Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), June 28,2023: Madhya Pradesh Government on Wednesday decided to open new medical colleges in six districts namely Khargone, Dhar, Bhind, Balaghat, Tikamgarh and Sidhi.
The decision was taken during a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan held at Mantralaya in the state capital.
After the meeting, State Home Minister Narottam Mishra briefed mediapersons about the various decisions taken by the council of ministers.
“During the meeting, the cabinet approved the proposal to open new medical colleges in six districts of the state which include, Khargone, Dhar, Bhind, Balaghat, Tikamgarh and Sidhi. The council of ministers also approved the proposal of Rs 1335.20 crore for the construction of 33 new innovative CM Rise schools,” Mishra said.
The home minister further said that the council of ministers approved Rs 24000 crores for electricity subsidy. Exemption in destitute fee for procurement of summer moong and urad crops on Minimum Support Price (MSP).
Besides, the cabinet approved Rs 1700 crore for two years in the fourth phase of Chief Minister’s Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme. Rs 190 crore approved for Seep Amber Complex Irrigation Project Phase 2 in Sehore’s Bherunda. Irrigation will be done in 13,457 hectare area and 24 villages of Bherunda tehsil will be benefited with it, the minister added.
New Delhi, June 28,2023: The Delhi government has released a Rs 100 crore fund to its 12 colleges under Delhi University, a minister said on Wednesday.
State Education Minister Atishi told a press conference here that funds allocated to these 12 Delhi government funded colleges have been increased by three times in eight years.
In the year 2014-15, the allocation was Rs 132 crore and 2023-24 the amount has gone up to Rs 400 crore.
New Delhi , June 27,2023: The Tibetan troops recruited by the Chinese Army for helping them in high-altitude areas are now visible as part of the People’s Liberation Army border defence patrols along the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh, according to the sources.
Soon after the aggression along the LAC in 2020, China started recruiting these soldiers to help them sustain in high-altitude areas as part of their long-term deployment plans there.
“The Tibetan soldiers are now visible as part of the patrols of their border defence troops but the majority continue to be the mainland Chinese soldiers,” sources in security forces said.
The Chinese have faced issues with their regular mainland troops to sustain themselves in high altitude areas and also have seen how the Indian Special Frontier Force troops including many Tibetan troops performed during the capture of high peaks in the Kailash ranges by the Indian Army, sources said.
As per reports, China had issued instructions to their senior commanders to induct at least one soldier from each Tibetan family and turn them loyal towards the country as well as keeping a check on their families.
However, sources said the move by China has seen a lot of resentment from the affected families.
India and China have been in a military standoff since April-May 2020 and deployed heavily in the border areas.
India has also deployed an almost equal number of troops along the Eastern Ladakh sector to counter any possible misadventure by the Chinese in the future.
The Army has also reoriented its focus towards the northern borders and deployed new formations along with dual tasking some of them for facing the two-front threat scenario.
Moscow, June 26,2023: Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna said on Monday that at least 15 NATO member countries were expected to support Kiev’s possible accession to the alliance during the Vilnius summit scheduled for July 11-12.
“If we judge by a 30-point scale or by a 31-point scale, there are at least 15 points from those countries which understand the need for such a decision. This is not a question of whether they support Ukraine or not — all countries support Ukraine, all countries have made unprecedented historical and political decisions,” Stefanishyna was quoted as saying by Ukrainian newspaper Dzerkalo Tyzhnia.
She added that “the overwhelming majority” of European NATO member states backed Ukraine’s possible membership in the alliance because the move was “a security guarantee.”
Last week, NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg said that the allies in the run-up to the Vilnius summit were not talking about sending a formal invitation to Ukraine to join the bloc of 31-nations. The NATO chief reiterated that it was impossible to give a precise date for when Ukraine would join the alliance, with Kiev’s membership not to be discussed until the military conflict with Russia was over.
The allies agreed at the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest that Ukraine would become a NATO member in future, but they have repeatedly refused to offer it a timeline with specific dates by which it can join the alliance, despite pleas from Kiev. Ukraine applied for accelerated NATO membership in September 2022 following the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
Tokyo, June 24,2023: The first case of human death from the tick-borne Oz virus has been officially confirmed in Japan, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) said on Saturday.
The Oz virus was discovered in Japan in 2018; it has not been found outside of the country.
