Rajnath Singh seeks out US companies for co-development, co-production

 

Safeguard Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday (neighborhood time) said that he has spoke to the US organizations and gear makers for co-advancement and co-creation in India.

In a selective meeting with ANI in Washington DC, Singh expressed that during the US-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialog, the US answered decidedly to India's arrangement of "Atmanirbharta (independence)".

"Taking everything into account, they answered emphatically on 'Atmanirbharta' (self-reliance)'… no cynicism in talks," he expressed.

"I have spoke to the American public, their organizations, hardware makers that they are welcome in India while calling upon them for co-advancement and co-creation in India," he added.

Responding to the US looking at giving reasonable safeguard frameworks, Singh said, "Value moderateness will help just when we require, or might produce…We at any point will get it from outside when it's required…"

Talking on India's reliance on Russian extra parts and the issues India could look in the future due to the Russian-Ukrainian struggle, that's what he said "India can suitably manage a wide range of issues and difficulties".

Responding to the difference in watch in Pakistan, Singh said that he wished the new Prime Minister (Shebaz Sharif) all the outcome in controling illegal intimidation in his country.

Prominently, Shehbaz Sharif was chosen as the 23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan on Monday after the ouster of Imran Khan through a no-certainty movement in the National Assembly.

In the mean time, the US-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialog between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh was hung on Monday in Washington.

Fought hard but failed to send Adityanath 'back to Gorakhpur': Akhilesh

 

While the BJP threw a pantheon of star campaigners, Akhilesh Yadav's was virtually the lone face of his Samajwadi Party in the Uttar Pradesh elections. From distributing tickets to choosing allies, it was the SP president's one-man show. At 48, he is a year younger to Yogi Adityanath, the UP chief minister and the man he hoped to send back to Gorakhpur. That didn't happen and the BJP appeared set for another term in office. Yadav fought hard, but his party trailed well behind the BJP. Born in Saifai on July 1, 1973, Yadav entered politics in 2000, winning a Lok Sabha bypoll from Kannauj and is now the MP from Azamgarh.

He contested his debut assembly election this time, picking Karhal, a segment in his father's Mainpuri parliamentary constituency. ADVERTISING The SP president, who burnt his fingers by partnering with the Congress in the 2017 UP polls and had joined hands with Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party in last general election, this time chose to enter into an alliance with a string of small regional parties. Briefly, he outmanoeuvred the BJP by inducting ministers Swami Pradesh Maurya, Dara Singh Chauhan and Dharam Singh Saini in an attempt to get the Other Backward Classes (OBC) on his side.

Not an inch of our land can be taken by any power, says Rajnath in Ladakh

Association Defense Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday guaranteed that not an inch of our territory can be taken by any force on the planet while he collaborated with the Indian Army and ITBP faculty at Lukung.
Alluding to the India-China fringe deadlock, he stated, "Talks are in progress to determine the outskirt contest however how much it very well may be settled I can't ensure. I can guarantee you, not one inch of our property can be taken by any force on the planet."
Underscoring on finding a conciliatory answer for the deadlock, he further stated, "If an answer can be found by talks, there is not all that much."
"As of late what occurred between troops of India and China at PP14, how a portion of our work force relinquished their carries on with ensuring our fringe. I am glad to meet all of you yet in addition disheartened as a result of their misfortune. I pay my tributes to them," he included.
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Singh collaborated with the Army and Paramilitary soldiers here alongside Chief of Defense Staff General Bipin Rawat and Army Chief General MM Naravane.
Prior today, the Defense Minister saw para dropping and checking weapons here. He likewise examined a Pika automatic rifle.
Indian Army T-90 tanks and BMP infantry battle vehicles completed the activity at Stakna, Leh in nearness of Singh, Chief of Defense Staff and Army Chief.
Protection Minister is on a two-day visit to Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir. He will consider the circumstance at both the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and the Line of Control (LOC).
While Pakistan continually disregards truce from over the LoC, China has kept on barging in into An indian area in Ladakh district in ongoing past, raising pressures among India and its eastern neighbor.
On June 15, twenty Indian warriors spread out their lives during battle with Chinese powers in Galwan valley, prompting pressures between the two countries. Chinese officers in this way begun moving back after exchanges between two nations through the military level and political level.

Singh was joined by the Chief of Defense Staff General Bipin Rawat and Army Chief General MM Naravane.

