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  • Symbolic wheel jam in National Highway, Congressmen protested towards rising inflation

    District Congress staff on Friday blocked the symbolic wheel on the National Highway Bhanpuri on rising inflation and enhance in petrol/diesel costs. This protest came about underneath the management of District President Padam Singh Kothari. Congress staff raised slogans towards the central authorities over rising inflation. In the demonstration, Dhanesh Patila, former Energy Minister, Mayor Hema Deshmukh, Bholaram Sahu, former MLA Khujji, Akhil Kranti Banjare, Kulbir Chhabra, Ghanshyam Devangan, District Panchayat member and District Farmers Congress President Mahendra Yadav, Madan Sahu, Vibha Sahu, Kishan Khandelwal, Qutubuddin Solanki, Ramesh Daklia, Anjum Alvi, Sudesh Deshmukh, Moti Sahu, Gulab Verma, Pankaj Bandhav, Madan Sahu, Tikam Sahu, Ravi Chandravanshi, Prabha Vaishnav, Agsia Sahu, Bhagwat Sahu, Gautam Verma, Chumman Sahu, Munnapal, Omkar Sahu, together with Congress’s staff had been current.

  • Hours after Sachin Waze’s arrest, NIA now seizes Innova car in connection with Antilia bomb scare case

    Image Source : PTI Ambani security scare case: NIA seizes Innova car with ‘police’ sticker; probe on 
    The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which is probing the recovery of a vehicle laden with explosives from outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence in Mumbai, on Sunday seized a white Innova car, a police official said. It is not clear if it was the same Innova that was following the explosives-laden Scorpio before the latter was parked near Ambani’s residence in south Mumbai on February 25. 

    According to the police official, the Innova, having Tardeo RTO’s registration number and ‘Police’ written on its rear windshield, was brought to the NIA’s office on Pedder Road with the help of towing van, hours after the arrest of the Mumbai police officer Sachin Waze in connection with the case.

    The NIA arrested Waze late Saturday night after questioning him for 12 hours over the recovery of the explosive-laden Scorpio near Ambani’s residence.

    The Scorpio found parked near Ambani’s house on Carmichael Road on February 25 contained some gelatin sticks and a threat letter.

    Waze, an “encounter specialist”, is also facing heat in the murder case of Thane-based businessman Mansukh Hiran who was in possession of this Scorpio. 

    Hiran was found dead in a creek in Thane district on March 5.

    The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) is investigating the Hiran murder case. It had registered an FIR against unidentified persons days after Hiran’s body was found.

    Waze, accused by Hiran’s wife of involvement in her husband’s suspicious death, was shunted out of the Mumbai crime branch a few days back.

    (With PTI inputs)

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  • Mines ministry points framework for non-ferrous metallic scrap recycling

    The Centre has issued a framework for scrap recycling of non-ferrous metals, together with aluminium and copper, in a bid to chop down the scrap imports.
    The mines ministry can be of the view that one of many key challenges confronted by the non-ferrous metals business is its heavy dependence on import of metallic scrap and burdened {that a} main share of the demand is served by imports owing to the underdeveloped metallic scrap assortment, segregation and processing infrastructure within the home market.
    “Ministry of Mines will work towards creating a sustainable scrap recycling ecosystem…National non-ferrous metal scrap recycling framework, 2020 seeks to use life cycle management approach for better efficiency in mineral value chain process,” the mines ministry mentioned.
    The framework envisages bringing each product and processing stewardship to boost non-ferrous metallic recycling, it mentioned.
    The demand for aluminum has elevated at compound annual progress fee (CAGR) of 6.77 per cent. The manufacturing has additionally elevated from 3.3 million tonnes (MT) in 2015 to roughly 5 MT in 2019 with a CAGR of 11.19 per cent.
    Considering the rising demand for aluminium in future, there might be heavy dependence on home manufacturing and imports.
    In mild of the truth that aluminium is an power intensive sector, the demand for gasoline, i.e. coal, being the principle power supply for aluminum extraction and processing, may even enhance, it mentioned.
    Such dependence on non-renewable assets just isn’t according to world sustainable improvement targets and can result in excessive carbon footprints.
    “Also, meeting the growing demand by imports would lead to a trade imbalance. Thus, recycling becomes a good alternative as it requires 95 per cent less energy to recycle aluminium than to produce primary aluminium,” the mines ministry mentioned.
    Copper demand in India is anticipated to develop at 6-7 per cent on account of elevated thrust of Centre in the direction of ‘Make in India’ and ‘Smart City’ programmes, improvement of commercial corridors, housing for all Indians by 2022, National Highway improvement mission, rail mission and defence manufacturing coverage to encourage indigenous manufacture, in response to the ministry.

