Narendra Modi will be delivering a keynote address at the IIT-2020 Global Summit, organised by PanIIT USA, on Friday. The Summit will focus on issues like the global economy, technology, innovation, health, habitat conservation and universal education, according to an official release. PanIIT USA is an organization that is more than 20 years old. Since 2003 PanIIT USA has organised this conference and invited speakers from different sectors including industry, academia, and government. PanIIT USA is run by an all-volunteer team of IIT alumni.
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RBI Governor c on Friday said that RBI will be maintaining accommodative monetary policy stance to support growth, keep inflation at targeted level. He also said that Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted unanimously to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent. Accommodative stance of monetary policy to continue as long as necessary, to revive growth and mitigate impact of COVID19, also ensuring inflation is in control RBI ready to take further measures to ease liquidity; will continue to respond to global uncertainty: Governor Das Nascent signs of economic recovery in Q2 of current fiscal: RBI Governor Das…
Coronavirus (Coronavirus) is not taking the name of havoc in India. However, since the beginning of this week, daily cases of coronaviruses have been fluctuating. In the last 24 hours, 36,594 new cases of Kovid-19 have been reported in the country. While 540 patients lost their lives. According to the latest data from the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Friday, 36,594 new cases of Corona (Corona) have been reported in the last 24 hours. After which the total number of cases has increased to 95,71,559. At the same time, after the death of 540 patients, the total number of dead has increased to 1,39,188. At…
The nation is celebrating Naval Day today i.e. December 4. On this occasion, several veterans, including President Ramnath Kovind, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah (Navy Sh.), Gave the jawans of the country Navy Day. Congratulations. The President wrote, ‘On Navy Day, my best wishes to Naval personnel, ex-servicemen and their families. The country prides you on protecting the maritime service of the country, securing our trade routes and providing emergency services. May you always dominate the waves of the sea.Vice President Venkaiah Naidu congratulated the soldiers and wrote, “Shan no Varun:” May the Gods of Water…
Farmers’ Protest continues in Delhi against agricultural laws. Today is the ninth day of the performance on Friday. The borders of Singhu-Tikri to Ghazipur are closed due to the demonstration. Even today the protesters say that they will stand until their demands are met. At the same time, the fourth round meeting between the farmers’ organization and the government lasted for 7 hours at Vigyan Bhawan on Thursday from 12 noon. But this meeting was also inconclusive. 32 farmers’ organizations and three United Front peasant leaders participated in it. All the farmers’ organizations are adamant on repealing the three agricultural laws. Protests of farmers are continuing in…
The counting of votes for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is going on on Friday. 1,122 candidates are in the fray for GSMC’s 150 seats. The corporation election this time is very special because the central leadership of the BJP government at the center has given its full strength in this election. At the same time, in the initial trends, BJP has won a majority. The BJP is ahead in 77 seats. Apart from this, TRS is ahead in 34 seats and AIMIM in 17 seats. At the same time, Congress is ahead in only one seat. Early trends led BJP to 30 seats and…
It has been more than two years since Sayragul Sautbay was released from a re-education camp in China’s westernmost region of Xinjiang. Yet the mother of two still suffers from nightmares and flashbacks from the “humiliation and violence” she endured while she was detained. Sautbay, a medical doctor and educator who now lives in Sweden, recently published a book in which she detailed her ordeal, including witnessing beatings, alleged sexual abuse and forced sterilisation. In a recent interview with Al Jazeera, she shed more light on other indignities to which the Uighurs and other Muslim minorities were subjected, including the…
The Indian teacher was announced by renowned actor Stephen Fry as the winner of the Global Teacher Prize 2020 at a virtual ceremony broadcast on Thursday from the Natural History Museum in London. Disale immediately announced he would share half the $1m prize money with the nine other finalists. His decision means $55,000 will go to each of the other nine finalists from nations including Italy, Nigeria and South Korea. Disale is the sixth winner of the award, established by the Varkey Foundation and is given in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He said…
Former US presidents Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton as well as President-elect Joe Biden are volunteering to take a coronavirus vaccine on camera if it will help promote public confidence. Obama, in an interview with SiriusXM radio, said he would be inoculated if top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci signs off on a Covid-19 vaccine. “If Anthony Fauci tells me this vaccine is safe, and can vaccinate, you know, immunize you from getting Covid, absolutely, I’m going to take it,” Obama said. “I promise you that when it’s been made for people who are less at…
The US Senate has unanimously passed a bill that eliminates the per-country numerical limitation for employment-based immigrant visas and raises it for family-based visas, a legislation that will hugely benefit hundreds of thousands of Indian professionals in America who have been waiting for years to get their green cards. The passage of the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act by the Senate on Wednesday comes as a big relief to Indian IT professionals who come to the US on H-1B work visas and their current waiting period for Green Card or permanent residency is running into decades. Originally passed by the…