Day: 2 March 2024

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi yesterday dedicated to the nation Hindustan Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited (HURL) Sindri Fertilizer Plant at Sindri, Dhanbad, Jharkhand. The Prime Minister had laid the foundation stone of the fertilizer plant in 2018. He said that India requires 360 lakh metric tonnes of urea every year and in 2014 India was producing only 225 lakh metric tonnes of urea. Due to this huge gap between demand and supply, there was a need to import large quantities of urea. “Due to the efforts of our government, urea production has increased…

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Agriculture export body APEDA on Friday said India has flagged off the first commercial trial consignment of pomegranate to the US via sea route. APEDA said in a statement that the shipment comprising 4,200 boxes (12.6 tonnes) was sent by INI Farms from IFC facility, MSAMB, Vashi (Navi Mumbai) on February 28. INI Farms has also established a value chain for pomegranates by working directly with farmers in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan. The fruit was procured from Anarnet registered farmers of Sangola, Maharashtra. It is noteworthy that the premium received by farmers was…

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Minister of State for Defense Shri Ajay Bhatt inaugurated Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Vadinar Jetty on March 01, 2024, which is a significant step towards infrastructure development in the strategically important Indian Coast Guard area (North-West) . This jetty has been constructed by Deendayal Port Authority (DPA) at a cost of Rs 74 crore. The Minister of State for Defense appreciated the role played by the ICG in protecting national maritime interests in its areas of responsibility. On this occasion, he said that the possibility of infiltration of anti-national elements into Indian…

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Information and Broadcasting Minister and Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur has informed that devotees going from Himachal Pradesh to Prayagraj will now be able to reach Sangam city Prayag directly. This is because the Railways has approved extending the Indore-Chandigarh Express to Una, Himachal Pradesh. He said, I am always committed to the development of Devbhoomi and better connectivity here. The city of Sangam, Prayagraj, is a major religious place and a large number of people from Himachal make pilgrimage there. However, passengers faced difficulties due to lack of direct…

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The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Government of India on Tuesday distributed high quality toolkits to the artisans of Maharashtra after modern training. In the distribution program organized at Democracy Convention Center located at Trimbak Road, Satpur in Nashik district, the chief guest, KVIC Chairman Mr. Manoj Kumar, had distributed 449 machinery and toolkits to 240 artisans and certificates to 250 trainees under the Village Industries Development Scheme. The special feature of this distribution program was that for the first time, electrician toolkit was distributed to 20 women after training. All…

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Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari today inaugurated 8 National Highway Projects at a cost of Rs 4142 crore in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh. Ministers, MPs, MLAs and officials of Uttar Pradesh were also present on this occasion. He said, situated at the sacred confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati, districts like Prayagraj, Rae Bareli and Sultanpur have religious and historical importance. 424 km long roads and other development works will be done through the projects. Completion of these projects will improve connectivity with other areas of the state…

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The low-cost Srichitra Valve is an example of how successful implementation of the innovation ecosystem is helping India tackle rheumatic heart disease and contributing to the country's progress towards a healthy India. While the first Chitra Heart Valve was successfully implanted in a patient in 1990, subsequent improvements and large-scale efforts to improve the product have led to the clinical use of approximately 2,00,000 devices, whose success rates are the highest in the market today. was equal to that of any other heart valve. Rheumatic heart disease, which causes damaged heart…

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n late April 2023, an intense geomagnetic storm in Earth's magnetosphere caused a visible display of auroras in lower latitudes, extending to places such as Ladakh. Was. Astronomers have used multiwavelength observations from several space telescopes to trace the origins of storms in the Sun. They found that the rotation of the filament structure when close to the Sun was the main reason behind this solar storm resulting in such a strong impact on the Earth. Normally the Sun emits ionized gas (plasma) and magnetic fields into interplanetary space in the form…

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