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  • Elevating ladies’s marriage age to 21 will allow ladies to construct occupation, turn out to be independent, says PM 

    By means of ANI

    NEW DELHI: Top Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday stated that the aim for elevating the age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years has been proposed to empower ‘desh ki beti’ in order that they get sufficient time to finish schooling and construct their careers and turn out to be ‘Aatmanirbhar.’

    “We imagine that little children are equivalent. By means of expanding the wedding age of ladies from 18 to 21, the federal government desires to allow ‘desh ki beti’ to construct a occupation for herself and turn out to be Aatmanirbhar,” the Top Minister stated as he inaugurated the Generation Centre of the MSME Ministry and Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Manimandapam in Puducherry via video convention.

    Top Minister Narendra Modi expressed religion within the formative years of the country stated that the ‘compete and overcome’ is the chant of latest India and the formative years of the rustic has a ‘can do’ spirit which is a supply of inspiration for each and every technology.

    “India is getting into the golden age of the startup ecosystem boasting over 50,000 startups, out of which greater than 10,000 startups have been arrange previously 6-7 months amid the demanding situations posed by means of the Covid pandemic…’compete and overcome’ is the chant of latest India,” the Top Minister stated after inaugurating Generation Centre of the MSME Ministry and Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Manimandapam in Puducherry via video convention.

    “As of late’s formative years have a can do spirit which is a supply of inspiration for each and every technology. It’s the power of the formative years that India has marched a lot forward in virtual bills. As of late, the formative years of India is writing code of worldwide prosperity,” he stated.

    PM Modi stated that it’s the executive’s effort to offer formative years, the platform and infrastructure to broaden the country.

    “We would like our formative years to pursue their goals with none boundaries and apprehensions. We now have diminished our executive compliances. Schemes like Mudra Yojana, Startup India, Stand Up India, Talent India, Atal Innovation Challenge and NEP are helping their goals,” he stated.

    “I’ve complete religion within the formative years of the country and I’m positive that they’re going to take us to heights we have not even dreamed of,” he added.

    PM Modi inaugurated a Generation Centre of the MSME Ministry and Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Manimandapam – an auditorium with open-air theatre in Puducherry, via video convention.

    In keeping with a commentary issued by means of the Top Minister’s Administrative center (PMO), the Generation Centre of the MSME Ministry is established at Puducherry with an funding of about Rs 122 crore. With the focal point at the Digital Device Design and Production (ESDM) Sector, this Generation Centre might be provided with the newest generation.

    Union Cupboard Minister for Girls and Kid Building Smriti Irani, remaining month, offered the Prohibition of Kid Marriage (Modification) Invoice, 2021 in Lok Sabha. The Invoice seeks to boost the age of marriage of ladies from 18 years to 21 years.

    A invoice that used to be offered in Lok Sabha within the iciness consultation to extend the age of age”marriage for girls to 21 years throughout all religions has been despatched to a parliamentary committee for scrutiny and dialogue with stake-holders.

    The parliamentary panel is headed by means of BJP’s Rajya Sabha MP Vinay Sahastrabuddhe, to which the Prohibition of Kid Marriage (Modification) Invoice seeks to boost the criminal age of marriage for girls from 18 to 21 has been referred to, will get started its deliberations quickly. The 31-member Parliamentary Status Committee on Schooling, Girls, Kids, Adolescence and Sports activities has lone lady Rajya Sabha MP from All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC) Sushmita Dev. 

  • SC attorneys declare receiving threatening calls to prevent probe in PM’s safety lapses in Punjab

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: A number of Very best Courtroom attorneys on Monday wrote to the apex courtroom alleging that they have got gained calls threatening judges over the case involving the safety breach that left Top Minister Narendra Modi caught for 20 mins on a flyover in Punjab final week.

    The letter, written by way of Very best Courtroom Suggest-On-Report Affiliation (SCAORA), claimed that the calls have been made allegedly by way of a pro-Khalistan organisation Sikhs for Justice (SFJ).

    “Its individuals/ a number of Advocates on Report of the Hon’ble Very best Courtroom gained an nameless automatic pre-recorded name, as soon as at roughly 10.40 am and any other name at about 12.36 pm. as of late i.e., on January 10, 2022; fastening duty for Top Minister Modi’s safety breach throughout his consult with to Punjab on January 5, 2022 on ‘Sikhs for Justice’ (SFJ) from USA, during which it was once mentioned that SFJ is accountable for blocking off PM Modi’s cavalcade at Hussaninwala flyover in Punjab,” it stated.

