(ET) After a hiatus of two years, Congress Chief Rahul Gandhi will make his way to Kolkata and that too during Durga Puja to boost morale of party workers and connect with voters. With Durga Puja being the biggest festival in Bengal, Gandhi has found it to be the best platform to connect to voters through his presence. Moreover, the Congress chief is likely to head to Belur Math, tracing a path similar to what Prime Minister Narendra Modi had done a few years back. Even though, Gandhi is likely to stay in Bengal for a day during the festival, he has…
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(AU) उत्तराखंड में भी अब आकाश में बिजली चमकने और आंधी-तूफान की तीव्रता के आकलन के साथ ही कारणों का भी पता लगाया जा सकेगा। भारतीय उष्णीयदेशीय मौसम विज्ञान संस्थान (आईआईटीएम) पुणे के सहयोग से एचएनबी केंद्रीय गढ़वाल विवि श्रीनगर के भौतिकी विभाग में इसके लिए प्रयोगशाला स्थापित की जा रही है। प्रयोगशाला से वैज्ञानिकों को मौसम में हो रहे अचानक बदलावों की सटीक जानकारी मिलेगी, जिससे समय रहते अलर्ट होने से नुकसान को भी कम किया जा सकेगा। वातावरण में विद्युतीय तरंग हर समय प्रवाहित होती रहती हैं। मौसम में किसी भी प्रकार का बदलाव होने पर विद्युतीय तरंगों…
(Tribune) Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, several other leaders and people from different walks of life offered floral tributes on the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi on the Ridge on his 150th birth anniversary. The Chief Minister administered ‘Swachhta oath’ to the people present on the occasion and flagged off schoolchildren run against drug abuse and awareness. He also offered floral tributes on the memorial of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on his 114th Birth anniversary along with Education Minister Suresh Bhardwaj and other leaders and termed him as an apostle of peace and harmony.
(Tribune) The National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), under the aegis of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), signed a Letter of Understanding (LoU) with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Society for Development Alternatives (DA), to co-create and implement apprenticeship and livelihood, employability skills, life skills and entrepreneurship development programmes for girls and women in India. Aiming to benefit more than 50,000 women, the project will be implemented in the National Capital Region of Delhi, Haryana, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telangana. The collaboration aims to support Disha, a partnership between the India Development Foundation and UNDP, supported by IKEA…
(ET) In meeting the energy requirements of the world in the years to come, the International Solar Alliance (ISA) will play the same role as oil-cartel OPEC plays today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said. ISA is an inter-governmental treaty-based organisation of countries between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, looking to promote solar energy in the member nations. OPEC currently meets around half of the world’s oil requirements. India is becoming the most preferred destination for investment in solar energy today, as the country targets to draw 40% of its total energy requirements from non-fossil fuel sources by 2030,…
(AU) नैनीसैनी हवाई पट्टी से सात अक्टूबर से हवाई सेवा शुरू होनी है। मंगलवार को वित्तमंत्री प्रकाश पंत ने एयरपोर्ट पहुंचकर डीएम से प्रगति की जानकारी ली। इस दौरान उन्होंने एटीसी टावर, टर्मिनल भवन आदि का निरीक्षण भी किया। वित्त मंत्री ने कहा कि पहले चरण में पिथौरागढ़ से देहरादून के लिए हवाई सेवा प्रस्तावित है। इसके बाद दिल्ली के हिंडन एयरपोर्ट के लिए भी उड़ान शुरू की जाएगी। इसके बाद वित्त मंत्री नैनीसैनी हवाई पट्टी के विस्तार से प्रभावित होने वाले ग्रामीणों से बातचीत की। उन्होंने बताया कि ग्रामीणों से मौजूदा भवनों को तोड़कर मानकों के अनुसार भवन निर्माण…
(PTI) Indraprastha Gas , India’s biggest city gas retailer, is looking at setting up CNG dispensing stations within residential housing complexes to ease queues at CNG pumps, its Managing Director E S Ranganathan said. IGL also plans to foray into e-vehicle charging segment by setting up charging facility at its CNG stations, he said. The company, which retails CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to household kitchens in the national capital and its suburbs, is facing pressure to cut queues at CNG stations that have led to traffic snarls in many parts of the city. It has already set up one…
(AU) प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी बुधवार को यहां एक विशेष समारोह में संयुक्त राष्ट्र का सर्वोच्च पर्यावरण पुरस्कार ‘चैंपियंस ऑफ द अर्थ अवार्ड’ ग्रहण करेंगे। मालूम हो कि प्रधानमंत्री मोदी और फ्रांस के राष्ट्रपति इमैनुएल मैकरों को उनके अनुकरणीय नेतृत्व और जलवायु परिवर्तन व टिकाऊ विकास पर उनकी पैरोकारी के लिए इस प्रतिष्ठित पुरस्कार के लिए चुना गया है। संयुक्त राष्ट्र के आधिकारिक बयान में कहा गया है कि 26 सितंबर को न्यूयार्क में 73वें आमसभा की बैठक के इतर इस पुरस्कार की घोषणा की गई थी। संयुक्त राष्ट्र के महासचिव एंटोनियो गुटेरस दोनों को यह पुरस्कार प्रदान करेंगे। यह पुरस्कार…
(LiveMint) Thousands of angry farmers who had descended on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border on Monday night, clashed with police on Tuesday when they were stopped from entering the national capital at Ghazipur. Police used water cannons and fired tear-gas shells to stop the protesters, injuring some of them. This was the latest in a series of rallies by the community to demand better crop prices and loan waivers, among other things, and protest against the policies of the Union government. The farmers, led by the Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU), began their march at Haridwar in Uttarakhand on 23 September and planned to reach…
(LiveMint) Engineering and construction major, Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T) has bagged the contract to construct the first phase of the second terminal at Kempegowda International Airport Ltd (KIAL) in Bengaluru, according to two people aware of the developments. L&T, which constructed the first and second runway at the Bengaluru airport, has signed an agreement to develop the first phase of the second terminal at KIAL, scheduled to be completed by March 2021, according to one of the two people cited above, requesting not to be named. After the completion of phase one of Terminal 2, or T2, the combined…