Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interaction with farmers on the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Friday.
In a reach out over the government’s efforts for the farm sector, several central ministers, MPs, MLAs and BJP office bearers will be present among the electorate to listen to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interaction with farmers on the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Friday.
The Prime Minister will release Rs 18,000 crore as next instalment under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme to over 9 crore farmers on December 25. The Prime Minister will enable the transfer of the amount through the push of a button. The Prime Minister will also have a conversation with farmers from six different states during the event. Sources said several union ministers will be in their constituencies or in other parts of the country.
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Union Home minister Amit Shah and Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will listen to PM Modi’s speech in Delhi. Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari will listen to the PM’s interaction with farmers in Assam’s Silchar, while Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal will be in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh.
Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani will be in her constituency Amethi while Union Minister for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan will be in Jagatsinghpur in Odisha. Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat is expected to be in Jaisalmer whereas Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will listen to the program from Patna. Union Minister General (Retd) V K Singh will be in Ghaziabad, his parliamentary constituency.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee skipped the Visva-Bharati University centenary celebrations which were also attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) claimed that Mamata Banerjee received a late invite. However, the invite by Visva-Bharati University Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty to the Chief Minister is dated December 4.
The Prime Minister also addressed the event and said Visva-Bharati University presented a strong image of Indian nationalist sentiment during Independence with the guidance of Rabindranath Tagore.
Founded by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore in 1921, Visva-Bharati is also the oldest Central University in the country. In May 1951, Visva-Bharati was declared to be a Central University and an Institution of National Importance by an Act of Parliament.
NAEMD – Academy of Event Management & Development cheated many innocent students in Mumbai by offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees in event management
NAEMD – Academy of Event Management & Development and NASM – Academy of Sports Management had been offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees in event management through illegal third party franchise methods and cheated many innocent students in Mumbai to believe they would get University of Mumbai’s degrees. They have an illegal tie-up with GICED and NKES college. The UGC declared them frauds, issued notices and stopped them from issuing such degrees and ordered University of Mumbai and GICED to not collaborate with NAEMD and NASM, UGC also ordered them to mention on their websites that they cannot take admissions in degree courses.
In spite of all these, they have started their racket again through a back-door method of career counselling, the following points will prove that they are doing the same illegal thing.
Have a look at their websites to show they are offering the same illegal degrees by calling themselves career counsellors. A few points to be noted:
Career counsellors offer a wide choice of universities and colleges, in this case, it is compulsory to choose GICED in Mumbai, Vivekanand Global University in Jaipur, Maulana Azad University in Jodhpur. Where is the choice?
As UGC has ordered the University of Mumbai and GICED not to collaborate with event management institute – NAEMD and as NAEMD is not directly affiliated to MU, NAEMD is a private coaching event institute and by collaborating with GICED, they are using the illegal method of third party franchise to fool the students, GICED cannot take admissions on behalf of NAEMD as legally they are illegal as held by UGC in various notices to them. They are projecting that GICED is taking the admissions, but their website and prospectus point out that teaching, training, placements, admission test, infrastructure, library, teachers, workshops, professional training certificates and the full admission procedure including a reply to queries are all handled by NAEMD. Students are also offered to choose NAEMD’s Goregaon or Ghatkopar centres for teaching and training. If all this is handled by them then, what is the role of GICED which is at Kalina. Vivekanand University and Maulana Azad University are private universities and cannot offer degrees outside their campus which is being done at Jaipur and Jodhpur. How can this be career counselling? It is still an illegal third party franchise through back-door in a different garb. Will the degree earned by the students not be illegal and invalid.
A look at Mumbai University’s (MU) website clearly shows that BMS and MMS have not been offered to GICED, so how can GICED offer it? All the courses MU has given GICED has specific UGC permissions. So GICED is offering it without permission only to satisfy NAEMD but in consequence cheating innocent students. MU website clearly mentions that BMS have no specialization, even MU’s MMS does not have events as a specialization. Can NAEMD and GICED without permission offer specialization in events. Are they following MU’s admission guidelines which are being followed by all other legally affiliated colleges?