    The caller additional warned the Honourable Very best Courtroom judges to chorus from listening to the general public hobby litigation filed by way of an NGO, Legal professionals Voice, in the hunt for probe into the safety breach at the floor that the apex courtroom has no longer been in a position to punish the culprits of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, stated the letter written to Virender Kumar Bansal, Secretary Normal, Very best Courtroom.

    The SCAORA asked that rapid motion be initiated, terming the calls as violation of privateness of the Advocates on Information as their registered cell numbers have been out in public area and were compromised as all confidential knowledge and delicate knowledge touching on circumstances prior to the Very best Courtroom and banking main points are saved on cell phones and the miscreants would possibly misuse the delicate knowledge, if the units are hacked.

    Whilst listening to a plea of an organisation, Legal professionals Voice, in the hunt for an intensive investigation into the breach within the safety, the Very best Courtroom Monday stated it could arrange a panel headed by way of its former pass judgement on, because it stayed the parallel inquiries by way of committees of the Centre and the state govt into the lapses.

    On January 5, the Top Minister’s convoy was once stranded on a flyover because of a blockade by way of protesters in Ferozepur and then he returned from poll-bound Punjab with out attending any match, together with a rally.

  • Your silence emboldens voices of hate: IIMs scholars and college to PM 

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: A bunch of scholars and college contributors from Indian Institutes of Control (IIMs) in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad have written to Top Minister Narendra Modi urging him to persuade the rustic clear of “forces that search to divide us” and mentioned his silence “emboldens” voices of hate.

    The letter with over 180 signatories, has flagged hate speech and assaults on minorities.

    “Your silence at the emerging intolerance in our nation, honourable top minister, is disheartening to all folks who price the multicultural material of our nation. Your silence, honourable top minister, emboldens the hate-filled voices and threatens the solidarity and integrity of our nation,” it mentioned.

    “We ask your management to show our minds and hearts, as a country, clear of inciting hatred in opposition to our folks. We consider {that a} society can center of attention on creativity, innovation, and enlargement, or society can create divisions inside itself,” it added.

    They prompt him to persuade the rustic clear of “forces that search to divide us”.

    The letter mentioned the signatories sought after to construct an India that stood as an exemplar of inclusiveness and variety on the planet and expressed hope that Modi will lead the rustic in making the correct alternatives.

    It famous that the Charter gave folks the correct to follow their faith with dignity, with out concern and with out disgrace.

    “There’s a sense of concern in our nation now. Puts of worship, together with church buildings in fresh days, are being vandalised, and there were calls to take hands in opposition to our Muslim brothers and sisters. All of that is performed with impunity and with none concern of due procedure,” it added.

  • Safety lapse at PM’s convoy: Punjab bureaucracy probe panel; recommend knocks SC door

    Through PTI

    CHANDIGARH: The Punjab executive on Thursday constituted a two-member high-level committee to behavior a radical probe into the “lapses” that came about right through Top Minister Narendra Modi’s consult with to Ferozepur, an legitimate spokesperson mentioned.

    The committee accommodates Justice (Retd.) Mehtab Singh Gill and Essential Secretary, House Affairs and Justice, Anurag Verma.

    “So as to perform a radical probe into the lapses that came about right through the Top Minister’s consult with to Ferozepur the day past, the Punjab executive has constituted a high-level committee,” the spokesperson mentioned.

    The committee shall put up its file inside 3 days, the spokesperson added.

    The high minister’s convoy was once stranded on a flyover for 15-20 mins because of a blockade via protesters in Ferozepur on Wednesday, an incident the Union house ministry described as a “primary lapse” in his safety.

    After this, Modi returned from the poll-bound state with out attending any match, together with a rally.

    Punjab Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, on the other hand, denied there was once any safety lapse or political reason in the back of it and mentioned his executive was once in a position for an inquiry.

    The Very best Courtroom agreed to listen to on Friday a plea to verify there is not any breach within the safety of the high minister in long term.

    A bench headed via Leader Justice N V Ramana took notice of senior recommend Maninder Singh’s submission {that a} critical breach in Top Minister Narendra Modi’s safety came about in Ferozepur, Punjab, on Wednesday.

    After that, the high minister returned from poll-bound Punjab with out attending any match, together with a rally.

    “We can checklist it the next day as the primary merchandise,” the bench, additionally comprising Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli, mentioned on Thursday.

  • Modi compelled to show again after farmers block highway in Punjab, Centre phrases it ‘safety lapse’

    Categorical Information Provider

    CHANDIGARH: Top Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday cancelled his consult with to  Ferozepur in Punjab the place he was once scheduled to put the root stones for a number of tasks price over Rs 42,000 crore.