    In addition to this, there may be plan for inexperienced power hall for transmission of renewable power.
    The marketplace for electrical automobiles (EV) can be anticipated to witness progress in coming years.
    Copper is crucial to EV know-how and its supporting infrastructure, and the rise within the electrical automobiles available in the market may have a considerable impression on copper demand, it mentioned.

    The projected demand for copper on account of electrical automobiles is anticipated to extend by 1.7 million tonnes by 2027.
    The per capita copper consumption in India is anticipated to extend from the present stage of 0.6 kg to 1 kg by 2025.
    If India’s per capita copper consumption strikes in the direction of the world’s per capita copper consumption of two.7 kg, the nation’s copper market has the potential for vital progress.
    The import of copper has elevated at CAGR 10.65 per cent within the final 5 years.
    “As India is currently a net importer of copper, certain percentage of growing demand of copper can be met domestically through recycling,” it mentioned.

  • Five IPOs to hit markets this week; search to lift Rs 3,764-crore

    Image Source : FILE Five IPOs to hit markets this week
    Riding on the upbeat market sentiment, as many as 5 corporations are set to come back out with preliminary public presents this week to lift an estimated Rs 3,764 crore. The corporations predict to learn from an fairness market that’s flush with liquidity and has seen a pointy enhance in new retail buyers.
    Craftsman Automation and Laxmi Organics Industries will launch their preliminary share-sale programmes on Monday whereas that of Kalyan Jewellers India will open on Tuesday. IPOs of Suryoday Small Finance Bank and Nazara Technologies will start on Wednesday, info with the exchanges confirmed.
    Shares of those corporations might be listed on BSE and NSE.
    Besides, the preliminary public providing (IPO) Anupam Rasayan is at present underway. Apart from these, 9 corporations have already floated their preliminary share-sales thus far.
    Automaker Craftsman Automation’s Rs 824-crore IPO includes a recent situation of fairness shares aggregating as much as Rs 150 crore and a proposal on the market (OFS) of as much as 45,21,450 shares by promoter and current shareholders.
    Those offloading shares within the offer-for-sale are Srinivasan Ravi, Okay Gomatheswaran, Marina III (Singapore) Pte Ltd and International Finance Corporation (IFC).
    The situation, with a worth band of Rs 1,488-1,490 a share, will open on March 15 and shut on March 17.
    Laxmi Organics’ IPO consists of recent issuance of shares aggregating to Rs 300 crore and a proposal on the market price Rs 300 crore by the promoter Yellow Stone Trust.
    The worth band has been fastened at Rs 129-130 per share for the IPO, which is able to open for public subscription throughout March 15-17.
    On Friday, Craftsman Automation and Laxmi Organics Industries had raised Rs 247 crore and Rs 180 crore respectively from anchor buyers.
    The Rs 1,175-crore IPO of Kalyan Jewellers India Ltd includes issuance of recent fairness aggregating as much as Rs 800 crore and a proposal on the market price Rs 375 crore.

