“This symbol is our national flower and is part of the enhanced security features to identify fake passports. Apart from lotus, other national symbols will be used on rotation. Symbols are connected with India,” Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said in a weekly briefing.
India, for the first time, ranks among the top 10 in this year’s Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) presented on Tuesday at the COP25 climate summit here.
The Bill seeks to enhance the punishment for existing offences like illegal manufacture, sale, transfer, etc.; illegally acquiring, possessing or carrying prohibited arms or prohibited ammunition; and illegal manufacture, sale, transfer, conversion, import, export, etc., of firearms.
The Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on Monday and will now go to the Rashtrapati Bhavan for President Ram Nath Kovind’s assent.
Claimed to be a first-of-its-kind initiative in India, the department will make the information available on its official website. “These state-protected monuments include palaces, forts, heritage buildings, inscriptions, archaeological sites, temples, mosques, and dargahs. Monuments located in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Kalaburagi and Belagavi divisions will be included in this project,” an official said.
Raising slogans like ‘Pakistan is Taliban’, ‘Pakistan a terror state’, and ‘Where was (Osama) Bin Laden’, the protestors demanded Pakistan be declared a state sponsor of terrorism.
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has begun work on a cabinet note on the policy that seeks to provide “timely and credible social and economic data,” one of the persons said.
PDPB will serve as a model for ensuring that Indian citizens have autonomy in the digital economy. It will also permit them to regain control over their personal data.
Responding during Question Hour, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said the government has brought a lot of “sanity” to the working of eight areas of IPR, be it patent, copyright or trademark.
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) can be explained as the register that has recorded the names of all the genuine citizens of India. Prepared for the first time in 1951, the NRC list has been updated for the state of Assam since the state experiences a longstanding problems due to foreigners.
