Geneva-based global safety and rights body, Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), while expressing relief over the release of senior television personality Ammad Yousaf on 11 August 2022 by a Karachi-based civil court, urges the Pakistani military authority to maintain respect to media persons. The director (news) of popular ARY News was arrested on Wednesday over an anti-Pak army comment. The energetic newsman was picked up by a group of armed personnel in plainclothes from his residence in the southern port city of Pakistan during night hours. Allegations framed against Yousaf were based on a news item, telecast by ARY News, where…
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Stressing the need to strengthen the agriculture credit framework and it also needs to be reformed, Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said that there is need to work on taking cooperatives to every sector and agricultural credit should only be available through this. Addressing the National Conference of Rural Co-operative Banks in New Delhi, he there are about 8.5 lakh cooperative societies in the country, out of which there are 1.78 lakh different types of credit societies. In the field of agricultural credit, he said, there are 34 state cooperative banks with more than 2,000 branches, 351 district…
India ranks globally 3rd in Start-Up ecosystem and also in terms of number of Unicorns. As per the latest data, there are currently 105 unicorns, out of which 44 were born in 2021 and 19 in 2022. This was stated by Union Minister of State Science & Technology Dr Jitendra Singh while delivering keynote address at “DST StartUp Utsav” at Dr Ambedkar International Centre here. He said, the decade 2021-30 is expected to bring transformational changes for Indian Science, Technology and Innovation (STI). Dr Jitendra Singh said, India ranks third among the most attractive investment destinations for technology transactions in…
Many young people who were affected by the COVID-19 shutdown are still trying to get their place back in the labour market. For too long, work for young people has been characterised by insecurity, low wages, inadequate or no access to social protection and no access to a trade union. Most of the world’s young people are in the informal economy and young women are even more likely than young men to be in insecure, low-paying jobs. Young people can help to rebuild a new social contract and work to prevent the exclusion of their generation to make sure no…
One year after the Taliban’s return to power, Afghan news outlets are struggling to survive amid an increasingly restrictive censorship regime targeting independent journalists, the flight of many Afghan media workers, and the country’s declining economy, finds a new special report released Thursday by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The assessment, “Afghanistan’s Media Crisis” finds a deterioration in press freedom over the last year, marked by censorship, arrests, assaults, and restrictions on women journalists. At the same time, the report showcases the tenacity and vital reporting by those journalists who remain and the valuable work of Afghan journalists working…
By Nava Thakuria It was probably two decades back, when a group of journalists and Guwahati-based patriots marched on a street of Guwahati to celebrate the Independence Day. As a number of separatist armed militant outfits imposed a general strike on the day (that was the way the ethnic insurgents made them visible in the public domain continuing their decades long armed struggle against New Delhi) the entire city wore a deserted look. Markets, business centers, private vehicles and even the roads were empty as the militants, through their media statements (which were published with special focus in the local…
Jagdeep Dhankhar took over as the fourteenth Vice President of India and Chairman of Rajya Sabha on Thursday. A renowned lawyer and former West Bengal Governor, Dhankhar, was administered the oath of office by the President, Smt. Droupadi Murmu at a swearing-in ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Prior to oath taking, Shri Dhankhar visited Rajghat in the morning today and paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi ji. “Felt blessed, inspired and motivated to be ever in service of Bharat in serene sublimity of Raj Ghat while paying respects to Pujya Bapu,” he tweeted. The Vice President is also the ex-officio Chairman…
Department of Posts with its omnipresent network of 1.5 lakh Post Offices, has taken “Har Ghar Tiranga” Programme to every citizen of the country. Within a short span of 10 days, India Post has sold more than 1 crore National Flags, through Post offices as well as online, to citizens. These Flags have been sold by the Department at a very economical price of Rs. 25/- . For online sale, the Department has provided free doorstep delivery to any address across the country; more than 1.75 Lakh flags have been purchased online by the citizens through the ePost Office facility.…
Chief Election Commissioner of India Rajiv Kumar, in his keynote address said that democracy and democratic institutions flourish when all groups of people are fully represented. No democracy can ever be meaningful and aspirational, unless it is Inclusive for all citizens, Accessible without fear or favor and Participative despite differential social, political, economic vulnerabilities, he added. The Election Commission of India (ECI) hosted a virtual meet of the ‘Asian Regional Forum’ on the theme “Making our Elections Inclusive, Accessible and Participative” at Nirvachan Sadan on Thursday. The Regional Forum meet was a precursor to the “Summit for Electoral Democracy” to…
According to Morgan Stanley analysts, India is likely to be the fastest-growing Asian economy in the Asian region in 2022-23, with India’s GDP growth averaging 7% during this period – the highest among the largest economies – and contributing 28% and 22% to Asian and global growth, respectively. They predicted that the Indian economy would have its best run in over a decade as pent-up demand is released. According to Chetan Ahya, Chief Asia Economist at Morgan Stanley, the key change in India’s structural story is the clear shift in policy focus toward increasing the economy’s productive capacity. Policymakers, he…