Month: July 2022

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to visit GIFT International Financial Services Centre on July 29, 2022

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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, will visit Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), India’s maiden International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), on July 29, 2022. The occasion will also be graced by Shri Bhupendra Patel, Chief Minister of Gujarat; Shri Amit Shah, Union Minister of Home Affairs and Co-operation: Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs; Shri Kanubhai Desai, Minister of Finance and Energy, Government of Gujarat; Union Ministers of State for Finance Shri Pankaj Chaudhary and Dr. Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad. The Prime Minister, during his visit,…

Shri Parshottam Rupala launches NDDB’s subsidiary for manure management

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Shri Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying here on Monday launched NDDB MRIDA Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary company of National Dairy Development Board to take forward manure management initiatives across the country in presence of Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, MoS, FAHD and Dr L Murugan, MoS, FAHD. Shri Atul Chaturvedi, Secretary, DAHD, Govt. of India, Shri Meenesh Shah, Chairman, NDDB, Ms Varsha Joshi, Additional Secretary (CDD), DAHD, and Shri Sandeep Bharti, newly appointed Managing Director of NDDB MRIDA Limited. NDDB has established NDDB MRIDA Limited, an…

Providing Digital Facilities to Students

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Education is in the concurrent list of the Constitution and majority of the schools are under domain of respective State and UT Government. However, in order to ensure that every student including those residing in rural and educationally backward districts of the country, gets continuous access to education, a multi-pronged approach has been adopted by the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education. A comprehensive initiative called PM e-Vidya has been started as part of Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan on 17th May, 2020, which unifies all efforts related to…

Ministry of Culture Preserves and Promotes Indian Art, Literature and Culture through various autonomous organizations

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Ministry of Culture through its autonomous organizations viz. Sangeet Natak Akademi, Sahitya Akademi, National School of Drama, Centre for Cultural Resources and Training, Lalit Kala Akademi, Kalakshetra Foundation, Indira Gandhi National  Centre for the Arts preserves and promotes Indian Art, Literature and Culture. The Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA) organizes Festivals all over the country. The akademi gives grants-in-aid for research, documentation, and publishing in the performing arts. Under guru-sisya parampara, SNA offers financial support to cultural institutions across the country. The Akademi’s archives carefully preserve recordings of the eminent and upcoming…

‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’: MoD accords high priority to indigenisation of Software Defined Radios for the Armed Forces

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Ministry of Defence (MoD) has fast-tracked the indigenisation of Software Defined Radios (SDRs) with country’s premier R&D institutions viz. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur to fulfill the increasing demand by the Armed Forces across a broad spectrum of operations. The complete product life cycle management framework is necessary for security sensitive SDR technology and products. It involves indigenous self-sustainable design, development, manufacturing, testing/certification and maintenance ecosystem. Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar, while according high priority to the indigenisation of SDR technology, stated…

Opposition obstructs development works: PM Modi

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PM Modi has accused the Opposition of obstructing development works, saying they keep their political interests above that of society and the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused the Opposition of obstructing development works, saying they keep their political interests above that of society and the country. “Many times, the opposition parties put some obstacles in the government’s work as they could not implement the decisions taken by them when they were in power,” Modi said addressing virtually a programme on the 10th death anniversary of former Samajwadi…

Delhi backstabbed Maharashtra, coup planned when I was in hospital, says Uddhav

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Asserting that it was his biggest mistake to trust them, Uddhav Thackeray asked the Shinde faction not to ask for votes in his father’s name. Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, in his first interview to party’s mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ after stepping down as the chief minister of Maharashtra, has said that he was betrayed and that the coup was planned when he was admitted and could barely move. ” The coup was planned when I was in the hospital and could barely move. When my body wasn’t moving, their movements were…

India received Rs 494 crore FDI in Defence sector since revising policy: Govt

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MoS for Defence Ajay Bhatt said that India has received around Rs 494 crore of FDI in the defence sector since revising the policy. India has received around Rs 494 crore of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the defence sector since revising the policy relating to it in September 2020, the government said in Lok Sabha on Monday. In the last few years, the government has taken a series of measures to boost domestic defence manufacturing. Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt said, “In 2020, the government announced increasing…

Day 2 of Sonia Gandhi’s ED questioning, BJP calls out Congress’s ‘drama’

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The Congress chief was earlier questioned by the financial probe agency on July 21 for nearly three hours in connection with the alleged money laundering case related to the National Herald newspaper. Congress party President Sonia Gandhi is all set to appear again before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) today (July 26) for the second round of questioning in the National Herald money laundering case. The Congress chief was earlier questioned by the financial probe agency on July 21 for nearly three hours in connection with the alleged money laundering case…

Kargil Vijay Diwas a symbol of pride and glory of Mother India, says PM Modi

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Top political leaders took to Twitter to pay homage to the martyrs and heroes of Kargil war, as the nation celebrates Vijay Diwas today. Top political leaders took to Twitter to pay homage to the martyrs and heroes of Kargil war, as the nation celebrates Vijay Diwas today, July 26. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “Kargil Vijay Diwas is a symbol of pride and glory of Maa Bharati. On this occasion, my salute to all the brave sons of the country who have proved their valor in the defense of…