After violent face-off at LAC, China says Indian Army violated consensus

China on Tuesday affirmed that the Indian soldiers twice crossed the fringe on June 15 for criminal operations and incited and assaulted Chinese work force which prompted genuine physical clash between the different sides, challenging the Indian Army's position that the fierce go head to head occurred between the soldiers during the "de-heightening procedure" in the Galwan Valley.
As indicated by the Indian Army, an official and two fighters were killed in Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Monday during the savage go head to head with the Chinese soldiers.
"I am not mindful of the data you gave," Chinese Foreign Ministry representative Zhao Lijian said in Beijing when gotten some information about the reports of the Indian setbacks at the challenged fringes.
"Our outskirt troops had an elevated level gathering and arrived at significant agreement on facilitating the fringe circumstance however incredibly on June 15 the Indian soldiers truly damaged our accord and twice crossed the fringe for criminal operations and incited and assaulted Chinese staff which prompted genuine physical clash between the different sides and China has stopped solid dissent and portrayal with the Indian side," Zhao said.
"We indeed gravely request that the Indian side follow our agreement, carefully manage its bleeding edge troops and don't go too far, don't work up inconveniences or make one-sided moves that may entangle matters," the representative said.
Zhao likewise added that the two sides consent to determine this issue through exchange and conference and put forth attempts for facilitating the circumstance and maintaining the harmony and security along the outskirt zone.
The episode comes days after Indian Army Chief Gen MM Naravane said the two sides have started withdrawing from the Galwan Valley.

The Indian and Chinese armed forces are occupied with a stalemate in Pangong Tso, Galwan Valley, Demchok and Daulat Beg Oldie in eastern Ladakh.

DefExpo 2020 attracts more than 1,000 defence companies: Rajnath Singh

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Proceeding with the act of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) protection pastors moving the biennial DefExpo barrier gear display to their home state, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will commence DefExpo 2020 in Lucknow on Wednesday.
In 2016, at that point protection serve Manohar Parrikar moved DefExpo from New Delhi to Goa, in the midst of tremendous resistance from ecological activists. After two years, Nirmala Sitharaman moved DefExpo 2018 to Chennai. Like Parrikar and Sitharaman, Singh asserted on Tuesday that the present form of DefExpo had broken every single past record. Tending to the media in Lucknow, alongside his co-have, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the safeguard serve expressed that in excess of 1,000 guard firms — including 856 Indian and 172 outside organizations — would take part in Defexpo.
"In the DefExpo 2018, held in Chennai, 702 organizations had taken an interest. In this manner, this has become by a long shot the greatest ever DefExpo to be held in India," expressed the protection service in an official discharge on Tuesday.
The service likewise guaranteed that exhibitors had booked 42,800 square meters of presentation space this year, 60 percent higher than the 26,774 square meters booked in Chennai. Safeguard priests and military head of 40 nations will go to the occasion this year, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said. 200 memoranda of undertaking (MoUs) are relied upon to be inked, manufacturing new business coordinated efforts.

Just because, the nearness of the neighborhood boss clergyman discernibly overshadowed that of the guard serve. Adityanath's appearance decorated all the notices on equivalent terms with that of Singh...READ MORE

Year in Review: Citizenship Act to Ayodhya verdict, key decisions of 2019

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In the year 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) came back to power at the Centre with a bigger mandate than in 2014, gaining a sway across the nation to win 303 seats in the Lok Sabha. In less than 70 days of the government's second term in office, the Narendra Modi-led regime scrapped Article 370, which gave a special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir, paving the way for bigger ideas to be implemented in the months to come.
Before that, on February 12, the Union Cabinet had cleared key amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, making it easier for buyers to take over stressed assets.
The Supreme Court also did not hold back, the then Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, making a number of landmark judgments -- from the long-awaited Ayodhya title suit to Sabarimala. Towards the fag end of the year, a few legislation brought by the government, such as the Personal Data Protection Bill and the Bill to set up a unified authority for regulating all financial activities in international financial services sparked controversy, and the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill drew opposition from politicians and citizens alike.
The rest of the year was also quite eventful, with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh performing ‘Shashtra Puja’ upon the first delivery of the Rafale fighter jet, brushing aside the Congress’ criticism, CJI Gogoi was cleared by a panel of sexual harassment allegations. And the Cabinet approved strategic divestment in BPCL and SCI in its bid to meet its FY20 divestment target of Rs 1.76 trillion.

Days before curtains come down on 2019, Business Standard takes a look at the key decisions and ideas that shaped the year...Read More