    The farmers blocked the street on which the PM was once travelling from Bathinda to Ferozepur. His cavalcade were given caught for 15-20 mins on a flyover, some 30 kilometres clear of Hussainiwala close to Ferozepur and needed to flip again. 

    The Ministry of House Affairs has described the development as a “primary safety lapse” and sought an in depth record from the state executive.

    Resources mentioned that Modi had landed at Bhaisiana Air Drive station in Bathinda and was once scheduled to consult with Nationwide Martyrs Memorial at Hussainiwala close to Ferozepur in a helicopter. However because of rain and deficient visibility, his helicopter may just now not take off. Modi waited for roughly 20 mins on the airport for the elements to transparent. As the elements didn’t enhance, it was once determined that he would trip through highway and primary cross to the memorial after which lay basis stones of the tasks and later cope with a rally.

    Safety breach in PM Narendra Modi’s convoy close to Punjab’s Hussainiwala in Ferozepur district. The PM’s convoy was once caught on a flyover for 15-20 mins. %.twitter.com/xU8Jx3h26n

    — ANI (@ANI) January 5, 2022

    Resources mentioned at Hussainiwala close to Ferozepur, the farmers laid a blockade. When the PM’s convoy reached a flyover, it stopped and were given caught there for 15-20 mins as the street was once blocked. Modi’s cavalcade and became again and left for Bathinda.

    “PM Modi went through highway from Bathinda after affirmation of safety preparations through the Punjab Police. This was once a significant lapse within the PM’s safety. His agenda and trip plan had been communicated neatly upfront to the Punjab Govt,” mentioned a senior legitimate, including that the state executive was once intended to make vital logistic and safety preparations but even so conserving a contingency plan in a position.

    Taking cognisance of this safety lapse, the Ministry of House Affairs has sought an in depth record from the state executive and requested it to mend accountability for the lapse and take strict motion.

    The farmers had been opposing PM Modi’s consult with to the state. This was once Modi’s first consult with to the state in two years.

    In the meantime, BJP nationwide president JP Nadda slammed the Punjab Govt. “Fearing a convincing defeat by the hands of the electorates, the Congress Govt in Punjab attempted all conceivable tips to scuttle the Top Minister,” Nadda tweeted.

    Former Leader Minister Capt Amarinder Singh demanded President Rule be imposed in Punjab. “If you can not safe your PM, what sort of state executive is it. The federal government will have to be pushed aside and President’s Rule be imposed,” he mentioned.

    Previous, farmers stopped BJP employees and supporters who had been going to wait the PM’s rally at two puts — close to Amritsar at a toll plaza and close to Taran Taran. 

    The saffron birthday party accused the Punjab Police of forestalling buses that had been sporting birthday party employees to the PM’s rally. In the meantime, addressing the rally, former CM Amarinder Singh, BJP state president Ashwani Sharma accused the state executive of making blockades and preventing BJP employees from attaining the rally venue.

  • PM Modi will get caught on highway in Punjab for 20 mins, skips mega match over ‘safety lapse’ 

    By way of IANS

    FEROZEPUR/NEW DELHI: In a significant safety breach, Top Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday cancelled his seek advice from to Ferozepur the city in Punjab, the place he was once scheduled to put the basis stones of Rs 42,750 crore tasks, on the final minute.

    Union Well being Minister Mansukh Mandaviya introduced from the venue that Top Minister Narendra Modi would no longer have the ability to deal with the rally “because of some causes”.

    Mandaviya was once right here for the basis stone of 3 scientific infrastructures, together with the 100 bedded PGI Satellite tv for pc Centre in Ferozepur to be constructed at a value of greater than Rs 490 crore.

    Previous, the Top Minister landed at Bhaisiana Air Pressure station in Bathinda the city from the place he was once intended to go back and forth to Ferozepur through highway.

    As consistent with the Ministry of House Affairs’ remark at the PM Modi’s Punjab seek advice from, “Nowadays morning PM landed at Bathinda from the place he was once to visit Nationwide Martyrs Memorial at Hussainiwala through helicopter. Because of rain and deficient visibility, PM waited for approximately 20 mins for the elements to filter out.

    “When the elements did not support, it was once made up our minds that he would seek advice from the Nationwide Martyrs Memorial by way of highway, which might take greater than 2 hours. He proceeded to go back and forth through highway after vital affirmation of safety preparations through the DGP Punjab Police.

