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PM Modi awarded Seoul Peace Prize: Dedicates prize money to Namami Gange

Agencies
February 22, 2019

Seoul, Feb 22: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday joined the illustrious club of the likes of Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon and Angela Merkel as he was honoured with the prestigious Seoul Peace Prize.

Mr Modi received the 14th Seoul Peace Prize for the year 2018 at a ceremony organised by the Seoul Peace Prize Cultural Foundation "in recognition of his national and international contributions".

"I am deeply honoured to be awarded the Prize....the award belongs to the people of India and to the success India has achieved in last five years," the Prime Minister said at the grand ceremony.

The citation read out on the occasion applauded Prime Minister Modi's works in ensuring

inclusive growth and putting the country into an unprecedented growth rate.

"India is experiencing high speed growth, that was never seen before," the statement said.

It also lauded the Prime Minister for pushing economic reforms and acknowledged his economic philosophy of 'Modinomics' that had brought in poorer sections of Indians into the mainstream of banking.

The citation has also lauded the Prime Minister for his initiative to launch the International Solar Alliance.

"May there be peace everywhere......may there be eternal peace," Mr Modi said on the occasion quoting Sanskrit mantras.

The Prime Minister said the entire monetary prize amount would be dedicated to the Namami Gange project - committed to clean Ganga.

"I dedicate this award to the 1.3 billion people of India for giving me the opportunity to serve them.

I am honoured that this award is being conferred on me in the year that we celebrate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi," the Prime Minister said.

The Seoul Peace Prize was established in 1990 as a biennial recognition to commemorate the success of the 24th Summer Olympic Games held in Seoul.

The Prize was established to reflect the wishes of the Korean people and to crystallize their desire for everlasting peace on earth.

The awardees receives a diploma, a plaque and honorarium of US$200,000.

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan got the award in 1998 while the German leader Angela Merkel was honoured the award for 2014.

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Agencies
July 30,2020

New Delhi, Jul 30: India witnessed a single-day spike of 52,123 COVID-19 cases as the total cases in the country reached 15,83,792, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday.

The total cases include 5,28,242 active cases and 10,20,582 cured/discharged cases, the Health Ministry added.

A total of 775 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours taking the death toll to 34,968.

Maharashtra continues to be the worst-affected state as it reported 9,211 new COVID-19 cases 298 deaths on Wednesday. The total number of cases is now at 4,00,651 including 2,39,755 recovered cases, 1,46,129 active cases and 14,463 deaths.

The total number of cases in Tamil Nadu reached 2,34,114.

Delhi reported 1,035 COVID-19 cases yesterday, taking the total number of cases in the national capital to 1,32,275.

The total number of COVID-19 samples tested up to July 29 is 1,81,90,382 including 4,46,642 samples tested yesterday, said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

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March 23,2020

Singapore, Mar 23: Oil prices fell at the open in Asia on Monday after a trillion-dollar Senate proposal to help the coronavirus-hit American economy was defeated and death tolls soared across Europe and the US.

US benchmark West Texas Intermediate initially tumbled more than three percent but then pulled back some ground to trade 1.5 percent lower, at $22 a barrel.

Brent crude, the international benchmark, fell 4.9 percent to $25 a barrel.

Prices have fallen to multi-year lows in recent weeks as lockdowns and travel restrictions to fight the virus hit demand, and top producers Saudi Arabia and Russia engage in a price war.

The latest drop came after a trillion-dollar Senate proposal to rescue the US economy was defeated after receiving zero support from Democrats, and with five Republicans absent from the chamber because of virus-related quarantines.

The bill had proposed funding for American families, thousands of shuttered or suffering businesses and the nation's critically under-equipped hospitals.

Coronavirus deaths soared across Europe and the United States at the weekend despite heightened restrictions.

The death toll from the virus -- which has upended lives and closed businesses and schools across the planet -- surged to more than 14,300 Sunday, according to an AFP tally.

AxiCorp chief markets strategist Stephen Innes said that "total demand devastation" had set it.

"Oil markets collapsed out of the gate this morning as prices react... to stringent containment lockdown measures," he said.

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Agencies
February 25,2020

New Delhi, Feb 25: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday called a meeting to discuss the prevailing situation in the national capital after violence in Northeast Delhi over the amended citizenship law left four people dead.

Delhi's Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and representatives of different political parties were invited for the meeting.

Follow live updates of clashes among CAA protesters in Delhi here

The home minister has convened a meeting to discuss the current situation in Delhi, a Home Ministry official said.

The move came after the home minister reviewed the law and order situation in the national capital on Monday night as violence rocked Northeast Delhi.

Frenzied protesters torched houses, shops, vehicles and a petrol pump, besides hurling stones.

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