsored the proposal for International Year of Millets (IYM) 2023 which was accepted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The declaration has been instrumental for the Government of India to be at the forefront in celebrating the IYM. The PM of India, Narendra Modi has also shared his vision to make IYM 2023 a ‘People’s Movement’ alongside positioning India as the ‘Global Hub for Millets’. ‘Millets’ were among the first crops to be domesticated in India with several evidence of its consumption during the Indus valley civilization. Being grown in…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the 108th Indian Science Congress (ISC) on 3rd January, 2023 at 10:30 AM via video conferencing. The focal theme of this year’s ISC is “Science and Technology for Sustainable Development with Women Empowerment”. It will witness discussions on issues of sustainable development, women empowerment and the role of science & technology in achieving this. The participants will discuss and deliberate on ways to increase the number of women in higher echelons of teaching, research and industry, along with trying to find ways to provide women with equal access to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)…
The gross GST revenue collected during December 2022 is Rs 1,49,507 crore, of which CGST is Rs 26,711 crore, SGST is Rs 33,357 crore, IGST is Rs 78,434 crore (including Rs 40,263 crore collected on import of goods) and Cess is Rs 11,005 crore (including Rs 850 crore collected on import of goods). The Government has settled Rs 36,669 crore to CGST and Rs 31,094 crore to SGST from IGST as regular settlement. The total revenue of Centre and the States after regular settlements in the month of December 2022 is Rs 63,380 crore for CGST and Rs 64,451 crore…
The year 2022 witnessed 93 encounters in Kashmir in which 172 militants were killed. The year also witnessed 37 per cent less militant recruitment while 360 weapons were recovered, said Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar. The dead militants included 42 foreigners. “Most slain militants belonged to Lashkar-e-Taiba/TRF (108), followed by Jash-e-Muhamamd (35), Hizbul Mujahideen (22), Al-Badr (4) and Ansar Ghazwa Tul-Hind (AGH) (3),” Kumar said in a tweet. He said, in 2022, 100 new militants joined militancy, which is 37 per cent less than last year. Among the fresh recruits, 65 were killed, 17 were arrested…
Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said that research is essential for police to adapt to the continuous changes in society, BPR&D is responsible for conducting this research for the police and Central Armed Forces. He laid the foundation stone of the Central Detective Training Institute (CDTI) at Devanahalli in Karnataka and inaugurated the residential and administrative complexes of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). He said systemic and procedural reforms in police should be a continuous process, for which collaboration between institutions, seminars and exchange of best practices and challenges is necessary to make police forces the best. Shah…
The roll out of center’s new integrated food security Scheme is set to begin on 1 January 2023. As per the decision made by cabinet, led by Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, the new Scheme would provide free food grains to 81.35 crore beneficiaries under NFSA, for the year 2023. The Scheme would also ensure effective and uniform implementation of National Food Security Act (NFSA). Government of India has social & legal commitment to the people of the nation- a dignified life by ensuring them access to food and nutritional security through availability of adequate quantity of quality foodgrains. For…