Ankit Fadia talks to Prasanna Zore about his roles and responsibilities as a brand ambassador of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' programme
'Perhaps the government should explain how the same scientific temper, which authored a precise landing for Chandrayaan-3, finds the periodic table and the theory of evolution not good enough for inclusion in the educational curriculum,' asserts Shyam G Menon.
Sino-India ties have been taken on an upward trajectory by the recent visits of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, top Chinese leader Zhang Dejiang said on Sunday.
COVID-19 is on the verge of becoming endemic but Indian scientists are keeping a close watch on each new variant and the government would continue to maintain a high alert, Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya has said, underlining that the virus has managed to survive and is going to stay.
Amartya Sen and Jagadish Bhagwati publicly sparred last year on the direction of India's economic policy.
The government plans to start 100 centres in two years, which will also become a career counselling centre for job-seekers.
'India and Canada have almost 200 years of shared history and migrations. This won't be the last of our partnership.'
The bill seeks to provide legal sanction to the police to take physical and biological samples of convicts as well as persons accused of crimes.
'So you have welfare programmes, you reach out to the poor, you cut out the middlemen, you cut out the leakages and you try to raise the standard of living.'
Solving problems through science was the key takeaway from the Prime Minister's speech.
'He did not seek vote. He did not describe the missile launch as an achievement of the government. He only hailed the scientists. There was no electioneering involved'
Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan has alleged that the 'over confidence of Kerala' in handling the pandemic had caused a spurt in COVID-19 cases in Idukki and Kottayam districts.
The caricature last week had triggered a huge outcry in a section of the Indian expatriate community in Doha as some objected to it, saying the 'photoshop' work was insulting to the prime minister
The prime minister further alleged that the work of Congress while in power was mere pretentiousness.
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