Residents who had got their Aadhaar issued 10 years back, and have never updated after that in these years, such Aadhaar number holders are encouraged to get their documents updated. Residents can update their Aadhaars by uploading supportive documents (proof of identity and proof of address) either online through myAadhaar portal or offline by visiting the nearest Aadhaar centre. During the past decade, Aadhaar number has emerged as a universally accepted proof of identity of residents in India. More than 1100 government schemes and programs including 319 run by the central government use Aadhaar based identification for delivery of services.…
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The Prime Minister Narendra Modi was presented book titled India: The Mother of Democracy, by the Union Minister of Education, and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Dharmendra Pradhan, in the presence of Ministers of State for Education, Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh and Subhas Sarkar. Chairman & Member Secretary, ICHR, Prof. Raghuvendra Tanwar and Prof. Umesh Ashok Kadam were also present on the occasion. The book prepared and published by the ICHR is an evidence based account of the origin of democracy in India. Modi appreciated the book, the hard work put in to it and the intellectual endeavour of ICHR. He…
The Winter Session, 2022 of Parliament which commenced on December 7 has been adjourned sine die on December, 23, six days ahead of the schedule. In his valedictory address, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said the productivity of the House was 97 per cent during the 13 sittings which saw the passage of seven bills, including the supplementary demands for grants and the Maritime Anti-Piracy Bill. This was Dhankhar’s first session as chairman of the Rajya Sabha, after his election as vice president on August 10. “Disruption as an expression mechanism is antithetical to grace, decorum and sublimity of…
From Arctic communities desiring to receive public services in their own languages, to the Arhuaco people in Colombia who still speak Ika, indigenous people across the world are determined to keep their mother tongues alive. On Friday, the UN launched the International Decade of Indigenous Languages to help them survive, and protect them from extinction. The Organization has long advocated for indigenous peoples, who are the inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment. Preserving their languages is not only important for them, but for all humanity, said the President of the UN General…
In a new feature published this week, Committee to Protect Journalist’s (CPJ) Consultant Technology Editor Madeline Earp explains how forensic tools open a new front for using phone data to prosecute journalists.A law enforcement agent scrolling through a journalist’s unlocked phone is already a problematic scenario for press freedom. This risk is supercharged by technology that can copy and search the entire content of phones and computers, even if they are locked. Forensic tools can access everything on a phone or computer and are in widespread, open usage in democracies and more repressive regimes. Their use has accelerated threats to the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting to assess the Covid-19 situation in the country, preparedness of health infrastructure and logistics, status of the vaccination campaign in the country and the emergence of new Covid-19 variants and their public health implications for the country. This high-level review meeting comes in the backdrop of spike in COVID19 cases in some countries. A comprehensive presentation was made regarding the global Covid-19 situation including the rising cases in countries by Secretary, Health and Member, NITI Aayog. He was briefed that India has been witnessing a steady decline in cases with average daily…
Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar has said that the ambitious scheme of the One Nation-One Ration Card across the country has brought a lot of relief to the poor. Tomar said that through Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana, the Central Government has provided free food grains to the poor, worth Rs 3.90 lakh crore, whereas under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, underlining its commitment to the welfare of the farmers, the government has made a record purchase of Rs 2.75 lakh crore on MSP in 2021-22. Tomar informed that various…
According to an international research firm, International Data Corporation (IDC), India’s public cloud service market is expected to be US$ 13 billion by 2026, while growing at a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 23.1% for 2021-26. Computing and storage applications are made available on demand to organisations and individuals over the public internet through Public Cloud Service (PCS). Whereas a private cloud model’s resources are available only to a single organisation. IDC Worldwide Semi-annual Public Cloud Services Tracker, H12022 report stated that the revenue of Indian PCS market, along with, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions, and software-as-a-service (SaaS), summed…
Four cases of Omicron subvariant BF.7, apparently the strain driving China’s current surge of covid cases, have been detected in India so far, official sources said on Wednesday. The first case of BF.7 in India was detected in October by Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre. So far, two cases have been reported from Gujarat while another two cases have been reported from Odisha, they said. In the covid review meeting chaired by Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday, experts said although there is no overall increase in covid caseload as of now, there is a need for continued surveillance to…
Indian Railways are making sincere efforts to curb drug trafficking through their network and a focused drive i.e. “Operation NARCOS” is undertaken by RPF to take action against trafficking of Drugs via Railways. The Government of India through its notification no.1403 dated 11.04.2019 has authorized officers of Railway Protection Force to arrest, search and seize Narcotics drugs under NDPS Act. The Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha said that the Narcotics drugs seized and suspects arrested by RPF under NDPS Act are handed over to the LEAs empowered to register the…