PM Modi to visit poll-bound Meghalaya today, hold roadshow

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the Meghalaya polling station on Friday and take part in a roadshow in Shillong. Security has been tightened in Shillong in light of PM Modi’s visit.

The roadshow begins at the Central Library and ends at the Police Bazar, where he will address a public gathering.

The Union Health Minister, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, on Friday hailed India’s response to the COVID pandemic, saying the country has saved over 3.4 million lives by conducting the nationwide vaccination campaign on an unprecedented scale.

The health minister praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership during the pandemic and said he launched a “preventive response” well before COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the WHO on January 30, 2020

As the UN General Assembly marked a year of Ukraine conflict, Mahatma Gandhi’s message of peace and trusteeship was highlighted at a special event hosted by India here.

India’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, in partnership with the University for Peace, organized a high-level panel on “Gandhian Trusteeship: Mission LiFE and Human Prosperity” at the UN Headquarters on Thursday.

MCD House will reconvene on Friday to table another motion to elect members of the local body’s standing committee, a day after it adjourned after a protracted pandemonium sparked by clashes between AAP and BJP councilors became.

O Panneerselvam (OPS) pays tribute to former CM J Jayalalithaa with flowers on her birthday in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

The day is not far off when India would be among the world’s leading economies. According to an international report, India will become the third largest economy in the world in the next 4-5 years: Minister of Defense Rajnath Singh at the inauguration ceremony of Visva Bharti University in West Bengal

Ahead of Friday’s crucial MCD House meeting, AAP councilor Pawan Sehrawat aligned himself with the BJP, claiming he feels “stifled” by “corruption” in the party led by Delhi Prime Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Sehrawat also claimed that he was distraught when AAP councilors were ordered to cause a riot at the MCD House meeting.

Indian consumers and producers are optimistic and confident about the future. We hope you can bring the same positive spirit to the global economy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting

During our G20 presidency, we created a new fintech platform enabling our global G20 guests to use India’s pioneering digital payments platform UPI: PM Narendra Modi at the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting

India abstained on a resolution at the UN General Assembly that underscored the need for a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine, as it questioned whether the world could come close to finding a solution in the country acceptable to Moscow and Kiev Ukraine conflict could reach a year.

India was among 32 nations that abstained when the 193-member General Assembly approved Thursday’s resolution, co-sponsored by Ukraine and its supporters, “Principles of the United Nations Charter underlying a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine.” lie” accepted.

A left-leaning student group was prevented from showing the controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Visva Bharati University on Thursday night as Defense Minister Rajnath Singh was present elsewhere on campus to take part in a cultural event organized by the authorities to participate.

Singh, who will attend the central university convocation on Friday, arrived on campus on Thursday afternoon.

Ahead of the Congress plenary session in Chhattisgarh, speculation remains as to whether there will be elections for the Congress Working Committee as last year the party’s national president was due to be elected.

The 85th Congress Party Plenary Session begins Friday in Nava Raipur, Chhattisgarh.

Former Punjab Prime Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Thursday expressed serious concern over the incident in Ajnala in which supporters of Sikh preacher Amritpal besieged the police station, resulting in a scuffle and injuries to several police officers.

“Not only is this a complete breakdown in law and order in Punjab, it is even more serious,” Capt Amarinder said in a statement, noting the incident which is having serious repercussions on the security of the state and country.

Global financial leaders will sum up the economic damage from Russia’s war in Ukraine on Friday when they meet on the conflict’s first anniversary and raise concerns that further sanctions on Moscow would disrupt a modest improvement in growth.

The meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors on the outskirts of India’s tech hub Bengaluru comes amid signs the global outlook has improved since the group’s last meeting in October, when a number of G20 economies amid energy on the brink of recession and food price spikes caused by the war.

Following the attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin wrote a letter to Foreign Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday asking for his intervention in the matter.

Addressing the letter to Jaishankar, Stalin wrote: “It is with deep pain that I write this to alert you to another attack by the Sri Lanka Navy on six Indian fishermen on February 23 and the most recent attack on fishermen from Tamil Nadu by some Sri Lankan nationals on February 15 .”

A robust US-Pakistan relationship is more important than ever to bolster Pakistan’s economy recovering from devastating floods, the Biden administration said.

At the daily press briefing, State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters that the robust trade relationship between the US and Pakistan also offers business opportunities for Americans.

The UN General Assembly on Thursday passed a non-binding resolution calling on Russia to end hostilities in Ukraine and withdraw its forces, and on the eve of the first anniversary of the invasion to send a strong message that Moscow’s aggression must end .

The 141-7 vote, with 32 abstentions, was slightly below the highest number of votes for the five previous resolutions adopted by the 193-member world body since Russia sent troops and tanks across the border into its smaller neighbor on February 24, 2022 .

North Korea said on Friday it had tested long-range cruise missiles in waters off its east coast a day earlier, contributing to a provocative series of weapons demonstrations while its rivals ramped up military training.

The launches came as the United States and South Korea held a simulated military exercise in Washington, DC to ramp up their response to North Korean nuclear threats.