    Kalyan Jewellers’ promoter T S Kalyanaraman can be offloading shares price as much as Rs 125 crore, whereas Highdell Investment Ltd, an affiliate of Warburg Pincus, would promote as much as Rs 250 crore price of shares by means of the OFS route.
    The firm has set the worth band at Rs 86-87 a share for the preliminary share-sale, which is able to conclude on March 18.
    The IPO of Suryoday Small Finance Bank includes recent issuance of 81,50,000 fairness shares and a proposal on the market of as much as 1,09,43,070 fairness shares by current shareholders.
    Those providing shares by means of the OFS route embody International Financial Corporation (IFC), Gaja Capital, HDFC Holdings, IDFC First Bank, Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Company, DWM (International) Mauritius Ltd and Americorp Ventures.
    The financial institution has fastened a worth a band of Rs 303-305 a share for its preliminary share-sale, which is able to open for public subscription on March 17 and conclude on March 19.
    At the higher finish of the difficulty, the IPO would fetch Rs 582 crore. The small finance financial institution has proposed to utilise proceeds from the recent situation in direction of augmenting its Tier-1 capital base to fulfill future capital necessities.
    Gaming agency Nazara Technologies’ Rs 583-crore public situation will see sale of 52,94,392 fairness shares by the promoters and current shareholders.
    Those promoting shares within the IPO embody Mitter Infotech LLP, a promoter of the corporate, IIFL Special Opportunities Fund, Good Game Investment Trust, IndexArb Securities and Azimuth Investments.
    The firm, backed by ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, is popularly identified for its video games on World Cricket Championship, Chhota Bheem and Motu Patlu collection.
    The firm’s IPO might be open for subscription throughout March 17-19 with a worth band of Rs 1,100-1,101 a share for the difficulty. 
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  • ‘Avni’s cub’ succumbs to accidents after territorial conflict

    A 3-year-old tigress, higher often known as ‘cub of Avni’, succumbed to her accidents on Saturday, days after a territorial conflict with one other tigress.
    The tigress, PTRF_84, was injured shortly after being launched into the wild from an enclosure in Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR). She was captured in December 2018 from Pandharkawada in Yavatmal district after her mom T1, popularly often known as Avni, was shot useless in November that 12 months after being declared man-eater. She was then dropped at Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Nagpur district, the place she was stored in a 5.44 hectare enclosure for “rewilding”.
    After two years of rewilding, during which she was skilled to hunt her pure prey, the authorities had determined to launch her into the wild.
    Within a few days after her launch, she clashed with one other tigress, believed to be the resident of the world, and acquired accidents to her entrance limb and chest.
    “She was being treated inside a treatment cage in the enclosure at Titralmangi and was being monitored and treated daily by the veterinary officers. On Saturday evening it was found that her health was deteriorating. Veterinary team advised to shift her to Gorewada Rescue Centre in Nagpur. Immediately preparations were made. She, however, succumbed to her injuries around 10 PM. The veterinary team tried it’s best to provide emergency treatment,” a press notice issued by PTR Field Director Ravikiran Govekar mentioned.
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    Govekar instructed The Indian Express, “the injuries didn’t seem fatal but probably she had internal injuries, which will be confirmed after post-mortem.”
    Incidentally, the tigress had injured her paw final December whereas within the enclosure. Authorities had mentioned it might be because of a skirmish with one other tiger which can have charged at her from exterior the enclosure. There is theory that the identical tigress was concerned within the newest territorial conflict.
    When the Forest Department authorities had determined to launch the tigress into the wild, after consulting with the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), that they had explored three areas— Gadchiroli, Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve (NNTR) and PTR. After initially leaning in direction of NNTR because of its sparse tiger inhabitants, that they had settled upon PTR for its higher prey base and tigress’ familiarity with the world.
    Another suggestion was to launch her into the Dnyanganga Wildlife Sanctuary in Buldana district, the place one other Pandharkawada tiger, Walker, had made its dwelling after a record-breaking journey of over 3,000 km. This would have ensured a mate for Walker and eradicated the prospect of territorial conflict since Walker was the primary ever tiger to stroll into Dnyanganga.
    The authorities, nonetheless, determined in opposition to it since each Walker and the tigress belonged to the identical gene pool of Pandharkawada. They additionally needed to stop inbreeding amongst their progeny as a result of Dynanganga in its current type is like an island.
    Asked if NNTR or Dnyanganga may have higher possibility to decide on as that they had lesser likelihood of a territorial conflict, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest Nitin Kakodkar mentioned, “We had deliberated all the options threadbare and had finally settled for PTR as it provided ample preybase and much better monitoring as the staff had been taking care of the tigress for over two years.”

