The first infrastructure working group meeting of the G-20 series is going to be held in Kolkata from the 9th of January 2023. The three-day meeting will focus on financial inclusion and the theme of the meeting is “global partnership for financial inclusion”. The meeting aims at bringing the marginal people including small traders under the purview of the modern banking system, says Shree Chanchal Chand Sarkar, Advisor, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance. 

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Union Communications, IT, and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw will lunch the 5G service in Odisha today, January 5. 

It will be rolled out in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack from a special program in the capital Bhubaneswar in the forenoon. According to information, in order to provide 5G telecom service to consumers, Reliance Jio and Airtel have set up about five hundred Base Transceiver Stations, BTS in various cities and towns across the state. 

India and France will hold the 36th Strategic Dialogue in New Delhi today, January 5. The two sides will hold discussions on wide-ranging bilateral and global issues. 

National Security Advisor  Ajit Doval will lead the Indian delegation while the French delegation will be led by Diplomatic Advisor to the French President, Mr. Emmanuel Bonne.  Mr. Bonne will also call on other Indian dignitaries. 

The last edition of the Strategic Dialogue was held in November 2021 in Paris.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has greeted BJP veteran Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi on his birthday today, January 5.

Describing him as a fine scholar and distinguished statesman, Mr. Modi said, his passion towards service, education and preserving Indian culture is exemplary. The Prime Minister added that Dr. Joshi's role in strengthening BJP is monumental and he prayed for his long and healthy life.

Guyana’s President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, US-based businessman Darshan Singh Dhaliwal, and DSB Group CEO Piyush Gupta are among 21 recipients of the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award (PBSA), announced on Monday.

On her 192nd birth anniversary, a look at the life of Savitribai Phule, India’s first woman teacher

The second phase of the Sari Festival “VIRAASAT”- Celebrating 75 handwoven Saris of India will begin from tomorrow to 17th of this month in New Delhi. This phase being organized by Ministry of Textiles will start at 11 AM and will close at 8 PM on daily basis.

The second phase, having 90 participants from different parts of the country, will bring participation of famous handcrafted varieties of Saris like Tie and Dye, Chikan embroidered Saris, Hand Block Saris, Kalamkari printed Saris, Ajrakh, Kantha and Phulkari.  The first phase of “VIRAASAT”- started on 16th and concluded on 30th of last month. 

Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr Jitendra Singh has inaugurated the Incubation Centre at the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) in New Delhi. The  Centre will provide multi-pronged support to StartUps. Dr Singh noted that after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of 'StartUp India, NRDC had reoriented itself to become the only National level PSU, which is providing its services for taking the lab scale technologies developed by Public Funded Research Institutes to industry.

Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya today, December 31, said that the number of Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Kendras has crossed 9,000 (Nine thousand) in the country.

In a tweet, the Minister said, these centers were started with the goal of providing cheap and good medicine to the people. He added that today, these centers are proving benefits to lakhs of people in every district of the country.

Jan Aushadhi Scheme’ was launched by the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, in November 2008. To give further impetus to the scheme, it was again renamed as ‘Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana’ (PMBJP) in 2016.

Anil Kumar Lahoti has taken over the charge of new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Railway Board. The appointments committee of the Cabinet approved the appointment of Anil Kumar Lahoti. Prior to this, Mr. Lahoti has worked as Member (Infrastructure), Railway Board. During his more than 36 years of career in railways, he has worked in various capacities over Central, Northern, North Central, Western and West Central Railways and in Railway Board.