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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday expressed his happiness over the conferment of UNESCO's World Heritage status on Santiniketan, the abode of Rabindranath Tagore in the Burbhum district of West Bengal. Santiniketan was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage list during the 45th Session of the World Heritage Committee in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, the UN agency informed through a post on the social media platform 'X'. Responding to the post by Vishal V Sharma, India's ambassador and permanent representative to UNESCO, on X, Jaishankar wrote, «Congratulations. A fitting tribute to our first Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and all those who have kept his message alive.» Earlier, taking to his social media 'X', Vishal V Sharma said it is a great day for Indians as Santiniketan had been inscribed on UNESCO'S World Heritage List. «Santiniketan inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List (Agenda 45COM.8B.10).

Gujjar-Bakerwal community of Jammu and Kashmir held a Maha Panchayat on Sunday in Srinagar threatening to come on the roads if the government doesn't withdraw the proposed Scheduled Tribe (ST) Amendment Bill and the Forest Conservation Act. The community representatives have urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give a gift to them on his birthday by not snatching or sharing their rights and reservation. «Today, 14 crore Hindu Gujjars of the country are standing with the Gujjars of J&K. We request the prime minister to give a birthday gift to our community.

Chandrababu Naidu's arrest by the Andhra Pradesh Police and said it will also take it up in Parliament, amid objections by the YSR Congress which is in power in the state. After the meeting held a day before the five-day Parliament session begins, TDP MP Ram Mohan Naidu told reporters here that his party raised the issue of the «illegal arrest».

Lok Sabha polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Rs 13,000-crore Vishwakarma scheme extending benefits to artisans primarily belonging to the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) of the lower strata and the Dalit castes. It’s estimated the scheme will benefit about three million families of traditional artisans and craftsmen across one and a half dozen small-time occupations. They include weavers, goldsmiths, blacksmiths, laundry workers, barbers, carpenters, boat-makers, small tool makers, potters, cobblers and masons. Inaugurating the scheme and a modern India International Convention and Expo Centre ‘Yashobhoomi’ in Dwarka here on Vishwakarma Day, the prime minister said he was dedicating it to “every labourer, every Vishwakarma (artisan) of the country”. The day also marked Modi’s 73rd birthday. The prime minister underlined that his government was committed to giving due recognition to the marginalised people.

fastest-growing economy in the world? Not India. It is Guyana. The country's GDP is expected to grow 38% in 2023, after registering growth of 62% in 2022 and averaging over 30% in the two years before that.

Piyush Goyal said Yashobhoomi, a state-of-the-art convention centre that was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, will help spur trade, industry, export and employment. The centre in Dwarka in the national capital will also promote small and medium businesses, farmers and artisans, and provide new opportunities and markets to them, he added. Built at a cost of ₹5,400 crore, the first phase of the India International Convention and Expo Centre, named Yashobhoomi, has a total built-up area of over 180,000 square metres. It's among the world's largest MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) facilities.

NEW DELHI : Prime minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a ₹13,000 crore PM Vishwakarma scheme that aims to help artisans and craftsmen with collateral-free loans and other financial incentives and training for upskilling. Under the scheme, artisans would get collateral-free credit of up to ₹3 lakh at a concessional interest rate of 5%.

Foxconn, Taiwan-based Apple supplier, has said that they are planning to double their investment and workforce in India within the next twelve months, according to V Lee' LinkedIn post on the occasion of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 73rd birthday. Taiwan-based Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics, has rapidly expanded its presence in India by investing in manufacturing facilities in the south of the country as the company seeks to move away from China.

industrial workers pursuing higher education will be granted Rs 50,000 to purchase electric two-wheelers, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced on Sunday. Speaking at an event at the Shri Vishwakarma Skill University in Palwal district, Khattar said the move will promote mobility and enable the daughters of industrial workers to be independent. Khattar also made announcements regarding scholarships for the children of industrial workers.

Rahul Gandhi from the flag hoisting ceremony, Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said: “Is it not sufficient that I am here? If I am not useful here, tell me and I will leave." He also said that people should concentrate on those who are present at the venue. Earlier, the Congress and other opposition parties had also boycotted the inauguration of the new Parliament building.

₹50,000 to daughters of industrial workers pursuing higher education to purchase electric two-wheelers during an event at Palwal, PTI reported. The move will promote mobility and enable the daughters of industrial workers to be independent, Khattar said while speaking at Shri Vishwakarma Skill University in Palwal. The Haryana chief minister also made announcement to increase the scholarship amount for the children of industrial workers.

Siddaramaiah on Sunday said he will write a second letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his time for an all-party delegation to discuss Cauvery and other river water issues, complaining that the PM has not responded to his first letter even after a month. The BJP, the CM told the media in Kalaburagi, had 25 MPs, but none of them would open their mouth before the PM on subjects related to water. Karnataka, Siddaramaiah said, was crippled by a bad drought. Siddaramaiah and his Tamil Nadu counterpart MK Stalin, though aligned politically, have been at each other’s neck on the Cauvery issue.

Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu has announced to introduce a state government flagship programme for those trades, which do not come under the purview of the newly launched PM Vishwakarma scheme of the central government. Virtually attending the launch of the PM Vishwakarma scheme by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from DK Convention Centre here, Khandu, in his brief address, said that the state flagship program will ensure that all local artisans, craftsmen and tradesmen left out from the newly launched central scheme too will get government support so that they are not left out from the benefits that will be available to their counterparts of included trades. Hailing the Vishwakarma scheme as a significant step towards empowering the artisans, who form the basic work force of the country, Khandu said crores of tradesmen across the country will benefit from it. “The Vishwakarma scheme intends to provide recognition and holistic support to the traditional artisans and craftsmen working with their hands and elementary tools, so as to improve the quality, scale and reach of their products and also to integrate them with MSME value chains,” he informed. He said that Arunachal Pradesh has a huge pool of expert artisans particularly in the trades of carpentry, weaving, sculpting, handloom and textiles, etc, who will now have government support to enhance their skills to the next level besides availing lone as well as marketing benefits. “What a great gift by our Prime Minster to our work force on the day of Vishwakarma Puja and his own birth day,” Khandu said. Narendra Modi, he said, has proven once again that he is committed to his vision of empowering the last man in the queue. “People are witness to the

India's ambitious project Cheetah on Sunday completed one year after the first batch of eight Namibian cheetahs was released in Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park (KNP) by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday on September 17, 2022. Subsequently, twelve cheetahs from South Africa were also translocated and released in Kuno National Park in February 2023. These cheetahs represent a big feather in India's cap for restoring natural treasures. The entire project was implemented under the meticulous supervision of the expert team consisting of Government officials, Scientists, Wildlife Biologists and Veterinarians belonging to Namibia, South Africa and India, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change stated. Out of the above 6 criteria given in the action plan for assessing the short-term success, the project has already met four criteria namely: 50 per cent survival of introduced cheetahs, the establishment of home ranges, the birth of cubs in Kuno and the project has contributed revenue to the local communities directly through the engagement of cheetah trackers and indirectly by way of appreciation of land value in the surrounding areas of Kuno, it stated. The Ministry further stated «The challenging inter-continental, wild to wild, Cheetah translocation by air, from Namibia and South Africa to India is the first ever such effort undertaken in the world to rectify the ecologically wrong done in the past.

public-private partnership (PPP) with integrated strategy is essential to achieve a «TB-mukt Bharat» (tuberculosis-free India), Union minister Jitendra Singh has said. At an event on Sunday, Singh said India's efforts to eradicate tuberculosis by 2025 are a role model for the world. The minister of state in the Prime Minister's Office was speaking after flagging off the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi (SMVD) Narayana healthcare «TB-Mukt Express», a mobile medical van that will visit different villages in his parliamentary constituency Udhampur, with the slogan «Chalo Chale TB ko Harane» (let's defeat TB). The event coincided with the birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. «India's efforts to eradicate TB by 2025 are a role model for the world.

Delhi Metro has increased the operational speed of Metro trains on the Airport Express Line to 120 kmph starting Sunday, officials said. The total journey from New Delhi station to newly-built Yashobhoomi Dwarka Sector 25 station will take about 21 minutes, they said. «Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a metro ride to reach the new station at Dwarka Sector-25.

₹13,000 crores on the 'PM Vishwakarma' scheme, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 17 September at the launch of the scheme, calling this a ray of hope for artists and craftspersons. Addressing the gathering at the launch of the scheme, PM Modi said, "Today, it is the need of the hour to recognise our Vishwakarma partners and support them in every possible way.

Akshay Kumar, Salman Khan and Mohanlal were among those from the Indian film industry who greeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday on Sunday and wished him health and happiness. The celebrities took to social media to wish the PM on his 73rd birthday. Akshay posted a picture with the prime minister on microblogging site X. «Happy Birthday @narendramodi ji.

Delhi Airport Metro Express line from Dwarka Sector 21 to YashoBhoomi Dwarka Sector 25 station, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, will be opened to passengers later in the day. Delhi Metro has increased the operational speed of metro trains on the Airport Express Line to 120 kmph starting Sunday, a senior official said. The journey from New Delhi Metro Station to the newly-built YashoBhoomi Dwarka Sector 25 station will take about 21 minutes, he said. Modi on Sunday morning inaugurated the extension and YashoBhoomi, the first phase of the India International Convention and Expo Centre (IICC). The metro station is located near the brand new complex, and is connected to it via a subway link. «Passenger operations on this new extension will be started from 3 pm onwards today.

Narendra Modi on Sunday launched the 'PM Vishwakarma' scheme for the benefit of traditional artisans. Addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 77th Independence Day, PM Modi had announced that the government will soon launch a scheme for individuals skilled in traditional craftmanship.

Vishwakarma Jayanti', Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched 'PM Vishwakarma' scheme for the benefit of traditional artisans, with an allocation of Rs 13,000 crore. The event took place at the newly inaugurated India International Convention and Expo Centre in Dwarka, New Delhi. The launched scheme will offer skill enhancement through both basic and advanced training, a toolkit incentive of Rs 15,000, collateral-free credit support up to Rs 1 lakh (first tranche) and Rs 2 lakh (second tranche) at a concessional interest rate of 5 per cent, incentives for digital transactions, and marketing support, read a PMO press release. «PM Vishwakarma scheme has been launched today which will emerge as a ray of hope for artists and craftspersons,» said PM Modi during the event. The scheme will register 'Vishwakarmas', who create using their hands and tools, at no cost through Common Services Centres, utilising the biometric-based 'PM Vishwakarma' portal. These artisans and craftspeople will receive recognition in the form of a PM Vishwakarma certificate and ID card. It will benefit artisans and craftspeople in rural and urban areas across India.