Mehbooba meets Rajnath in new delhi
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh amid reports that she had come to the national capital to drum up support for preventing attempts to remove special status to the state under the Constitution. The meeting lasted for nearly 45 minutes, officials said without elaborating about the topics that were discussed. The meeting comes in the backdrop of growing pressure on Mehbooba, who is caught in a catch-22 situation over the ongoing matter in the Supreme Court on revoking Article 35-A of the Constitution that grants special status to the state.
Bill to set up sports varsity introduced
New Delhi: A Bill to set up India’s first full-fledged sports university of international standards was introduced in the lok Sabha today.The National Sports University Bill, 2017 will help set up the university in Manipur.
ls speaker corrects hindi of member
New Delhi: People have not been “murdered” but “killed” in the floods. This was what Speaker Sumitra Mahajan told a Congress member during a discussion on the natural calamity in the lok Sabha today.
Gaurav Gogoi (Cong) said in Hindi that “750 people have been murdered (hatya hui) in the floods.”Mahajan immediately pointed out that the term should be “mrityu (death)”. Gogoi, who belongs to Assam, told the Speaker “thank you for correcting my Hindi.” He was initiating the discussion on a calling attention motion on floods.
fund for permanent solution to N-E floods
New Delhi: The Government proposes to fund a permanent solution to floods in the Northeast including Assam, the lok Sabha was informed today. Replying to a calling attention motion on the problem of floods in various parts of the country, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju also rejected claims of opposition that the government has failed to respond to the “annual feature” of floods in time and gives little financial assistance to states to deal with the calamity.
APPAREl CENTRE BAGS Best Institue AWARD
New Delhi: The Apparel Training and Design Centre (ATDC) has been selected as the ‘Best Institute- Women Skill Development 2017’ by the Assocham at a summit-cum-awards on Skilling India- From Skills to Prosperity. Nidhi Rawat ,Joint Registrar ,General Manager, Sponsorship, Daljit Kaur, Chief Coordinator, AVI and Manju Singh, Senior Deputy Registrar, Head - National Placement Cell, ATDC received the award on behalf of ATDC. The award was conferred by Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship by Rajiv Pratap Rudy. ATDC CEO Darlie Koshy was present on the occasion.
High speed data link between ISRO, NOAA
New Delhi: Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India Dr R Chidambaram on Thursday said a high speed data link has been planned for exchange of Meteorological data between ISRO and NOAA. Speaking during the inauguration of TElNET-2017 at Amity University, Chidambaram said the National Knowledge Network (NKN) conceptualized in 2010 has been successfully connecting educational and research Institutions in the country and is currently perceived globally as a leading research and education network (REN).
19 Hydel projects under construction
New Delhi: Nineteen hydro-electric projects of various capacities are under construction in the Himalayan region, the lok Sabha was informed Thursday. Union Minister of State for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, replying to a question, also provided data on the number of dam projects which have been concurred by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) and are yet to be taken up for construction, and also those which are under examination in the CEA.
No plan for packaged food in mid-day meals
New Delhi: There is no plan to introduce packaged food in mid-day meals served in schools, said Minister of State for HRD Upendra Kushwaha.