Highlights from President s Speech
Highlights from President s Speech
Last Updated: Fri, Jan 29th, 2021, 12:49:23hrs
New Delhi: As the Budget Session 2021 commenced on Friday, President Ram Nath Kovind, while addressing both houses of the Parliament, spoke on a range of issues from the Republic Day afters protests to the steps the government has taken to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.
While several opposition parties including the Congress, TMC, NCP and Shiv Sena, boycotted the President s joint address, Kovind also highlighted the need to for a joint session of the Parliament.
President Kovind highlighted how the country had come together over the last year to overcome several adversities, including the Covid-19 pandemic, floods, earthquakes, major cyclones, locust attacks and bird flu. Addressing members of both Houses of Parliament, he said India witnessed an “unparalleled courage, endurance and discipline of our countrymen”.
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Updated: Friday, January 29, 2021, 16:50 [IST]
New Delhi, Jan 29: Three controversial agri laws at the core of farmer protests have been paused by the Supreme Court and the government will respect the order, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Friday while strongly defending the measures.
President Ram Nath Kovind
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The government is trying to tackle misgivings over the laws, he told parliament in his traditional budget session address, which was boycotted by 19 opposition parties in support of the farmers demand that the three laws be repealed.
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As the Budget Session 2021 commenced on Friday, President Ram Nath Kovind, while addressing both houses of the Parliament, spoke on a range of issues from the Republic Day afters protests to the steps the government has taken to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.
While several opposition parties including the Congress, TMC, NCP and Shiv Sena, boycotted the President s joint address, Kovind also highlighted the need to for a joint session of the Parliament. RELATED NEWS
On the Republic Day protests
Calling the incidents from Republic Day unfortunate, he spoke about lessons on law and order from the Constitution. The insult of the holy day like the tricolor and the Republic Day happened in the past is very unfortunate. The Constitution that gives us the right to freedom of expression, the same constitution teaches us that law and rule should be f
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Photo Credit: Google Play/ nCore Games
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FAU-G, aka Fearless and United Guards, has finally launched and is now available to download on Google Play. Developed by nCore Games, the action mobile game comes as a home-grown alternative to PUBG Mobile, that was banned along with other Chinese apps by the government in September last year. FAU-G was initially planned to launch in November, but following several delays, the title finally saw a release on January 26, marking the Republic Day. In the meantime, FAU-G saw an astonishing number of registrations in the days lining up to the launch.
In first mention, Defence review says ‘unorthodox’ weapons used in Galwan
January 6, 2021
China used “unorthodox weapons” and amassed a large number of troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh and escalated the situation, the Defence Ministry has said in its year-end review of 2020. This is the first time that the Ministry has officially mentioned the use of such weapons by China during the eight-month military standoff that began in early May.
The Ministry had mentioned China’s “unilateral aggression” in its June monthly report; however, that report, and all other monthly reports, were taken off its website later. The year-end report said the “Indian Army with assistance from IAF, mobilised troops including accretionary forces in a very short duration including heavy equipment like guns, tanks as also ammunition, rations and clothing”.