In A Historic Move Jammu and Kashmir LG Inaugurated the Night Flight Operations at the Jammu Airport
In a historic move Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Friday inaugurated the night flight operations at the Jammu Airport.
Diplomacy
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You can Now Apply for Passport At Your Nearest Post Office
Passport application in India has been made even easier as the India Post is now offering passport registration and passport application facility at various post offices in India. What an applicant need is to visit the nearest post office’s Common Service Centre or CSS counters.
India Found Relics of Georgian Queen 400 Years After Her Murder. PM Shares Tale
Ketevan, the queen of Kakheti, a kingdom in eastern Georgia, was murdered at Shiraz in Iran in 1624, nearly 400 years ago now. Queen Ketevan earned the title of ‘martyr’ because it is believed she gave up her life defending the Christian faith and refused to convert to Islam, even after prolonged tortures by the Safavid suzerains. After her death, Ketevan was canonised as a saint by the Georgian Orthodox Church.
Tap Water Supply Reaches 66% Schools & 60% Anganwadi Centres
In the wake of Covid-19 pandemic, to ensure clean tap water supply to children in schools, anganwadi centres and ashramshalas (residential schools) for their wellbeing and better health as envisioned by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, on 2nd October, 2020, a campaign was launched to make provision of tap water supply in these institutions. In less than ten months since the launch of this campaign, provision of tap water has been made in 6.85 lakh (66%) schools, 6.80 lakh (60%) anganwadi centres (AWCs)and 2.36 lakh (69%) Gram Panchayats and Community Healthcare Centres (CHCs) in villages across India.
India Maldives Ink Pact for Community Projects
External affairs minister S Jaishankar and his Maldivian counterpart Abdulla Shahid Friday signed an agreement on India-funded community projects in the Maldives after they held wide-ranging talks covering a range of bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual interests.
Ins Airavat Reaches Jakarta With Covid Relief Supplies To Indonesia
Indian Naval Ship Airavat arrived at the Port of Jakarta, Indonesia on 24 Jul 2021, carrying essential COVID-19 relief supplies. The ship has brought five Cryogenic containers containing 100 MT of Liquid Oxygen and 300 Concentraters to support Indonesia in its fight against the ongoing pandemic.
Maldives FM Abdulla Shahid Meets PM Modi, Lauds India’s Continuous Support, Assistance
President-elect of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) and Maldives Foreign Minister Abdullah Shahid on Friday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and lauded India’s continuous support and assistance for the development of the country.
India Rises in Digital andSustainable trade Facilitation Rankings, Scores 100% on Transparency
India has scored 90.32% in United Nation’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia Pacific’s (UNESCAP) latest Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation. The Survey hails this as a remarkable jump from 78.49% in 2019.
Rare Diseases Policy has been Finalized and Put in Public Domain
The Policy aims at lowering the incidence and prevalence of rare diseases based on an integrated and comprehensive preventive strategy encompassing awareness generation, premarital, post-marital, pre-conception and post-conception screening and counselling programmes to prevent births of children with rare diseases, and within the constraints on resources and competing health care priorities, enable access to affordable health care to patients of rare diseases.
Centre to Set up/Upgrade 2 Lakh Micro Food Processing Enterprises from 2020-21 to 2024-25 with An Outlay of INR. 10,000 Crores-Prahlad Singh Patel
ative, MoFPI is implementing a Centrally Sponsored Schemefor setting up/upgradation of 2 lakh micro food processing enterprises. The enterprises can be set up or upgraded through credit linked subsidy during five years from 2020-21 to 2024-25 with an outlay of Rs. 10,000 crores.