By Nava Thakuria, North East based senior journalist Three-day Chintan Shivir concludes at Kaziranga Guwahati: The three-day Chintan Shivir held at Kaziranga, where Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, State cabinet ministers, senior bureaucrats, functionaries from the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council were participants for deliberation and discussions, came to an end on Monday. CM Sarma, while addressing the concluding day of Chintan Shivir, declared that the government would shed its conventional role of a regulator and perform as a facilitator to help different stakeholders to bring about a paradigm shift in development of the State. Sarma said…
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President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu, inaugurated the Mysuru Dasara Festival at Chamundi Hills, Mysuru on Monday. Addressing the gathering, the President extended her greetings to the people of Karnataka on the auspicious occasion of Mysuru Dasara. She said that she prays to the Goddess Chamundeshwari that her blessings will always be available to all. She said that the sages as well as people of our country have kept the Indian society connected for centuries through festivals. Festivals based on divine and human characters from Ramayana, Mahabharata, Puranas, history and folk-tales are celebrated all over the country. She said that there is diversity…
This past week, world leaders have assembled at the United Nations (U.N.) in New York for the annual opening of the General Assembly. While some diplomats have taken to the podium, many advocates have done the same on the streets and in the media. They have a common message: the U.N. must act on the recent confirmation by outgoing human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, of “human rights violations” in the Uyghur Region of China. Just before Bachelet’s release, the U.N. special rapporteur on slavery released a report confirming the Uyghur forced labor system. Last week, the new Global Estimates of…
Andhra Pradesh has bagged Ayushman Utkrishtata Puraskaar (Ayushman Excellence Awards) 2022, emerging as top performing state in Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission. And, Parvathipuram Manyam as Top performing district. These awards were presented by Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya at the closing day of the two-day Arogya Manthan 2022 in New Delhi. This was organized celebrating completion of four years of Ayushman Bharat PMJAY and one year of Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission. Ms Veena George, Minister of Health, Government of Kerala and Dr V K Paul, Member (Health), NITI Aayog were also present. Union Health Minister awarded the…
Based on the inputs from intelligence agencies, the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has directed YouTube to block 45 YouTube videos from 10 YouTube channels. Orders to block the concerned videos were issued on 23.09.2022 under the provisions of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021. The blocked videos had cumulative viewership of over 1 crore 30 lakh views. The content included fake news and morphed videos spread with the intent to spread hatred among religious communities. Examples include false claims such as the Government to have taken away the religious rights of certain communities,…
In continuance of Anti-Drug operations, officers of Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN) Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh, on a specific intelligence, searched a suspected house and temporary Godown (Baada) constructed by Precast wall & Tin Shed in the outskirts of village Hathipura, PS-Ratangarh, Tehsil- Singoli, District- Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh, and seizes total 1083.150 kg Poppy Straw (Doda Chura) on Monday. After receiving intelligence that a person of village Hathipura was involved in illicit smuggling and transportation of Poppy Straw and was having illicit Poppy Straw (Doda Chura) secreted at his residence & temporary Godown (Baada) constructed by Precast wall & Tin Shed…
By Nava Thakuria, North East based senior journalist Rashtriyata Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Sar Sanghachalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat, while attending a public meeting in Shillong of Meghalaya, stated that Bharat is an ancient nation since time immemorial, but due to forgetting the civilizational motto and values, it lost the freedom. He also added that ‘our binding force among one another is our inherent faith in our age-old value, which lies in spirituality’. “These values of this country’s eternal civilization have been named as Hindutva by people outside our country. We are Hindus, but there is no particular definition of Hindu, although…
International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Recent events have shown that humanity is closer than ever to nuclear catastrophe. ‘Nuclear deterrence’ means a world permanently on the brink of catastrophe. There is no alternative to eliminating these horrible weapons and creating a sustainable peace based on common security. On the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, 26 September, there are around 12,705 nuclear bombs ready to be deployed. More than half of all people live in countries that have these weapons or are members of nuclear alliances. Everyone lives with the threat of nuclear…
The Minister of State for Communications, Devusinh Chauhan has said that the better digital future can only be built on pervasive digital infrastructure, developing digital platforms for delivery of government services to every citizen and ensuring access to digital services to all. He was addressing the Ministerial Roundtable, which is part of Plenipotentiary Conference 2022 of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Bucharest, Romania. The theme of the conference is “Building Better Digital Future”. Speaking on the occasion, he said that we have ticked all the necessary check boxes. Citing the examples of commitment of Government in building telecom infrastructure, the…
Indian tennis diva Sania Mirza has no doubt in her mind that the National Games had given her international career a major boost. “I was just 16 years old when I took part in the Games in 2002. I did well and came into the limelight. It proved to be the perfect impetus for my international career,” Sania said. The trendsetting and path-breaking Hyderabadi went on to win six Grand Slam titles in a glittering career. But before that, she had played plenty of tennis in India, starting nearly two decades back. From the junior nationals in Delhi to the…