GICED has been ordered by UGC not to collaborate with NAEMD which means GICED is disobeying UGC.
All diploma and PG courses have to have DTE approval of the concerned state. Event management institute NAEMD has no DTE permission in Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Delhi and Jodhpur. In Ahmedabad, they had to discontinue degree courses as Swarnim University refused to affiliate with them after realizing their frauds and as the CM of Gujarat had ordered an inquiry against them.
Since 2009, they have been giving invalid degrees to students of Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Delhi from Coimbatore’s Bharathiar University and still do. This is strictly disallowed as the degrees are offered in a different state as per UGC’s notification of 2009. UGC has again warned NAEMD and Bharathiar about this recently and still, they are selling worthless papers in the form of degrees to innocent students for 4 to 5 lakhs.
Students are admitted by telling them that they will get Mumbai University degrees, but later they are given Bharathiar degrees, a lot of students have not got their mark sheets or degrees but they are frightened to talk as they are warned subtly. If the government or UGC sends a fact-finding committee to various NAEMD centres the truth will come out and innocent students will be warned.
All the above-mentioned points are backed by concrete proofs and soon a very honest media campaign can expose them and stop this racket and give justice to the students. We have done a lot of RTIs and have got a good response from UGC and government authorities, but only press campaigns can expose their fraud.
J&K Bank job applicants can download their Call Letters from the official website of the Bank.
J&K Bank has finally made available the Admit Cards for the upcoming recruitment exam for Banking Associate posts.
The concerned job applicants can download their Call Letters from the official website of the J&K Bank.
Earlier, the Bank had notified that the Admit Cards will be available online from December 15. However, it could not keep up with its commitment.
The online examination is scheduled to be held from January 01, 2021 on the following dates: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 9th, 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st of January.
How To Download J&K Bank BA Admit Cards/Call Letters?
Visit the official website of Jammu and Kashmir Bank. Navigate to the Careers page on the website to find the link for downloading J&K Bank BA Admit Cards/Call Letters.
At login page, enter your Registration No./Roll No., Password/DOB in the ‘DD-MM-YY’ format and CAPTCHA at the required places to download the Call Letter.
Applicants need to feed in the “Registration No.” & “Password” that was generated at the time of registration and displayed on the screen. These were also sent to the candidate immediately upon successful registration, by way of auto-generated email acknowledgement, at the email address registered by him/her.
Internet-based Call Letter download depends on various factors like Internet speed, a large number of applicants trying to download the Call Letter at the same time etc. Therefore, if you are not able to download the Call Letter immediately, please retry after a gap of five minutes or during off-peak hours during the night.
Even after Google outage, Google maintains that system reliability is its top priority.
It was for the first time in the history of search engine giant Google that its services became inaccessible on Monday, December 14.
Most of the Google services, from Gmail to YouTube to Google Drive, suffered a mass outage which lasted over an hour.
Users, across the globe, complained of inability to access emails. Some were logged out of ongoing Google Meet sessions.
What Exactly Caused The Massive Google Outage?
According to a statement of Google, the outage of “approximately 45 minutes” was due to “an internal storage quota issue.” The statement confirmed, “Services requiring users to log in experienced high error rates during this period.”
However, the statement reaffirmed ‘All services are now restored”. While apologizing to everyone affected, Google promised a “thorough follow up review to ensure this problem cannot recur in the future.”
There were problems reported with Gmail earlier as well. However, Google had maintained that it resolved those issues. However, hundreds of users continued to post on social media about their inability to access Gmail.
Google, on the other hand, maintains that system reliability is its top priority and they are consistently improving their services.
Were All Google Services And Users Affected?
With a service of the scale and reach of Google – just Gmail and YouTube together have over 3.5 billion global users – it is now increasingly rare to see an outage that affects all services and users.
This is because users, even from a single geographic region, are hosted over multiple servers across the world. And even on these servers, there are backups that activate quickly if something goes wrong.
Reliability of Google Services Questioned:
The outage gains importance given that there has been a surge in users across all online services, and certainly in those offered by Google.
There have already been questions asked on whether the backend infrastructure of tech-giants like Google are strong enough to withstand this spike in load, that too over a large period of time.
