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PM Modi airs 3-point initiative to boost SCO countries' collective rise

PM Modi cited start-ups, traditional medicine, and food security as domains where India can pioneer a collective initiative for the region.

Back in India after 7 decades; plane carrying 8 cheetahs lands in Gwalior

Eight cheetahs from Namibia landed here on Saturday, as part of the programme to reintroduce the feline in India seven decades after it was declared extinct in the country. A modified Boeing aircraft, which took off from the African country Friday night, carried the cheetahs in special wooden crates during the around 10-hour journey. The plane landed at the Gwalior airbase shortly before 8 am, an official said. They will be flown to Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is celebrating his birthday, will release three of the cheetahs in quarantine enclosures of the park at 10.45 am. The animals are being flown from Gwalior to Kuno in Sheopur district, 165 km away, in an Air Force helicopter, and the journey will take about 20-25 minutes, an official said. Officials battled heavy rain, inclement weather and some blocked roads to complete the preparations for Modi's programme to release the big cats in their new home in Kuno. Two days before M

Strengthening defence ties with Paris provide hope for submarine deal

For France, which is still reeling from Australia's cancellation of a $90-bn order for Shortfin Barracuda conventional submarines, India offers an irresistible strategic opportunity

Children should be well-fed for healthy, empowered nation, says Adityanath

For the nation's healthy and empowered future, children should be well-fed and free from malnutrition, said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday. In his address while launching a National Nutrition Month programme at Lok Bhawan, Adityanath said if a teenager girl or child is well nourished, then society and the nation will move towards achieving the goal of becoming healthy and empowered. According to an official statement, the chief minister inaugurated 501 anganwadis and laid the foundation of 199 such centres. He also released a nutrition manual for the capacity building of anganwadi workers. He also launched a mobile app, "Sahyog", for collaborative supervision of anganwadis. The chief minister performed "annaprashan" of two children. He said 1.7 crore children strengthen their foundation through anganwadis in the state.

India is taking risk by picking only 4 specialist pacers in T20 WC: Johnson

India's squad composition for the T20 World Cup seems a "bit risky" as they are probably "a pacer short" for the bouncy pitches Down Under, feels former Australia speedster Mitchell Johnson. The skillful Mohammad Shami has been kept on standby which has surprised a few experts of the game as Indian selectors kept faith on the quartet led by Jasprit Bumrah with Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel and Arshdeep Singh in its ranks. "If you got an all-rounder (fast bowling) and couple of spinners, four fast bowlers it is a bit of a risk. But India are probably looking at playing two pacers and an all rounder (Hardik Pandya) and two spinners," Johnson, who is in India to take part in Legends League Cricket, told PTI. "In Australia you surely need to play three fast bowlers, possibly four in certain conditions, for example Perth. I guess they have a plan going in but it is a bit of a risk if you only take four (pacers)," the former left-arm tearaway quick. In Indian set-up, only Bumrah is

Singapore's Deputy PM to arrive in India for 5-day official visit on Sep 17

Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong will arrive in India on Saturday on a five-day official visit to deepen the existing cooperation and identify opportunities for mutually beneficial collaboration in new and emerging areas, the Prime Minister's Office here said on Friday. This will be Wong's first official visit to the country in his capacity as the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore. He will participate in the inaugural India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable (ISMR) in New Delhi on Saturday, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said in a statement. The ISMR is a new ministerial platform between the two countries, seeking to "deepen existing cooperation and identify opportunities for mutually-beneficial collaboration in new and emerging areas", it said. Wong, who is also the Finance Minister, will attend the ISMR with Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Trade and Industry Gan Kim Yong and Minister for Transport and Minister-in-charge

India supports cooperation and mutual trust among SCO members: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday called on the SCO to develop reliable and resilient supply chains to offset the disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis and said better connectivity and granting "full rights" of transit facilities by member states is important to achieve the goal. In his address at the summit of the eight-member grouping in this historic Uzbek city, Modi said the Indian economy is expected to grow at 7.5 per cent this year and that India supports "greater cooperation and mutual trust" among the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states. With Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other leaders of the bloc listening, Modi said the pandemic and the Ukraine crisis have caused many disruptions in global supply chains, leaving the world facing "unprecedented" energy and food crises. It is for the first time Modi and Xi came face-to-face at the summit in ...

FM Sitharaman lauds PM Modi's leadership, commitment to the country

Lauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said he has stressed on last-mile delivery and implementation of government schemes. There have been many governments before 2014, and they made many promises, but the prime minister has stressed on the delivery of promises to households, Sitharaman said at a function discussing the book 'Modi@20'. 'Modi@20' is a compilation of articles authored by eminent intellectuals and domain experts, and attempts a definitive and expansive exploration into the fundamental transformation of India and Gujarat over the last 20 years due to Modi's unique model of governance. Eminent personalities like Sudha Murthy, Dr Devi Shetty, Sadhguru, Nandan Nilekani and Amish Tripathi have written about their experience in this book. "Dr Shetty has said how the prime minister immediately ramped up the capacity to more than 2,000 virology centres during the difficult time of COVID-19 in his article," Sitharaman ...

