Norway on Sunday said that it saw India as an important player against climate change and that both countries could play leading role in tackling the global issues of environment and climate change. Union Minister for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar and Norwegian Minister of Climate and Environment Sveinung Rotevatn met at the Mahatma Mandir here to discuss bilateral and global issues on climate and environment. A Conference Of Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species will be held at the venue from Monday to Friday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the event via videoconferencing. It is…
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah will address a pro-CAA public meeting during his two-day visit to Odisha on February 28, said state BJP president Samir Mohanty on Sunday. Mohanty said Shah will address a public meeting in support of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Bhubaneswar on February 28. He said more than one lakh people would gather for the public meeting. Shah will visit Jagannath Temple in Puri and Lingaraj Temple in Bhubaneswar on February 29, Mohanty said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said his government had taken decisions on Article 370 abrogating special status for J&K and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in national interest. “These decisions had been pending for decades but we took them in national interest and we will remain firm on them,” he said while addressing a function in Varanasi after unveiling a statue of BJP ideologue Deendayal Upadhyaya. The Prime Minister said that Deendayal Upadhyaya always focused on the last man in the line with his ‘antyodaya’ concept. “Our government is working on his concept of self-reliance and self-service. Our schemes…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Sunday, will inaugurate 36 projects and lay the foundation of 14 others besides unveiling the 63 feet statue of RSS ideologue Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyay at Padao during his visit to his parliamentary constituency. The Prime Minister will attend the Veershaiva (Lingayat) Mahakumbh at historical Jangamwadi Mutt. He will flag off the Mahakal Express, India’s third private train. According to district magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma, after landing at Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport at 10.45 a.m, the Prime Minister will reach Banaras Hindu University’s helipad from where he will go to the Jangamwadi Mutt. He…
In the wake of outbreak of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in China, India will send a consignment of medical supplies there, Vikram Misri, Ambassador of India to China, said on Twitter on Sunday. The Ambassador, in a video posted on the official Twitter handle of the Indian embassy in China, expressed his solidarity with Chinese people and the government in the fight against the epidemic. “As a concrete step to tackle the outbreak, India will soon send a consignment of medical supplies to aid and assist China in tackling this outbreak,” he said in the video, adding, “This is a concrete…
Third time Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at his swearing in ceremony on Sunday asserted he would work for the next five years in coordination with the Centre without discriminating against those who did not support his party during the recently-concluded Delhi Assembly polls. Calling his victory a success of every Delhiite, Kejriwal said he is the Chief Minister of everyone even if they voted for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or Congress. “I am the Chief Minister of all who voted for AAP, BJP or Congress. I want to tell all the two crore people of the Delhi that…
At the swearing-in of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in Ramlila Maidan here on Sunday, supporters used various ways to express their love and affection for the leader, however, one poster that has attracted much attention says “Nayak 2 is back”. The poster has a picture of actor Anil Kapoor on the right hand side, and a picture of Arvind Kejriwal wearing the famous “Anna cap” with Aam Aadmi written in Hindi over it on the left side. The poster says: “Nayak 2 is Back again”. The AAP supporters with the poster said: “The party is here to change the…
India is set to host the UN biodiversity summit that will bring together more than 1,200 delegates from over 110 countries to deliberate on the alarming decline of migratory species in Gandhinagar in Gujarat from Monday. The agenda of the talks include new proposals to mitigate effects of infrastructure on migratory mammals and joining the Gobi bear, the only bear living in the desert, the Persian leopard and the urial, a wild sheep, in the Central Asian mammal species for their protection. Besides, Indian species like the Asian elephant, the great Indian bustard and the Ganges river dolphin are likely…
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived here on Sunday on his first official visit to Pakistan to attend an international conference on Afghan refugees. He will also be visiting the holy Sikh shrine in Kartarpur. During his visit, the UN chief will speak at the international conference ’40 Years of Hosting Afghan Refugees in Pakistan’, reported Dawn news. The two-day conference in Islamabad, starting on February 17, will be a recognition of Pakistan’s “tremendous generosity” in hosting millions of refugees from Afghanistan over four decades, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said during a regular noon briefing at the UN Headquarters in…
India and Portugal signed 14 agreements to boost cooperation in a range of areas including defence, investment, transport, ports, culture and industrial and intellectual property rights and yoga. The agreements were signed after extensive talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa in New Delhi today. Ministry of External Affairs Spokesman Raveesh Kumar said, Mr Modi and Mr de Sousa had excellent discussions covering the broad canvas of India-Portugal partnership by leveraging the complementary strengths across sectors. Mr Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa arrived in New Delhi last night on a four-day visit. It is his…