Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the budgetary provision for disaster management has been increased by 122 percent in the last eight years by Prime Minister NarendraModi, which shows the priority given by Modi towards disaster management. Presiding over a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Home Affairs on “Disaster Management” was held at Kevadiya, Gujarat, he said that the Ministry of Home Affairs, in collaboration with NDMA and NDRF, is playing an important role in helping the States and Union Territories by providing logistics and financial assistance and coordinating response and relief measures during…
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Activist Teesta Setalvad and retired DGP RB Sreekumar were taken into custody by Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad . The move came a day after the Supreme Court upheld the clean chit given to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in 2002 riots case. Based on a complaint by police inspector DB Barad, the DCB on Saturday lodged an FIR accusing Sreekumar, dismissed IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt who is in prison in another case, and Setalvad on charges of forgery, conspiracy and other sections of the IPC. The Gujarat anti-terrorist squad (ATS) team reached Setalvad’s Mumbai home in the afternoon and took her to Santacruz police…
National Commission for Women (NCW) Chairperson Rekha Sharma stressed on the importance of preventing human trafficking at source for effective combat. “We have to focus on prevention of trafficking. NCW has set up its own Anti-Human Trafficking Cell and this is just the beginning. Through today’s seminar, we all have to find the way forward in promoting awareness around human trafficking and its effective combat,” she said. She was speaking at a one-day seminar on Anti Human Trafficking Awareness organized by NCW, in collaboration with Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D). Balaji Srivastava, Director General, BPR&D presiding over the…
By Nava Thakuria Senior Journalist from North East If one believes in the simple mathematical calculation and minimum political honesty by public representatives in the Indian Parliament and State legislative assemblies, the largest democracy on Earth is expecting a lady tribal President in New Delhi next month. As Draupadi Murmu, a simple Janjati family woman turned a teacher turned a politician, gets the recommendation from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance government for the Presidential elections scheduled for 18 July next, her victory becomes almost imminent. Hailing from Mayurbhanj locality of Odisha, who taught in Shri Aurobindo Integral…
Droupadi Murmu, NDA’s candidate for the presidential election filed her nomination papers at the Parliament on Friday. She was accompanied by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari, chief ministers of various NDA ruled states and leaders of parties in the alliance. The 64-year-old from Odisha and has earlier served as minister in Odisha government and governor of Jharkhand. Murmu filed her papers before Returning Officer P C Mody. In the first set, PM Narendra Modi himself became the proposer. Apart from this, members of the BJP Parliamentary Party including Amit Shah, and Rajnath…
The upgraded Ayush Wellness Centre in the President’s Estate, New Delhi was inaugurated by President of India Ram Nath. First lady Smt Savita Kovind also graced the inauguration ceremony. Ayush Wellness Centre (AWC) at President Estate started on 25th July 2015, as a joint initiative of the Ministry of Ayush and President Secretariat. The AWC has treatment facilities in the streams of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha &Homeopathy, and it caters to the medical needs of the President, officials of President’s Secretariat and residents of the President’s Estate. The upgraded infrastructure along with facilities for Ayush system will follow…
Despite the global headwinds due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Indian economy is expected to grow by 7-7.8% in FY 2022-23 on the back of better agriculture production and a revitalised rural economy. In view of rising inflation, bottlenecks in the supply chain, and geopolitical tensions tapering recovery, the World Bank has cut India’s economic growth forecast for FY 2022-23 to 7.5%. India’s economy grew by 8.7% in FY 2021-22 against 6.6% contraction in FY 2020-21. CPI inflation peaked in March 2022 and a large part of the CPI inflation in the last three months is driven mainly by fuel…
Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) was successfully flight-tested by Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Indian Navy from an Indian Naval Ship at Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha on Friday. The VL-SRSAM, a ship borne weapon system, is meant for neutralising various aerial threats at close ranges including sea-skimming targets. The launch of the system was conducted against a high speed aerial target mimicking aircraft, which was successfully engaged. The flight path of the vehicle along with health parameters were monitored using a number of tracking instruments deployed by…
Should journalists embrace or shun activism? At this year’s DW Global Media Forum, media experts warn not to blur the lines between value-driven journalism and activism. Journalism and activism are separate realms that ought to be kept separate, was the consensus view point expressed by panelist’s media experts from around the world, taking part in the two-day panel session at the 2022 Global Media Forum, discussing the future of journalism in a time of wars, crises and catastrophes. At the same time, they cautioned that we should acknowledge that journalists cannot adopt a “view from nowhere” — all journalists are…
Inaugurating ‘Vanijya Bhawan’ and launching the NIRYAT portal in Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said another important step has been taken in the direction of the journey of Citizen-Centric Governance in New India on which the country has been moving for the last 8 years. The country has got the gift of a new and modern commercial building as well as an export portal, one physical and other digital infrastructure, he said. Referring to many examples of the recent past, the Prime Minister said that in the new work culture of the New India, completion date is part of SoP…