India-UK deal: Govt plans 1,000 events
The Government will organise as many as 1,000 outreach programmes, including stakeholder meetings, workshops, awareness drives and feedback sessions, in the next 20 days across the country to sensitise industry and States on the India-UK trade agreement, sources said. The exercise is aimed at ensuring effective implementation and maximising benefits from the comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA), which was signed on July 24. They said that there is a plan to hold sector-wise outreach programmes. Respective line ministries will also hold programmes on the agreement.
New curiosity about space, says PM
Hailing astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla’s return from ISS, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said a new wave of curiosity about space among children has awakened and noted that today more than 200 startups have come up in the space sector alone. In his monthly Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast, Modi said the path to a developed India in 2047 passes through self-reliance and the biggest basis of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ is ‘vocal for locals.’ The PM noted that, be it sports, science or culture, a lot has happened that every Indian is proud of.
‘Logistics key to Op Sindoor’s success’
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said seamless logistics management by various agencies was a deciding factor in the success of Operation Sindoor launched by the Indian armed forces in May, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan post the Pahalgam attack. He made this assertion while addressing students and faculty members virtually at the third convocation ceremony of Vadodara-based Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV), a university under Ministry of Railways.
Wildfires threaten Turkiye’s
Wildfires that have engulfed Turkiye for weeks threatened the country’s fourth-largest city early Sunday, causing more than 1,700 people to flee their homes and leaving a firefighter dead. Overnight fires in the forested mountains surrounding Bursa in northwest Turkiye spread rapidly, tinting the night sky over the city’s eastern suburbs with a red glow. Dozens of severe wildfires have hit the country daily since late June, with the Government declaring two western provinces, Izmir and Bilecik, disaster areas on Friday.
Eastern Congo: Church attacked, 34 killed
The death toll from an attack on a Catholic church in eastern Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels has risen to 34, according to a civil society leader. “The bodies of the victims are still at the scene of the tragedy, and volunteers are preparing how to bury them in a mass grave that we are preparing in a compound of the Catholic church,” Dieudonne Duranthabo, a civil society coordinator in Komanda, in the Ituri province, told AP. At least five other people were killed in an earlier attack on the nearby village of Machongani, from where a search is ongoing.