    Asked if the expertise may go away a unfavorable impression on any rewilding experiment sooner or later, Kakodkar mentioned, “I don’t think so. This is a learning process and we have to always make amends to make it more foolproof in future. Else, every captured tiger would end up in a cage or in safaris.”
    Meanwhile, Walker, that had stayed on in Dnyanganga for over a 12 months after ceaselessly wandering over a number of districts, has not been noticed for a couple of month and a half.

  • As lengthy as Modi’s contemplation and Yogi’s efforts persist, the saffron flag of Hindutva will proceed to be waved: BJP MLA Surendra Singh

    Highlights: Jan Nayak arrives at Chandrashekhar University Ballia’s second convocation – MLA stated – Soon Taj Mahal may also be Ram Mahal. People of Bengal ought to surrender Mamta Banerjee if Bengal is to be saved: Surendra Singh Baliajan After doing this, BJP MLA Surendra Singh has once more given a disputed assertion. The MLA stated that quickly the Taj Mahal may also be Ram Mahal. Praising CM Yogi, MLA Singh stated that now he (Yogi Adityanath) has are available in one other type of Shivaji. He prolonged PM Modi and CM Yogi that so long as Modi’s contemplation and Yogi’s effort on the land of India can be maintained, the saffron flag of Hindutva would proceed to be waved on the land of India like Shivaji’s reign. ‘ Hai Surendra Singh stated that it’s golden time. Yogi Adityanath has come to this land of Uttar Pradesh as a descendant of Shivaji. Muslim invaders have broken Indian tradition. The manner Saint Ramdas ji had born a warrior like Shivaji. On the identical traces, Goraksha Peethadhishwar Gorakhnath has given start to Yogi Adityanath as a descendant of Shivaji. The Taj Mahal was a pagoda, it could be transformed right into a nationwide constructing or Rama Mahal. Where is Mamata Banerjee Lankini, whereas the MLA took a dig at Mamata Banerjee, she stated that Mamta Banerjee is a Lankini of Indian politics. If the folks of Bengal wish to save Bengal, then Mamata Banerjee must be given a blanket. If not, then after 10-20 years, situations like Kashmir will occur in Bengal and it’ll not be attainable for any Hindu to stay there. ‘Rakesh Tikait Latheit hai’, on the query of Mamta Banerjee’s leg harm, MLA Singh stated That they’ve an intention to vote in opposition to the harm. But the folks of Bengal will solely give harm as an alternative of harm. Taking a political stance on Rakesh Tikait, Surendra Singh stated that Rakesh Tikait is the proprietor of 9 petrol pumps and chilly storage. He isn’t a farmer. Rakesh Tikait is Lathait. In Yogiraj, the lathis and goons shall be compensated. .

  • Cricketers together with Sir Viv Richards thank PM Modi for India’s present of coronavirus vaccines