    Round 30 km clear of the Nationwide Martyrs Memorial in Hussainiwala, when the PM’s convoy reached a flyover, it was once discovered that the street was once blocked through some protesters. The PM was once caught on a flyover for 15-20 mins. This was once a significant lapse within the safety of PM.

    “The PM’s agenda and go back and forth plan was once communicated smartly upfront to Punjab Govt. As consistent with process, they have got to make vital preparations for logistics, safety in addition to stay a contingency plan able. Additionally in view of the contingency plan, the Punjab Govt has to deploy further safety to protected any motion through highway, which was once obviously no longer deployed.

    “After this safety lapse, it was once made up our minds to go again to Bathinda airport.”

    The Ministry of House Affairs took cognisance of the intense safety lapse and has sought an in depth document from the state govt. This was once Modi’s first seek advice from to the state after the repeal of 3 contentious farm regulations.

    Previous within the day, state Finance Minister Manpreet Badal welcomed Modi on the airport in Bathinda. Leader Minister Charanjit Channi was once to deal with the programmes nearly.

    “Welcoming Top Minister, Shri @narendramodi Ji, on behalf of the Punjab Govt for his professional seek advice from to Punjab,” Manpreet Badal tweeted.

    Simply hours forward of his seek advice from, Modi tweeted, “I sit up for being amongst my sisters and brothers of Punjab as of late. At a programme in Ferozepur, the basis stone of construction works price Rs 42,750 crore can be laid, which can support the standard of existence for the folks.”

    Modi was once to put the basis stone of construction tasks of Rs 42,750 crore comprising two mega highway corridors to strengthen accessibility to outstanding spiritual centres and 3 well being establishments on this the city bordering Pakistan.

    One of the vital highway corridors will halve the go back and forth time from 12 hours from the nationwide capital to non secular websites in Punjab, comprising Amritsar and Sultanpur Lodhi, and to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in Jammu and Kashmir’s Katra.

    After paying obeisance to freedom warring parties Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev on the memorial in Hussainiwala, about 260 km from the state capital Chandigarh, the Top Minister was once to put the stones and deal with a public assembly.

    Modi final visited Hussainiwala in March 2015, the place the final rites of the 3 freedom warring parties have been held when they have been hanged in Lahore on March 23, 1931.

  • PM Modi to put basis stones of more than one building tasks in Punjab

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: Top Minister Narendra Modi will discuss with Ferozepur in Punjab on Wednesday and lay the root stones of building tasks price over Rs 42,750 crore, together with the Delhi-Amritsar-Katra limited-access highway and a PGI satellite tv for pc centre, within the town.

    The tasks additionally come with four-laning of the Amritsar–Una segment, Mukerian-Talwara huge gauge railway line and two new clinical faculties at Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur, the PMO stated on Monday.

    Modi’s discuss with assumes importance because the state is headed for meeting polls, and the BJP has joined palms with former leader minister Amarinder Singh and the Akali faction headed by means of Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa to tackle rival events.

    Forward of Modi’s discuss with, the PMO stated his constant endeavour to give a boost to connectivity around the nation has resulted in more than one nationwide freeway building tasks being taken up in Punjab.

    It has resulted in additional than doubling the overall duration of nationwide highways within the state from about 1,700 kilometre in 2014 to greater than 4,100 kilometres in 2021.

    In continuation of such efforts the root stone of 2 main highway corridors might be laid in Punjab, it stated.

    This may also be a step in opposition to pleasing the top minister’s imaginative and prescient to fortify accessibility to main non secular centres.

    The 669-km-long Delhi-Amritsar-Katra limited-access highway might be advanced at a price of about Rs 39,500 crore, and it is going to halve the trip time from Delhi to Amritsar and Delhi to Katra, the PMO stated.

    The greenfield limited-access highway will attach key Sikh non secular websites at Sultanpur Lodhi, Goindwal Sahib, Khadoor Sahib, Tarn Taran and the holy Hindu shrine of Vaishno Devi in Katra.

    The limited-access highway may even attach key financial centres like Ambala Chandigarh, Mohali, Sangrur, Patiala, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Kathua and Samba in Haryana, Chandigarh, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.

    The four-laning of Amritsar–Una segment might be accomplished at the price of round 1,700 crore.

    The 77-km-long segment is a part of the bigger Amritsar to Bhota hall spanning around the longitudinal expanse of northern Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, connecting 4 main nationwide highways, specifically Amritsar-Bhatinda-Jamnagar financial hall, Delhi-Amritsar-Katra limited-access highway, North-South hall and Kangra-Hamirpur-Bilaspur-Shimla hall.