The companies that depend on Google for backend services are more worried about the impact of such an outage. This is a serious concern, given the mass adoption of online services amid the pandemic.
Radhika Kawlra Singh shares insight on how sustained mental inquiry creates rightful change
Radhika Kawlra Singh’s trilogy of ‘YOU’ books handhold you to acknowledge your un-manifested potential. In an interview with Digpu News, she speaks about ‘the failed human endeavour to evolve by greatness.’
You have spent two decades practicing as a therapist, handholding many to work through their psychological dilemmas. What governs the principal technique?
In therapy, I drive people to build reassurance so they live with more faith. Just as I help them look for the good in themselves, they start to witness the good in other people and in each situation that unfolds. The critical process utilizes regression therapy, which facilitates them to walk through the most painful parts of their experiences. In letting go of their stored emotions, they open their hearts for forgiveness and thereby shift many perspectives. They are able to replace the voidwith something more extensive, which is unique to each individual.
How close are your self-help books to actual therapy?
I help people in my chair, remove comma come face to face with their emotions so they may build enough resilience to handle challenges. The books are a sustained means to get behind issues. They attempt to cajole the subconscious into seeking the many repressed emotions attached to incidences and associated with bitter experiences with other people. To resolve your dilemma requires you to bring up your vulnerability, then effectively let it go. These books fully assist all the people who hesitate to approach a therapist for fear of exposing their weaker selves. By these means, they become a trusted means to build on your instincts and help you function independently.
Could youshare some insight on the potential impact your books are likely to create?
Buried within the self is the power of plasticity and change. People are only limited by their unknowing to uncover greater insight. Each one has the best understanding of their emotional, mental, and spiritual needs learned through their experiences. The trilogy of ‘YOU’, books serves as an enormous resource to help the reader remain triggered, motivated, and use the step-by-step techniques offered to make a real improvement. You are constantly changing in every way; thus, your needs too are shifting. Just as you know yourself better, you also accept that any sense of fulfillment is temporary. The various mind tools prepared for the readers through the books are highly persuasive as they enable holistic development: they make you rely on your instincts to facilitate newer fulfilling experiences. The collective impact of this is required to enable the much-awaited cumulative shift in humanity.
People face endless trials yet recognize the need to work on their failures only when they feel thoroughly vulnerable. How does an individual know it’s the correct time to make an effort to make things better for himself?
Consistency and persistence are the basic formulas that need to be applied to ensure a positive momentum established to create any shift. On being consistently faced with challenges, a person will become persistent and search for a means to make amends or repair a situation, hurt, or pain. Humans regularly acquire relationships yet fear losing them. When you come into the awareness of something gone wrong, you tend to dwell on it longer. While this awareness increases the threshold of pain, it also plants it into your memory. On the contrary, when you consistently choose to find a better means to adapt to your limitation, you develop an increased awareness to tackle new challenges and dismiss any new discord that shows up on your path. A healthy new habit needs to be added to your routine, such that a sustained effort enables you to feel harmonious at most times.
Do you also believe that you are giving away too much power by offering well-researched self-help books like yours?
The power to heal does not lie with the therapist. Every person has the inherent means to erase all fear and connect with their higher self to feel fulfilled. If there is wisdom that has been acquired, there should exist a willingness to share. Holding onto technique implies it has been entirely inherited by oneself. An honest therapist will offer the complete means to repair all discord and help you grow in awareness. This kind of empowerment prepares you to remove all known and unknown limitedness. When readers inherit positive attributes that guide them to meet success, it also serves as valuable feedback.
Your books not only demonstrate your expertise as a mature therapist, but they also read as strong narratives on the journey of the Spirit. In your opinion, what is the correct way humans should adopt to move forward?
We focus on satisfying our own immediate needs, and as a result of that, we have collectively given birth to the failed human endeavor to evolve by greatness. When we focus on others’ needs and accept what we can give up, we bring well-collected insight to manifest what is collectively required. Since all things are harmonious in spirit and strength, the way forward requires every person to recognize the unity within the diversity.
Do you believe people are ready to help themselves?