Instagram rolls out parental supervision tools, 'family centre' in India

Image-sharing platform says the intention is to strike balance between autonomy and safety for young people

India, Russia to discuss energy security as oil, coal trade soars

The Kremlin has said Putin and Modi will meet on Friday and discuss trade, including food, as well as sales of Russian fertilizer

Oil exports to India will continue, will strike new trade records: Russia

There is a steep jump in Russian oil export to India, as it has increased ten times this year and Russian crude oil is now fulfilling almost ten per cent of India's imported oil consumption

Indian pharma industry likely to grow to $130 bn by 2030, says IPA

The trade shows are jointly organised by Indian Pharma Machinery Manufacturers Association (IPMMA), Indian Analytical Instruments Association (IAIA) and Messe Muenchen

India emerges as Sri Lanka's top lender in 2022, think tank report says

India has emerged as the top lender to Sri Lanka in 2022, disbursing USD 377 million in loans to the island nation as it grappled with an unprecedented political crisis and economic turmoil, according to the Verite Research think-tank. The Asian Development Bank follows India with USD 360 million in loans. They account for 76 per cent of total disbursements from January to April 2022. Out of a total disbursement of loans amounting to USD 968 million in the first four months this year, India with a contribution of USD 377 million has emerged as Sri Lanka's largest bilateral lender, Verite Research, a Colombo-based independent interdisciplinary think-tank providing strategic analysis and advice for governments and the private sector in Asia, said. Between 2017 and 2021, China has been the largest bilateral lender to Sri Lanka. In 2021, China had provided USD 947 million of which USD 809 million were borrowings from the China Development Bank. The ADB has been the largest multilateral

Kellogg India's FY22 revenue from operations up by 14% to Rs 1,332 cr

Breakfast cereal producer Kellogg India's revenue from operation was up 14.12 per cent in 2021-22 to Rs 1,332 crore as compared to the previous year. Its profit after tax in FY22 jumped 42.94 per cent to Rs 102.51 crore as against Rs 71.71 crore a year ago, as per the data provided by business intelligence platform Tofler. Other income was at Rs 20.24 crore in last fiscal year. Total revenue was at Rs 1,352.24 crore, up 14.15 per cent as compared to Rs 1,184.54 crore a year ago. Total expenses of Kellogg India, a subsidiary of Kellogg's Company, USA, were also up 13.18 per cent to Rs 1,217.18 crore. The company sells products such as cornflakes, Chocos, energy bars muesli, oats, granola, Froot Loops and upma in the Indian markets. It received 79.13 per cent of turnover in FY22 from the manufacturing of processed foods and 16.11 per cent from the trading of goods. In FY22, FMCG companies witnessed a surge in demand for packaged food products due to hygiene and safety issues afte

India's trade with Russia in rupees to start soon, says FIEO's President

Indian companies are already swapping out dollars and euros for Asian currencies to settle trades to avoid Western sanctions on Russia

Technologies like quantum computing core for India's growth: MoS IT

Quantum computing has been gaining pace in recent times as tech leaders look to solve scale related problems that need high computing power

'I have not returned empty handed' from India: Bangladesh PM Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday that her recent visit to India benefitted Bangladesh and she has not returned "empty handed" and emphasised that her trip has opened up a new horizon in the relationship between the two friendly neighbouring countries. During Hasina's visit, India and Bangladesh signed seven agreements, including one on sharing of waters of Kushiyara river which is expected to benefit the regions of southern Assam and Bangladesh's Sylhet region. "They (India) have shown much sincerity and I have not returned empty handed," Hasina told reporters here, nearly after a week she returned home following a four-day visit to India from September 5 to 8. "I think that my visit, after a long break of three years due to the Covid pandemic, has opened a new horizon in Bangladesh-India relations, she said, adding that the people of both sides would be benefited from the cooperation in all the areas identified during her India visit and the decisions taken to solve t

ICMR conducts study on India's first fatal case of monkeypox from Kerala

The first fatal case of monkeypox in India highlights the importance of maintaining a high index of suspicion to diagnose the viral disease in those presenting with atypical manifestations, exanthematous fever with epidemiological linkage from endemic or outbreak countries, according to an ICMR study. The study, 'A fatal case of monkeypox virus infection from Kerala India 2022' has been published as pre-print and has not been peer reviewed. So far, 11 cases of monkeypox have been reported in India -- five from Kerala and six from Delhi. A 22-year-old apparently immunocompetent male with no significant past medical history was admitted in an unconscious state to a private hospital in Kerala following a single episode of acute onset generalized tonic-clonic seizures, the study stated. The patient developed fever, headache on July 15 while in the UAE followed by development of painful right inguinal lymphadenopathy with pus discharge for which he had sought medical care on July 19. H

Whole world is looking at India for knowledge, says RSS chief Bhagwat

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday said people of the country need to understand their "swa" (self) because the whole world is looking at India for knowledge. He was speaking at a seminar on the subject "Swadhinta Se Swatantrata Ki Aur", organised by the RSS' sister outfit Bharatiya Vichar Manch here. "Other countries look toward ancient Indian philosophy for guidance. Our ancient scriptures and books are eternal. Even today, the whole world looks toward India for knowledge. In such a situation, we all need to understand our 'swa' (self)," Bhagwat is quoted as saying in a release. Even top judges have appealed to make necessary changes in the judicial process "on that basis", he said. "It's the religion which teaches us the lessons of love, compassion, truth and penance. We never divided knowledge as indigenous or foreign. We always believed in adopting good thoughts coming from all directions. Countries which forget their history are destined to be

India set to allow 5 mn tonnes of sugar exports in first tranche: Report

On Oct. 1, 2022, when the new season begins, mills' carryover stocks from the previous season are expected at 6 million tonnes against 8 million tonnes a year earlier