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Not just on radio, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s monthly ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme is now available on all major audio or music platforms. This includes platforms such as Amazon Music, Spotify, Hungama, Gaana, JioSaavn and Wynk, a government official told News18 . All of them feature ‘Mann Ki Baat’ in an effort to ensure that people can seamlessly listen to the address on audio platforms wherever they go. “In addition to TV, radio, the NaMo App, YouTube and physical events where people listen in to the monthly programme, this will also augment the reach of ‘Mann Ki Baat’, especially to the younger generation,” the senior official said. Modi holds the ‘Mann Ki Baat’ address on the last Sunday of every month, the primary objective of the programme being to establish a dialogue with the citizens on issues of day-to-day governance. The government says this helps the prime ministeer reach the masses across the country through radio and provides every citizen the opportunity to ...

He was a normal child, desiring a good life. He studied hard and finished his BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, and then completed his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kolkata. But after joining the corporate world, he realised this wasn’t his calling; working to increase the profits of shareholders of the company did not inspire him. It was at IIT that he began questioning the raison d’etre of his life. “Rigorous science training left me unimpressed. Though we learnt about the laws of nature at IIT, there was no mention of the ‘lawmaker’. Same at IIM — while learning economics, psychology, and other subjects, the bigger questions of life persisted in my mind: Who am I? Why did I come to this world? What is the purpose of my life?” recalls Swami Mukundananda in an exclusive interaction with Firstpost . The quest for the ‘Absolute Truth’ led me to the Bhagavad Gita . And thus began his spiritual journey. The following is an edited excerpt of...

Agitation has become a fashion and a rewarding career choice, too. In a globalised world, agitation funding and branding are far easier and more fashionable. After one year of the farmers’ agitation and 11 rounds of talks between government and farmers failing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now withdrawn the three farm laws . The farmer agitation, however, is likely to continue towards a larger political dividend. While the ongoing farmers’ protest seems more political, the agrarian crisis of India is far more real, fundamental and structurally flawed than that meets the eye. More than 4 lakh farmers in India have committed suicide between 1995 and 2018—one of the major cases of agrarian distress in the world. Most of them are marginal farmers. Several data sets indicate that there are about 100-150 million farmers living in India—five times the population of Sri Lanka or twice the population of Germany or Great Britain. Nearly 65 percent of them are marginal farmers who bear the ...

Aadhaar-enabled Direct Transfer Benefit (DBT) payments during the last financial year that was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic helped save the government nearly Rs 45,000 crore, taking total savings since 2014, when the scheme was expanded, to Rs 2.2 lakh crore, the Modi government has said. The official government data has been reviewed by News18 for the financial year April 2020 to March 2021. According to officials, this was achieved by cutting leakages in government programmes, weeding out fake or non-existing beneficiaries of government schemes and sending money directly into Aadhaar-linked bank accounts of genuine beneficiaries. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has earlier said this was a departure from the past. Speaking two days ago at the ‘Aadhaar 2.0’ conference, MEITY secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney said Aadhaar had “acted as a saviour” during COVID-19. “Aadhaar-enabled DBT payments increased by up to 140 percent in April 2021 from March 2020. It again shot up by more than 200 p...

Unlike many other fitness trackers and smartwatch manufacturers, Noise offers a handful of apps which work with specific wearables from the company. Here are the steps to connect your Noise fitness tracker or smartwatch to your iPhone or Android smartphone. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/3Dc1wG5

Agartala: Counting of votes for over 200 seats in the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) and other civic bodies in Tripura, where elections were held earlier amid allegations of rigging and attacks on political rivals, began on Sunday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading in Ambassa, Jirania, Teliamura and Sabroom seats, the Tripura State Election Commission informed. An official of the State Election Commission said the counting started in 13 centres in all the eight districts of the state where a three-tier security is in place. The run-up to the polls, which should have been a humdrum affair, became a cause celebre after it was marred by violence, arrests, sit-ins in far-away Delhi and a Supreme Court intervention asking officials to ensure peaceful polling. The polling itself on Thursday was accompanied by charges of vote malpractices by the TMC and CPI(M), both of whom had demanded re-polling in various municipalities. The ruling BJP however, had dismissed t...

While the most convenient way to use the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 is to use the Galaxy Wearable app to pair it with a phone, there is also a way to use the Galaxy Watch without connecting to a mobile phone. Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 can be used without a mobile device when you turn it on for the first time or you reset it. from Gadgets 360 https://ift.tt/3laZUpG