National Voters Day : Prime Minister extends greetings on the occasion of National Voters Day
New Delhi, INDIA (DT) -The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has extended greetings on the occasion of National Voters Day.
The Prime Minister posted on X;
Greetings on National Voters Day, an occasion which celebrates our vibrant democracy and also a day to encourage people to register as voters, if they haven’t already.
At 11 AM, I will address the Nav Matdata Sammelan, which will bring together first time voters from across… https://t.co/LKSe19BddR
“Greetings on National Voters Day, an occasion which celebrates our vibrant democracy and also a day to encourage people to register as voters, if they haven’t already.
At 11 AM, I will address the Nav Matdata Sammelan, which will bring together first time voters from across India.”
In his remarks, he emphasized, “You have become an integral part of the democratic system by having your names registered in the voter list. Your enrollment coincides with a crucial period for our nation, known as its ‘Amrit Kaal’ or transformative phase.”
Modi underscored the responsibility of the new voters in contributing to the vision of a developed India by the year 2047. “You all have a significant opportunity to shape how your names will be remembered in the annals of a prosperous India. The pace, direction, and approach will be influenced by your decisions, with voting serving as a crucial medium,” he stated.
75th Republic Day French : President Macron to arrive in India, will tour pink city, Jaipur with PM Modi today
New Delhi, INDIA (DT)- French President Emmanuel Macron has landed in India to partake in the grand celebrations of the 75th Republic Day. The visit holds significance as the two nations aim to strengthen bilateral ties and explore areas of mutual interest.
President Macron is scheduled to engage in a joint tour of the historic city of Jaipur with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The tour aims to foster cultural exchange and cooperation between France and India.
A red carpet welcome including a parade of decorated elephants awaited Macron after landing in Jaipur in Rajasthan, where he will be hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a state banquet in a 19th-century maharaja’s palace.
A Modi-Macron roadshow ‘Sobha Yatra’ has been planned from the iconic Jantar Mantar (Jaipur) to Sanganeri Gate with a stopover at Hawa Mahal.
The French President’s presence at the Republic Day parade showcases the enduring friendship between the two nations and underscores the importance of diplomatic relations in today’s interconnected world.
French President Emmanuel Macron received a warm welcome upon his arrival in the historic city of Jaipur, with Governor of Rajasthan Kalraj Mishra, External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar, and Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal extending their greetings. Photo MEA
This visit comes amidst a backdrop of shared commitments to global challenges, and both leaders are expected to discuss crucial issues ranging from climate change to economic collaboration.
Stay tuned for updates on the collaborative initiatives expected to emerge from this significant meeting between the leaders of France and India.
French President Emmanuel Macron received a warm welcome upon his arrival in the historic city of Jaipur, with Governor of Rajasthan Kalraj Mishra, External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar, and Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal extending their greetings. Photo MEA
Sri Lankan State Minister Sanath Nishantha and another killed in car accident
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (PTI)- Sri Lankan state minister Sanath Nishantha and a constable from his security team died in a car crash on a highway on Thursday morning, the police said.
Sri Lanka Police in a statement said the SUV in which the 48-year-old state minister for water supplies was travelling crashed onto the rear end of a freight container truck heading to Colombo at 2 am.
The driver of the vehicle sustained serious injuries and was admitted to the Ragama hospital, News First Lanka quoted the police as saying.
Myanmar army plane skids off runway in Mizoram Airport, India 8 injured
Aizwal, Jan 23 (EFE).- A Myanmar military plane crash-landed at an airport in northeast India on Tuesday, injuring at least eight crew members, according to Indian police.
The cargo aircraft, with 14 crew members including the pilots on board, veered off the runway at Lengpui Airport in the bordering state of Mizoram and crashed into nearby woods, Deputy Superintendent of Police Lalduata Hmar told EFE.
Hmar said eight crew members sustained injuries and were transported to the nearby Lengpui village health center for medical attention.