    West Indies cricketing legends together with Sir Vivian Richards, Richie Richardson and Jimmy Adams on Sunday expressed their gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for providing Covid-19 vaccine to Caribbean nations. 
    In a Twitter submit shared by the Indian Embassy in Guyana, the worldwide cricketers thanked PM Modi for his ‘kind generosity’ and the ‘wonderful contribution’ of ‘Made in India’ vaccines on behalf of the folks of Antigua and Barbuda.
    West Indies cricketing greats @ivivianrichards @RichieRich2000 #jimmyadams #ramnareshsarwan thank #India @PMOIndia @narendramodi for donation of #MadeInIndia @SerumInstIndia #CovishieldVaccine to #Antigua #Guyana @CARICOMorg @AntiguaOpm @OPTGY @MEAIndia @DrSJaishankar @drkjsrini pic.twitter.com/olM3FItD0N— India in Guyana (@IndiainGuyana) March 13, 2021
    Legendary cricketer Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards stated that he thanks India for its great contribution of offering vaccines to his nation.
    “We thank you so much on behalf of the Antiguan and Barbadian people. We look forward to continued relations in the future. Thank you very much, Prime Minister Modi and the people of India, for the kind gesture,” stated Sir Richards.
    Jamaican cricketer Jimmy Adams stated he was deeply grateful to the federal government of India as his dwelling nation, in addition to Antigua had been benefitted from the Oxford-Astra Zeneca COVID-19 vaccines. 
    Former cricketers similar to Richie Richardson and Ram Naresh Sarwan additionally thanked the Indian authorities for offering the much-needed vaccines to the Caribbean Islands.
    On Sunday, Guyana acquired 80,000 doses of the Covishield vaccine below India’s ‘Vaccine Maitri’ programme. Taking to Twitter, the Indian Embassy in Guyana introduced that the nation’s Prime Minister Mark Phillips acquired the present of vaccines from India, a sworn statement of its hand of friendship.
    #Guyana PM Hon.Brig.(Retd) Mark Phillips & HC @drkjsrini receiving Indian present of 80,000 doses of #MadeInIndia COVISHIELD vaccines – a sworn statement of India’s hand of friendship #VaccineMaitri @narendramodi @MEAIndia @IndianDiplomacy @mfaguyana @fcsanthony1 @OPTGY @ANI @PTI_News https://t.co/zqkLCyhCqx— India in Guyana (@IndiainGuyana) March 7, 2021
    Earlier this month, the Modi authorities had despatched round half one million Covid-19 vaccines to over 4 Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) nations and Suriname. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar had stated that the transfer got here as a part of India’s dedication to the Caribbean Community. 
    Following India’s gesture, the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda had thanked PM Modi for offering over 500 thousand Covishield vaccines to the nation and praised India for ‘generously and selflessly’ helping the Caribbean of their struggle towards Covid-19. 
    Thanking PM Modi for the 500K AstraZeneca vaccines that he generously and selflessly shared with the Caribbean to help within the struggle towards COVID.📸circa 2019.@PMOIndia @IndiainGuyana @drkjsrini pic.twitter.com/mrx4Dcl8z9— OPMAntiguaBarbuda (@AntiguaOpm) March 1, 2021
    Earlier, the Narendra Modi-led Indian authorities had despatched 100,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine to Barbados below the ‘Vaccine Maitri’ initiative. 
    ‘Vaccine Maitri’ diplomacy 
    India, the world’s largest vaccine producer, has but once more come to the world’s help by efficiently supplying vaccines to its neighbouring and different growing nations at a particularly reasonably priced value, moreover giving freely hundreds of thousands of doses to pleasant nations without spending a dime.
    In February, the Modi authorities launched the ‘Vaccine Maitri’ programme to assist poor nations amid the worldwide pandemic. In this temporary interval, the nation has delivered round 45.6 million doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech’s indigenous vaccine to round 70 nations.
    India’s neighbour Bangladesh turned the most important recipient of Covid vaccines, having acquired 9 million doses to this point. Morocco emerged because the second-largest recipient with business provides of two million doses until February 24. Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives have acquired India’s Covid-19 vaccines below grant help in tune with the nation’s “Neighbourhood First’ coverage.
    Meanwhile, India has begun the world’s largest coronavirus vaccination drive below which two vaccines, Covishield and Covaxin, are being inoculated to frontline well being employees, senior residents throughout the nation. The nation plans to vaccinate about 300 million residents within the first six months.

