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Monsoon: IMD’s red alert for heavy rains in MP, Gujarat

September 15, 2021 virendra pandit 0

New Delhi: India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday issued a red alert, warning heavy to very heavy rains and flood-like conditions in parts of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh in the next 48 hours. A low-pressure area formed over the Bay of Bengal last week has moved over Gujarat, whereas low-pressure in Odisha and Chhattisgarh, intensified […]

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Tourism: Misbehaviour with tourists cognizable offence in Rajasthan

September 15, 2021 virendra pandit 0

New Delhi: Rajasthan, which attracts lakhs of tourists each year, has made misbehaviour with them a cognizable offence to instil confidence among those who are a major source of revenue to the desert state. The state’s Legislative Assembly has passed the Rajasthan Tourism Trade (Facilitation and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2021, in this regard. According to […]

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Communication: Sansad TV launched on International Day of Democracy

September 15, 2021 virendra pandit 0

New Delhi: India launched Sansad TV on Wednesday, the International Day of Democracy (September 15), in which the erstwhile Lok Sabha TV and Rajya Sabha TV have been merged. Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi jointly launched Sansad TV from the Main Committee […]

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Covid-19: With 3rd wave threatening, India may not resume vax exports soon

September 15, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the Covid-19 infections dwindling, India had started exporting vaccines in January 2020. By March, it was exporting to around 100 countries under different categories. Then the pandemic’s second, and fiercer, wave struck, forcing New Delhi to stop vaccine exports in April. A similar situation is surfacing now. Pandemic numbers […]

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Taming the Dragon: Modi to meet Biden, others in US on September 24

September 14, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After taming the pandemic to a large extent, leaders of four democracies—the US, India, Australia, and Japan—are meeting in America on September 24 to take the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) to the next level—to stitch together what some have called an Asian version of NATO. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will […]

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Covid-19: With Delta infections rising, China locks down 4.5 mn people

September 14, 2021 virendra pandit 0

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With the highly-transmissible Delta variant of SARS-Cov-2, the virus causing Covid-19, rising once again in Fujian province in southeastern China, Beijing locked down on Monday Xiamen, a coastal city of 4.5 million people, in a renewed attempt to halt the outbreak and maintain its strict zero-tolerance approach to the pandemic. […]

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Aviation: SpiceJet to resume Boeing 737 Max flights from September-end

September 14, 2021 virendra pandit 0

New Delhi: Private airline SpiceJet will resume the operation of Boeing 737 Max flights by September-end. The decision came after SpiceJet signed a commercial settlement on Monday with CDB Leasing Co. Ltd, a globally recognized financial leasing company that provides leasing services for transportation, including aviation services. The settlement will ensure Boeing 737 Max returns […]

Defence

Space mission: Australia to support ISRO’s Gaganyaan programme

September 14, 2021 virendra pandit 0

New Delhi: The Australian Space Agency will support the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s Gaganyaan programme by tracking the spacecraft from Cocos Keeling Islands located in the Indian Ocean. The agency’s Deputy Head, Anthony Murfett, extended Australian support to ISRO on Monday. The Gaganyaan programme is a crewed human flight space mission to the Low […]

Education

Education: MP colleges to teach Hindu scriptures from academic year 2021-22

September 13, 2021 virendra pandit 0

New Delhi: The Madhya Pradesh government’s education department has decided to incorporate the teachings of Hindu scriptures and epics Shri Ramcharitmanas and Mahabharata in colleges in accordance with the New Education Policy 2020. This inclusion will be in effect from the academic year 2021-22. Interestingly, Saudi Arabia had also included Hindu scriptures in its school […]

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Education: Revived Vikramshila Central University to come up in Bihar

September 13, 2021 virendra pandit 0

New Delhi: The Centre has selected a 200-acre plot of land in the Bhagalpur district of Bihar for the re-establishment of Vikramshila University, destroyed by the invaders in the medieval era. The selected land in the Parshuram Chak area of Bhagalpur is near the railway station and the excavation site, media reports said. “The Vice-Chancellor […]