President, Vice President pay tributes to Sardar Patel

President, Vice President pay tributes to Sardar Patel

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s birth anniversary is observed as National Unity Day. File | Photo Credit: PTI President Droupadi Murmu, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, and other dignitaries on Thursday (October 31, 2024) paid tributes to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his birth anniversary, which is observed as the National Unity Day. The floral tributes were paid at … Read more

‘खून के घूंट पी सकता हूं…’, जब खड़गे के बयान पर भड़के राज्यसभा के सभापति धनखड़

‘खून के घूंट पी सकता हूं…’, जब खड़गे के बयान पर भड़के राज्यसभा के सभापति धनखड़

संसद सत्र के दौरान राज्यसभा में तकरार देखने को मिली. राज्यसभा में सभापति जगदीप धनखड़ विपक्ष के नेता मल्लिकार्जुन खड़गे पर भड़क गए. जगदीप धनखड़ ने कहा कि मेरे में बहुत सहनशक्ति है, खून के घूंट पी सकता हूं. मैंने क्या-क्या किया है, कितना बर्दाश्त किया है और आप फट खड़े होकर कह देते हैं. … Read more

Press Council should take quick action against those deliberately spreading fake news: Vice-President Dhankhar

Press Council should take quick action against those deliberately spreading fake news: Vice-President Dhankhar

Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday said fake news, wrong and mischievous information, political ambitions and preferences, tendency to play power brokers, and monetary considerations, had eroded the people’s faith in the media. “The Press Council of India [PCI] should take quick action against those deliberately spreading fake news and compromising professional ethics. It is not … Read more

Commercialisation of education, health never in interest of society: Vice President Dhankhar

Commercialisation of education, health never in interest of society: Vice President Dhankhar

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has said commercialisation of education and health can never be in the interest of society. He expressed hope that the current situation will change with the implementation of the new National Education Policy.  Mr. Dhankhar was addressing the 11th foundation day ceremony … Read more

Aspersions should not be cast on appointment of Victoria Gowri as High Court judge: Government

Aspersions should not be cast on appointment of Victoria Gowri as High Court judge: Government

Union Minister for Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju speaks in the Rajya Sabha during Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, on February 9, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Differences of opinion are a part of democracy and there are ways to find solutions to that, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said on February 9 in … Read more

India supports ASEAN-centrality in the Indo-Pacific region: Dhankhar

India supports ASEAN-centrality in the Indo-Pacific region: Dhankhar

ASEAN-India Defence Ministers meeting later this month: Secretary (East) Saurabh Kumar ASEAN-India Defence Ministers meeting later this month: Secretary (East) Saurabh Kumar India supports ASEAN-centrality in the evolving regional architecture in the Indo-Pacific region, said Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar at the 19th ASEAN-India summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia which is commemorating the 30th anniversary of the … Read more

Supercomputer unveiled at IIT Karagpur to aid research and development activities

Supercomputer unveiled at IIT Karagpur to aid research and development activities

West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar recently inaugurated petascale supercomputer PARAM Shakti as part of the National Supercomputing Mission  at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. The supercomputer will help researchers solve large-scale problems in various fields of science and engineering. Petascale computing refers to computing systems capable of calculating at least 1015 floating-point operations … Read more

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar prorogues Bengal Assembly

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar prorogues Bengal Assembly

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday prorogued the Assembly from Saturday. Prorogation is discontinuing a session of Parliament or a legislative assembly without dissolving it. Dhankhar, who is tussling with the Mamata Banerjee-government since he assumed the chair of the governor, in a tweet said that he has prorogued the Assembly from February 12. … Read more

Bengal Guv asks Mitra to bring white paper on investments received from business summits

Bengal Guv asks Mitra to bring white paper on investments received from business summits

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday asked Amit Mitra to come out with a white paper on details of investments received from five editions of Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS), alleging that the former state finance minister’s “misplaced eloquent economic optical illusions have been a heavy drain on development”. He also questioned why were … Read more

No concrete action by state to reach out to post-poll violence victims: Bengal Governor

No concrete action by state to reach out to post-poll violence victims: Bengal Governor

West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, who recently visited many districts that reported violence after the Trinamool Congress swept the assembly polls, told ET that incidents of targeted violence and vandalism have left many people helpless, and the victims were left with no courage even to seek help from the police. Many who were targeted on … Read more