With the policy of an iron fist for terrorism in the velvet glove of “vikas and vishwas” (development and trust), he is formulating measures to deal with these challenges with a core team that includes some new and some old faces.
The Global Xplorer program, conceived by egyptologist Sarah Parcak, and backed by Tata Trusts, the philanthropic arm of the Tata Group, will give Indians access to satellite images and tutor them in the ways of becoming space or satellite archaeologists.
In a first instance of ‘gender sensitive’ budgeting, the government has sanctioned exclusive funds to the country’s largest paramilitary force CRPF to procure and install over 500 sanitary pad dispensers and incinerators for its women personnel in combat.
Governor’s rule was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir on June 18, 2018 after the BJP withdrew support to the PDP, forcing chief minister Mehbooba Mufti to resign. A total of 349 stone-pelting cases were registered in the remaining part of last year. Thus far in 2019 (until July 17), there have been 355 incidents of stone-pelting. The state is currently under President’s rule.
It proposes to cut the fee of arbitrators who delay decisions and to give incentives to those who decide cases before the prescribed time. The Upper House also cleared the bill for setting up the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC).
Governor Satya Pal Malik has given his nod for the project in Srinagar where about a dozen cinema halls were the first casualty of terrorism in 1989. Most cinema halls were either burnt down by terrorists or made to shut down as their diktat was against such entertainment which they called ‘un-Islamic’.
The 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) was released Thursday.
The FM said entities working for the realisation of a social welfare objective will be able to raise equity and debt through an electronic fund raising platform. Globally, there are a few such exchanges, such as Singapore’s Impact Investment Exchange Asia and London’s Social Stock Exchange.
In the last three years, schools and colleges in Kashmir have been shut for over 240 days due to frequent shutdowns in the wake of bandhs and protest calls given by separatists.
Officiating his first public event after taking charge of the ministry, Shah said it is important to quickly develop better resilience and capability against disasters given that India is much prone to catastrophes owing to its varied topography and expanse.
