Much awaited by film makers and cineastes in India and abroad, the 17th edition of Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short Fiction and Animation films (MIFF-2022) will be held from 29 May to 4 June, 2022 at the Films Division complex, Mumbai. The on-line entry is open from 15 February 2022 to 15 March 2022 and film makers can log on to www.miff.in or to https://filmfreeway.com/MumbaiInternationalFilmFestival-MIFF for entering films in different competition categories. Films completed between 1st September, 2019 and 31st December, 2021 are eligible for entry in MIFF-2022. The Best Documentary of the Festival will receive a Golden Conch and Rs.10 lakhs cash award.…
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Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, recently met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Foreign Minister Wang Yi during which, according to his spokesperson, he shared his expectation of a “credible” visit of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, to China, including to the Uyghur Region. Bachelet has indeed been calling for a visit for a long time to investigate “reports of serious human rights violations.” The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repeatedly said that it would welcome Bachelet but in practice has failed to coordinate with her office to iron out a concrete timeline. Diplomatic…
India’s premier space research body, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today morning successfully placed into orbit its radar imaging satellite EOS-04 in a text book style. With this the Indian space agency began its 2022 romance with space missions. At 5.59 a.m. Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C52 (PSLV-C52) blasted off from the first launch pad carrying three satellites including the earth observation satellite-04 (EOS-04) earlier named as RISAT-1A. The multiple satellite launch space mission lasted just over 18 minutes. The 44.4 metre tall PSLV-C52 weighing 321 ton slowly rose-up towards the skies with thick orange flame at its tail.…
Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, demanded stringent punishments to perpetrators of the murder of a young scribe in central India’s State of Uttar Pradesh some days back. Condoling the demise of Sudhir Saini (30), the PEC also urges the UP government in Lucknow to adequately compensate the reporter’s impoverished family. It may be mentioned that Sudhir, who worked for a local newspaper titled Shah Times, was physically attacked by three individuals while travelling by a car in Saharanpur locality on January 26. They had a quarrel with Sudhir, who was on a two-wheeler,…
The Government under the leadership of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has approved continuation of umbrella scheme of Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF). The approval for the period 2021-22 to 2025-26, moves forward the initiative of the Union Home Minister, Amit Shah to modernise and improve the functioning of Police Forces of States and Union Territories. This scheme comprises all relevant sub-schemes that contribute to modernization and improvement with a total Central financial outlay of Rs.26,275 crore. Salient Features of the scheme are: Provision has been made under the Scheme for internal security, law and order, adoption of modern technology by…
President Ram Nath Kovind suggested celebrating November 7 as `Student’s Day’ across the country, to commemorate Babasaheb Ambedkar’s devotion and importance attached to education. He visited Ambadawe village (ancestral village of Dr B.R. Ambedkar) in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra on Saturday, where he performed pooja of the Asthi Kalash of Dr B. R. Ambedkar and paid floral tributes to Lord Buddha, Dr Ambedkar, Smt Ramabai Ambedkar and Ramji Ambedkar. Speaking on the occasion, the President noted that in schools of Maharashtra, 7th November – the day on which Babasaheb had enrolled in the school in year 1900 – is…
Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu said that Sri Ramanujacharya’s teachings of ‘equality for all, welfare of all’ must become the guiding light in the endeavour to build a ‘New India’. He suggested that ‘we must strive to build a more egalitarian and equitable post-pandemic economic order in line with the teachings of Bhagavad Ramanuja.’ Calling upon the youth to take inspiration from Sri Ramanujacharya’s life, the Vice President said they must become key partners in building a society free of discrimination. ‘Let us rededicate ourselves to follow the path shown by Sri Ramanujacharya and strive to alleviate the suffering of…
Citing the recent survey reports of the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) and EPFO payroll data, Union Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav today said, employment opportunities are on rise in the country and the government under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra is committed for the welfare of the workers and labourers in both organized and unorganized sectors. Speaking at the187th meeting of ESIC in Gurugram, he said, health check-up of labourers will be conducted by the ESIC hospitals and factories/MSME clusters will be considered as a unit and ESIC will coordinate with them for the preventive health check-ups of…
Union Minister for Social Justice & Empowerment Dr. Virendra Kumar assured that each and every need of Transgender community and persons engaged in the act of begging are taken care of in most professional way.” “The provision of National Portal & Helpline will provide necessary information and solutions to the problems of the Transgender community and the people engaged in the act of begging,” he added. He launched the Central Sector scheme “SMILE: Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise at BH, on Saturday. This umbrella scheme, designed by Department of Social Justice & Empowerment, is set to provide welfare and rehabilitation to the…
A ‘SamajikAdhikaritaShivir’ for distribution of aids and assistive devices to ‘Divyangjan’ under the ADIP Scheme and Senior citizens under ‘RashtriyaVayoshri Yojana’ (RVY Scheme) of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India will be organized by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) in association with ALIMCO and District Administration Chhatarpur at 12 Noon on Sunday, at Government Higher Secondary School, No.1, Chhatarpur in Madhya Pradesh. A total of 5286 aids and assistive devices valued at Rs. 2.33 crore will be distributed free of cost to 1391 Divyangjan and 553 Senior Citizens at Block/Panchayat levels by…