Inter-State Council Reconstituted under the Chairmanship of PM Modi
The government reconstituted the Inter-State Council, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as its chairman, Union Home Minister Amit Shah as head of the standing committee, and the Chief Ministers of all states and six Union Ministers as its members. According to the notification issued, the re-constituted council will have 10 of the Union Ministers, as permanent invitees to the panel.
While the Prime Minister is the chairman, Chief Ministers of all States and Union Territories, having legislative assemblies and the administrators of UTs not having a legislative assembly have been made members.
The mandate of the council is to create a strong institutional framework to promote and support cooperative federalism in the country, activate the council and zonal councils by organising its regular meetings.
President Kovind Inaugurates First-ever Two-day National Conference of Woman Legislators in Thiru...
President Ramnath Kovind inaugurated the first-ever two-day national conference of woman legislators at the Legislature Complex in Thiruvananthapuram. Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan presided over the function. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Assembly Speaker M.B. Rajesh, Ministers Veena George, R. Bindu, J. Chinchu Rani, Opposition Leader V.D. Satheesan and woman MPs and Speakers and Legislators from different States participated.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla addressed the valedictory function. The programme was organized as part of the Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav coinciding with the 75th anniversary of Independence.
May 25, 2022
Arson in Andhra Town over Renaming District after Ambedkar, Minister's House Torched
Arson broke out in Amalapuram town in Andhra Pradesh when police resorted to lathi-charge at people who staged a protest against the proposed renaming of the newly-created Konaseema district as B. R. Ambedkar Konaseema district, with a number of police personnel left injured and the protesters opposed to the name change allegedly setting the houses of state minister P. Viswarupu and a ruling YSR Congress MLA P. Satish on fire.
While the ruling party blamed unnamed forces behind the arson, all opposition parties hit out at the Jagan Mohan Reddy government over its "gross failure" in controlling the situation.
Prohibitory orders under Section 144 were clamped in Amalapuram even as additional police forces were rushed in to bring the situation under control.
May 24, 2022
Andhra Pradesh Joins WEF's Global Network of Advanced Manufacturing Hubs
Andhra Pradesh joined the Global Network of Advanced Manufacturing Hubs (AMHUBs) of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The state government and WEF exchanged the platform partnership on "Shaping the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Value Chains".
An agreement to this effect was signed on the sidelines of the annual meeting of WEF which began at Davos. Officials from both sides inked the agreement in the presence of Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy.
AMHUBs engages regional production ecosystems, including stakeholders from public and private sectors, academia and civil society to support the development and scaling of local efforts aimed at preparing industry for the future of manufacturing and production.
Vinai Kumar Saxena is New Lt Governor of Delhi
Vinai Kumar Saxena, the chairperson of Khadi & Village Industries Commission, was appointed as the new Lt Governor of Delhi.
Saxena succeeded Anil Baijal who resigned from the post citing personal reasons.
Baijal, a 1969-batch IAS officer, was appointed as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Delhi in December 2016 after the sudden resignation of Najeeb Jung.
Saxena was born on March 23, 1958, and is a Kanpur University alumnus with a Pilot license.
In March 2021, he was appointed by the Union government as a member of the national committee to commemorate 75 years of India's independence. In November 2020, he was nominated as a member of the Padma Awards selection panel for the year 2021.
In 1991, he founded the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), a non-profit NGO with its headquarters in Ahmedabad. NCCL is recognised by the Ministry of Law and Justice.
May 23, 2022
IFS Vivek Kumar is PS to Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Indian Forest Service (IFS) Officer, Vivek Kumar was appointed as the Personal Secretary (PS) to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Joint Secretary level. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved the proposal for the appointment of Vivek Kumar as PS to Modi.
Vivek Kumar is an IFS officer of the 2004 batch, who joined the Prime Minister`s Office as a Deputy Secretary in 2014.
He completed his B.Tech in chemical engineering from IIT Bombay and has served in diplomatic positions in Russia and Australia.
Dome of Newly Built Meghalaya Assembly Collapses
A portion of the Rs. 177.7 crore newly built Meghalaya Legislative Assembly building collapsed.
According to a PWD Executive Engineer overseeing the construction, a 70 tonne dome of the building collapsed, which could have been due to a design fault. The weight of the steel dome was perhaps too much for the columns and the beams to bear. This resulted in the entire structure coming down.
PM Modi Participates in Quad Summit in Tokyo
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Japan on a two-day visit to attend a summit of the Quad leaders which was aimed at further bolstering cooperation among the member nations of the influential grouping and discussing developments in the Indo-Pacific region. Besides Mr. Modi, the Quad summit in Tokyo on May 24 was attended by U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Australian Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese.
The Quad or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue comprises India, the U.S., Japan and Australia.
GeM signs MoU with SEWA to boost Women-led Enterprises
Government eMarketplace (GeM) and Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the advocacy, outreach, mobilisation and capacity-building of last-mile women-led micro and small enterprises and women entrepreneurs.
According to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, GeM will train SEWA members to assist and enable women-led micro and small enterprises, women entrepreneurs and SHGs among others, with GeM processes related to seller registration and on-boarding on the platform, upload/ update of product/ service catalogues, acceptance of orders, participation in bids floated by Govt buyers etc.
As per P. K. Singh, CEO, GeM, Inclusion is a core value at GeM, and this partnership would leverage the wide network of women entrepreneurs through SEWA to ensure the inclusion and participation of last-mile women entrepreneurs and women SHGs on GeM.
Presently, 1.31 lakh women MSE entrepreneurs are registered on the GeM portal and they have fulfilled approximately 5.7 lakh orders worth Rs. 10,752 crore in gross merchandise value.
May 22, 2022
500,000 People in Assam to Get Houses Under PMAY-G
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Union Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Giriraj Singh presented sanction letters to 12 beneficiaries as a part of providing houses to five lakh people. Sarma said that the process of giving five lakh houses to the beneficiaries under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana- Gramin (PMAY-G) started from Jorhat and it will be replicated throughout the state.
He said that since 2014, the Centre has sanctioned 19 lakh houses for Assam with a financial outlay of Rs 27,000 crore.
The chief minister said that of the 12,000 beneficiaries in Jorhat district, 4,000 belong to tea garden communities.
Sidhu Surrenders Before Patiala Court after SC Jails Him in Road Rage Case
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu surrendered in a court in Patiala a day after he was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court in a 1988 road-rage case. Accompanied by some party leaders including Navtej Singh Cheema, he reached the district court, which is closed to the former Congress president house, in the afternoon.
The Supreme Court sentenced Sidhu to one-year rigorous imprisonment in the road-rage case, saying any undue sympathy in imposing an inadequate sentence would do more harm to the justice system and undermine the public confidence in the efficacy of law. A 65-year-old man had died in the road rage incident.
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