June 14, 2024 - Page 3 of 4 - The Lucknow Tribune

NHRC invites entries for its online photography competition

June 14, 2024 Arijit Bose

New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India, has invited entries from Indian citizens for its online human rights photography competition – 2024. It has been organized in collaboration with the MyGov portal. The last date for the entries is 7th July, 2024. These may be sent either through the NHRC, India website: https://nhrc.nic.in/ OR through the MyGov portal: https://www.mygov.in/ The themes of the competition are as follows: • Child Labour; • Challenges of destitute elderly; • Environmental Hazards impacting life on planet Earth; • Celebrating human rights &…

Cairn Oil & Gas Commences India’s Largest Commercial ASP Injection

June 14, 2024 Arijit Bose

New Delhi: Cairn Oil & Gas, India’s largest private oil and gas exploration and production company, part of Vedanta Group, has announced the implementation of ASP flooding in the Mangala oil field in Barmer, Rajasthan, marking the largest commercial injection implemented in any oil and gas field in India, and amongst the very few done globally. This milestone highlights Cairn’s ability to innovate technology breakthroughs that help recovery from matured fields and accelerate future field development, enabling it to achieve its goal of contributing 50 per cent of India’s oil and…

In North India heatwave to continue breathing fire

June 14, 2024 Arijit Bose

New Delhi: Heavy to very heavy rainfall with isolated extremely heavy falls very likely to continue over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim and Northeast India during next 4-5 days. ii. Heat wave to severe heat wave conditions likely to continue over northern parts of India during next 4-5 days. Yesterday, Heat wave to severe heat wave conditions prevailed in most parts of West Uttar Pradesh; in many parts of Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, East Uttar Pradesh; in isolated pockets of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Gangetic West Bengal; Heat wave conditions in some parts…

J.P. Nadda back to Modi’s inner circle

June 14, 2024 Arijit Bose

New Delhi: After leading the BJP as its national president for more than four years, JP Nadda returned to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s council of ministers on Sunday. The 63-year old took oath as a Cabinet minister, becoming the sole representative from Himachal Pradesh in the BJP-led government. It is not yet known which ministry will be assigned to him. He served as Union health minister in Modi’s first term from November 9, 2014, to May 30, 2019. “Grateful to PM Narendra Modi ji for reposing faith in me. Under…

India’s new CoAS all set to take charge

June 14, 2024 Arijit Bose

NEW DELHI: Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi has been appointed as the new Chief of Army Staff and will be taking over his appointment on June 30. He would be succeeding Gen Manoj Pande who is set to retire on June 30. As the 30th Army Chief, Lt Gen Dwivedi will be taking over after serving the country as Vice Chief of Army Staff, Northern Army Commander, DG Infantry and many other command appointments in the force. A strong supporter of the infusion of new technology in operations, Lt Gen Dwivedi…

India already sells toys to over 100 nations

June 14, 2024 Arijit Bose

New Delhi: A senior official of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) stated here on Monday that the toy industry in India has grown to over 100 countries worldwide, including the US, UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and even China. The next step for toy manufacturers is to reach international consumers through the effective use of online mediums. DPIIT held a “Workshop with Flipkart and the Indian Toy Industry” on Wednesday in New Delhi with the goal of boosting the expanding toy industry in India. This…

Element of friction persists between BJP, RSS

June 14, 2024 Arijit Bose

Nagpur: RSS chief’s frank statement tells the story of internal conflict in Sangh Parivar. RSS’s displeasure with “Modi-2” government came to the fore as soon as “Modi-3” was formed. RSS wanted the inauguration ceremony of Ram Mandir to be post-election and non-political? Six months ago, RSS had warned the government – Hindutva wave and Modi’s name will not take the boat past major hurdles. Blindly trusting Shah’s policies proved costly for Modi, he did not even listen to Sangh. RSS chief said those things, which were constantly on the lips…

97 % work on Gorakhpur Link Expressway done

June 14, 2024 Arijit Bose

Lucknow / Gorakhpur: The Yogi Adityanath government, which is continuously working on strengthening road connectivity in UP, is preparing to start full traffic facility on the Gorakhpur Link Expressway by the end of this month. By the first week of June, 97 percent of the work of this expressway has been completed. With the start of this expressway, the Gorakhpur region will be connected to Lucknow, Agra and Delhi through Purvanchal Expressway through a fast and smooth traffic corridor. One of the priority projects of CM Yogi Adityanath, the Gorakhpur…

Train silkworm rearers well – Rakesh Sachan

June 14, 2024 Arijit Bose

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh MSME, Silk Industry, Khadi and Village Industries Minister Rakesh Sachan directed the officials of the Silk Department that it is very important to focus on the training of silkworm rearers, the more training is given, the more benefit the farmers associated with this farming will get. For this, farmers should be sent to Karnataka from time to time for training. Uttar Pradesh Silk Industry Minister Rakesh Sachan gave this direction while reviewing the works of the Silk Department through video conferencing at Khadi Bhawan. Rakesh Sachan directed…

Financial approval of Rs. 97.21 crore for agriculture sector schemes

June 14, 2024 Arijit Bose

Lucknow – Under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Utthan Maha Abhiyan (PM KUSUM) scheme, an amount of Rs. 9546.00 lakh (Rs. Ninety Five Crore Forty Six Lakh) has been released for the installation of solar in the financial year 2024-25 and the remaining solar of last year. Under the Krishi Raksha Yojana, an amount of Rs. 100.00 lakh (Rs. One Crore) has been released under pest disease control by ecological resources. Along with this, financial approval of Rs. 50.00 lakh has been issued for the Center of Excellence…