With the second highest literacy levels in the country, Mizoram is a truly modern state ready to take off for higher achievements, said the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind. He was addressing the 16th convocation of Mizoram University at Aizawl. The President said that Mizoram is blessed with natural resources in abundance. A region which is rich in bio-diversity offers vast opportunities for research and development. However, it is our responsibility to strike the right balance between development and sustainability. The environment in this state as well as the other north-eastern states needs to be preserved with care. We must adopt practices…
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has exhorted the Indian Air Force (IAF) to become an Aerospace Force and be prepared to protect the country from the challenges of the future. He was delivering the keynote address for the 37thAir Chief Marshal PC Lal Memorial Lecture in New Delhi on Thursday. It was attended by Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari; President of the Air Force Association Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria (Retd) and senior officers of the IAF, both serving and retired. Rajnath Singh called for technology evolution, gaining expertise and human resource management to defend the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed the situation relating to Heat Wave Management and Monsoon Preparedness. During the meeting, IMD and NDMA briefed about the persistence of high temperatures in March-May 2022 across the country. States and UTs have been advised to prepare Heat Action Plans as a standard response at the state, district and city levels. Regarding southwest monsoon preparedness, all states have been advised to prepare ‘Flood Preparedness Plans’ and undertake appropriate preparedness measures. NDRF has been advised to develop its deployment plan in flood affected states. Active use of social media for sensitisation of communities has to be…
Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said that the basic goal of the Government of India is to make the internal and external security of the country impenetrable. He said that along with the hard work, sacrifice, and valor of BSF Jawans, they need to be equipped with modern technology and for border security, we are providing them with modern technology from around world. On the first day of his two-day visit to West Bengal, on Thursday, he inaugurated the Narmada, Sutlej and Cauvery Floating Border Outposts (BOP) on the Indo-Bangladesh border to protect the inaccessible areas of the…
Union Minister of Information & Broadcasting Anurag Singh Thakur announced that the World’s largest film restoration project under National Film Heritage Mission (NFHM) with a budget of Rs. 363 crores is awarded on May 4, by the Ministry. The restoration project now awarded is set to commence in full swing at National Film Archive of India (NFAI). The Minister was in Pune to attend the review meeting of the organization. Under National Film Heritage Mission, approximately 2,200 films will undergo restoration. The titles have been shortlisted by language wise committees consisting of filmmakers, documentary filmmakers, film historians, producers etc. Eminent…
According to the Telegram channel of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations (ITTA), at least fifteen teachers’ rights defenders and members of the ITTA, including human rights defenders Mohmmad Habibi, Jafar Ebrahimi, and Rasoul Bodaghi have remained arbitrarily detained since 30 April 2022. In the early hours of the morning of 30 April 2022, the human rights defenders were arrested, subjected to physical violence, house raids and had their electronic devices confiscated. Arrests, house raids and confiscations of electronic devices continued to be reported during and after the teachers’ gatherings organised on 1 May 2022 in Tehran and other cities in Iran. The arrests…
Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu deplored that many of our heroes of the freedom struggle did not get the recognition and respect they deserved, in our history books. Therefore, he called for making people aware of the sacrifices made by such great men and women so as to inspire the new generation to walk in their footsteps and work for nation building. Addressing a gathering after releasing the biography of late freedom fighter and political leader, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna at Upa-Rashtrapati Nivas, the Vice President said that the history of our freedom struggle is replete with innumerable stories of sacrifice…
Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur announced that India will be the official Country of Honour at the upcoming Marche’ Du Film, organized alongside the 75th edition of Cannes Film Festival, in France. Expounding the decision, the Minister said “It is the first time the Marché du Film has an official Country of Honour, and this special focus will continue annually with different nations in the spotlight at future editions.” Notably France and India are marking 75 years of their diplomatic ties, the Prime Minister’s visit to Paris and meeting with President Macron takes even more significance in this context.…
Trade unions have made a strong case for how official development assistance (ODA) can be used to achieve universal social protection. Discussions took place with development cooperation donors from the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) at the ITUC’s annual Trade Union – DAC Forum. Social protection is one of the key demands of working people for a new social contract and has been at the forefront of government responses to the COVID-19 crisis But social protection is facing huge financing gaps that will require the mobilisation of domestic resources coupled with support from development cooperation funds, which are still too…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed for immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and to follow the path of dialogue and diplomacy to resolve the crisis. Addressing media in Copenhagen after his bilateral meeting with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen, Modi expressed hope that negotiations for India-EU free trade agreement are concluded at the earliest. On her part, Frederiksen hoped that India will influence Russia on Ukraine and asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to “stop this war and end the killings”. “My message is very clear that Putin has got to stop this war and to end the killings. I, of course,…