The United States and India on Sunday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the prestigious Fulbright exchange program which has awarded scholarships to over 11,000 Indians and Americans so far. US Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Marie Royce who had flown in from Washington to attend the gala event in New Delhi, said, the Fulbright program, created by Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946, was designed to increase mutual understanding among the people of the United States and the people of other countries. It has now grown into the premier US international educational exchange program in the…
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The Pakistani students stranded in China have been appealing for help and evacuation but the Pakistan government has refused to save its nationals. While India has been tremendously helping out Indians to bring them back to the country, Pakistan nationals have remained standstill in Wuhan and videos slamming Imran Khan is doing rounds on social media. In one such video that has gone viral, a Pakistani student shows how Indian students are being evacuated in a bus to be flown out of Wuhan. “Bangladeshis will also be evacuated later. Then it is us Pakistanis who are stranded here and our…
Bollywood heartthrob Disha Patani is clearly bowled over by Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah’s cricketing skills. “If I had to pick a matchwinning player, it would be Jasprit Bumrah. He is one of the finest players we have. It will be a proud moment for all of us on February 2, while Bumrah takes down the Kiwis,” Disha declared, playing soothsayer for the India-New Zealand T20i match coming up on Sunday. The oomph diva opened up on her cricket preferences at a promotional event for her upcoming film “Malang”. She stars with Anil Kapoor, Aditya Roy Kapur and Kunal Kemmu in…
With an aim to prevent and get timely assistance with regard to the spread of the deadly coronavirus in Baramulla district, Deputy Commissioner G.N. Itoo on Saturday formulated a team of medical experts to provide medical assistance to the people in case of any exigency. Accordingly, the team will be headed by medical superintendent, district hospital, Baramulla, Syed Masood (contact number 7006231150) and other senior doctors as its members. The other members are Waseem (contact number 7006024498), Maqbool (7006341667) and Zulfikar (9419038139). People have been asked to contact these numbers in order to know about the symptoms and the necessary…
The state president of Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha was shot dead near the Chhattar Manzil on Sunday morning here. He has been identified as Ranjit Srivastava. However, the police said, he was not Srivastava, but was Yadav. In October, another right wing leader, Kamlesh Tiwari, had been shot dead in his office in Lucknow. Ranjit Srivastava, also known as Ranjit Bachchan and Ranjit Yadav, was on a morning walk when he was shot by bike borne assailants. He received multiple bullet injuries in the head and died on the spot. Srivastava’s brother, who was with him at the time of…
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s marathon Budget 2020 speech that ran into two hours and 40 minutes with proposals covering all sectors of the economy seems to have gone down well with people, with majority of them giving it the highest approval rating in the last eight years. According to an IANS-CVoter post-budget poll, a majority of the respondents has given the Budget 2020-21 a rating of 7.1 on a scale of 1-10. This is the highest rating a budget has got since 2013, when the budget proposals of the UPA government got a rating of mere 4.4. The high rating…
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Saturday hailed the Union Budget, which was presented in the Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, as a boost for the common man, even as he conceded that the budgetary announcements did not specifically yield much for the coastal state. However, the Opposition has questioned the Budget’s silence on unemployment, saying the financial statement had no specific Goa related announcement. “This Budget is in tune with the Prime Minister’s motto of ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ and ‘Sabka Vishwas’. This is a Budget for aspirational India, which focuses on health, wealth, happiness, hospitality, agriculture, safety…
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman while presenting the 2020-21 budget in the Lok Sabha on Saturday emphasised on building a caring society by including a slew of measures for social welfare, climate change and improvement of culture and tourism. Putting forth her government’s stand against manual scavenging, the Minister announced “suitable technologies” for automatic cleaning of sewer systems and septic tanks had been identified by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Manual scavenging refers to the practice of manual cleaning, disposing and handling human excreta. “The Ministry is working with urban local bodies for adoption of these technologies. We will…
A second case of the novel coronavirus has been confirmed in Kerala, the Union Health Ministry announced on Sunday. As per the Ministry, the patient has been kept in isolation, was currently stable and being closely monitored. The patient has a travel history from China, it added.
The Budget 2020 allocated the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Rs 1.67 lakh crore, an increase of Rs 48,225.05 crore from the previous allocation of Rs 1.19 lakh crore in 2019-20, with the bulk of the money going to police, paramilitary and infrastructure programmes. Compared with the Revised Estimates of Rs 1.39 lakh crore, the rise is 20.23 per cent or Rs 28,142.14 crore. Out of total Rs 167,250.33 crore, the government has allocated Rs 151,464.90 crore under the revenue head and Rs 15,785.43 crore under the apital head. For police, the budget allocation is Rs 105,244.34 crore in…