Author: Shagun Saxena

National Youth Festival which is to be held from 12th to 16th January 2024 at Huballi- Dharwad Karnataka. Union Minister for youth and sports affairs Shri Anurag Singh Thakur at a media briefing in New Delhi announced that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate this year’s National Youth Festival at Hubli Karnataka on 12th January, on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. This is the 26th National Youth Festival which will be held from 12th to 16th January 2024 at Huballi- Dharwad Karnataka and is being organized by the Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports…

At the Mussoorie campus of the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG), two weeks capacity-building program for the Civil servants of Bangladesh, Maldives, and Arunachal Pradesh commenced on 9th January. This included 39 officers from Bangladesh (56th batch), 26 participants from Maldives (20th batch), and 22 participants from Arunachal Pradesh in the first capacity-building program for the state. Started on 9th January, the training will continue till 20th of this month. The inaugural session was chaired by Shri Bharat Lal, Director General of, the National Centre for Good Governance. He addressed the officers and stressed providing the effect of public services. …

“You can take Indians out of India, but you can’t take Indians out of them” – Shri Anurag Singh Thakur On the 8th of January, a plenary session of the 3-day Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) convention in Indore was addressed by the Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, Shri Anurag Thakur. This is the 17th edition of the convention, and this year’s theme is “Diaspora: reliable partners for India’s progress in Amrit Kaal.” The first day’s theme was celebrated as Youth Pravasi Divas with the theme- Role of Diaspora Youth in Innovation and Technology. Indian Diaspora and Indian Youth…

The Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India is organizing a two-day National Workshop on Project Driven Block Panchayat Development Plan (BPDP) and District Panchayat Development Plan (DPDP) in New Delhi. Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil, Union Minister of State for Panchayati Raj inaugurated the workshop on the 5th January 2024, in the presence of Shri Sunil Kumar, Secretary Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Dr. SM Vijaynand, Former Secretary MoPR, Dr. Bala Prasad, Formal Special Secretary, MoPR and Shri Alok Prem Nagar, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj. Shri Kapil Moreshwar Patil welcomed everyone and extended his best wishes to the participants.…

On the 6th and 7th of January 2024, Hon’ble PM Modi will chair the second National Conference of Chief Secretaries in Delhi. The first National Conference of Chief Secretaries was held in June 2022 in Dharmashala. This step will ensure and boost the partnership between the Central and State Governments. Chief Secretaries ( the highest position as the IAS ) of all the states will be attending the conference. It took more than 150 physical and virtual consultative meetings over the last three months between nodal Ministries, NITI Aayog, State/UTs, and domain experts. Conference to ensure economic growth The discussion…

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that no additional restrictions can be imposed on the Freedom of Speech of public functionaries other than those which are permissible under article 19(2) of the Indian constitution. The ruling came on the issue to decide if greater restrictions could be imposed on the right to free speech of ministers, MPs, MLAs, and other persons holding high offices who sometimes made statements that tend to violate the fundamental rights of citizens. A 5-judge constitutional bench of justices as Abdul Nazeer, A S Bopanna, B R Gavai, V Ramasubramaniam, and B V Navrathana held that…

The supreme court is likely to give its verdict today, on petitions challenging the center’s decision of November 2016 to demonetize Rs.1,000 and Rs.500 currency notes. In 2016, the center wiped Rs.10 lakh crore out of circulation which was 86 % of the amount in circulation then. The Supreme Court has been hearing a batch of petitions challenging the union government’s controversial decisions. It was during one of these hearings between November 24th and December 7th that the legislation strongly hinted that it may not scrap demonetization as the clock cannot be returned back after 6 years. The SC said…

Junior athletics coach has accused Haryana Sports Minister of sexual harassment On Friday, Chandigarh Police lodged a complaint against Haryana Sports Minister Sandeep Singh at the request of a junior athletics coach who alleged that the minister had sexually harassed her. The allegations were made at a press conference held at the opposition Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) office on Thursday, but Singh denied the allegations and called for an independent probe. The woman had participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics and was recruited as a junior coach n Haryana Sports Department under the government’s outstanding sportsperson scheme in September…

PM Modi’s mother Heeraben dies at 100 in the wee hours of Friday. Modiji’s mother- Heeraben Days after Heeraben was admitted to Ahemdabad’s UN Mehta Hospital after her health deteriorated and was later discharged, she passed away at 100 on Friday at 3.30 am. She was brought to her house Vrindavan bungalow, in Raysan village near Gandhinagar, at 8 am.PM Modi reached Ahmedabad from Delhi on Wednesday afternoon and visited the hospital; to meet his mother. PM Modi took to his official Twitter and wrote, “A glorious century rests at the feet of God.” PM Modi left for Ahmedabad after flagging…

Two major projects were inaugurated in Telangana under PRASHAD Scheme by the Ministry of Tourism. Bhadrachalam Temples On 28 December 2022, the President of India Shrimati Draupadi Murmu,  laid the foundation stone for the project ‘Development of pilgrimage facilities at Bhadrachalam group of temples’ at Sri Seetha Ramachandra Swamivari Devasthanam, Bhadrachalam, and Bhadradri Kothagudem district of the state of Telangana.  During the gathering, the President highlighted that the famous temples of Telangana are visited by lacs of pilgrims and form a major component of domestic and foreign tourism. The Sri Seetha Ramachandra Swamivari Devasthanam Temple is said to be more…