There is more going on inside the human brain at every moment in time, than is processed by the conscious mind. When people decide not to change – they will never be ready. When they are ready, they will be happier to discover their power by exploring all possibilities.
NIEM has given skilled event managers and raised the standard of events in our country and gave a very dynamic and elite outlook to events in India.
In April 2000, Asia’s first event institute, NIEM the Institute of Event Management gave the first Indianised course on event management and now completes 20 years of a glorious period of achievement and service to one the largest entertainment industry – the Indian event management industry. For the first time, our students could professionally study events and then join as completely trained professionals.
The students were ready and polished as along with excellent classroom teaching and workshops by eminent event personalities, NIEM gave them huge training on India’s topmost live events and also backed them to organize their own events to learn how to do a complete event, this specialized training on live events happened for the first time in the world for an event course. This made NIEM students fully ready for placements. NIEM has given skilled event managers and raised the standard of events in our country and gave a very dynamic and elite outlook to events in India. NIEM’s efforts have been well received by the event industry, students, parents and teachers. The media has come out and praised these efforts.
A lot of efforts, research and hard work has gone into making NIEM the brand it is. NIEM would ever be thankful for the creative and elite event industry which gave practical experience to the students, the faculty with its rich knowledge of the event industry, the reputed speakers who took efforts to guide the NIEM students and the press, students, teachers and parents who supported this effort. Says the dean Dr Hoshi Bhiwandiwalla that ‘NIEM will always be grateful for all the help and support we got from event industry and many others, but we grew as an unbeatable brand only because year after year, our students played a big role to make the event leaders that we are’.
NIEM has a lot of plans to improve, innovate and research and make better syllabus, more workshops, increased training, great placements and every effort to support and cater to the needs of the mega Indian event and entertainment industry. NIEM seeks your support to join this gigantic movement to make India the centre hub of world events and entertainment.
National Consumer Rights Day is celebrated in India on the 24th of December every year since 2013
Consumers are and should be the priority of every business. It is the consumers who build the actual business. It is important that they are treated right. If the consumers are not happy with the product or service, it is obvious that they will move on to some other organization. Apart from this, the rights of consumers must also be protected. To spread awareness about the rights of the consumer, annually, on 24th December, National Consumer Rights Day is celebrated.
History and Background
Since 2013, National Consumer Rights Day is celebrated on 24th December each year. The Consumer Protection Act 1986, was enacted on this day, hence the date was chosen. The objective of this act was to protect the consumer’s interest better. The act ensures that the consumers are protected against any malpractices by the businesses.
Various types of exploitation take place in the market like unfair dealing, selling adulterated products, spurious goods, selling unsafe goods, and many more. This Act was a historic milestone in the consumer movement within the country. This day is an opportunity to spread awareness among the people regarding their rights as consumers.
Theme for 2020
The theme for National Consumer Rights Day 2020 is ‘The Sustainable Consumer’. With the current situation of 2020, it is important to take drastic action against this. The crisis of worldwide temperature change and biodiversity loss is another crisis that the consumers need to keep in mind.
In the recently held District Development Council (DDC) elections of Jammu and Kashmir, the amalgam of various political parties—People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD)—secured the highest number of seats. However, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the single-largest party with a total of 75 seats in its kitty.
Being the first elections to be held in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of the erstwhile state’s special status in August 2019, the regional parties including National Conference (NC), People’s Democratic Party (PDP), People’s Conference (PC), Jammu Kashmir People’s Movement (JKPM) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) decided to fight the elections under the banner of PAGD, with the objective to deny any seats to BJP, especially in Kashmir region.
However, BJP still won on three seats in the valley, the PAGD leaders didn’t leave any opportunity to propagate the verdict as people’s anger towards the Saffron party and its policies, including the decision to scrap Article 370 and extend and modify new laws to the Union Territory.
Even when the PAGD alliance won 110 seats, BJP secured the largest vote share in the Union Territory in the DDC Elections. Explaining the same, some experts pointed out that the voters didn’t vote specifically against BJP but for issues of development. This kept the vote share down for the PAGD candidates, and at many places, BJP and Independent candidates emerged surprise winners.
