Claiming that science and technology would play a key role in India becoming a $5-trillion economy by 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called for a revolution in both the fields. “We need revolution in science and technology, as they will play a key role in making India a $5-trillion economy by 2024,” Modi said after inaugurating the 107th Indian Science Congress in this tech city. Calling for a revolution in technologies assisting agricultural practices, Modi asked the scientific community to find farmer-centric solutions to the problem of stalk burning. “Similarly, can our scientists and technologists re-design brick kilns…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the 107th Indian Science Congress (ISC 2020) in this tech city amid tight security in the presence of galaxy of top scientists, Nobel Laureates, dignitaries and students from across the country and the world over. During his address, the Prime Minister called for new solutions to remove and reuse plastic waste and metal from the electronic waste. He also sought solutions to farmer-centric problems like the stubble burning. “Along with plastic waste, we also need new technology, new solutions to remove and reuse the metal from electronic waste,” Modi. About 15,000 delegates, including…
Slamming the Congress for opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday dared the opposition party to protest against Pakistan for persecuting Hindus living as minorities in the neighbouring country. “You (Congress leaders) should protest against Pakistan for persecuting Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians living there as minorities than opposing the CAA, meant to help them return to India and live with dignity and self-respect,” said Modi at a public meeting here, about 70 km from Bengaluru. Addressing hundreds of students, teachers, devotees and followers of Siddaganga Mutt’s Shivakumar Swamji, the Prime Minister accused the Congress…
Counting of votes in the rural local body elections held has entered second day on Friday with DMK and its allies establishing lead over the ruling AIADMK. The couting of votes began on Thursday morning for the two-phased elections held in 27 districts. After the lead trends alternating between DMK and AIADMK alliances for a large part of Thursday, later the former started gaining upper hand. According to the Tamil Nadu State Election Commission (TNSEC) out of the 515 Distrit Panchayat Union Ward Member posts the DMK has won 115, AIADMK 75 and others 26. In the case of 5,090…
India will launch its third mission Chandrayaan-3 to the moon in an attempt to land on its surface in 2020-21, after its second mission Chandrayaan-2 failed to accomplish it as its lander crashed on it on September 7, 2019, a top space official said on Wednesday. “The government has approved Chandrayan-3 mission for soft-landing near the south pole of the moon later this year or early next year. Unlike in Chandrayaan-2, the third mission will have only a lander and rover and not an orbiter,” state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S. Sivan told reporters here. As a result,…
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), headed by Major General Asif Ghafoor, had been recruiting youths to spread propaganda against India on social media and have recruited over 1,000 interns in one year, sources said here on Thursday. The ISPR, Pakistan Army’s media wing, is organising competition every month to award youths whose tweets get retweeted the most. The prizes include job and contracts in Fauzi Foundation. “The youths win the award when some influential social media handler across the globe endorses or questions the fake narrative against India, sent out by ISPR,” said a source and added, “On Twitter and…
Clashes were reported between members of two groups in a few pockets of West Bengal’s 24 Parganas North district after a shopkeeper was found hanging in a local club, prompting the police to issue prohibitory orders on people’s movements and temporary suspension of internet. The prohibitory orders were clamped in Deganga, Amdanga and Duttapukur areas of the district, police sources said, while describing the situation as “under control”. The police would review the situation before resuming the internet services or relaxing the orders enforced under section 144 of the Indian Penal Code, sources said Twelve people have been taken into…
Key Sangh ideologue J. Nandakumar has come up with a 256-page book solely on Hindutva where he hits out at “Left propaganda”, “Islamisation” of West Bengal and the “Kannur model” of Kerala. But his book doesn’t limit itself to merely hitting out but also gives a way ahead on how to “reclaim” what Nandakumar believes is lost. And no prizes for guessing, he prescribes Hindutva as it’s medicine. “The book goes beyond what’s wrong with the society. It gives you answers,” he said while speaking to IANS. Twenty-five articles have found place in his book ‘Hindutva for the Changing Times’…
Tamil Nadu police have arrested the controversial Tamil orator belonging to the Congress, Nellai Kannan, for his provocative speech made at an event last week. The police picked up Nellai Kannan from hotel in Perambalur on Wednesday. The arrest came hours after Chennai police detained former Union Minister Pon Radhakrishan, senior BJP leader La Ganesan, party national Secretary H. Raja, and former state party chief C.P. Radhakrishnan for protesting here demanding the arrest of Nellai Kannan. At an event organised by the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) on Saturday, Kannan had said that he was puzzled why the Muslims…
Goa will host its first major pro-Citizenship (Amendment) Act rally in Panaji on Friday, which will be addressed by the Bharatiya Janata Party working president J.P. Nadda, state BJP president Vinay Tendulkar said on Thursday. “Over 25,000 party workers are expected to participate in the rally which will be held in Panaji and addressed by our party’s working president J.P. Nadda,” Tendulkar told reporters. Tendulkar also said that the Congress was trying to misguide people over the CAA issue. “The CAA is not meant to tamper with anybody’s existing citizenship,” he said. A Rajya Sabha MP, Tendulkar also said that…