NATIONAL NEWS
1.India and China will strengthen cultural ties:-
In April, 2018, the decisions taken in the recent informal meet between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping in Wuhan city of China, in which the decision was taken to give new dimension to bilateral relations, has led the governments of both the countries. In this context, on Friday, there was very much talk between Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj and her counterpart Wang Yi. Although the meeting between Swaraj and Yi in the last four and a half years has not been met by the Foreign Minister of any other country, despite this, the meeting of Friday is very important. This meeting lasted two hours and it has only two agendas. Strengthening cultural relations between the two countries and increasing mutual understanding between the people. In order to address the third meeting of the media forum of both the countries, Foreign Minister Swaraj addressed Wang Yi as “my brother”, then it became clear how to try to eliminate stress in the relationship. Has been there. To strengthen mutual and cultural relationships on behalf of both the countries, 10 dimensions have been announced. It involves topics ranging from film and television to sports and yoga, to tourism and to building relationships between cities of both countries. Swaraj said that as long as there is no understanding of people, mutual relations will not be strong either.
China’s Foreign Minister Yi described his meeting with Swaraj as extremely successful and said that the relations of both the countries have reached historical heights. It is a compliment that the meeting between Modi and Chinfing in Wuhan has played an important role in ending the tension in the relationship. After that, these two leaders have met twice more. At all other levels, the rounds of meetings are continuously going on. Two weeks before the bilateral relations, it was reviewed in a meeting between Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale and Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Kong Shuyu. Relationship between the two countries was reviewed even at the NSA level.
2.Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan launches IGL’s CNG Queue Management System (QMS) and Social CRM.:-
CNG-Driven Buses will be launched on ‘Green Corridor’ shortly The Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan launched various digital customer initiatives of Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) in New Delhi today.These initiatives also include CNG Queue Management System (QMS) and Social CRM.Referring to the commitment expressed by India in ‘ COP-21 ‘ to reduce the pollution level , Mr. Pradhan announced that the ‘ Green Corridor ‘ will be unveiled soon. He said that CNG buses using type- IV cylinders will be operational by February next year, starting from Delhi-Chandigarh , Delhi-Agra, Delhi-Haridwar and Delhi-Jaipur routes. They mentioned various initiatives taken for promoting the production and use of gas including ethanol mixture and bio-CNG , which will help the country become more self-reliant in this matter , The import bill will be reduced and the environment will be clean.Mr. Pradhan congratulated IGL for various initiatives and said that this company had provided only 4.5 lakh PNG connections from its launch to the year 2014 , but since then, progress has been progressing rapidly in this direction since then. In just four and a half years, the magical figure of one million connections has been achieved. He said that the waiting period for PNG connections has declined for only one week and people living in National Capital Region (NCR) are now using clean , convenient and economical fuels.Mr. Pradhan said that it shows that how sensitive , active and serious thecompany is to meet the growing demand . At the same time, it is also an introduction of ‘ Minimum Government, Maximum Governance ‘ .Appreciating the initiatives taken by IGL to launch ‘ QMS ‘ , Mr. Pradhan said that it will be possible to deal with the problems of long-range lines of vehicles at CNG stations or centers , saving time and making their turn Fuel waste in the waiting vehicles will stop. This will facilitate the drivers using CNG in the form of fuel and their income will increase. He also congratulated the city gas distribution (CGD) network launched large leap of Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board on this front (PNGRB) in the country , as it would ensure gas supply pipeline in almost 400 districts in the country will gain help in. Mr. Pradhan said that in the CGD network in the country 70,000 crores of rupees are being invested. He said that the government has given top priority to supply of gas to the domestic sector and it is one of the earliest decisions taken by the government in providing domestic gas at domestic price rather than imported value. Mr Pradhan said the country 1500 CNG stations or centers and the next 4-5 years to increase the number of CNG stations 10 , is expected to arrive at the 000 level.The CNG queue management system working through the ‘ Energy ‘ mobile app will get the information about the average waiting period at any CNG station along with the CNG station near the CNG station. The drivers will be able to find information about the three major categories of vehicles, such as buses , cars and auto waiting periods. The drivers will also be able to find information about the waiting period of the three categories of vehicles along with the nearby CNG center. This app will be available initially through invitation for 10 days and it will be downloaded from January 1 , 2019. The technology platform ‘ Social CRM ‘ will settle the complaints , service requests , complaints lodged by customers on various social media platforms such as Facebook , Twitter and Instagram . It can also be used to keep a close watch on the complaint settlement process through analysis of various ideas.IGL has crossed the figure of one million (10 lakh) domestic PNG subscribersin its operating areas such as Delhi , Noida , Greater Noida , Ghaziabad and Rewari. The company congratulated 10 lakh customers as well as other customers and selected special drivers for the Lucky Draw process. The winners of the IGL Smart Card Scheme launched for CNG customers were also congratulated on this occasion.
