[CA] March 02, 2020

CHINTAN BAITHAK Chairpersons of all Major Ports of India, senior officials of the Ministry of Shipping, and other officials of Major Ports attended the meeting under the title of "Chintan Baithak" in Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu. In ‘Chintan Baithak’, detailed contemplation on various matters for improving the performance of the Major Ports, strengthening Major Ports to directly compete with private or non-major ports, port modernisation, implementing e-governance to make ports faceless and paperless, developing India as ‘trans-shipment hub’ and Vision-2030 for Maritime Sector was done. PUSA KRISHI VIGYAN MELA 2020 Union Agriculture Ministry inaugurated the Pusa Krishi Vigyan Mela 2020. Union Agriculture Minister, Mr. Narendra Singh Tomar said that, Government can provide funds, subsidies and incentives, but there has to be an interest in farming. For this agriculture has to be made a profitable venture; it should fulfil the nation’s needs, its share in GDP and exports should rise. COVID – 19 Infections and deaths due to COVID – 19 spreads rapidly across the continents. China reported 573 new infections and Iran reported 54 deaths due to COVID – 19. As of now, total deaths due to this virus stands at 2, 994 with 87, 686 people affected with this virus and 42, 634 people recovered from this virus. NEW MEDICAL COLLEGES IN TN Chief Minister, Mr. Edappadi K. Palaniswami laid the foundation stone for two new government medical colleges in Ramanathapuram and Virudhunagar. NSG REGIONAL HUB AT KOLKATTA Union Home Minister, Mr. Amit Shah inaugurated the National Security Guard (NSG) Regional Hub at Kolkatta. The area of responsibility of this Hub comprises of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand & the entire North Eastern States. The Kolkata hub, hitherto functioning from the Kolkata airport, is the fourth to have permanent infrastructure after Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad. EKAM FESTIVAL Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment to inaugurate the week long Exhibition-cum-Fair "EKAM Fest" today in New Delhi. EKAM Fest is an effort for promoting entrepreneurship and knowledge among Divyangjan community (Person with disabilities), generating awareness among society about potentialities of PwDs & providing a major marketing opportunity to PwDs entrepreneurs. RaIDeR - X RaIDer-X, a new explosive detection device, was unveiled at the National Workshop on Explosive Detection (NWED-2020) in Pune. RaIDer-X has been co-developed by High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL) Pune and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. RaIDer-X has the capability to detect explosives from a stand-off distance. The data library can be built in the system to expand its capability to detect a number of explosives in pure form as well as with the contaminants. Bulk explosive in concealed condition can also be detected by the device.