  • Three folks in Norway handled for “unusual symptoms” after AstraZeneca COVID-19 pictures

    Three well being employees in Norway who had lately acquired the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine are being handled in hospital for bleeding, blood clots and a low depend of blood platelets, Norwegian well being authorities stated on Saturday.
    Norway halted the rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine on Thursday, following an identical transfer by Denmark. Iceland later adopted go well with.
    “We do not know if the cases are linked to the vaccine,” Sigurd Hortemo, a senior physician on the Norwegian Medicines Agency instructed a information convention held collectively with the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
    All three people had been beneath the age of fifty.
    The European drugs regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA,) would examine the three incidents, Hortemo stated.

    “They have very unusual symptoms: bleeding, blood clots and a low count of blood platelets,” Steinar Madsen, Medical Director on the Norwegian Medicines Agency instructed broadcaster NRK.
    “They are quite sick…We take this very seriously,” he stated, including that authorities had acquired notification of the circumstances on Saturday.
    AstraZeneca stated an evaluation of its security knowledge overlaying reported circumstances from over 17 million vaccine doses given had proven no proof of an elevated threat of pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis or thrombocytopenia – having low ranges of platelets.
    “In fact, the reported numbers of these types of events for COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca are not greater than the number that would have occurred naturally in the unvaccinated population,” an organization spokeswoman stated.
    Such traits or patterns had been additionally not noticed throughout medical trials for the vaccine, she added.
    Before Denmark and Norway stopped their rollout of the AstraZeneca vaccine, Austria stopped utilizing a batch of the pictures whereas investigating a dying from coagulation problems and an sickness from a pulmonary embolism.
    The EMA stated on Thursday the vaccine’s advantages outweighed its dangers and that it might proceed to be administered.
    Europe is struggling to hurry up a vaccine rollout after supply delays from Pfizer and AstraZeneca, although new circumstances have spiked in some international locations.

  • Will work with international locations who share frequent purpose at no cost Indo-Pacific: Quad

    Image Source : ANI Will work with international locations who share frequent purpose at no cost Indo-Pacific: Quad
    While reiterating its dedication to a free and safe Indo-Pacific area, leaders of the Quad international locations — India, Australia, Japan and the United States — pledged to work with different international locations who share the identical targets and making certain that COVID-19 vaccines are administered all through the area until 2022.
    In a jointly-authored opinion article for The Washington Post by US President Joe Biden, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, they wrote that “the Quad,” was born in disaster. It grew to become a diplomatic dialogue in 2007 and was reborn in 2017.
    “Now, in this new age of interconnection and opportunity throughout the Indo-Pacific, we are again summoned to act together in support of a region in need,” the 4 leaders of Quad wrote for The Washington Post.
    “Against this backdrop, we are recommitting to a shared vision for an Indo-Pacific region that is free, open, resilient and inclusive. We are striving to ensure that the Indo-Pacific is accessible and dynamic, governed by international law and bedrock principles such as freedom of navigation and peaceful resolution of disputes and that all countries are able to make their own political choices, free from coercion. In recent years, that vision has increasingly been tested,” they added.
    The 4 leaders mentioned that the trials have solely strengthened “our resolve” to reckon with essentially the most pressing of worldwide challenges collectively.
    “To strengthen our quest for a region that is open and free, we have agreed to partner to address the challenges presented by new technologies and collaborate to set the norms and standards that govern the innovations of the future. It is clear that climate change is both a strategic priority and an urgent global challenge, including for the Indo-Pacific region,” the leaders’ WaPo article learn additional including that the 4 international locations would work collectively and with others to strengthen the Paris settlement and improve the local weather actions of all nations.
    Launching the “ambitious efforts” to assist finish the COVID-19 pandemic, the international locations pledged “to expand and accelerate production” in India of protected, accessible and efficient vaccines.
    “We will partner at each stage to ensure that vaccines are administered throughout the Indo-Pacific region into 2022. We will combine our scientific ingenuity, financing, formidable productive capacity and long history of global-health partnership to surge the supply of life-saving vaccines, in close collaboration with multilateral organizations including the World Health Organization and Covax Facility,” the leaders wrote.
    “We will renew and strengthen our partnerships in Southeast Asia, starting with the Association for Southeast Asian Nations, work with the Pacific Islands, and engage the Indian Ocean region to meet this moment. The Quad is a flexible group of like-minded partners dedicated to advancing a common vision and to ensuring peace and prosperity. We welcome and will seek opportunities to work with all of those who share in those goals,” the article learn.