The first fatal case among humans occurred in the summer of 2022, when a woman in her 70s died in Japan’s Ibaraki prefecture after contracting the virus, according to NIID data released on Friday.
The woman exhibited symptoms including fever and fatigue after getting bitten by a tick.
She was hospitalized with pneumonia and died nearly a month later of myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, NIID said.
June 21,2023:Russia has accused Ukraine of planning to attack annexed Crimea with long-range United States and British missiles and warned it would retaliate if that happened.
Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu told a meeting of military officials on Tuesday that Moscow possesses information that Ukraine plans to strike Crimea with US-supplied HIMARS long-range rocket systems and British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
“The use of these missiles outside the zone of our special military operation would mean that the United States and Britain would be fully dragged into the conflict and would entail immediate strikes on decision-making centres in Ukraine,” Shoigu said.
Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and considers it to be outside the scope of its invasion – which is focused in eastern and southern Ukraine, where Ukraine is fighting to retake territory.
Kyiv, which says it is battling for its survival in a war of colonial conquest, said it wants to reclaim all of its territory, including Crimea, the home of Russia’s Black Sea naval base.
Shoigu said Ukraine’s armed forces carried out 263 attacks on Russian positions since June 4, referring to what Moscow regards as the start of Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
“Thanks to the smart and selfless actions of our units, all of them [the attacks] have been repelled. The enemy has not accomplished its goals,” Shoigu said.
June 21,2023:China has called reported comments by Biden “extremely absurd and irresponsible”.
Foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Wednesday that Biden’s comments “go totally against facts and seriously violate diplomatic protocol, and severely infringe on China’s political dignity”.
US President Joe Biden has likened his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to a dictator, just a day after his top diplomat left Beijing following a visit designed to ease the two countries’ strained ties.
Speaking at a Democratic Party fundraiser in northern California on Tuesday, Biden said Xi had been angered over an incident in February when a Chinese balloon – which Washington says was used for spying – flew over the United States before it was eventually shot down.
“The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment is he didn’t know it was there,” Biden said.
June 17,2023:Mali has called on the United Nations to withdraw its peacekeeping mission from the country “without delay,” denouncing its “failure” to respond to security challenges.
Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop, who is part of Mali’s interim military authorities, told a UN Security Council meeting on Friday that the peacekeeping force known as MINUSMA should withdraw its troops from the West African nation.
El Ghassim Wane, the head of the UN mission in Mali, said after the meeting of the 15-member council that conducting UN peacekeeping operations was “nearly impossible” without the consent of the host country.
“It’s a decision that the council has to make,” he told reporters. “But the point I’m making, and I believe it’s a point that everyone agrees on, is that peacekeeping is based on the principle of consent from the host country and absent that consent, of course, operations are nearly impossible.”
Al Jazeera’s Kristen Saloomey said that the mandate for the mission is due to expire at the end of the month.
“The foreign minister had expressed concern that the UN had been in the country for 10 years and the violence and insecurity it was sent there to stop had only gotten worse,” she said, reporting from UN headquarters in New York City.
“He said this has resulted in a crisis of confidence for the Malian people. There have been protests in Mali calling on UN peacekeepers to leave.”
UN Security Council members must adopt a resolution to extend MINUSMA’s mandate by June 30. That requires at least nine votes in favour and no vetoes by Russia, China, the United States, United Kingdom or France to pass.
Islamabad, June 17,2023: Pakistan have named a 16-member squad for their upcoming two-match Test series against Sri Lanka expected to be held in July.
The squad is headlined by the return of star pacer Shaheen Afridi, who last featured in the longest format in July 2022 when he suffered a knee injury in a Test against Sri Lanka.
Pakistan have also decided to include two uncapped players in the squad, with batter Mohammad Huraira and all-rounder Aamir Jamal getting call-ups.
The squad will be led by Babar Azam, who will have the services of fellow stars like Mohammad Rizwan, Abdullah Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq, Hasan Ali and Naseem Shah available at his disposal,the ICC reported.
Pakistan will assemble in Karachi on July 3 for preparations ahead of their scheduled departure on July 9, with the schedule of the tour expected to be announced soon.
The two Test matches will form a part of the ICC World Test Championship 2023-25 cycle for the sides.
Pakistan squad: Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (vc & wk), Aamir Jamal, Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Hasan Ali, Imam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Huraira, Mohammad Nawaz, Naseem Shah, Noman Ali, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk), Saud Shakeel, Shaheen Afridi and Shan Masood.