Year: 2021

PM Modi chairs meeting with CMs of BJP-ruled states in Varanasi

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting with the Chief Ministers of BJP-ruled states in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi. This comes a day after PM Modi had chaired a meeting with the BJP Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers here yesterday.  PM Modi is currently on a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi where he inaugurated phase 1 of the newly-constructed Kashi Vishwanath Dham at a cost of around Rs 339 crores on Monday.  Today at around 3:30 pm, PM Modi will attend the 98th-anniversary celebrations of Sadguru Sadafaldeo Vihangam…

Akhilesh Yadav takes Jibe at BJP Leadership, says people spend their last moments in Varanasi

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Taking a jibe at top Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leadership who are in Varanasi for the inauguration of the Kashi Vishwanath Dham Corridor, Samajwadi Party (SP) Chief Akhilesh Yadav said people spend their last moments in the holy city. The SP Chief said, “It is good that the programmes are one-month long (for Kashi Vishwanath in Varanasi). They (PM Modi and other BJP leaders) should stay there for not only one, two or three months. That is a good place to stay. People also spend their last moments in varanasi,”…

Hero Vired and NSDC get into a Strategic Alliance to upskill the Indian Youth

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Hero Vired, India’s premium EdTech company, has collaborated with National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to offer internships, industry projects and financial support to professionals and higher education aspirants. The collaboration aims at developing innovative training programs in emerging and relevant technologies such as drone deployment and game designing, among others. As the technology innovation partner, Hero Vired will support NSDC by creating a digital platform to host learner certifications. This strategic alliance will also help drive NSDC’s vision of creating a future-ready workforce through advance skill training across sectors. The partnership will…

Sumit Kumar- factory worker turned successful entrepreneur with MSME-NSIC loan

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Sumit Kumar from Agra built the enterprise of his dreams named “Sumit enterprise” in 2018 which produces plastic brushes for cleaning purposes. Coming from a very humble background Sumit attained outstanding achievements as he turned from a labourer at a factory to an entrepreneur. Talking about his journey he says,   “I started my business with Rs 2 lakh. In the first 2 years, I was unable to take many orders as my products’ demand was increasing in market but I was short of funds. I needed a loan but…

Muslims in Uttar Pradesh need to create independent political leadership: Asaduddin Owaisi

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The erstwhile Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra had provided 5 percent reservation to Muslims in jobs and education in 2014. The Bombay HC quashed the Maratha quota but upheld the Muslim quota in education. Speaking to spo India in an exclusive conversation, Owaisi said that he has shared the empirical data of Muslims in Maharashtra that contain details of the Muslim community’s backwardness socially and educationally in the state. “The reservation will strengthen the democracy and constitution and will help the state as well,” he said.  In Maharashtra, only 22 percent…

UP elections 2022: Two sitting MLAs join Samajwadi Party ahead of polls

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The legislators are Vinay Shankar Tiwari (BSP) from the Chillupar assembly seat in Gorakhpur and Digvijay Narayan alias Jai Chaubey from Khalilabad constituency in Sant Kabir Nagar. Ahead of the crucial 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Samajwadi Party got a shot in the arm on Sunday when two sitting MLAs, one from the BJP and one from the BSP, joined the party at its headquarters here in presence of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav. The legislators are Vinay Shankar Tiwari (BSP) from the Chillupar assembly seat in Gorakhpur and Digvijay…

People will not forgive criminals who wore ‘red caps’, ‘mesh caps’: Keshav Prasad Maurya

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Keshav Prasad Maurya also made clear that he was not referring to the entire Muslim community when he mentioned the “Jaalidar” caps but only the criminal elements. Uttar Pradesh deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Sunday said people will not forgive criminal elements under the “red caps” or the “mesh caps”, referring to the headgear worn by Samajwadi Party (SP) workers and many Muslims. But he made clear that he was not referring to the entire Muslim community when he mentioned the “Jaalidar” caps but only the criminal elements.…

Goa polls 2022: Lone NCP MLA Churchill Alemao merges party’s legislative group with TMC

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Churchill Alemao (72), who represented the state’s Benaulim Assembly segment, also told reporters that he will formally join the TMC later in the day in the presence of Mamata Banerjee, who is on a two-day visit to the coastal state. Ahead of the Goa Assembly polls, the NCP‘s lone MLA in the state, Churchill Alemao, on Monday claimed he has merged the party’s state legislative unit with the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress. Alemao (72), who represented the state’s Benaulim Assembly segment, also told reporters that he will formally join the…

Delhi looks to take yoga to doorsteps, offers citizens free classes, teachers

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Starting January, the Delhi government will offer free yoga classes to people within their housing societies, colony parks or even community centres In a bid to make yoga a “mass movement” by making it a community practice, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday launched the “Dilli Ki Yogshala” programme, in which 400 certified yoga instructors will impart yoga lessons to at least 20,000 people at their doorsteps in the city next month onwards. “Yoga is India’s gift to the entire world. I asked many people why they do not…