The police officer said the plane had arrived to pick up 92 Myanmar army personnel who had recently entered India after fleeing their homeland.
Many soldiers have crossed the porous border between India and Myanmar to reach Mizoram, where they have handed over weapons to the Indian Army.
The four northeast Indian states – Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, and Mizoram – share a more than 1,600-km-long border with strife-torn Myanmar, which is currently caught in a bloody civil war, triggered by the 2021 military coup.
The civil unrest in Myanmar has heightened tensions in border areas adjacent to India, leading to thousands of Myanmar people seeking refuge in India to escape airstrikes launched by the military in response to the rebel offensive.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), since the rebel offensive in Myanmar began on Oct. 27, approximately 90,000 people have been displaced from their homes. EFE
Grow app glitch : Customers faced inconvenience due to technical issues in the Grow app, expressing their dissatisfaction on social media
Mumbai, INDIA(DT)- Users of the Grow app encountered issues as the stock market opened on Tuesday morning. On the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Groww users reported experiencing technical difficulties. Numerous users mentioned being unable to log in to the app.
A user named Bhamar Singh expressed, growapp is crashed today and Ican’t access my demat account and I face almost 16000 INR loose just because service is unavailable #groww Many attempts failed to contact groww service and no response please don’t use #groww app
Anurag Sharma expressed, “I believe Grow’s servers are down. I can’t log in; is anyone else facing issues?” Amar Singh also shared his concern, stating, “The Grow app is malfunctioning. I cannot log in. This indicates that something is amiss.”
Rishi Shrivastva wrote, “Make ur app more rigid and resilient.serously many times stuck in situations where i was not able to purchase any stock, I had balance on my #Groww wallet but it was showing no amt u hv, Bookmarks disappear many times in a day whereas you have up to date app at grow.
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Soumojit Ghosh wrote on his twitter/ x Anyone else struggling with @_groww since 9:15AM to till now?? “Something went wrong” seems stuck on repeat. What’s going on? Fix it & let us invest already!. He tag to SEBI and NSE, BSE for #growwdown #LetsTradeagain @NSEIndia @BSEIndia
“Some Grow users experienced difficulties logging in, while others expressed frustration over being unable to check their balance or execute orders. Additionally, some users shared memes on Twitter/x.”
Groww recently communicated a suspension in its service for investing in US stocks. In a message to its customers, Groww stated that new investments in US stocks would be discontinued after February 27, 2024.
According to NSE data, Groww emerged as India’s leading broker with 76 million active clients in December, surpassing Zerodha’s client base of 67.3 million. Together, these two major brokers command over one-third of the market share. Angel One secures the third position, holding approximately 14.8% of the market share.
Secretary-General Appoints Nahla Valji of Canada United Nations Resident Coordinator in Eritrea
UNITED NATION – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Nahla Valji of Canada as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Eritrea, with the host Government’s approval. She took up her post on 21 January and will also serve as the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country.
Ms. Valji has more than 25 years of experience in sustainable development, peace and security, gender, and human rights in the United Nations and civil society, with expertise in leading institutional reform processes and start-up initiatives, including two UN funds and a Security Council mechanism on women, peace and security.
Prior to this appointment, she served as the Global Coordinator of the Spotlight Initiative to Eliminate Violence against Women and Girls, a €500 million flagship programme for the Sustainable Development Goals, and as a Senior Adviser in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General.
Before that, Ms. Valji was the Acting Chief/Deputy of the Peace and Security Section of United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) where she led the entity’s work on peacekeeping, peace negotiations and the rule of law, and focused on country programming support and policy analysis and development. In 2015, she headed the Secretariat for the Global Study on the implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1325 (2000), a comprehensive review requested by the Security Council on women, peace and security.
