Eminent personalities who contributed chapters in the book “Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery” have narrated the experience and themes of their chapter in the book. The Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu released the book recently. The book is a compilation of 21 articles by 22 domain experts bringing out various aspects of the thinking and performance of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in various domains as Chief Minister of Gujarat and later, as Prime Minister of India, spanning the period of 20 years as head of government at the state and national level. The Prime Minister office retweeted the narrations tweeted…
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Presenting a kaleidoscope of World Cinema, Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF) for Documentary, Short Fiction and Animation films is back with its 17th edition. MIFF 2022 will kick-start from 29th May with the inaugural ceremony at Nehru Centre Auditorium, Worli, Mumbai and will conclude with the award distribution ceremony on 4th June 2022. The delegates of 17th MIFF will experience qualitative as well as diverse content in the current edition. For delegate registration and details log on to www.miff.in “Media Registration begins today. I invite you all to register and be a part of this festival,” DG, Films Division and Director, MIFF, Ravinder Bhakar invited the media…
Scientists have reported spotting of the fossil of a Madtsoiidae snake from the molasse deposits of Ladakh Himalaya for the first time indicating their prevalence in the subcontinent for much longer time than previously thought. Madtsoiidae is an extinct group of medium-sized to gigantic snakes, firstly appeared during the late Cretaceous and mostly distributed in the Gondwanan landmasses, although, their Cenozoic record is extremely scarce. From the fossil record, the whole group disappeared in the mid-Paleogene across most Gondwanan continents except for Australia where it survived with its last known taxon Wonambi till late Pleistocene. Dr. Ningthoujam Premjit Singh (corresponding…
According to Minister of Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal, India may consider negotiating a preferential trade agreement (PTA) with Oman. If the planned trade agreement is approved, Oman will become the second Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) country to have a trade agreement with India, following the UAE. Gulf countries are attempting to diversify their economies away from traditional oil-based economies and towards modern financial sectors, and free trade agreements (FTAs) are part of that endeavour. India is in talks with the GCC, which includes the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Oman will also be included…
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has condemned the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and the wounding of producer Ali al-Samudi in Jenin, occupied Palestine, on 11 May. Ali Al-Samudi and a number of witnesses have blamed Israeli security forces for the shootings. The International Federation of Journalists has added the killing of the case it has before the International Criminal Court that details the targeting of Palestinian journalists. The UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, has described the killing as a potential war crime and added to the demand for the international accountability of Israel. The shootings…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed ‘Utkarsh Samaroh’ in Bharuch, Gujarat via video conferencing. The programme marks the celebration of 100% saturation of four key schemes of the state government in the district, which will help provide timely financial assistance to those in need. Chief Minister of Gujarat, Bhupendrabhai Patel was among those present on the occasion. Women of the region presented a huge Rakhi to the Prime Minister, wishing him health and long life and thanking him for all he has done for the dignity and ease of living of women in the country. He interacted with the beneficiaries of…
Former Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, who has just one seat in the 225-member Parliament, took charge as the next premier of the crisis-hit Sri Lanka. He was sworn in as the next Prime Minister of the country on Thursday evening. With the country’s largest opposition party refusing to join a government under the presidency of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Wickremesinghe — a four-time Prime Minister of the country — remained the only option. Wickremesinghe, who has served as the country’s prime minister for four times, was in October 2018 fired from the post of prime minister by then President Maithripala Sirisena. However,…
Exports play a crucial role in realizing Atmanirbhar Bharat, said Prahlad Joshi, Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mines, who addressed the outreach Programme on India-UAE CEPA and India-Australia ECTA organized by Department of Commerce in Bengaluru. Joshi, who was the Chief Guest at the event highlighted the various initiatives and reforms being undertaken by the Government of India to further improve the ease of doing business; the significant milestones achieved in the form of the record high annual exports of goods and services in the current year of around US$ 674 billion; and finally delineated the immense advantages of…
Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep S Puri launched the BHARAT TAP initiative at the ‘Plumbex India’ exhibition, in New Delhi. This exhibition is aimed for products and services related to the plumbing, water and sanitation industry. Puri said that this exhibition caters to a fundamental service in the development of the nation – water and sanitation and there is no progress or growth without adequate sanitation, which is foundational in the hierarchy of basic services that citizens expect. He further said that there was a paradigm shift in India’s social development after the Prime Minister announced that Swachhata was…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay an official visit to Lumbini on 16 May 2022 on the occasion of Buddha Purnima at the invitation of the Sher Bahadur Deuba, Prime Minister of Nepal. This will be Prime Minister’s fifth visit to Nepal since 2014. At Lumbini, Prime Minister will visit the sacred Mayadevi temple to offer prayers. Prime Minister will also deliver an address at a Buddha Jayanti event organized by the Lumbini Development Trust under the aegis of the Government of Nepal. Separately, Prime Minister will participate in the “Shilanyas” ceremony for the construction of a centre for Buddhist…