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Modi calls for ‘repair and prepare’ as India emerges from pandemic
”I invite the world to invest in India based on the five pillars of talent, market, capital, eco-system and culture of openness.” Stating that India’s strides in the world of tech and start-up are well-known, he said the country is home to one of the world’s largest start-up eco systems and several unicorns have come up in recent years.
Refugees in India, elsewhere hit hard by COVID-19 impact -rights report
“The COVID-19 pandemic and state responses to it have had a significant negative impact on the lives, wellbeing, and rights of the approximately 15 million stateless people around the world,” said the report, which focused on refugees living in Kenya, Bangaldesh, Malaysia and others countries.
11 thermal plants in NCR accounted for 7 pc of Delhi air pollution in Oct-Jan: Study
The findings are significant considering that the Delhi government had recently moved the Supreme Court, seeking closure of the coal-fired power plants in the vicinity of the city using outdated polluting technology.
Nagaland staring at drought-like situation with no rain in sight: Minister
Addressing a press conference, he said the state is witnessing peculiar weather this year and a drought-like condition is feared if there is no rain within the next few weeks.
The state is facing rainfall deficiency of 20-59 per cent, except for the Mon district where the rainfall is in excess of 48 per cent, as per Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA) data.
Centre’s Motor Vehicle Act wont be applicable for old petrol, diesel cars in Delhi, says transport minister Kailash Gahlot
Gahlot said, “Delhi is in a peculiar position, because specifically for the national capital, there are orders from the Supreme Court and NGT. They have limited the life of petrol-run vehicles to 15 years and those which run on diesel to 10 years.”
The Delhi Transport Department will fine Rs 10,000 owners found flouting the rule
28 seaplane routes, 14 water aerodromes under development: Govt
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Purisaid: ”Twenty-eight seaplane routes under the regional connectivity scheme and 14 water aerodromes in Gujarat, Assam, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar islands and Lakshadweep are at various stages of development at the cost of Rs 450 crore.””
India’s farm sector performed well despite COVID-19, says Tomar
India has launched various projects under the National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture to develop, demonstrate and disseminate the techniques to make agriculture resilient to adverse impacts of climate change, union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said adding that India is promoting organic farming at a large scale.
”The agriculture sector in India performed well during the severe COVID-19 pandemic and registered an all-time high production of 305 million tonne of foodgrains as well as their exports (in 2020-21), contributing to the global food security,” he added.
Delta plus variant of COVID-19 is not yet ”variant of concern”: Govt
“This is a variant of interest that has not yet been classified as a variant of concern. A variant of concern is in which we have understood that there are adverse consequences to humanity by increase in transmissibility and severity. This is not known yet about the Delta plus variant,” Paul said.
Indian scientists: We didn’t back doubling of vaccine dosing gap
The ministry of health announced the decision to change the gap from 6-8 weeks to 12-16 weeks on May 13, at a time when supplies of the shot were falling short of demand and infections were surging across the country.
Twitter loses intermediary status over non-compliance with new rules
“The provisions for significant social media intermediaries under the Rules have already come into force on May 26 2021 and it has been more than a week but Twitter has refused to comply with the provisions of these Rules. Needless to state, such non-compliance will lead to unintended consequences including Twitter losing exemption from liability as intermediary available under section 79 of the Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000. This has clearly been provided under rule 7 of the aforesaid Rules,” it said.