Month: November 2020

Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj today virtually inaugurated Mega Food Park (MFP) at Phagwara in Kapurthala district of Punjab. Tomar said that Punjab and Haryana have significant role in development of agriculture sector of India. He added that due to untiring efforts of farmers of … Read more

Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) has released the figures of Procurement and Payment to Micro & Small Enterprises (MSEs), which are reflected on the Samadhan Portal, by the Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs). Ministry has attached a table showing monthly rise in procurement, monthly rise in payments to MSMEs and fall in … Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the virtual 3rd Global Renewable Energy Investment Meeting and Expo (RE-Invest 2020), on 26 November 2020 at 5:30 PM. The summit is organised by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and will be held from 26 – 28 November 2020. About RE-Invest 2020 The theme for RE-Invest 2020 … Read more

Cyclonic Storm “NIVAR” is centred about 380 km East-Southeast of Puducherry and 430 km Southeast of Chennai.  Cyclone “NIVAR” is very likely to intensify further into a severe cyclonic storm during the next 12 hours and is very likely to cross Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts between Karaikal and Mamallapuram around Puducherry during late evening of … Read more

Dimapur, 24 November 2020. Chief of Army Staff General Manoj Mukund Naravane arrived at Dimpaur, Nagaland on Monday, 23 November 2020 on a three days visit to review the security situation in North East Region.  On arrival at Dimapur, the Army Chief was briefed by Lieutenant General Anil Chauhan, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Eastern … Read more

In view of Cyclonic Storm “NIVAR”, the Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba chaired the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) meeting today through video conferencing with the Chief Secretaries of Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andhra Pradesh and Secretaries of different ministries. Gauba said that our aim should be to ensure that there is no loss of life, damage is … Read more

According to the Cyclone Warning Division of the India Meteorological Department (IMD): (At 20.30 Hrs) The cyclonic storm ‘NIVAR” over southwest Bay of Bengal moved westwards with a speed of 05 kmph during past six hours and lay centred at 1730 hrs IST of 24th November, 2020 over southwest Bay of Bengal about 320 km east-southeast of Cuddalore, about … Read more

Thaawarchand Gehlot inaugurated an “ADIP camp to provide Aids & Assistive devices to 1398 Divyangjan of Pudukottai, Tamil Nadu” online through video conference today. Member of Parliament, Tiruchirappalli Constituency S. Thirunavukkarasar Lok Sabha constituency and Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Tamil Nadu, Dr. C. Vijayabaskar attended the camp. Distribution camp for free distribution … Read more

Union Minister of Food Processing Industries Narendra Singh Tomar, chaired the IMAC meeting through video conference today to consider the proposals received under the Scheme for Creation of Infrastructure for Agro-Processing Cluster (APC) of Pradhan Mantri KisanSampada Yojana (PMKSY). The promoters of projects also participated through Video Conference. IMAC approved 7 proposals with total project … Read more

Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Rural Development, Panchayat Raj and Food Processing Industries, Narendra Singh Tomar todayunveiled Sahakar Pragya.The 45 new training modules of Sahakar Pragya of the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) will impart training to primary cooperative societies in rural areas of the country along with Lakshmanrao Inamdar National Cooperative Research and … Read more

Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel passed away on Wednesday morning at 3.30 am due to multiple organ failures, tweeted his son Faisal Patel. A month back, Ahmed Patel tested positive for coronavirus. He passed away on Wednesday morning due to worsening of his health condition due to multiple organ failures. In his tweet, Faisal Patel … Read more

These States were Haryana, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Gujarat and West Bengal. The modalities of Covid-19 vaccine delivery, distribution and administration were also discussed during the meeting. Prime Minister remarked that the country has faced the pandemic through concerted efforts and in terms of both recovery rate and fatality rate, the situation in India … Read more

He said with the collective efforts and greater synergy between Jammu and Kashmir Police and BSF, a cross-border tunnel was detected in Samba and added that joint efforts are must to achieve desired and notable results in the future. DGP was  speaking to BSF personnel of 42 BN  in Arnia sector of Jammu District  while … Read more

Gauba said that our aim should be to ensure that there is no loss of life, damage is minimum and normalcy is restored in power, telecom and other important sectors in shortest possible time. The Chief Secretaries informed the NCMC about their preparedness. DG, IMD briefed the committee about the latest situation of “NIVAR” cyclone. … Read more

