Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed the self-reliant defence system is critical for the economy and also from the strategic point of view. He unveiled ‘SPRINT Challenges’, aimed at giving a boost to the usage of indigenous technology in Indian Navy, during Naval Innovation and Indigenisation Organisation (NIIO) seminar ‘Swavlamban’ in New Delhi on Monday. In a bid to achieve ‘Aatmanirbharta’ in defence and as part of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’, NIIO, in conjunction with the Defence Innovation Organisation (DIO), aims to induct at least 75 new indigenous technologies/products into the Indian Navy. This collaborative project is named SPRINT {Supporting Pole-Vaulting…
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Polling for election to the office of President of India, which is the highest elective office in the country, concluded successfully in free, fair and transparent manner at the Parliament House on Monday and in each of the 30 places of poll in State Legislative Assemblies including Legislative Assembly of NCT of Delhi and UT of Puducherry. As per reports being received, out of a total of 771 Members of Parliament entitled to vote (5 vacant) and similarly out of total 4025 Members of the Legislative Assemblies entitled to vote (06 vacant and 02 disqualified), over 99% cast their votes…
Continuing the previous year’s pattern, agricultural and processed food exports increased by 14% in the first three months of the current Fiscal Year 2022-23 (April-June) compared to the same time in FY 2021-22. Under APEDA, the government established an export target of US$ 23.56 billion for the agricultural and processed food products basket for the fiscal year 2022-23. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry’s measures have assisted the country in meeting 25% of its entire annual export target in the first three months of the current fiscal year. According to the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S) Quick…
By Nava Thakuria, Senior Journalist from North East Demands for appointing the Ambassadors (instead of High Commissioners) in the 53 Commonwealth countries (so that the Union Government in New Delhi can pursue diplomatic relationships with these nations without any prejudice) are slowly gaining momentum. One can observe from the list of Ambassadors/High Commissioners (of India) in various Commonwealth countries across the world that there is no Indian Ambassador (but High Commissioners). The question that arises is why New Delhi is not interested to appoint Ambassadors in neighbouring Bangladesh, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka along with other Asian nations like Brunei,…
Veteran politician Margaret Alva, a former Governor and ex-union minister, was chosen by the Opposition as its common candidate for the elections to the post of vice president, on Sunday. She will be up against the National Democratic Alliance’s pick Jagdeep Dhankhar, whose name was announced for the polls last evening. The 80-year-old Alva emerged as the unanimous choice of 17 opposition parties at a meeting of the anti-BJP bloc held at National Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar’s residence in the national capital.Pawar, who announced Alva’s candidature after the nearly two-hour-long meeting, said she would file her nomination papers for…
Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar pooh-poohed the comment of chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao that the latest heavy rains in the state were due to conspiracy by foreign forces. In a statement, he said such a statement from the chief minister was nothing but delusional and the people were laughing over his visit to the flood-affected areas and his comments, instead of getting reassured. The BJP president said KCR considered himself an engineering expert, yet the pump houses of the Kaleshwaram project got drowned because of heavy rains. He said the negligence in the construction of embankments led to…
Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu today called upon the governors to act as a ‘guide’ to states and see to it that the programmes funded by Government of India are properly implemented by the states. He said that the Office of a Governor is “neither an ornamental position nor a political position” and that their conduct should ‘set an example’ for the state administration. The Vice President was addressing the Governors, Lt. Governors and Administrators from various States and Union Territories, along with their spouses, at a lunch hosted by him at Upa-Rashtrapati Nivas. Naidu urged the Governors to frequently…
India has set a new record by crossing a target of 200 crore vaccinations in just 18 months, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya tweeted. The total number of precaution doses administered in the 18-59 age group has crossed 1,06,32,488, according to ministry data. The 75-day drive to provide free precaution doses to all those aged 18 and above at government vaccination centres commenced on Friday. So far, 2.81 crore vaccine doses have been administered to those aged 60 and above. As many as 3.79 crore children in the 12-14 age group have been administered the first dose, while more than…
The gender pay gap in the health and care sector: a global analysis in the time of COVID-19 was published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). It documents a raw gender pay gap of roughly 20 percentage points which jumps to 24 percentage points when factors such as age, education and working time are taken into account. While much of this gap is unexplained, the agencies said it is perhaps due to discrimination towards women, who account for nearly 70 per cent of health and care workers worldwide. The report also revealed that wages in the health…
BJP chief JP Nadda on Saturday announced Jagdeep Dhankhar’s name as the party’s vice-presidential election candidate. “NDA’s candidate for the post of Vice President of India will be Jagdeep Dhankhar,” BJP chief JP Nadda said. Jagdeep Dhankar is currently the Governor of West Bengal. He is known for opposing the Mamata Banerjee government. Bengal’s ruling party, TMC, has attacked the Governor directly on a regular basis. Jagdeep Dhankhar was born in Rajasthan’s Kithana village in 1951. He was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party before he was appointed the Governor of West Bengal. He completed his primary education at…