SSB seizes Asthadhatu idol of Sita worth Rs 40cr
New Delhi: The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has seized Asthadhatu idol of Sita costing Rs 40 crore in the antiques market. The idol weighing 12.78 kgs was seized by the 41 st battalion SSB in joint operation with preventive and intelligence customs. They also apprehended two smugglers who during preliminary interrogation revealed about thriving network of smugglers keeps stealing antique idols from temples in Bihar.
csir clinches multi-mn assignment from midi
New Delhi: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has clinched a multi-million dollar assignment from the Metal Industries Development Institute (MIDI), Ethiopia to implement a twinning programme. The two inked a pact recently which would also facilitate the CSIR’s future collaborations with other African organizations. The CSIR will enhance the capacity and capability of MIDI under the twinning arrangement and thereby enable it to contribute more efficiently towards the development of metals and engineering sectors in Ethiopia and thus enhance their competitiveness, said CSIR DG Girish Sahni.
mj akbar calls for faith equality, not supremacy
New Delhi: Union Minister MJ Akbar on Monday said South Asia was a “sea of faiths, opinions, voices” and the people had to ensure they lived by “faith equality”, and not “faith supremacy”. At the convocation ceremony of the South Asian University (SAU) here, the Minister said the individuals had to find their own way to faith.”It is not for us to judge whose way is better or whose way is worse,” the Minister of State for External Affairs said. Akbar, who was the chief guest at the convocation, said freedom, faith and equality were the pillars of modernity.