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According to Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, the government wants to minimize reliance on fossil fuels and encourage greener, more sustainable mobility options The Jammu and Kashmir administration led by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha is exploring the option to deploy electric buses or e-buses for public transport purposes. In this connection, the authorities have been in talks with e-bus manufacturers for acquiring suitable model of such electric buses for the UT. The alternative electric buses An electric bus is one that runs on electricity. Electric buses can either store energy onboard or be supplied constantly from a power source. Although there are examples of different storage techniques, such as the gyrobus, which employs flywheel energy storage, the bulk of buses that store  electricity  are battery electric buses, where the electric motor derives energy from an onboard battery pack. When there isn't enough electricity on board, it is obtained by interaction with exter

Septuagenarian Biren Kumar Basak re-started his career to weave epics and tell stories about the Indian tribes and backward communities in a saree in Phulia, Bengal Septuagenarian Biren Kumar Basak is a weaver from the Nadia district in West Bengal. He was awarded the highest civilian award Padma Shri, this year. He began his career in the 1970s after the family migrated to India during partition in 1962. The family decided to settle in Phulia in  Bengal 's Nadia district, known as the hub of weavers. Biren Basak followed his father’s footsteps, a master weaver of Tangail and Jamdani sarees. “We are a family of hereditary weavers. No one taught us weaving like done in some modern training centres,” he said. Biren Basak’s humble beginnings The Padma Shri awardee started working when he was eight years old. He learnt the art to weave sarees on a pick-loom using cotton yarn borrowed from his father. “In 1975, my brother and I used to travel to Kolkata to sell our sarees door-to-door

Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan Jr and Konkani novelist Damodar Mauzo have won the 56th and 57th Jnanpith Award, respectively Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan Jr and Konkani novelist Damodar Mauzo have won the 56th and 57th Jnanpith Award, respectively. The annual Jnanpith by the Bhartiya Jnanpith is bestowed on writers for 'their outstanding contribution towards literature'. It is given to authors who write in any Indian languages listed in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution and English. Who is poet Nilmani Phookan Jr? Poet  Nilmani Phookan Jr  is the third Assamese writer to be bestowed by India’s highest literary award after Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya and Mamoni Raisom Goswami. "Phukan has equally enhanced the intellectual field of Assam with equal etymology and expertise in all aspects of teaching, poetry, art and criticism. Congratulations to poet Phukandev. I wish him good health and long life," tweeted Chief Minister  Himanta Biswa Sarma . The poet was born

A Radical New Approach To Controlling Real Estate At Less Than 3% Of Actual Cost Mumbai: AweSpace Ventures Pvt. Ltd. has launched a highly innovative model for controlling high rental-income-generating luxury vacation properties - at less than 3% of their actual costs! The Property Usage Ownership Model is disrupting the way buyers and investors perceive ownership of real estate in India & overseas. Instead of focusing on the PHYSICAL aspect of the property, the Property Usage Ownership model enables consumers to own and control the manner in which the property is USED.  Vijay Naraayanan - CEO Of AwesSpace Ventures says, “Attempting to control the total ownership of a property results in multiple bottlenecks and hassles for buyers & investors - the need to take loans, having to pay instalments & interests for long tenures, blocking active income, not being able to sell the ownership in parts, having to hope and pray for appreciation, etc.”  AweSpace Ventures Pvt Ltd

Benefits of liberalization did not reach the poorest sections of the population The disparity between the rich and the poor became wider in pandemic times. This was revealed in the World Inequality Report 2022, which was released on Tuesday. The report has revealed that India is such a poor country where disparity is very widespread. The report shows that on one hand, the number of people living in extreme poverty is increasing, the wealth of the rich is increasing, on the other hand, at an even faster rate. World Inequality Report 2022 reveals that 1% of the population has 22% of the nation’s wealth While the average income of an adult in India is Rs 2,04,200, 50% of the population could earn just Rs 53,610 annually. The top 10% of the population earn 20 times the amount earned by half the  Indian population  annually. 57% of the nation’s income goes into the coffers of this 10% population. The richest 1% of the population has 22% of the nation’s wealth. This year, the income of the

In India, the discourse is mostly centred on the GDP growth rate while the inflation, unemployment, and the availability of basic commodities are believed to improve automatically as a consequence There is a sea of difference between the economic debate in the American and Indian media. In this context, the GDP for the second quarter of 2021-2022 have been released in India. The ruling party's voice is going louder, proclaiming that the nation has achieved a growth rate of 8.4% which is as good as the pre-Covid times. However, the Opposition is contradicting the official line and argued that as compared to last quarter growth, the second quarter growth is nil. The Biden administration focuses on inflation, unemployment In the US, the point of debate is not focused on the growth rate of the GDP. The economic agenda of the Biden administration is focused on inflation, unemployment and availability of essential goods. President Biden in his speech in Baltimore had clearly underlined

LIKA World Records Festival, a mega talent festival in which 15 young minds have showcased their best hidden potentials by performing an act of brilliance and 12 of them made an entry in to Elite World Records, Asian Records Academy and India Records Academy.  Tamilnadu, India: Little Indigo a pioneer kid’s academy in TamilNadu with a vision and mission of educating and imparting value added holistic education for human excellence, with over a decade of distinction has successfully accomplished “LIKA World Records Festival 2021” on December 6, 2021, a mega talent festival in which 15 young minds have showcased their best hidden potentials by performing an act of brilliance and 12 of them made an entry in to Elite World Records, Asian Records Academy and India Records Academy.  K.S. Ishaan Subramaniam, sets record by answering 154 questions in 5-Minutes, which included questions from Virus to Vulture, and everything about life included in Biology. Up above the World so high! What