Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that drone technology is going to play a major role in empowering farmers and modernize their lives. He inaugurated India’s biggest Drone Festival – Bharat Drone Mahotsav 2022 on Friday. He also interacted with Kisan drone pilots, witnessed open-air drone demonstrations and interacted with startups in the drone exhibition centre. He said that the energy and enthusiasm in the drone sector are visible and indicate India’s strength and desire to leapfrog into a leading position. “The sector shows great possibilities of a major sector for employment generation”, he added. He also said that measures taken to help…
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The micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) sector of Indian industry accounts for close to 30 per cent of the country’s GDP. Despite such a substantial role played by the sector in India’s economy, its contribution to deteriorating air quality in cities and regions has rarely been assessed, analysed or highlighted. While data and estimates are extremely sketchy and missing, a 2011 (the then) Planning Commission report had pegged the industrial pollution load from MSMEs at 70 per cent of the total emissions from industries. Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is one of the few bodies that have been…
A surveillance system installed at the National Highways Authority of India headquarters at Dwarka keeps track of the health of all the computers in its network, flagging attempts to hack into the system, malware in systems within the network, or malfunctioning programme being used. Installed in 2021, the Security Operation Centre (SoC) titled C3iVazra has protected the computers that monitor the highways across the country and has alerted about potential dangers. C3iVazra provides supervisory monitoring by gathering the real-time event, and log feeds from the endpoints, packet data from the network and the internet, and processes these feeds to generate…
India is progressing ahead with discussions on two trade agreements, one each with UK and EU. Mr. Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles, is in the UK to discuss progress on the trade talks, following his meeting with EU trade commissioner Mr. Valdis Dombrovskis, who said that the two partners will formally launch negotiations soon. India has recently restarted entering bilateral deals and signed two trade agreements recently, one each with UAE and Australia. The next focus is on UK, with the UK Prime Minister Mr. Boris Johnson setting a Diwali…
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has constituted an advisory council to help India achieve its goal of being a US$ 300 billion electronics manufacturing hub by 2026. The board, called the “Digital India Electronics Mission $300 Billion,” is made up of representatives from key domestic and international electronics companies as well as industry associations. It succeeds a task force that focused solely on smartphone production that was setup in December 2014. The scope of the new organisation has been broadened to include other areas such as IT hardware, wearables, LED lighting, and so on. The advisory board…
Author Geetanjali Shree’s novel Tomb of Sand, which is translated from Hindi, has become the first book in any Indian language to win the prestigious International Booker Prize. At a ceremony in London on Thursday, the New Delhi-based writer said she was completely overwhelmed with the “bolt from the blue” as she accepted her prize, worth 50,000 pound and shared with the book’s English translator Daisy Rockwell. Tomb of Sand, originally Ret Samadhi, is set in northern India and follows an 80-year-old woman in a tale the Booker judges dubbed a joyous cacophony and an “irresistible novel”. “I never dreamt of the Booker,…
President Ram Nath Kovind said that women are shattering the glass ceiling in one domain after another. The latest is their enhanced role in the armed forces. He inaugurated the National Women Legislators’ Conference-2022 in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday, hosted by the Kerala Legislative Assembly as part of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’. He called for better participation of women in politics in the country even as he praised Kerala for helping them progress in several fields, including health. He said that their numbers are rising in the traditional male bastions of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Management, collectively known as ‘STEMM’. There must have…
Launching an attack on TRS regime in Telangana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for liberating Telangana from family rule and appeasement. Addressing BJP party workers and leaders at Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad, on Thursday, in an apparent reference to the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in the state, he warned that family-run parties always think about their own growth and are the biggest enemies of the country, “Parivaarvadi (family-run) parties are not only political problems… they are the biggest enemies of democracy and youth,” Modi said, in an apparent reference to the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) in the state. “Telangana people…
Road accidents parameters registered a significant decline in 2020 compared to 2019. Total accidents decreased on an average by 18.46 per cent, the number of persons killed decreased by 12.84 per cent and the number of injures decreased by 22.84 per cent over previous year’s average. A total of 3,66,138 road accidents have been reported by States and Union Territories (UTs) during the calendar year 2020, which claimed 1,31,714 lives and caused 3, 48,279 injuries. As per report ‘Road accidents in India — 2020’, prepared by Transport Research Wing (TRW) of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH), the number…
Continuing its streak of significant seizures, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has recovered 52 kg of cocaine, estimated to be valued at over Rs 500 crore in the international illicit market, from an import consignment. On the basis of extensive data analysis and field surveillance, intelligence was developed by DRI that certain consignments being imported from Iran were likely to contain narcotic drugs. In order to interdict the narcotic drugs, “Op Namkeen” was launched by DRI and a consignment, declared to contain 1,000 bags of common salt having gross weight of 25 MT, which had been imported at Mundra port from Iran, was identified for detailed…