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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has said that in memory of the struggles and sacrifices of our people, 14th August will be observed as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day.
India and France are soon set to launch Space Security Dialogue at the heart of which is protecting space assets like satellites.
India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives have agreed to work on “four pillars” of security cooperation, covering areas of marine security, human trafficking, counter-terrorism, and cyber security, in a recent virtual meeting of top security officials of the three countries.
In early July, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had sent 2,600 kg mangoes for the President, Prime Minister of India and several CMs, including Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. In a reciprocal gesture, the Narendra Modi government is sending 109 ambulances to Dhaka to fight the third wave of the Covid pandemic.
According to an official statement, the civil aviation ministry announced a policy on ‘Digi Yatra’ in August 2018 that intends to provide “contactless, seamless, and paperless handling of passengers at airports from the entry gate of the terminal to the boarding point”. Work has been awarded to implement Biometric Boarding System (BBS) in six airports which include Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Varanasi and Vijayawada, said Singh.
The Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ms. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today informed that the total stock of foodgrains in the Central Pool as on 16.07.2021 was 882.77 lakh tons consisting of 589.06 lakh tons of wheat and 293.71 lakh tons of rice.
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on August 2nd launched digital payment solution e-RUPI, a cashless and contactless instrument for digital payment. Prime Minister said that the eRUPI voucher is going to play a huge role in making Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) more effective in digital transactions in the country and will give a new dimension to digital governance. He said e-RUPI is a symbol of how India is progressing by connecting people’s lives with technology.
The Government has taken a number of measures to strengthen coastal, Offshore and maritime security. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, the Minister of State for Defence, Ajay Bhatt said that the Navy, Coast Guard and State Marine Police along with other agencies such as Customs and Port Trusts patrol the Maritime Zone of India using surface and air assets to detect and check infiltration.
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is set to launch a Bhutanese satellite in December 2021. The satellite is being built by four Bhutanese engineers who are being trained by ISRO, with the first phase already over
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Indian Institute of Space science and Technology (IIST) and The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), for carrying out the Academic programmes and Research activities involving students and faculty members in each institution signed on April 09, 2021 and May 17, 2021 at respective institutes and exchanged by email.
