Month: November 2021

Not at all’ , says Rahul Gandhi on 12 suspended Opposition MPs apologizing

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New Delhi , November 30 Taking Twitter over the suspension of 12 Opposition MPs, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the Opposition MPs will not ‘apologize’ as they were raising people’s issues in Parliament.  “Why apologize? To raise people’s issues in Parliament? No, not at all!” tweeted Rahul Gandhi. Opposition MPs staged walkouts from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha after Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu rejected revocation of the suspension of 12 Opposition MPs.  Following this, the Opposition leaders held a protest at the Mahatma Gandhi statue in…

Winter session: Lok Sabha Speaker calls meeting of floor leaders of all parties to end deadlock

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New Delhi , November 30 In an attempt to end the deadlock between the government and Opposition during the ongoing winter session, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla called a meeting of Floor leaders of all parties on Tuesday. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, TR Baalu, Kalyan Banerjee, PV Midhun Reddy, Rajiv Ranjan Singh, Supriya Sule Anupriya Patel, ET Mohammed Basheer, Anubhav Mohanty, Gaurav Gogai, NK Premchandran, were among the leaders who attended the meeting. Earlier today, Opposition MPs staged walkouts from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha after Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah…

PM to inaugurate InFinity Forum on 3rd December

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Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate InFinity Forum, a thought leadership Forum on FinTech, on 3rd December, 2021 at 10 AM via video conferencing. The event is being hosted by International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), under the aegis of Government of India in collaboration with GIFT City and Bloomberg on December 3 and 4, 2021. Indonesia, South Africa and the U.K. are partner countries in the first edition of the Forum. InFinity Forum will bring together the leading minds of the world in policy, business, and technology to discuss and come up…

DRI seizes 3,646 latest iPhone models smuggled from Hong Kong

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Officials have said that the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized consignments of 3,646 latest models of iPhones at the Air Cargo Complex (ACC) at the Mumbai international airport on Sunday. The iPhones have been suspected to have been smuggled into the country from Hong Kong. In the import documents accompanying these two consignments, the goods were declared as “memory cards”. The mobile phones and the Apple smart watch were not declared in the imported goods under the Customs Act. On further examination on Friday, it revealed that the…

Delhi CM urges PM Modi to stop flights coming from Omicron hit countries

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In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged him to immediately stop flights from the countries which are affected by the new Omicron variant of COVID-19. Sharing the letter to the PM, Kejriwal said on Twitter, “I have requested Hon’ble PM to immediately stop flights from those countries which are affected by the new variant. Any delay could be very harmful.” In the letter, the chief minister said, “Our country has fought a tough fight against Corona for the last one and half…

Facebook India executives to depose before parliamentary panel

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Top executives of Facebook India are expected to depose before a parliamentary panel chaired by senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology is scheduled to meet to hear the views of the representatives of Facebook India on the subject of safeguarding citizens’ rights and prevention of misuse of social news media platforms. The meeting will also deliberate on the security of women in the digital space, especially on social media. Top officials of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will also depose before the panel on the same issue.

20th Star Nite Awards 2021 Hotel, Shangri-La, New Delhi

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Transformation drives innovation and face-To-face interactions are always better to understand and engage. Companies must be attentive to the changing landscape of their industry and be sure to count with the right talent in order to carry out new business models, as well as train and retain existing talent. The 20th VARINDIA Star Nite Awards 2021 this year was a Hybrid Event and was organized on 26th Nov, 2021, Friday from 9.00 am to 9.00 pm. The event attracted over 1542 attendees (including VARs/Partners) from 30 different cities in the country. This…

PM Modi offered to debate ‘any issue’ but…: Chidambaram’s latest jab

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Chidambaram said the farm laws were passed without a debate and were repealed without a debate. “Long live debate-less Parliamentary democracy!” he also wrote on the microblogging site. Chidambaram also targeted Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar for denying a debate on the bill. Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram hit out at the Centre on Tuesday for passing the bill to repeal the three farm laws in Parliament on Monday without any discussion over the issue. In a series of tweets, the former Union minister, said, “On the eve of…

Coronavirus pandemic could cost global tourism $2 trillion, UN reports

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Tourism has rebounded compared to 2020, but still remains below 2019 levels. Uneven vaccination rates and new strains could hinder this recovery. Tourism has rebounded compared to 2020, but still remains below 2019 levels. Uneven vaccination rates and new strains could hinder this recovery. The coronavirus pandemic could cost global tourism $2 trillion (€1.77 trillion) in lost revenue, according to a United Nations World Tourism Oranization (UNWTO) report published on Monday. The same amount was lost in 2020. Although the UNWTO registered a 58% increase in tourist arrivals in July-September of this…

Fire breaks out in Neb Sarai area of South Delhi

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During the investigation, it was revealed that the owner of the plot Rajneesh Balhara had given the vacant area on rent to the labours and scrap dealers who were living in the Jhuggies (slums). A massive fire broke out in several shanties in south Delhi’s Neb Sarai area on Monday evening, officials said. A call regarding the fire was received at 6.01 pm, following which 20 fire tenders were rushed to the spot, a senior fire official said. So far, there is no report of injury to anyone, the official…