(EOU) The COVID-19 pandemic has “severely affected” the education system in India due to the closure of schools, Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on March 21. Speaking in Lok Sabha during Question Hour, he said due to the school closures, the Centre, states and educational institutions had to adopt online technologies to ensure that students’ education continued. He said this also led to a situation wherein the Centre, states and educational institutions had to adopt online technologies and the blended mode of education at a very rapid pace to ensure students’ education continued. “The e-contents are supplementing the regular…
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(T.A.A) Petrol and diesel prices were on Tuesday hiked by 80 paise a litre while domestic cooking gas prices were increased by Rs 50 per cylinder, ending an over four-and-half month election-related hiatus in rate revision, sources said. Petrol in Delhi will now cost Rs 96.21 per litre as against Rs 95.41 previously while diesel rates have gone up from Rs 86.67 per litre to Rs 87.47. But rates have been on the freeze since November 4, 2021, just after the Narendra Modi government cut excise duty on petrol by Rs 5 per litre and that on diesel by Rs…
(T.A.A) Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday defended a proposal to cut interest rate paid on employees’ provident fund deposits to over four-decade low of 8.1 per cent, saying the rate is dictated by today’s realities where interest rate on other small saving instruments was even lower. Replying to a debate in the Rajya Sabha on the supplementary spending for the current fiscal, she said the decision to lower rate was taken by the central board of the provident fund managing body EPFO, which has representatives of all stakeholders, including trade unions. On excess spending approval being sought, she said…
(D.J) केंद्रीय गृह मंत्री अमित शाह ने सोमवार को पद्म पुरस्कार विजेताओं के लिए रात्रिभोज का आयोजन किया। शाह ने सभी विजेताओं से उनके अनुभवों के बारे में बातचीत की और कहा कि नरेन्द्र मोदी सरकार समाज और देश के कल्याण के लिए उनकी निस्वार्थ भावना और अथक कार्यों का गहरा सम्मान करती है। अमित शाह ने एक ट्वीट करते हुए कहा, आज मैंने पद्म पुरस्कार विजेताओं से बातचीत की, जिन्हें रात्रिभोज के लिए आमंत्रित किया गया था। मैंने उनके अनुभवों के बारे में विस्तार से जाना। उन्होंने कहा, ‘नरेन्द्र मोदी सरकार समाज और देश के कल्याण के लिए उनकी निस्वार्थ…
(T.E.T) Oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday allayed fears of short supply of crude oil amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict and said that crude oil imports from Russia are miniscule at just 0.2 per cent of total such imports till January this fiscal. “About the increased oil import concerns…we require total of five million barrels per day. Sixty per cent of it comes from Gulf. We have imported from Russia, just 0.419 million metric tonnes…that is 0.2 per cent of total requirement (during April-January this fiscal), Puri said in the Rajya Sabha while replying to a supplementary to a starred question. “We…
(T.E.T) India saw a single-day rise of 1,549 new coronavirus infections, taking the infection tally to 4,30,09,390, while the active cases have further declined to 25,106, the Union health ministry said on Monday. The COVID-19 death toll has climbed to 5,16,510 with 31 daily fatalities, the ministry data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise 0.06 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 98.74 per cent, the health ministry said. A reduction of 1,134 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours. The daily…
(PIB) The Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Rameswar Teli in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today informed that the production of crude oil till February 2022 has been 28.51 Million Metric Tonnes (MMT) against the target of 31.80MMT during current financial year. The decline in production of crude oil in recent years has been due to natural decline and increase in water cut in wells of matured fields. Various steps have been taken to reduce import of Crude Oil. These inter alia include demand substitution by promoting usage of natural gas as…
(PIB) The Ministry of Mines, Government of India has signed MoUs regarding technical exchange and development of mining sector with the Republic of Mali; the Kingdom of Morocco; the Republic of Peru; the Republic of Zimbabwe; the Plurinational State of Bolivia; the Federative Republic of Brazil; the Ministry of Energy and Mines, British Columbia; the Republic of Chile; the Florida International University Board of Trustees on behalf of its Department of Earth and Environment, College of Arts, Sciences and Education, United States of America; and Rosgeologia (Rosgeo) a legal entity incorporated under the laws of the Russian Federation. Ministry of…
(Hindustan) पंजाब में मिली बड़ी सफलता के बाद उत्साहित आम आदमी पार्टी ने अब पड़ोसी राज्य हिमाचल में कदम बढ़ा दिए हैं। पहाड़ी राज्य में इसी साल के आखिर में चुनाव होने वाले हैं और आम आदमी पार्टी अभी से अपनी स्थिति मजबूत करने में जुट गई है। इसी कड़ी में उसने 6 अप्रैल को एक बड़ा रोड शो करने की तैयारी की है। यही नहीं यह रोड शो भी हिमाचल के सीएम जयराम ठाकुर के गृह जिले मंडी में करने की तैयारी है। मंडी जिला भाजपा के अलावा कांग्रेस के लिए भी अहम है क्योंकि दिवंगत नेता वीरभद्र सिंह…
(PIB) The Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri RameswarTeli in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today informed that the Government is already providing subsidized food grains to more than 80 crore beneficiaries across the country through ‘PM Gareeb Kalyan Yojana’. The Government is also promoting Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme with broader objectives of providing boost to domestic agriculture sector, environment benefits, reducing import dependency and savings in foreign exchange. Ethanol from sugarcane route is not sufficient to achieve blending targets and for other uses. In view of surplus availability of food grains…