Month: February 2020

Over a Rs 5 cr of Ephedrine, packed inside 43 fake wedding cards was seized at Bengluru airport. On Tuesday, the same was seized from garment spools from Kempegowda International Airport.   The courier terminal had reportedly received an unusually heavy packet of 43 wedding cards which were being sent to Australia. As the package, booked by a Madurai-based exporter, seemed suspicious, the officials decided to cut it open. The wedding invites were so heavy that officials had to use scissors to open them.   “There were 43 foldable cards…

As per news source, 120 terrorists have been “neutralised” in the operation in the vast Tillaberi region near the border with Mali and Burkina Faso and there had been no losses among Nigerien or French troops.    Niger’s Defence Minister Issoufou Katambe praised the “cooperation… in the battle against terrorism,” according to a statement.   A state of emergency has been in place in the region for the past two years.   Since 2015, Niger has struggled against a wave of jihadist attacks near the borders with Mali and Burkina…

In a great success to the efforts of Indian Geologists, Geological Survey of India and Uttar Pradesh Directorate of Geology & Mining. there are two goldmines with around 3,500 tonnes of gold ore in the Naxal-affected Sonbhadra district of the state, almost five times the current gold reserves of the country. Can we says, God is blessing the country with this situation of Global economic down turn?   It is a real jackpot for the Uttar Pradesh government, geologists have discovered massive gold deposits in Sonbhadra district of eastern Uttar Pradesh. The…

The U.S. ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell appointed as the acting head of intelligence. President Donald Trump announced on wednesday on the development and Grenell is going to be the next acting director of national intelligence.   IT is a post at the Cabinet-level position — the Office of the Director of National Intelligence oversees the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies and is the president’s principal adviser on intelligence issues. Richard Grenell, as the ambassador to Germany, he has pushed Germany to increase its contributions to NATO, and…

The Joint Parliamentary Committee examining the government’s Personal Data Protection Bill has asked for public comments on the legislation. The committee is headed by BJP lawyer and MP Meenakshi Lekhi and has a total of 28 members. A number of data privacy advocates welcomed the move, as the demand has been growing for quite some time to discuss and debate the bill publicly. “It’s important to have wide consultations on the bill to get stakeholder inputs,” said Sreenidhi Srinivasan a senior associate at IKIGAI, a technology-focused law firm. As The Citizen…

Ahead of the date of US President Donald Trump’s two day visit, the river Yamuna is getting beautified.  The Uttar Pradesh Irrigation Department has released 500 cusecs of water into the Yamuna from the Ganganahar in Bulandshahr to improve the river’s “environmental condition” in Agra, ahead of US President Donald Trump’s visit, officials said on Tuesday.   Trump is set to visit India on a two-day trip between February 23 and 26. The main segment of the visit will take place in Delhi, though an option of having a short…

SEPL has founded Supertron Foundation in 2016 to focus on its CSR activities in structured and professional way. Supertron Foundation has spread its wings to the various sections of the underprivileged society, focusing primarily in three areas-1) Empowerment   through technology 2)  Livelihood 3) Health.   The beneficiaries  of its various social project undertaken in the above three areas are from the lowest economic strata of the society and also of most deprived and vulnerable –a) orphan girl children b) children from slums of kolkata c) children and persons with disability d) old people.…

Standard Chartered (www.SC.com) has today announced new business targets for supporting its clients as they transition to a low carbon economy as part of its Sustainability Aspirations. By the end of 2024, the Bank commits to:Bank also commits to net zero carbon emissions from its operations by 2030   providing USD40 billion of project financing services for infrastructure that promotes sustainable development providing USD35 billion of project financing services, M&A advisory and debt structuring services for renewables and clean tech projects (solar and wind)    Underpinning the aspirations, Standard Chartered…

It has been reported that, Nripendra Misra, the former Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been elected the Head of the temple construction committee of the Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust.   The trust held its first meeting at its office, which is located at Supreme Court lawyer K Parasaran’s home in New Delhi’s Greater Kailash locality, to work out the modalities to speed up the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders Nritya Gopal Das and Champat Rai were elected the President and General…