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Joe Biden at nato : ready to talk to china,Russia and soothe allies

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  NATO summit on June 14 comes as U.S. President Joe Biden tries to rally allies for greater coordination in checking China and Russia President Joe Biden makes his entrance at a NATO summit aiming to consult European allies on efforts to counter provocative actions by China and Russia while highlighting the U.S. commitment to the 30-country alliance that was frequently maligned by predecessor Donald Trump. The summit on June 14 comes as Mr. Biden tries to rally allies for greater coordination in checking China and Russia, two adversaries whose actions on economic and national security fronts have become the chief foreign policy concerns in the early going of the Biden presidency. Mr. Biden will use his time at the summit to underscore the U.S. commitment to Article 5 of the alliance charter, which spells out that an attack on one member is an attack on all and is to be met with a collective response. “I will make it clear that the United States’ commitment to our NATO alliance and...
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Group of ministers spell out step to neutralization negative narrative against government

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  In an effort to “neutralise” the negative narrative, a Group of Ministers (GoM) of the Union government, formed to fine-tune the “government communication”, has come out with various suggestions, including tracking “50 negative and 50 positive influencers” on the social media and to “neutralise the people who are writing against the Government without facts and set fal se narratives / spread fake news”. Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani, Information and Broadcasting (I&B)Minister Prakash Javadekar, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju, Urban Development Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur and MoS in the Environment Ministry Babul Supriyo were part of the GoM, which met six times between June 14 and July 9 last year. It emerges that the decisions on capping 26% of the FDI (foreign direct investm...
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Bangaluru emerged as the best city to live in india

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  Bengaluru emerged as the best city in the government's Ease of Living Index 2020 [EoLI]. Pune bagged the second position on the list, while Ahmedabad ranked third among 111 ot her cities. " Bengaluru emerged as the top performer in the Million+ category [in category of 'population more than million], followed by Pune, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Surat, Navi Mumbai, Coimbatore, Vadodara, Indore, and Greater Mumbai," a PIB press release said. Category: Population more than million | 10 cities 1.  Bengaluru 2.  Pune 3.  Ahmedabad 4.  Chennai 5.  Surat 6.  Navi Mumbai 7.  Coimbatore 8.  Vadodara 9.  Indore 10.  Greater Mumbai In the category of 'population less than million',  Shimla was ranked the highest in ease of living, followed by Bhubaneshwar, Silvassa, Kakinada, Salem, Vellore, Gandhinagar, Gurugram, Davangere, and Tiruchirappalli.
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Bangaluru: two iisc students die at the same day but in different incident

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  A 34-year-old PhD student of IISc ended his life by suicide at his room in the campus on Tuesday. ... A 34-year-old PhD student of IISc ended his life by suicide at his room in the campus on Tuesday. He left no suicide note and based on a complaint by college authorities, a case of unnatural death has been registered. Preliminary investigations revealed that he was under depression.A senior police officer from Sadashivanagar police station said that the deceased Ranadeer Kumar hailed from Bihar and was a final year student. He was studying nano technology and was living in the campus premises for a few years. He was supposed to submit his PhD thesis this year to complete the course. A senior police officer said Kumar's family and friends were trying to reach him over phone since Monday evening and he did not answer the calls. On Tuesday afternoon, they went his room to check and found his body hanging. The security officials called the police and alerted them about the incident. ...
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President Ram nath kovind get vaccination shot

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  New Delhi:  President Ram Nath Kovind was on Wednesday administered the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. The President was given the vaccine at the Army's Research and Referral Hospital here.
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Haryana's Gurugram for 13 months in connection with his wife's suicide he got busy developing a software to make Indian jails hi-tech.

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  Once a techie, always a techie. And so, when software engineer Amit Mishra was jailed in Haryana's Gurugram for 13 months in connection with his wife's suicide he got busy developing a software to make Indian jails hi-tech. A year on, when Mishra walked out of Bhondsi jail after proving his innocence, he found himself much in demand by jail authorities across Haryana after the success of his software, Phoenix — a prison management system software. On Monday, the Supreme Court acknowledged the efficacy of Mishra's software, seeking his assistance in ensuring that life convicts could exercise their legal right of early release after serving 14 years in jail.
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Forty Indians entered the billionaires'

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 Forty Indians entered the billionaires'  club in the pandemic-stricken 2020 to take the number of those in the coveted list to 177 people, a report said on Tuesday. Mukesh Ambani continued to be the wealthiest Indian with a networth of $ 83 billion. The head of Reliance Industries witnessed a 24 % jump in fortunes and climbed up one spot to be the eighth richest globally, as per the Hurun Global Rich List. Gautam Adani from Gujarat, who has had a spectacular rise in fortunes in the last few years, saw his wealth almost doubling to $ 32 billion in 2020 and climbed 20 places to be the 48th richest person globally and the second wealthiest Indian. His brother Vinod's wealth grew 128 % to $ 9.8 billion. The report compiles individual or family wealth in the year to January 15. It can be noted that the Indian economy is set to contract by over 7 % because of the impact of the pandemic, which had forced governments to go for lockdowns that had a debilitating impact on the poor. Th...
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