On Monday, the WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan said that they had received reassurances from Beijing that international experts would soon be able to travel to China to help probe the animal origins of COVID-19. In May, the annual meeting of World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body of the Geneva-based WHO, passed a unanimous … Read more

With the winters set in, widescale measures are being enacted in Tianjin, Shanghai and Manzhouli, even though the number of new cases remains low compared to the United States and other countries that are seeing new waves of infections. Officials and Experts have warned that the chance of the virus spreading will be greater in … Read more

Earlier, Chinese Finance Minister has said that the country has extended debt relief to developing countries worth a combined 2.1 billion US Dollars under the G20 framework, the highest among the G-20 members in terms of the amount deferred. However, this is a very small fraction compared with the debt developing countries owe to China. … Read more

 It is Very likely to intensify further into a severe cyclonic storm during next 12 hours.  Cyclone “NIVAR” is very likely to cross Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts between Karaikal and Mamallapuram around Puducherry during 25th Nov 2020 late evening as a severe cyclonic storm with a wind speed of 100-110 kmph gusting to 120 … Read more

It has triggered widespread rain in several districts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. Chennai and its suburbs have witnessed intermittent rain since last evening. The MET Department in Chennai says the Cyclone Nivar is moving north westwards at a speed of 5-km per hour for the past six hours. It currently lies 450 km south … Read more

It was on this in 1675, Guru Tegh Bahadur sacrificed his life to protect religion, human values, ideals and principles. The martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur is remembered as Shaheedi Divas every year. President Ram Nath Kovind paid tribute to Guru Teg Bahadur on his Martyrdom Day. In a message, President Kovind said, Guru Tegh … Read more

This will be the first visit of the Foreign Secretary to Nepal since he assumed charge. The visit is in keeping with the tradition of regular high-level exchanges between the two countries and the priority India attaches to its relations with Nepal.   During the visit, Foreign Secretary will meet his counterpart and other Nepalese … Read more

During the six day visit, he will be meeting his counterparts and also the top leadership of these countries. Dr. Jaishankar’s visit to Bahrain will be his first visit to the country as External Affairs Minister.   He will personally convey condolences on behalf of Government and people of India to the Bahraini leadership on … Read more

With the rapid-fire developments, President Donald Trump’s already languishing efforts to overturn his Nov. 3 defeat appeared to be coming to a close. The U.S. General Services Administration, an independent agency, informed Biden that his transition – leading up to a Jan. 20 swearing-in – could officially begin. In a tweet, Trump wrote that GSA … Read more

The Union Home Minister, Amit Shah today inaugurated a mobile COVID-19 RT-PCR Lab at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) in New Delhi, jointly launched by SpiceHealth and the ICMR. The Union Health and Family Welfare Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan also participated in the inauguration function. The Secretary DHR and Director General of the … Read more

 In the period of turbulence caused by the pandemic, Legal Services Authorities creatively adapted to the new normal and moved Lok Adalat to the virtual platform. From June, 2020 to October 2020, 27 E-Lok Adalats have been organized in 15 States wherein 4.83 lakh cases were taken up and 2.51 lakh cases disposed of resulting … Read more

The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed grief over the demise of former Chief Minister of Assam, Tarun Gogoi. In a tweet, the Prime Minister said, “ Tarun Gogoi Ji was a popular leader and a veteran administrator, who had years of political experience in Assam as well as the Centre. Anguished by his passing … Read more

India’s present active caseload (4,43,486) is 4.85% of the total Positive Cases, and has been sustained below the 5% mark. The Recovery Rate continues to be above 93% as 93.68% of all cases have recovered as of date. In the last 24 hours, the country registered 41,024 new recoveries in the last 24 hours taking the total recovered cases to 85,62,641.  The gap … Read more

Tribes India is continuing with making its product offerings more attractive to its customers, and at the same time helping millions of tribal enterprises get larger markets. Keeping this as the objective, over the last month, Tribes India has included many new products (mainly immunity boosting products and produce in the Forest Fresh and Organics … Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Multi Storeyed flats for Members of Parliament through video conference, today. These flats are located at Dr B D Marg in New Delhi. Eight old bungalows, which were more than 80 years old, have been redeveloped to construct 76 flats. Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said Green Building … Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the celebration of Centennial Foundation Day of University of Lucknow on 25th November, 2020 at 5:30 PM via video conferencing. The University was established in 1920 and is celebrating its centennial (100th) year. Prime Minister will unveil the University’s Centennial Commemorative Coin on the occasion. He will also release … Read more