Father Roy Lazar from the Vellore diocese in Tamil Nadu, south India, is elected as the President of the Conference of Diocesan Priests of India (CDPI).
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Tea board disburses ₹1.10 cr subsidy in South
June 04, 2021
This is first tranche in the current fiscal Tea Board in the Union Commerce Ministry has disbursed about ₹1.10 crore as subsidy to eligible growers and manufacturers in South India so far this fiscal.
Tea Board’s South Zonal Office in Coonoor said that the subsidy has already been deposited in the beneficiaries bank accounts.
Tea Board’s Executive Director Dr M Balaji said that the South Zonal Office of the Tea Board has been providing various subsidies to the tea growers to enhance the production, productivity and quality of made tea. He said that in this first tranche of the subsidy disbursal, one large tea garden has been given ₹5.80 lakh for uprooting and replanting activity under the Plantation Development Scheme.
Iceland’s President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson and First Lady Dorrit Moussaieff are in India on an official state visit designed to coincide with the presentation of the Nehru Award in Delhi yesterday for his work on climate change.
The President’s arrival in India was heralded with a 21-gun salute and meetings with the Indian President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The couple also laid a wreath of flowers from the Icelandic nation on the Mahatma Ghandi memorial.
Economics, technology, science and energy were the main topics of conversation between the President and the Indian Prime Minister. The surprisingly long and close diplomatic, personal and business ties between the two republics, which are of a very similar age, was also discussed.
Oman comes full circle in our soft power diplomacy
Meanwhile, during his visit to the Sultanate in February 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the ailing Sultan and discussed a host of regional issues and concerns.
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Oman s new sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, second from left of second row, attends the prayer ceremony for Sultan Qaboos coffin at Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in Muscat, Oman. (Photo | AP)
By posthumously bestowing the Gandhi Peace Prize for 2019 upon Sultan Qaboos of Oman, New Delhi seeks to mend some of the diplomatic faux pas committed by previous governments. Over time, India developed such soft power honours to expand its diplomatic footprint. These include having international figures as chief guests for Republic Day celebrations (since 1950) or bestowing the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding (since 1965) and International Gandhi Peace Prize (since 1995). There are also non-official awards like the Ind