Before the UN, Ms. Valji worked in South Africa on issues of development, human rights, and peacebuilding. During this time, she led the Africa-wide work on transitional justice of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. This involved managing partnerships with civil society, academia, experts, Governments and the African Union. She founded and was the managing editor of the International Journal of Transitional Justice and is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook on Gender and Conflict.
Ms. Valji has a masters degree in political science and international relations and a joint diploma in forced migration studies from York University in Canada.
Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Cabo Verdean Prime Minister Correia e Silva
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a tour of four African countries on Monday, meeting with the leaders of Cape Verde and Ivory Coast and touting America as the continent’s key economic and security ally at times of regional and international crises.
Blinken is visiting Nigeria and Angola next. The tour — which comes as deadly crises and rampant coups threaten the continent’s stability — focuses on trade, security, and democracy promotion.
In Cape Verde’s capital, Praia, he met with Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva and said the U.S. is committed “to deepening, strengthening, broadening” its partnerships with Africa whose young population of 1.3 billion is set to double by 2050 and make up a quarter of the world’s inhabitants.
Analysts say Africa seems to have been pushed to the back burner under President Joe Biden as his administration is increasingly consumed by other international issues such as the fighting in Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, as well as its rivalry with China. Biden also failed to visit Africa last year as he promised.
“As President Biden has said, we are all in when it comes to Africa,” Blinken told the Cape Verdean leader. “We see Africa as an essential, critical, central part of our future. This trip … really does focus on President Biden’s commitment and conviction that the United States and Africa are joined in partnership for the future,” he added.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Cabo Verdean Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva today in Praia. Secretary Blinken congratulated Prime Minister Correia e Silva on Cabo Verde’s malaria-free certification by the World Health Organization and its selection as eligible to develop a Millennium Challenge Corporation compact for the purpose of regional economic integration. The Secretary and the Prime Minister emphasized the importance of the U.S.-Cabo Verde partnership for advancing security and prosperity in the Atlantic Basin, West Africa, and around the world.
The Secretary welcomed the shared values between the United States and Cabo Verde in promoting democracy, good governance, and human rights.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shakes hands with Cape Verde Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva, at the Government Palace in Praia, Cape Verde, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP)
Silva described Cape Verde as “a longstanding and consistent partner” of the U.S. and said such a visit shows “the Biden administration’s genuine interest in win-win partnerships with Africa.”
“We would like to strengthen our partnership with the U.S. in maritime security and cyber security from a regional, global perspective,” said Silva.
Cabo Verde is a longstanding and consistent partner of the U.S. We have a diaspora of thousands of American Cape Verdeans, Cape Verdean American citizens who are proud of their origins. We share values of democracy, good governance, respect for human rights, and a defense of human dignity.
History, diaspora, and values are the foundations of our relations. That’s why they are strong in structure. In general, Cape Verde’s foreign relations are guided by the values of liberal democracy, international law, and multilateralism, and by predictability, consistency, and trust in our partnerships. It is based on these references that we strongly condemn Russians’ – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we condemned the terrorist act of Hamas in Israel, and we defend solutions that make the two states of Israel and Palestine viable.
Also Monday, Blinken flew to the Ivory Coast where he met President Alassane Ouattara and senior government officials. They discussed “shared priorities of strengthening democracy, expanding trade and improving local and regional security,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement.
He is attending a football match between Equatorial Guinea and Ivory Coast later on Monday, part of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations tournament.
Secretary-General Appoints Mohamed Yahya of Somalia United Nations Resident Coordinator in Pakistan
UNITED NATION – The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Mohamed Yahya of Somalia as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Pakistan, with the host Government’s approval. He took up his post on 21 January, and he will also serve as the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country.
Mr. Yahya has more than 20 years of experience in development and peacebuilding. Prior to his appointment, he served as the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in Nigeria, where he oversaw one of UNDP’s largest country portfolios in Africa with presence in five out of the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria.
