Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal has invited Australian businesses to Make in India and said that the Startups from both nations must engage with each other. He underscored that Australia has fantastic innovations and research and new ideas and India has the talent pool to take these to the world. Expressing the hope that Investments will flow into India from Australia at a faster pace, he said that Western Australia can be at the forefront of the expanding relationship between the two nations. “The proximity between the region and India provides an opportunity for much deeper economic…
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The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, today has accorded its approval for supply of fortified rice throughout the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) under the National Food Security Act (NFSA), Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman-PM POSHAN [erstwhile Mid-Day Meal Scheme (MDM)] and Other Welfare Schemes (OWS) of Government of India in all States and Union Territories (UTs) by 2024 in a phased manner. The entire cost of rice fortification (around Rs. 2,700 crore per annum) would be borne by the Govt. of India as part of food subsidy…
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight tested Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet (SFDR) booster at the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha on Friday. The test successfully demonstrated the reliable functioning of all critical components involved in the complex missile system and met all the mission objectives. The SFDR-based propulsion enables the missile to intercept aerial threats at very long range at supersonic speeds. The performance of the system has been confirmed from the data captured by a number of range instruments like Telemetry, Radar and Electro Optical Tracking Systems deployed by ITR. The SFDR…
Lashkar-e-Taiba chief and mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Hafiz Saeed, has been sentenced to 31 years in prison by an anti-terror court in Pakistan, on Friday. Saeed has been sentenced in two cases. All his assets too will be seized. The court also imposed a fine of PKR 340,000 on the dreaded terrorist.The anti-terrorism court (ATC) judge Ejaz Ahmad Bhuttar handed down the jail term to Saeed in two FIRs – 21/2019 and 90/2019 registered by the Counter Terrorism Department of Punjab Police.In the 21/19 and 99/21, he was sentenced for 15.5 years and 16.5 years, respectively. Saeed,…
Public and National Outreach to the masses across India through television has received a tremendous boost with the DD FreeDish Platform. Staying true to its public service mandate, Prasar Bharati’s DD FreeDish had stood out in serving the people during the pandemic by enabling massive public outreach and dissemination through its platform. While traditional education system struggled due to the pandemic, DD FreeDish had then come to the rescue by providing a platform for multiple educational channels, thus ensuring continuing education to students across India. Recent viewership data has further revealed the central role being played by DD FreeDish as…
From the Himalayan highlands of Leh-Ladakh to the banks of River Ganges in Varanasi – the heritage handicraft of Pashmina has got a brand new identity. The premium Pashmina products prepared by the highly skilled Khadi weavers of Varanasi was launched by Chairman KVIC, Vinai Kumar Saxena in Varanasi. This is for the first time that Pashmina products are being produced outside the region of Leh-Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir. KVIC will be selling the “Made-in-Varanasi” Pashmina products through its showrooms, outlets and through its online portal. Pashmina is famed as an essential Kashmiri art form but rediscovery of Pashmina…
Twenty years ago, the V-Day Safe House for the Gilrs opened in the Southern Rift Valley in Narok, Kenya. Founded and led by Agnes Pareyio and the Tasaru Ntomonok Initiative, the safe house provides shelter and education for girls running away from female genital mutilation (FGM) and early childhood marriage. It is a place where young women can safely celebrate an alternative “rite of passage” so that Masai women can follow their tradition without undergoing the cut. Agnes and her team bravely confront the cultural practice of FGM in the Maasai community have won many hard-earned victories, influencing community members to…
As the CPM marks its 23rd party congress in Kannur of Kerala, concerned social and environmental activists, in a joint appeal urged its national leadership to ask the Kerala government, led by Pinarayi Vijayan, to immediately scrap the decision to build a humongous semi high speed rail corridor from Kasaragod to Thiruvananthapuram, named as the Silver Line. It is with utmost shock and concern, they said that the latest developments in Kerala, the only state where the Left forces still hold fort in India. They deplored that the proposal of the Government of Kerala, under the leadership of Pinarayi Vijayan,…
Genesis of Ukraine conflict – 39 In a video speech delivered on April 5, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy informed a meeting of the UN’s Security Council of mass atrocities committed by Russian forces against the civilian population of his country in connection with Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. In particular, Zelenskyy told the council’s members of war crimes committed in Bucha, a town recently liberated from troops of the Russian Federation, which included executions, rape and torture. He pointed out that Russian troops are deliberately destroying Ukrainian cities with artillery and air strikes, creating mass starvation, shooting at civilians and…
The productivity of Lok Sabha during the Budget Session, 2022 was approx. 129% and that of Rajya Sabha was 98%.The Budget Session, 2022 of Parliament, which commenced on, 31 January2022, has been adjourned sine die today i.e. Thursday, 07 April 2022. Speaking about the Budget Session here today, Union Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi stated that during the entire Budget Session, 2022 there were 27 sittings of Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha. The Minister underlined that the Session, which was originally scheduled to have sittings till 8 April, 2022, was curtailed due to demand of Leaders of various political parties. The Minister of State for Parliamentary…