The Ministry of Coal and Ministry of Mines will be organizing a two-day National Mines Ministers’ conference in Hyderabad on 9th & 10th September, 2022 to formulate new and effective strategies to further encourage mineral exploration in the country and also to assess the effectiveness of recent policy reforms brought about by the Centre in the mining sector. Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Pralhad Joshi, Minister of State for Mines, Coal & Railways Shri Raosaheb Patil Danve, Secretaries of Coal, Mines Ministries, Ministers from different states, Principal Secretaries (Mines) and DGMs/DMGs and other senior functionaries will…
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Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology (WEST), a new I-STEM (Indian Science Technology and Engineering facilities Map) initiative called “Women in Engineering, Science and Technology (WEST)”, was launched by Dr. Parvinder Maini, Scientific Secretary, Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India. The WEST programme will cater to women with a STEM background and empower them to contribute to the science, technology, and innovation ecosystem. I-STEM is a national web portal for sharing research equipment/facilities and is the umbrella under which many programmes for promoting collaborations in R&D and technological innovation among and between academia and…
Minister of Civil Aviation and Steel, Jyotiraditya Scindia, stated that India’s aviation sector was growing rapidly and the whole fleet size was likely to double in the next five years. He was speaking at the CEOs round table hosted by industry body ASSOCHAM. Scindia exuded confidence that the Indian aviation sector is going to touch 400 million passengers annually in 7-10 years from the current 200 million, Scindia said. Further, the minister stressed on India becoming an international hub for which the sector needs to add wide-body aircraft in our skies. “We are looking at a 1,200 fleet size in…
On the occasion of National Teachers’ Day, the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi announced a new initiative – PM SHRI Schools (PM ScHoolsfor Rising India). This will be a new centrally sponsored scheme for upgradation and development of more than 14500 Schools across the country by strengthening the selected existing schools from amongst schools managed by Central Government/ State/ UT Government/ local bodies. PM SHRI Schools will showcase all components of the National Education Policy 2020 and act as exemplar schools and also offer mentorship to other schools in their vicinity. The aim of these schools will not only be…
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived New Delhi on Monday on a four-day visit to hold talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, following which the two sides are likely to ink pacts in key areas, including defence, trade and river water sharing. Hasina, who last visited the country in 2019, was received at the airport by Union Minister Darshana Jardosh and will hold talks with Modi on Tuesday in the National Capital. During her stay, she will also call on President Droupadi Murmu and Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankar. On the first day of her state visit, External Affairs Minister S…
The government of India is mulling renaming New Delhi’s historic Rajpath and Central Vista lawns as ‘Kartavya Path’. The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has convened a special meeting on September 7 and the proposal will be placed before the council. NDMC has convened a special meeting on September 7 with the objective of renaming Rajpath and Central Vista lawns as Kartavyapath, sources said. “The entire road and area from the Netaji statue at India Gate to the Rashtrapati Bhavan will be known as Kartavyapath,” they added. Rajpath was known as Kingsway during British Rule. During his Independence Day…
The government is looking to make the online world more accountable for published items through the proposed new version of the Data Protection Bill and the amendment to the IT Act 2000, known as the Digital India Act, Union minister in the electronics and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said. Addressing the launch of the 2nd batch of Cytrain Setu he said, “We will be coming up with a new version of the Data Protection Bill, and the Digital India Act is also in the works. What we are looking at is making the online world more accountable for what is…
Liz Truss will become Britain’s next prime minister after beating Indian-origin Rishi Sunak in the bitterly fought Conservative leadership contest. The foreign secretary, who won 81,326 votes (57.4%) of Tory members to the former chancellor’s 60,399 (42.6%), takes over from Boris Johnson, who was ousted by his own MPs earlier this summer. But the euphoria of victory will quickly give way to the hard reality of the economic challenges ahead, with the country gripped by a cost of living crisis leaving families struggling to pay their energy bills this winter. Truss has said she will reveal plans to support…
Borders no longer exist only along the confines of a territory – they are now embedded in our societies, rearing their head every time a medical professional checks a patient’s immigration status or a landlord asks for a residence permit. Borders create hierarchies within our communities which are harmful to us all, according to Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha, authors of ‘Against Borders: The Case for Abolition’. Calls for the abolition of borders are often met with scoffs – critics say the idea is radical and utopian. However, modern slavery expert Emily Kenway argues that these demands are…
Stating that jail administration is also an important part of the internal security of the country and we cannot ignore it, Union Home and Cooperation Minister, Amit Shah said that there is also a need to change the way prisons are seen by society. Inaugurating the 6th All India Prison Duty Meet at Kankaria, Ahmedabad, he said that if there is no punishment then there will be no fear, if there is no fear then there will be no discipline and if there is no discipline then we cannot imagine a healthy society. Therefore, he said that the process of…