    It’ll lend a hand in bettering the connectivity of spiritual websites at Ghoman, Shri Hargobindpur and Pulpukta The town (house to the well-known Gurudwara Pulpukta Sahib), the PMO stated.

    He’ll additionally lay the root stone of a brand new huge gauge railway line between Mukerian and Talwara of round 27 km in duration, to be constructed at a price of over Rs 410 crore.

    The railway line might be an extension of Nangal Dam-Daulatpur Chowk railway segment and can supply an all-weather manner of transportation within the space.

    This venture additionally holds strategic significance as it is going to serve instead path to Jammu and Kashmir, becoming a member of the present Jalandhar-Jammu Railway line at Mukerian.

    The venture will end up particularly really helpful for the folk of Hoshiarpur in Punjab and Una in Himachal Pradesh.

    It’ll reinforce tourism within the area and supply ease of connectivity to hill stations in addition to to puts of spiritual significance, the PMO stated.

    It added that in keeping with the top minister’s endeavour to offer global elegance clinical amenities around the nation, new clinical infrastructure tasks in 3 cities of Punjab might be laid.

    The 100 bedded PGI satellite tv for pc centre at Ferozepur might be constructed at a price of greater than Rs 490 crore.

    Two clinical faculties at Kapurthala and Hoshiarpur might be advanced at a price of round Rs 325 crore each and every and with a capability of about 100 seats.

    Those faculties were licensed in Section-III of the centrally backed scheme “established order of recent clinical faculties hooked up with district/referral hospitals”, the PMO stated.

    A complete of 3 clinical faculties were licensed for Punjab underneath this scheme, and the school licensed at SAS Nagar in Section-I is already useful, it stated.

  • PM Modi can not declare to be ‘fakir’ after Rs 12 crore automotive in his cavalcade: Sanjay Raut

    Via PTI

    MUMBAI: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday stated Top Minister Narendra Modi will have to now not name himself a ‘fakir’ now with the addition of a “Rs 12 crore” automotive in his cavalcade.

    In his weekly column ‘Rokhthok’ within the Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, Raut additionally praised former top minister Jawaharlal Nehru for at all times the usage of an Indian-made automotive, and past due PM Indira Gandhi for now not changing her safety guards regardless of a risk to her existence.

    “On December 28, media reported photos of a Rs 12 crore automotive for Top Minister Modi. An individual who calls himself a fakir, a pradhan sevak, makes use of a overseas made automotive,” Raut stated.

    “The top minister’s safety and luxury are essential, however to any extent further, the pradhan sevak will have to now not reiterate that he’s a fakir (ascetic),” the Rajya Sabha member stated.

    A Mercedes-Maybach S650 Guard used to be just lately added to the top minister’s cavalcade via the Particular Coverage Workforce. The fee quoted for a Maybach automotive in a piece of the media is over Rs 12 crore.

    Alternatively, govt resources had stated the brand new automotive used to be a alternative of the BMW utilized by the top minister because the German carmaker stopped manufacturing of the automobile.

    Reputable resources had additionally stated the SPG safety element has a six-year norm to exchange automobiles used for the protectee and that Modi has now not given any choice on which automobiles to make use of. Additionally they stated that the auto prices about one-third of the fee quoted within the media.

    Raut on Sunday stated Modi, who began ‘swadeshi’ projects like ‘Make in India’ and ‘Get started-Up India’, is the usage of a overseas manufactured automotive.

    Praising Jawaharlal Nehru, the Shiv Sena’s spokesperson stated the rustic’s first top minister, regardless of safety risk after the partition, at all times used an Indian-made Ambassador automotive.

    He additionally stated that (former PM) Indira Gandhi, regardless of a risk to her existence, didn’t alternate Sikh safety workforce deployed for her safety.

    But even so, (former top minister) Rajiv Gandhi mingled with crowd in Tamil Nadu and were given killed via the LTTE, he stated. “He (Rajiv Gandhi) will have to now not have dared to mingle with the group. However, he did,” Raut stated.

    Concentrated on the Centre over night time curbs within the wake of the upward push in COVID-19 instances once more in portions of the rustic, the Sena chief stated the Union govt has imposed such restrictions at night time, leading to monetary losses.

    PM Modi, Union House Minister Amit Shah, Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi, Delhi Leader Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Samajwadi Birthday celebration head Akhilesh Yadav cope with rallies that are attended via lakhs of other folks. However, the limitations are just for the average guy, Raut stated.