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India, Maldives Sign MoU on LRIT system

New Delhi: India and the Maldives on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to augment marine safety, security, and environmental protection in the region through cooperation in the Long-Range Identification and Tracking of Ships (LRIT) system. Sunjay Sudhir, India’s High Commissioner to the Maldives, and Aishath Nahula, Maldives’ Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, […]

Defence: India may attend anti-terror exercise in Pakistan next week!

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: India is likely to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) anti-terror exercise to be held in Pakistan next week, media reported on Thursday. New Delhi may send a three-member team to participate in the exercise to be held at Pabbi in Pakistan’s Nowshera district from October 3 under the auspices […]

Hinduism: Many US states officially declare Oct as “Hindu Heritage Month”

Mukund Patel   Chicago (USA): Several states across America have declared the month of October 2021 as “Hindu Heritage Month” at a time the Indian-American community is preparing for the festive season next month. American states of Texas, Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, Georgia, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have officially declared October as Hindu Heritage […]

India opens six reconstructed schools in Nepal

  New Delhi: India on Wednesday reopened six schools, reconstructed at a cost of NPR 19 million, in neighboring Nepal where they had collapsed after an earthquake. Anurag Srivastava, Joint Secretary (North), Ministry of External Affairs of India, and Gokul Prasad Baskota, and Ganga Bahadur Tamang, both MPs in Nepal, and Dhurba Prasad Sharma, Executive […]

Schools: Union Cabinet’s nod to PM POSHAN Abhiyan worth Rs.1.30 lakh cr

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the PM POSHAN Abhiyan Yojana for schools, which will be operational for five years and is estimated to cost more than Rs. 1.30 lakh crores. Briefing the media, Union Minister Anurag Thakur said the scheme will run from the academic year 2021-22 to 2025-26, inclusive of the […]

Weather: Bay of Bengal’s Cyclone Gulab to transform as Shaheen in Arabian Sea

New Delhi: Pakistan had christened the recent Bay of Bengal cyclone as Gulab (Rose). After leaving behind heavy rains in some states, but little damage, this cyclone is now transforming as Shaheen in the Arabian Sea, threatening coastal areas in western India and Pakistan. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the remnants of Cyclone […]

Covid-19: Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine fails to pick up in India; orders cancelled

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: The erstwhile Soviet Union’s satellite Sputnik, launched in 1957, commenced the planet’s space-age and Moscow became a pioneer in scientific and technological innovations worldwide. In India, the word Sputnik became very popular and thrilled many. Some periodicals were also launched with the same name. But Sputnik V, the Russian-developed vaccine […]

Japan: Hiroshima-born Fumio Kishida to be next PM on Oct 4; polls in November

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Hiroshima-born Fumio Kishida will be Japan’s next Prime Minister, succeeding incumbent Yoshihide Suga who quickly lost support within the ruling party within a year in office. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Wednesday anointed Kishida, 64, a former foreign minister, as its next leader, media reported. He has been […]

Agriculture: PM Modi launches 35 crop varieties to combat malnutrition, climate change

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday virtually launched 35 crop varieties that aim to combat the problems of malnutrition and climate change, during the inauguration of the National Institute of Biotic Stress Management, Raipur, through videoconferencing. Developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), these varieties will address malnutrition, climate change, and […]

Education: Delhi’s AAP govt introduces Deshbhakti curriculum in schools

New Delhi: The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Admi Party (AAP) government in Delhi on Tuesday introduced the Deshbhakti curriculum in New Delhi’s public schools to mark the birth anniversary of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, and instill a sense of patriotism among all school students, from classes nursery to 12. Under the curriculum, patriotic studies will be allotted […]
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