Month: July 2022

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dies after being shot pic..

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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was shot by a 41-year-old man during a campaign speech, has died. Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died on Friday after being shot by a 41-year-old man during an election speech. Abe, Japan’s longest-serving leader, was admitted to hospital in grave condition after being shot while campaigning for a parliamentary election in Nara, western Japan. Earlier, in a press conference, Japanese PM Fumio Kishida confirmed Abe’s condition and said doctors were working hard to save him. Abe was shot from behind minutes…

100 underprivileged students selected to study at Sitare Foundation

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Sitare Foundation, a bootstrapped pan India educational NGO has announced the results of its 2022 annual entrance exams. The foundation has selected about 100 students out of the 73,000 applications received during the entrance exams conducted in Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bhopal and Indore. Majority of these selected students are from government schools and their families earn less than Rs 25,000 a month. For selection in the foundation’s program, children have to undergo an extremely comprehensive evaluation process which includes an entrance exam, followed by a two-week educational camp to test children’s in-class performance,…

British PM Boris Johnson resigns, new leader to be chosen soon

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After being abandoned by ministers and most of his Conservative lawmakers, Boris Johnson announced on Thursday that he would quit as British prime minister. Confirming about his decision to resign, Boris said outside Downing Street, “The process of choosing that new leader should begin now. And today I have appointed a cabinet to serve, as I will until a new leader is in place,” he said. As more than 50 ministers quit and lawmakers said he must go, Boris appears to be isolated and powerless after days of battling for…

A virtual event bringing together more than 5000 participants from 53 countries for knowledge exchange

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As part of the ongoing Digital India Week 2022 celebrations, the 3-days long virtual event on India Stack Knowledge Exchange kick started on 7th July 2022. The event is an opportunity to showcase India’s most significant contribution to the Digital world – the India Stack, which is a unified software platform to bring India’s 1.4 billion population into the Digital Age. This programme witnessed participation from across the world. The objective is to give an orientation to the basic building blocks of India Stack, which is driving Digital Transformation in India. Indiastack.global…

Maharashtra: CM Shinde planning for Cabinet expansion? BJP may get cream berths

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The BJP, which wheeled back to power, after forging an alliance with Shiv Sena is expected to get important portfolios, sources said. The newly-elected Maharashtra government led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is planning for Cabinet expansion. If sources are to be believed, the expansion will happen in two phases – before and after the Presidential election which is scheduled to be held on July 18. The BJP, which wheeled back to power, after forging an alliance with Shiv Sena is expected to get important portfolios, sources said. In the first…

Odisha plans to give land titles under FRA to all eligible tribal people by 2024

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ST and SC development secretary Ranjan Chopra said the mission to provide land titles by 2024 was in the works and will be launched soon In line with their objective to empower the tribal community in the state, the Odisha government is planning to give titles of individual and community forest land under the Forest Right Act to all eligible tribal people by 2024, a senior official of the state’s tribal welfare department said. ST and SC development secretary Ranjan Chopra said the mission to provide land titles by 2024…

French aerospace major Safran to set up engine MRO facility in Hyderabad

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French aerospace major, Safran has announced that it will set up its first aircraft engine maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility in Hyderabad at a cost of Rs 1,200 crore. It will also reportedly be the group’s larget MRO shop globally. French aerospace major Safran announced its decision to set up their largest and first aircraft engine MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul) facility in Hyderabad. The facility will be set up with an investment of Rs 1200 crore ($150 million) and is expected to create about 1,000 high-skilled jobs in…

Telangana minister KT Rama Rao hits out at centre over hike in LPG prices; TRS takes out state-wide protest in india

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The ruling TRS party in Telangana took out a state-wide protest against the Rs 50 price hike on domestic 14.2 kg LPG cylinders. Industries minister KT Rama Rao hit out against the centre and said that the LPG price hike has become a burden on the poor people. Telangana Industries Minister KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Thursday slammed the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre, saying citizens were troubled with the constantly rising prices of gas cylinders in the country. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) took out large…

Rajnath Singh to brief parliamentary panel on Agnipath scheme on July 11

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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will brief the parliamentary panel on the Agnipath scheme on July 11. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will on July 11 brief the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on Defence on the Agnipath recruitment scheme, which seeks to overhaul the way soldiers are recruited to the armed forces. “Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh is scheduled to brief the Committee members about various aspects of the recently-launched Agnipath scheme, through which recruitment of soldiers in all the three services will henceforth take place,” the ministry said in a statement on…