    The leaders said that the 4 international locations’ foundations of democracy and a dedication to engagement “unite us”.
    “We know we can provide for the safety and prosperity of our people at home by confronting global crises together, with purpose and resolve. We summon from tragedy the strength and resilience to unify and overcome. And we recommit ourselves, once again, to an Indo-Pacific region that is free, open, secure and prosperous,” the leaders wrote.
    The Quad is a strategic discussion board comprising India, Japan, Australia and the United States of America, held its first-ever head of states meet just about on Friday.
    Indo-Pacific area is basically seen as an space comprising the Indian Ocean and the western and central Pacific Ocean, together with the South China Sea.
    China’s territorial claims within the South China Sea and its efforts to advance into the Indian Ocean are seen to have challenged the established rules-based system.
    China claims a lot of the South China Sea, however there are additionally overlapping claims by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
    China has constructed bases and different outposts on shoals, reefs, and rock outcroppings to deepen its declare over 80 % of the three.6 sq km waterway, with Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, and Taiwan declare elements of the identical space.
    (With ANI inputs)
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  • Tractors will once more enter Delhi, new mandi will likely be opened in parliament: Rakesh Tikait

    Image Source : PTI Tractors will once more enter Delhi, new mandi will likely be opened in parliament: Rakesh Tikait
    Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait on Saturday mentioned in Nandigram that tractors will once more enter Delhi the day a call is taken by Samyukt Kisan Morcha and “a new mandi will be opened in Parliament”.Talking to reporters at Nandigram, which is a key battleground within the West Bengal elections, Tikait accused the BJP-led authorities of working within the curiosity of corporates.
    “The day Samyukt Morcha decides, a new mandi will be opened at Parliament. The crops will be sold at the minimum support price (MSP). Tractors will again enter Delhi. The 3.5 lakh tractors and  25 lakhs farmers are the same.  The next target will be to sell crops at Parliament,” he mentioned.
    “Are tractors to be brought on hire? Tractors are the same, the men are the same. The day Samyukt Morcha decides, a new mandi will be opened.  The next target will be parliament. Delhi should listen with ears open. Who will stop tractors?” he requested.
    Tikait mentioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi has acknowledged farmers can promote their crops outdoors the mandi.”I really feel mandi in parliament would be the finest.  Trader sitting inside, farmer outdoors. There will likely be buy positively,” he mentioned.Tikait had earlier appealed to voters of Nandigram to not vote for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) within the meeting polls.
    The Samyukt Kisan Morcha held a ‘mahapanchayat’ in Kolkata in opposition to the three new farm legal guidelines enacted by the Centre.Delhi had witnessed violence throughout the tractor parade on the decision of farmer unions on January 26. Tractors had entered the nationwide capital violating the settlement on the route of the tractor march.       

    Nandigram will witness probably the most high-profile contest of West Bengal elections with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee taking over her former ministerial colleague Suvendu Adhikari, who had joined BJP in December final 12 months.Adhikari had earlier mentioned that BJP will defeat Banerjee by over 50,000 votes from Nandigram.
    Elections to the West Bengal meeting will likely be held in eight phases ranging from March 27 to April 29. The counting of votes will happen on May 2.
    Farmers have been protesting at completely different borders of the nationwide capital since November 26 final 12 months in opposition to the three newly enacted farm legal guidelines — Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; the Farmers Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020. 
    (With PTI inputs)

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