As far as the Indian National Congress (INC) is concerned, the party has been taking a confusing stance. It held meetings with PAGD members and agreed to be part of the alliance. However, later backtracked on its position and said that it will fight the elections along with the PAGD, but will partner at strategic constituencies. This was after being criticized by a few BJP leaders for partnering with ‘Gupkar Gang which seeks help from enemy forces’ like China and Pakistan.
It is pertinent to mention here that out of the 278 seats for which results have been declared by the J&K Election Commission so far, besides the PAGD and the BJP, Independent candidates have won 50, Congress 26, Apni Party 12, PDF and the National Panthers Party two each and the BSP one.
The results of two constituencies – one each in Bandipora and Kupwara districts of north Kashmir – are still awaited as counting of votes has been deferred there till further orders, officials said.
CPI(M) leader Mohammed Yousuf Tarigami said the result of the DDC Elections went in favour of the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration and it was a clear indication that the people of Jammu and Kashmir want “restoration of their rights”.
Tarigami said, “The verdict is an eye-opener for the BJP government, which had launched a propaganda last August that people of Jammu and Kashmir have accepted its arbitrary and unconstitutional decision of revoking the erstwhile state’s special status under Article 370.”
Challenging the PAGD’s assertion that the people have spoken out against the abrogation of Article 370 in the DDC elections, Union Minister Anurag Thakur said the BJP and Independents got over 52 per cent votes which shows that the Gupkar Alliance has been rejected.
Noting that the BJP has emerged as the single-largest party and its vote share is more than the Gupkar Alliance, he claimed that those who were happy with the scrapping of Article 370 voted for the BJP and the Independents. “If you put the BJP and Independents vote share together, it makes over 52 percent votes. This shows J&K people have rejected the Gupkar Gang,” he said.
The people of Jammu and Kashmir have spoken out against “terrorism and separatism” and voted in favour of democracy and nationalism, the BJP leader, who was actively involved in the campaign, said.
Importantly, the poll results mean that the BJP has secured control of at least six DDCs in Jammu but none in Kashmir, where the People’s Alliance has a majority in nine DDCs.
Given the fact that there is no clear-cut majority in the five Councils, the Independent candidates do have a vital role. Although, the observers believe that Independent candidates are not going to be king makers in most cases, but there is still a lot of drama awaiting.
In fact, the drama has already unfolded as NC’s Omar Abdullah alleged that the winning Independent candidates are being transported to Srinagar for “discussions” with the BJP leadership.
SMEs are enhancing their e-commerce capabilities and rethinking their online shopping strategies in anticipation of significant sales
A recent survey by global transportation major FedEx shows a sense of optimism among Indian businesses with 30 per cent of small businesses and 40 per cent of medium businesses seeing a rise in e-commerce sales since lockdowns began.
The pandemic and its resulting restrictions have led to a shift in consumer behaviour towards e-commerce with 35 per cent of small businesses and 54 per cent of medium businesses surveyed believing that e-commerce sales will improve their financial growth following Covid-19. The FedEx-commissioned survey was conducted by the independent research firm Dun & Bradstreet India. It carried out in-depth interviews with the senior executives of 120 small and medium businesses across 18 Indian cities between September and November.
During this festive season, SMEs are enhancing their e-commerce capabilities and rethinking their online shopping strategies in anticipation of significant sales. Nearly 34 per cent of surveyed SMEs expect strong peak season demand.
This matches the findings published by Redseer which stated that peak season sales in India are expected to almost double this year, reaching 7 billion dollars in gross merchandise value compared to 3.8 billion dollars in the same period last year.
With the expected continued rise in e-commerce sales, 80 per cent of medium and 58 per cent of small businesses in the survey also believe that increased buying behaviour on e-commerce platforms will continue following the pandemic.
SMEs are also embracing digital solutions with 76 per cent of small businesses and 60 per cent of medium businesses stating that they are seeing a rise in digital payments received since the start of the pandemic. Digital wallets are also seeing greater adoption with higher rates among small businesses (28 per cent) than medium businesses (7 per cent)