Before that, he worked as the Coordinator for Africa Regional Programme for UNDP based in Addis Ababa, where he was responsible for regional development initiatives in support of the African Union and Africa’s Regional Economic Communities. Previously, Mr. Yahya held positions with UNDP as post-conflict recovery specialist supporting UN interventions in Afghanistan and Liberia, as well as coordinator for a UN joint initiative on natural resource management. Before joining the UN, he worked as a senior peacebuilding adviser for the non-governmental organization International Alert.
Mr. Yahya holds a master’s degree in violence, conflict and development and a bachelor’s degree in politics and history from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.
Trump to be joined by Tim Scott, Ramaswamy and Burgum at New Hampshire rally
FRANKLIN, N.H (TH)- Former President Trump will be joined by three of his primary rivals-turned-supporters at a rally on the eve of New Hampshire’s primary contest.
Scott, Ramaswamy and Burgum each ran against Trump in the Republican presidential primary but in recent months suspended their campaigns and backed Trump.
Burgum did so on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Ramaswamy did so after dropping out immediately after the caucuses, and Scott endorsed Trump on Friday, months after he suspended his campaign without endorsing anyone.
Scott is considered a contender to be Trump’s running mate should he win the nomination, while Trump has suggested there may be a place for Burgum in a hypothetical Trump administration. Burgum announced Monday he would not seek a third term as governor.
Scott spokesperson Nathan Brand told The Hill that in addition to appearing at Trump’s rally on Monday night, the South Carolina Republican would be campaigning all day with Trump in the Granite State on Tuesday and attending his victory party.
Their presence at Trump’s rally underscores the former president’s grip on the GOP as Republican lawmakers fall in line behind him. Several senators have backed Trump in recent weeks, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) endorsed Trump on Sunday after suspending his campaign.
Nikki Haley, the former ambassador to the United Nations, is Trump’s lone remaining major primary rival, though she trails the former president in the polls by double digits in New Hampshire and other early primary states.
13 Detained in Connection with Mira Road Clash in Mumbai Preceding Ram Temple Ceremony; Fadnavis Emphasizes ‘Zero Tolerance
Mumbai, INDIA (DT)- A confrontation unfolded in Mira Road, located on the outskirts of Mumbai, resulting in the apprehension of 13 individuals. The clash transpired amidst a vehicle rally commemorating the inauguration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, underscored a “zero tolerance” stance against anyone seeking to disturb peace and order in the state.
The incident unfolded as two groups clashed during the rally in Naya Nagar, stemming from a minor scuffle. Contrary to initial concerns, the police clarified that the occurrence did not constitute communal violence but was rather a confrontation between the two groups. The Mira Bhayandar – Vasai Virar (MBVV) police acted swiftly to deescalate the situation, recognizing the potential for heightened tensions given the significance of the Ram Temple inauguration.
DCP (Zone I), Jayant Bajbal, provided assurance to the public that there were no reports of communal unrest and urged citizens not to succumb to rumors. The police have initiated a comprehensive investigation, including a review of CCTV footage, to identify and apprehend any other individuals involved in the incident.
About the incident occurred last night at Mira Road : I took detailed info on what happened in NayaNagar in Mira Bhayender last night itself. Also was constantly in touch with Mira Bhayender CP till 3.30 am. Police were instructed to take strictest action against the culprits.…
On the same day as the clash, the Pran Pratishtha ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya took place, marked by the Maharashtra government declaring January 22 as a state holiday. Security measures were heightened for the event, including the deployment of Anti-Terrorist Squad commandos.
In response to the clash, Fadnavis directed the Police Commissioner to take immediate action, leading to the arrest of 13 individuals. He maintained close communication with the Mira Bhayander Commissioner of Police until the early hours following the incident, ensuring stringent measures were taken against those responsible.
“Police were instructed to take the strictest action against the culprits. Thirteen have been arrested so far, and a detailed analysis of CCTV footage is underway to identify and apprehend others involved too,” stated Fadnavis.
