She came, she saw, she enthralled. Bhavani Devi inspired in her own simple way an audience representing 750 students across Chennai on Friday. This was a continuation of the ‘Meet the Champion’ event, a brainchild of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and jointly organized by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports and the Ministry of Education. C A Bhavani Devi, the first Sabre Fencer from India to take part in the Olympics, nteracted with students of MCC Higher Secondary School Chennai, accepting the Prime Minister’s request to create awareness among children about sports and health. More than…
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Unanimously elected as the leader of the Uttar Pradesh BJP legislature party in a meeting in Lucknow, Yogi Adityanath took oath as the UP chief minister for a second term on Friday evening. Keshav Maurya and Brajesh Pathak were sworn in as his deputies. With dignitaries including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh attending the swearing-in ceremony, security was ramped up at Lucknow’s Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium. CCTVs and drones were deployed to manage crowds, while 7,000 personnel of the civil police and the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) as well…
Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu died in the People’s Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region (Chinese: Xīzàng zìzhìqū rénmín yīyuàn) in Tibet’s capital of Lhasa in the first weekend of March 2022, reliable sources have informed the International Campaign for Tibet. One source confirmed that the singer was extremely burned and died in the hospital, which is located nearby to the east of Potala Palace and close to the headquarters of Tibet Daily, a Chinese state media news outlet. The singer was earlier reported to have self-immolated on Feb. 25 at the Barpokaling Stupa in front of the Potala Palace’s far right…
Escalating violence against the Ka’apor indigenous people in the state of Maranhão, Brazil is attracting international attention. During the most recent attack, on January 22, human rights defenders of the Ka’apor indigenous people were pursued by four vehicles on a road in the municipality of Santa Luiza do Paruá. The vehicles were driven by illegal loggers who blocked the road in an act of intimidation.The indigenous peoples’ rights defenders reported that the incident occurred in reprisal for the establishment of the 11th protection area on January 18, 2022, in a deforested region around the Alto Turiaçu indigenous land. On that…
India is seen struggling hard to keep up its police of neutral stance on the Russia- Ukraine conflict, by not condemning Russian invasion and also absenting from voting on various resolutions proposed by USA and its allies in United Nation’s forms. India again was absent from another resolution, this time brought by Russia on humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. The resolution was not adopted by the United Nations Security Council, as it got only w yes votes from Russia and China. As many as 13 UNSC members, including India skipped voting. The resolution demanded that “civilians, including humanitarian personnel and persons…
The role of people’s representatives is most important in a democracy, said the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind. He was addressing the members of Gujarat Legislative Assembly in Gandhinagar. The President said that the members of Legislative Assembly are representatives of the people of their area and state. But the more important thing is that the people consider them to be the creators of their destiny. The hopes and aspirations of the people are associated with them. He said that efforts to fulfill those aspirations of the people should be paramount for all of them. Pointing to the fact…
Wings India 2022, Asia’s largest event on Civil Aviation, got underway at Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad on Thursday. Organized by the Ministry of Civil Aviation of India (MoCA) and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) jointly, the theme of the event this year is ‘India@75: New Horizon for Aviation Industry’. Wings India, a biennial show, is being organized from 24th-27th March 2022, with the first two days being the business days and the rest for the general public. The event will be formally inaugurated by Mr. Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, Minister for Civil Aviation, Government of India on Friday. The components of the…
Defense Minister Rajnath Singhcommended the BRO for playing an incomparable role in promoting tourism in these areas, saying that after the construction of Atal Tunnel, the number of tourists in that area increased six times. He made special mention of the setting up of BRO Cafes at 75 places in far-flung areas, expressing confidence that these cafes will provide basic amenities to the travellers, promote tourism in remote areas and strengthen the local economy. Rajnath Singh inaugurated Border Roads Organisation (BRO) Tourism portal (https://marvels.bro.gov.in). The user-friendly website aims to facilitate e-booking of guided tours to the road infrastructure projects constructed…
In a major boost to Government’s “Make in India” Initiative, Airports Authority of India (AAI), under its R & D initiative, has entered into an agreement with Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for the joint, indigenous development of systems for air traffic management and surface movement of aircraft at airports in the country which were hitherto being imported. The Agreement was signed B K Sarkar, ED (ATM-ATFM) from AAI and M V Raja Sekhar, Director (R & D) from BEL in presence of Sanjeev Kumar, Chairman AAI, M Suresh, Member (ANS), AAI and other senior official of AAI…
The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) confirmed the death of the Russian journalist Oksana Baulina, killed after coming under Russian shelling with another civilian while she filmed destruction at a shopping centre in Podil district in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is the sixth journalist to die since the war began. The European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) once again condemn the bombing of civilian targets by the Russian army. Oksana Baulina had been reporting from Kyiv and Lviv for investigative Russian website The Insider. The publication said: “We will continue to cover the war in Ukraine, including such Russian war crimes as indiscriminate shelling…