:President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the restored Sri Ramna Kali Mandir here on 17 Dec 2021, 50 years after it was wrecked by Pakistani forces in 1971, and called the historic temple a symbol of India-Bangladesh cultural and spiritual cooperation.
visiting Bangladesh at the invitation of his counterpart, M Abdul Hamid, to join the golden jubilee celebrations of Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan in 1971.
At the rebuilt temple, President Ram Nath Kovind and First Lady Savita Kovind offered prayers.
India and the US unveiled a new programme to fund technologies aimed at addressing Climate and clean energy concerns.
According to a Science and Technology Ministry note, the programme aims to support India-US science and technology-based entrepreneurial measures to address the development and implementation of next-generation
to start an account aggregator business through NSDL e-Governance Account Aggregator Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary.
Account Aggregator (AA) model The Account Aggregator (AA) model, with its unique architecture for Consent-based data exchange, has the potential to alter the way financial services are delivered.
It’s a financial data-sharing system that has the potential to transform investing and lending.
The Account Aggregator is a key component in enabling data Democracy. It’s a first-of-its-kind permission system designed to give people control over their data.
On the second day of the MSME North East Conclave, Union Minister for MSME Narayan Rane announced the Special Credit Linked Capital Subsidy Scheme (SCLCSS) for the Services-sector”>services sector.
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Senior authorities from the Ministry of MSME in Guwahati were also in attendance.
The scheme would assist companies in the services sector in meeting their technology-related requirements by providing a 25% capital subsidy for the purchase of plant and machinery, as well as service equipment, through institutional credit to SC-ST MSEs without any sector-specific limits on technology upgradation.
The Minister also congratulated North-eastern SC/ST entrepreneurs and encouraged
young people to pursue in order to become EMPLOYMENT creators rather than job seekers. Shri Rane promised the youngsters that the Ministry of MSME will leave no stone unturned in their quest to become successful entrepreneurs.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched Mission LiFE movement (Lifestyle for the Environment) at the Statue of Unity in Gujarat. Envisaged by PM
Modi, Mission LiFE is expected to be an India-led global mass movement that will nudge individual and collective action to protect and preserve the environment
The launch of Mission LiFE in Gujarat is significant as it was the first state in the country to initiate steps in the direction of and Climate protection.
PM Modi said the mantra of Mission LiFE is Lifestyle for Environment. It connects the powers of the people for the protection of this earth, and teaches them to utilize it in a better way.
The DoT is currently under the process of discussion with all stakeholders, including Industry bodies, on the draft Bill. The government has also invited written comments from industry on the Bill.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working on a series of improvements to the NavIC, or Indias equivalent of the Global Positioning System (GPS), so that more people are motivated to install it and use it. Plans are also afoot to make its reach global rather than circumscribe it to India and a limited territory around it.
NavIC ( with Indian Constellation), or the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), is a constellation of seven satellites that is akin to the
Currently, NavIC satellites orbit earth in a geostationary or geosynchronous (GEO) orbit, or about 36,000 km from earth. MEO orbits occupy a space between GEO and Low Earth Orbit (LEO), or about 250-2,000 km from earth.
the Parties”. The parties are the attending countries that signed up to the original UN climate agreement in 1992.
COP27 is the 27th annual UN meeting on climate. It will take placein Sharm el-Sheikh from 6 to 18 November.
This will be the fifth time a COP has been hosted in Africa.
The region’s governments hope it will draw attention to the severe impacts of on the continent. The IPCC says Africa is one ofthe most vulnerable regionsin the world.
Currently,UNFCCC.int/is-eastern-africas-drought-the-worst-in-recent-HISTORY-and-are-worse-yet-to-come/”>17 million people are estimatedto be facing food insecurity in east Africa because of drought.