3.Signing of exchange of loan agreements regarding Japan’s official development aid loan for India :-
About the official development aid loan of Japan, the exchange of documents between the Department of Economic Affairs, Department of Economic Affairs, Dr. C. S. Mahapatra, Additional Secretary and His Excellency Mr. Kanji Hiramatsu, India’s Ambassador to India. These loans amounted to 75.519 billion rupees for the Chennai Metro Project (Phase-II) and JPY, 15 billion yen for the Japan India Cooperation Program for India’s sustainable development goals for JPY, and 14.978 billion yen for the Dairy Development Project for JPY. Is being given in the form. The Japanese Government had promised to provide JICA official development assistance of 105.497 billion yen – (about 6668.46 crores) for these three projects. Following the exchange of documents, the Chennai Metro Project Phase-II (I) , on loan agreements for the dairy development project, was included in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Additional Secretary Dr. Signature between Mahapatra and JICA Chief Representative Mr. Katsuo Matsumoto in New Delhi. The purpose of the Chennai Metro Project Phase-II ( I) is to meet the growing demand for traffic by reducing the speed of road traffic / traffic pollution by building mass rapid transit system. This will balance regional development in the Chennai metropolitan area and improve metro environment and environment.The purpose of this program for the Japan-India collaborative work on Sustainable Development Goals in India contributed to the promotion of STG in particular social development by providing assistance in the efforts of the Government of India to strengthen the policy framework and implementation mechanism. have to give. This will help India achieve STG by 2030. The objective of the Dairy Development Project is to increase the milk and dairy products by increasing the reach of farmers by increasing the capacity of the organized market, upgradation of dairy processing facilities , marketing infrastructure and the capacity of the producers-owned enterprises. This will contribute to increase the income of milk producers in the field of project. Since 1958, India and Japan have long-term and profitable history in bilateral development cooperation. During the last few years there has been a lot of progress in the field of economic cooperation in India and Japan.This will help strengthen the strategic and global partnership in India and Japan.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
4.America appreciates India’s contribution in the peaceful development of the warless Afghanistan:-
The US has applauded India’s contribution in the peaceful development of the warless Afghanistan, and said that India is Afghanistan’s most trusted ally in this region.
In the half-yearly Afghan report of the Department of Defense presented in the US Parliament, it has been said that the use of the new South Asia Policy in America has been used as an opportunity to increase economic partnership with Afghanistan.
SPORTS NEWS
5.Former opener W W Raman appointed new coach of the women’s team:-
Former Indian opener W.V. New coach of Raman Women’s Cricket team has been appointed.In a statement in Mumbai, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said that 53-year-old Raman has been selected on the recommendations of the temporary committee of Mr. Kapil Dev, Anshuman Gaikwad and Ms. Shanta Rangaswamy. There were 28 candidates for this post.Indian women cricket team headed by Mr. Raman will go to New Zealand next month.
6.Mithali Raj will remain the captain of Indian women’s ODI and Harmanpreet T20 squad for the tour of New Zealand:-
Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur were retained as captain of the Indian Women’s ODI and Twenty20 squad for next month’s tour of New Zealand, while Veda Krishnamurthy, who is in poor form, is out of the team. The Indian team will play three ODIs and three T20 matches on January 24 from New Zealand tour. This is India’s first tour after being out of the T-20 World Cup last month. England defeated India in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup. India’s one-day and T-20 team was announced after WV Raman became the head coach. Mithali took part in the selection committee’s meeting on Friday while Harmanpreet, who is playing Big Bash League in Australia, was involved in Skype. Head of Selection Committee Hemlata Kalal announced the team in front of BCCI CEO Rahul Johri and acting secretary Amitabh Chaudhary. Mona Meshram was replaced in the ODI team instead of Veda. Shikha Pandey took the place of injured worship clerk in the T20 team. At the same time Priya Poonia was replaced by Veda.
7.India will be the first NBA match:-
National Basketball Association (NBA) on Thursday announced that its first match in India will be played between Indiana Pacers and Sacramento Kings teams in the NSCI dom of Mumbai on October 4 and 5 next. Under the historical NBA India Games 2019, two matches will be played and both will be pre-season. NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum and NBA India Managing Director Yannick Colaco announced this historic initiative.The date for issuing tickets for these two NBA pre-session matches will be announced later. Tickets can be purchased online from bookmyss. For this, however, fans will have to register themselves, so that they can be given pre-dates for the ticket sale date. In addition to the two matches, the league and its partners will also organize Fan interactive activities during this period. During this time, there will be Junior NBA Youth Basketball Programming and NBA Careers Outreach Program in Mumbai.
BUSINESS NEWS
8.In the top 50 countries in the Easy to Business business index:-
The government has hastened the exercise of the list of the first fifty countries in the World Bank’s Is Off Doing Business Index. For this, the government has identified 11 such areas where it is necessary to make the rules and procedures related to the operation of the business to make it easier. The Government intends that in the year 2019, India has got place in the first 50 countries. In October this year, India was ranked 77th in the World Bank’s Easy Off-Diving Business Index. Last year, India was ranked 100th in this list. The Government believes that with two years of efforts, India’s position in the world has become strong. This is the reason why the government wants to remove the remaining procedural bottlenecks coming in the way of starting and operating the business this year. According to a document from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, 11 areas were identified to simplify the easing of business. Now, the emphasis is on accelerating this exercise in these areas. These include introduction of business, obtaining construction permits, obtaining electricity connection, registering of property, access to credit, protection of minority investors, tax payment, business abroad, agreements, disputes settlement and labor regulations.The emphasis of the government this year is more to settle the disputes and facilitate the process of the loan. Apart from this, the government’s emphasis on simplifying the labor related rules was also made. The Ministry of Information and Technology will provide the basis of information technology to policy reforms in all these areas. Sources reveal that Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has instructed his ministry to ascertain the need for all the departments where there is a need or possibility of technological upgradation to overcome procedural flaws.Sources reveal that as per the agenda created by the IT Ministry, all these 11 parameters are included manually making online procedures online. The purpose of the government behind this is to eliminate touch points in the applicant’s ministries. For this, the Ministry has hastened the work and the checklist is being prepared.
