Prime Minister, Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of various projects of Shrimad Rajchandra Mission, Dharampur in Valsad district, Gujarat via video conferencing. Chief Minister of Gujarat Bhupendrabhai Patel was among those present on the occasion. Prime Minister said hospital projects will prove to be of great service to women and other needy sections of society. He praised the spirit of silent service of the Shrimad Rajchandra Mission. He expressed happiness over the commendable work done by the Shrimad Rajchandra Mission under the leadership of Pujya Gurudev in the field of rural health in Gujarat. He said that…
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Chief Justice of India N.V.Ramana on Thursday set in motion the process of appointment of his successor by recommending the name of Justice Uday Umesh Lalit to the Centre in accordance with convention. The CJI personally handed over a copy of his letter of recommendation to Justice Lalit, next in seniority to Justice Ramana. Justice Ramana, the 48th chief justice of India who took over as head of the Indian judiciary from S A Bobde on April 24 last year is scheduled to demit office on August 26 after a tenure of over 16 months. Supreme Court judges retire at…
Ministry of Tourism under its Swadesh Darshan Scheme (SDS) has sanctioned 76 projects for Rs. 5399.15 crores for development of tourism infrastructure in the country. These sanctioned projects include Tribal and Rural tourism projects. Minister of Tourism G. Kishan Reddy said in a written reply in Rajya that his Ministry has now revamped its Swadesh Darshan scheme as Swadesh Darshan 2.0 (SD2.0) in order to develop sustainable and responsible tourism destinations in the country with tourist and destination centric approach. The guidelines for Swadesh Darshan 2.0 scheme has been issued to all the States/Union Territory Administrations including Maharashtra and Tamil…
According to a United Nations (UN) estimate, China, India, Japan, the United States, and Europe received 84% of roughly US$ 1 trillion in worldwide investment in energy transition technologies in 2021. According to the report, annual investments between US$ 4 trillion-US$ 6 trillion would be necessary until 2030 to enable an equal transition to renewable energy. However, annual global energy-related investments have ranged between US$ 2 trillion-US$ 2.5 trillion since 2017. Furthermore, these investments are mostly focused in China, India, Japan, the United States, and Europe. The findings were reported in the Global Crisis Response Group’s (GCRG) third brief on…
On August 3 2022, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow found the Journalists and Media Workers’ Union (JMWU), an EFJ affiliate in Russia, guilty of allegedly “discrediting the Russian armed forces” (Code of administrative offenses of the Russian Federation). JMWU was ordered to pay the maximum fine of 500,000 rubles (8,000 euros). The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) denounces this illegitimate trial, which only aims to facilitate the dissolution of the union, during a hearing scheduled for September 14. According to the indictment, JMWU was held responsible for the “spreading of ideas related to a negative attitude towards the special military operation carried out…
Sri Lanka Human rights defender and General Secretary of Ceylon Teachers Union, Joseph Stalin was arrested, two days ago, at his office in Colombo by a team of over 25 police officers. Authorities claim that his arrest is due to a protest carried out in May 2022 in violation of a court order. He was taken to the Fort police station and remanded despite suffering from poor health. Joseph Stalin’s arrest is part of increasing reprisals including arrests, abductions, intimidation, violence, and surveillance against peaceful protesters and human rights defenders in Sri Lanka. Since the beginning of countrywide protests linked to the…
*From Freedom House experts The use of transnational repression—when governments reach across borders to silence dissent among diasporas and exiles—is spreading among like-minded authoritarian governments. According to research by Freedom House, the authoritarian regime in China is the world’s worst perpetrator of transnational repression.Freedom House experts Yana Gorokhovskaia and Angeli Datt detail tactics used by the Chinese Communist Party to target individuals abroad and their far-reaching impact. They also explain policies and practices that democracies can use to protect exiles and diasporas from transnational repression. All authoritarian governments fear dissent because it threatens their grip on power. At home and,…
The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance has on Wednesday released the 5th monthly instalment of Post Devolution Revenue Deficit (PDRD) Grant of Rs. 7,183.42 crore to 14 States. The grant has been released as per the recommendations of the Fifteenth Finance Commission. This includes Rs 4395 cr to Andhra Pradesh. The Fifteenth Finance Commission has recommended a total Post Devolution Revenue Deficit Grant of Rs. 86,201 crore to 14 States for the financial year 2022-23. The recommended grant is released by the Department of Expenditure to the recommended States in 12 equated monthly instalments. With the release of 5th…
Keeping in view interest of sugarcane farmers (Ganna Kisan), the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcane for sugar season 2022-23 (October – September) at Rs. 305/qtl for a basic recovery rate of 10.25%,. It provides a premium of Rs. 3.05/qtl for each 0.1% increase in recovery over and above 10.25%, & reduction in FRP by Rs. 3.05/qtl for every 0.1% decrease in recovery. However, the Government with a view to protect interest of sugarcane farmers has also decided that there shall not be any deduction in…
The RBI’s financial inclusion index (FI-Index) which measures the amount of financial inclusion across the country stood at 56.4 in March 2022 compared to 53.9 in March 2021, indicating growth across all segments. The index records data on different facets of financial inclusion in a single value ranging from 0 to 100, where 0 represents total financial exclusion and 100 represents complete financial inclusion. “The value of FI Index for March 2022 stands at 56.4 vis-a-vis 53.9 in March 2021, with growth witnessed across all the sub-indices,” the RBI said in a statement. The three broad parameters that make up the…