Setting up of Border Haats ( 2 August 2017 )
Setting up of Border Haats is one of the methods for facilitating and increasing border trade across neighbouring countries.
Seven shortlisted companies were given ‘Letters of Intent’ for fourteen monuments under ‘Adopt a Heritage Scheme’ of Ministry of Tourism at the closing ceremony of ‘Paryatan Parv’ at Rajpath Lawns, New Delhi yesterday. These companies will be the future ‘Monument Mitras’ who would associate pride with their CSR activities.
Share of Defence Budget ( 25 July 2017 )
The share of the Defence Budget as per the traditional format followed as a percentage of the GDPÂ from 2013-14 to 2017-18.
Shortage of CAPF Personnel ( 11 April 2017 )
Two additional Reserve Battalions have been sanctioned to CISF in June, 2016. Further, Government has recently (December, 2016) increased the ceiling of strength of CISF from 1,45,000 to 1,80,000. The requirement of manpower for expansion/new induction is met from this enhanced strength on need basis.
Shortage of Soldiers in Armed Forces ( 11 April 2017 )
The shortage of soldiers in the three Armed Forces.
Shri K.J. Alphons, Minister of State (I/C) for Tourism has written to Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh regarding the brutal attack on two Switzerland citizens at Fatehpur Sikri yesterday.
Shri Kiren Rijiju inaugurates the ‘India Disaster Response Summit ( 9 November 2017 )
The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Kiren Rijiju has said that India need to prepare itself for moving towards Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) from an approach of traditional Disaster Management. He emphasised that Disaster Mitigation Strategy should be areas of priority for addressing Disaster Risk Management. Shri Rijiju was inaugurating the ‘India Disaster Response Summit’, organised jointly by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Facebook, here today on how best to leverage social media platforms to ‘prepare, respond and recover’ for, during and after a disaster.
Signing of Military and Defence agreements ( 8 August 2017 )
A list of military or defence related agreements signed with other nations for the last three years (i.e. from 1 st August 2014).
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman to assume charge as Defence Minister Tomorrow ( 6 September 2017 )
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman will assume charge as the Defence Minister on September 07, 2017 in South Block, New Delhi. She will assume the charge from Shri Arun Jaitley who was holding the additional charge of the Ministry of Defence since March 14, 2017. Smt. Sitharaman will become the first full time woman Defence Minister of India.
The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh will review the situation in Left Wing Extremism affected States here tomorrow.