Amit Shah today sidelined the conflict with Bishan Singh Bedi over the unveiling of Arun Jaitley’s statue on Feroz Shah Kotla grounds, saying that there are “two kinds of people in cricket” “One is the people who participate. The other is the people who create an environment to play cricket. Their contribution is a lot, too. or that we are unveiling statue,” Mr Shah said while unveiling the statue on Arun Jaitley’s birth anniversary. The former minister Arun Jaitley and DDCA chief passed away a year ago in August. But the possibility of his statue at Delhi’s first cricket ground…
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PM Modi inaugurated India’s first car-free train on the Delhi Metro Magenta Line on Monday. The fully operational National Common Mobility Card service on the Airport Express Line was also introduced via video conferencing. He said the opening of the country’s first driverless metro demonstrates how quickly India is progressing toward smart systems. https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1343432844685688832?s=20 First metro in the country was started with the efforts of Atal Ji. When our govt was formed in 2014, only 5 cities had metro services and today 18 cities have metro rail service. By 2025, we will take this service to more than 25 cities.”…
https://twitter.com/jdhankhar1/status/1343182278306877440?s=20 BCCI President and former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly held an hour-long meeting on Sunday with West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, which Raj Bhavan’s sources described as a “courtesy call” and said there was nothing political about it. “The governor said he has been in Bengal since July last year. He said he wanted to visit Eden Gardens and meet me. I said that was not possible today as there was some cricket practise going on. I decided to come and meet him and invite him to Eden Gardens next week,” Ganguly told reporters Raj Bhavan sources said that…
Canada has confirmed two cases of the highly transmissible coronavirus variant first identified in the United Kingdom. The two confirmed cases are a pair from the Durham District of Ontario, Canada’s most populous province. The pair have no known history of travel, exposure or high-risk contact, Xinhua News Agency reported. “This further reinforces the need for Ontarians to stay home as much as possible and continue to follow all public health advice, including the province-wide shutdown measures beginning today,” the Ontario government said Saturday night. The Canadian government banned all flights arriving from Britain on December 20 until January 6,…
It’s time for female actors to be known for what they are and what they can offer,” Manoj said. “This is something that only they were looking for but we as male counterparts were also looking for a situation like this where everybody is getting what they deserve,” he said. Asked about young actors having a spot on OTT channels, Sayani said, “OTT has really changed the game. With how Bollywood worked, you only get a certain kind of stories green lit but what OTT did was break that mould. So, now you’re looking at talent and you have a…
In the next few days, the BJP will arrange nearly 25 webinars on the topic of “one nation, one election” as it seeks popular support for the proposal. Group sources said that their senior officials, in addition to scholars and legal fraternity, will be attending these “webinars” that will be held online. “We plan to hold 25 webinars by the end of this month,” said the chief of the group. Since coming to power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always promoted the concept of conducting all elections together, starting from the Lok Sabha polls to the state assembly…
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Sunday said that efforts to “mislead” farmers to the new farm laws would not work. The minister said new laws will raise the income of farmers, but the opposition party was misguiding them, said the minister while addressing function to mark the third anniversary of the Jai Ram Thakur-led BJP government in Himachal Pradesh. Whenever a reform is carried out, it takes a few years until it begins to produce meaningful effects, Singh said in his virtual speech. If the economic reforms of 1991 brought in by then Finance Minister Manmohan Singh or those implemented during…
On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the public to replace export goods for those manufactured in India. In his latest radio broadcast on Sunday, ‘Mann Ki Baat,’ Modi said people actually support the ‘local voice’ initiative initiated by his government as part of the ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ programme and asked manufacturers and industry leaders to ensure that world-class goods are manufactured in the region. The outgoing year saw the spirit of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ resonate through the world, Modi said. “The call of ‘vocal for local’ is resonating in each and every household…In such a situation, it is plan to prove…
The count of coronavirus cases in India reached 1,01,87,850 after 18,732 new infections with COVID-19 had been recorded in the last 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). With 279 deaths over the same time, there have been a total of 1,47,622 recorded deaths. The national capital reported 757 new COVID-19 incidents, 939 recoveries and 16 deaths in the last 24 hours, as reported by the Delhi Health Department. Meanwhile, the cumulative case of COVID-19 in the United States has risen by 19 million, according to the US-based Johns Hopkins University. As of 01:23 IST…
During his visit to Manipur, Amit Shah has initiated many construction ventures in Manipur. Amit Shah launched the Thoubal Multipurpose Project (Thoubal Dam) in Imphal via virtual mode. He also laid the foundation stone for seven major construction projects, including Churachandpur Medical College, IT-SEZ Mantripukhri, Manipur Bhawan Dwarka, New Delhi, and the Integrated Command and Control Centre Imphal. Union Minister for Development for the North-Eastern Zone, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Manipur, Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly and other dignitaries were also present on the occasion. Amit Shah said that this day marks a significant landmark in…