India’s biggest drone show was organised in Lucknow as part of Amrit Mahotsav series of events in 1857. On the occasion, Union Minister of state for Culture and External Affairs Smt. Meenakshi Lekhi and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath along with officials of Central and State Governments were present. Earlier, Uttar Pradesh’s Principal Secretary (Tourism and Culture) Mukesh Kumar Meshram said that under the joint aegis of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India and the Department of Tourism and Culture, Uttar Pradesh, on the occasion of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, the country’s largest drone show is being…
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The Lok Sabha today passed the Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021 that aims to give effect to the long-pending electoral reforms including linking Aadhaar with the voter ID card was passed in the Lok Sabha amid din, by voice vote. The Opposition members strongly opposed the bill and asked the government to take it back. The Bill was passed through a voice vote while several Opposition members, standing in the well of the House, were sloganeering. The Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha in the morning. At the time of the introduction of the Bill by Law Minister Kiran Rijiju. Opposing the…
The Foreign Ministers of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan today called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 20 December 2021. The Foreign Ministers of the Central Asian countries are visiting New Delhi to participate in the 3rd meeting of the India-Central Asia Dialogue. The Central Asian Foreign Ministers conveyed the greetings of their Presidents to Prime Minister Modi, and emphasized the readiness of their leadership to further strengthen relations with India. They briefed the Prime Minister on the deliberations of the India-Central Asia Dialogue held on Saturday and Sunday, under the chairmanship of External Affairs Minister of India,…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Prayagraj on Tuesday,1 and participate in a one of its kind programme that will be attended by over 2 lakh women, at around 1 PM. The programme is being held as per the vision of the Prime Minister to empower women, especially at the grassroot level, by providing them with necessary skills, incentives and resources. In this endeavour to support women, the Prime Minister will transfer an amount of Rs. 1000 crore in the bank account of Self Help Groups (SHGs), benefitting around 16 lakh women members of the SHGs. This transfer is being done…
Almost 100 million Dalits in India – or one third of their total number – continue to live in multidimensional poverty. While poverty has been reduced over the past decade, Scheduled Castes – the official Indian term for the country’s Dalit population – constitute almost one fourth of India’s multidimensionally poor people. According to the recently published Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2021, five out of six multidimensionally poor people in India live in households whose head is from a Scheduled Tribe (ST), a Scheduled Caste (SC), or Other Backward Class (OBC). The ST group – also known as Adivasis –…
Stating that India witnessed many upheavals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that even after centuries and the upheaval of power, neither Goa forgot its Indianness, nor did the rest of India forgot Goa. This is a relationship that has only become stronger with time, he added. Attending the function marking the Goa Liberation Day celebrations in Goa on Sunday, he said that the people of Goa also did not allow the movements for liberation and Swaraj to slacken. They kept the flame of freedom burning for the longest time in the history of India and this is because India is not…
The Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that NDRF is a symbol of trust and its mere presence creates a sense of security in the minds of the people. He appreciated that in such a short span of time, 16 battalions of the NDRF are doing their job very well all over the country. Formally inaugurated the Camp Complex of the 5th Battalion of the NDRF in Pune, he recalled that their mere presence during any kind of disaster, floods, landslides, storms, building collapses or lightning strikes, during these incidents people are relieved and are assured that as soon as NDRF…
The Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu urged all stakeholders, including the private sector, to come forward and supplement the government’s work in the field of adult education and skills training. Stressing the need to make every adult literate, he also highlighted the need to focus on digital literacy and financial literacy among the masses. Addressing the gathering after presenting the prestigious Nehru and Tagore Literacy Awards in New Delhi, the Vice President said that it was disappointing that despite making great progress in various fields like IT and digitization, India still has the largest number of illiterate persons in the…
Politics of murder became order of the day in CPM-ruled Kerala. Two brutal political murders involving the Muslim outfit SDPI and the BJP reported today. These two incidents happened within 12 hours in the Alappuzha district. State BJP OBC Morcha secretary Ranjeet Srinivas (40) was hacked to death in the Alappuzha district in the wee hours of Sunday. The attackers barged into his house last night and attacked him. The 40-year-old leader was a BJP candidate in the 2016 Assembly elections in the Alappuzha constituency. He was an advocate by profession. Renjith, a lawyer by profession, was the BJP candidate in the Alappuzha assembly constituency…
Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has cautioned that the “Talibani mentality” on women’s liberty, dignity, empowerment and constitutional equality will not be tolerated in India. He was addressing the “Minorities Day Celebration” programme organised by the National Commission for Minorities, NCM, in New Delhi. Naqvi said that those who opposed making the social evil of Triple Talaq a crime or raised question on removal of restriction on Muslim women to perform Haj with Mehram only and now creating commotion on the Constitutional equality regarding age of marriage of women are “Professional Protesters” of essence of the Indian…