MEDIA INVITATION: 17 July 18 – Young Lives India Launch of Marital and Fertility Decision-Making Report: The Lived Experiences of Adolescents and Young Married Couples in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India

Young Lives India.

Young Lives India conducted a qualitative sub-study in 2016 to supplement the longitudinal survey data related to early marriage and teenage pregnancy with the aim to generate rich qualitative information about early experiences of marital life. The study objectives were to:

• Deepen understanding of the influencers of fertility decisions among young married couples
• Ascertain the services and support available to married young women and couples
• Produce research findings for use by policymakers.

Based on the findings we have published a report entitled ‘Marital and Fertility Decision-making:  The Lived Experiences of Adolescents and Young Married Couples in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India.’

To register yourself for this event, please click on the following link:https://bit.ly/2m7U7m0

RSVP: Sultanat Khan – sultanat.ylcomms@gmail.com; skhan@younglives.in

We look forward to having you with us.

Thank you,

Warm regards,

Regards,

Sultanat Khan
Research Communications & Events Coordinator

Young Lives India
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Afghan businesses men in India

ON JULY 11, 2018 BY NARESH SAGARLEAVE A COMMENTEDIT

Afghan businesses with excellent supply of fresh and dried fruits, nuts and spices will be in attendance. This is a great opportunity for you to deal with over 50 of Afghanistan major agribusinesses all in one place. Both the Indian and Afghan governments are supporting the trade and transport, with USAID sponsoring the event. 

The event will take place on July 13-14, 2018 at the ITC Maurya Hotel, New Delhi. 

ITA TUNNELLING AWARDS 2018

ON JULY 11, 2018 BY NARESH SAGARLEAVE A COMMENTEDIT

UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION: THE SUSTAINABLE CHOICE FOR GLOBAL URBANIZATION

ITA TUNNELLING AWARDS 2018 REWARDS MOST INNOVATIVE PROJECTS

Underground construction meets the demand for urban infrastructure, the need to relieve congestion in our cities and save space, and the challenges of a changing climate. The sector grossed 86 billion euros in 2016 and global demand for underground projects is growing by 7% per annum.

Since 2015, the international competition “ITA Tunnelling Awards” seeks and rewards the most ground-breaking innovation and outstanding projects in tunnelling and underground space utilisation.  The 2018 edition will take place on 7 November, in Chuzhou-Nanjing during the 20th Chinese Tunnel and Underground works Conference (CTUC) from 5 to 6 Nov. followed by technical visits on Nov.8 in Nanjing, Chuzhou and Shanghai.

Diane LOTH

ITA Press Contact, + 33 6 47 27 74 29, d.loth@giesbert-mandin.fr  
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India’s new ‘Modi doctrine’

ON JULY 11, 2018 BY NARESH SAGARLEAVE A COMMENTEDIT

India in the Era of Modi, has global leaders from the public and not from the system along with the Indian leaders too emerging out of the box. The thinking in the political class is changing world wide the people at large wants nation first and cooperation to an extent that it benefits the nation at large. Results of this political theology is the global leaders making mark ,US President Donald J. Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Brexit, envisaging an economically ideologue for nation first with cooperation according its masses mind, utility and infusing technology, education to its class the dose of  higher education. India foots the bill for higher education and is well versed and tune to take up the subjects to its intense levels in case the proper ambiance is created at home or at abroad. India can thus produce best class of people in all fields in which saffron rule under PM Modi is giving its inertia to both classes the Intelligent ones and corporate class. The  national culture pride is well on agenda . PM Modi government in its actions as per slogans along with the dire need of infra of all sorts are doing exceedingly well thus new wave of PM Modi,  in which the Team Modi with moderate intelligence but with deep sense of national-wisdom is on its way to create,  India for all in the  Modi -India. Question arises, will PMModi be able to convince the masses, in his style with  able eloquence is matter of his deeds in action to which the nation is in doubt with political leaders wholesome pitted against him.

However the reports from well research Asian news-men has its own postulation of PM Modi statesmanship.

asia.nikkei.com/ Reporting:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diplomatic strategy has been clear from the outset of his term: deepen ties with the U.S. and Japan while openly showing suspicion of China. The game plan has changed.

Military watchers were surprised earlier this month when the Chinese People’s Liberation Army sent a 10-member, high-level delegation to New Delhi. The officials went for talks “to promote strategic trust and mutually beneficial cooperation between the two militaries,” according to Luo Zhaohui, China’s ambassador to India.

The two neighbors appeared to come closer to war than at any point in the last half-century. Chinese and Indian soldiers stood eyeball to eyeball for two and a half months in the border area of Doklam, where the two countries and Bhutan intersect.

But now, senior PLA officers visit the capital of a state Beijing used to regard as an enemy. How did the relationship warm up so quickly, at least on the surface?

The thaw began in earnest in the morning of April 28. Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping took a quiet lakeside walk in the Chinese city of Wuhan. “[I] came to know about the PLA’s Doklam buildup very late,” Xi told Modi, according to sources from both governments. The Chinese military had been constructing a road near the border, which prompted the standoff.

The two leaders agreed that another Doklam-like situation would be “avoided at all costs.” They also discussed a sort of nonaggression pact, with Xi quoted as saying, “Indian interests in its neighborhood will not be challenged by China, including [the] Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.”

The world began to grasp the significance of the shift on June 1, when the Asia Security Summit rolled around. “Asia and the world will have a better future when India and China work together in trust and confidence, sensitive to each other’s interests,” Modi said in a keynote speech at the meeting in Singapore, also known as the Shangri-La Dialogue.

Many in the audience were bewildered by what sounded like an abrupt change to India’s foreign policy.

The remark also struck a nerve among the hundreds of American, European and Asian defense experts in attendance, many of whom take a dim view of Beijing’s construction and militarization of man-made islands in the South China Sea. Some took Modi’s statement as a defense of China’s assertive territorial approach.

This jars with what was thought to be the primary concern of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a strategic forum set up last November by the U.S., Japan, India and Australia. Though the grouping was seen as a thinly veiled effort to build a united front against China, the fragility of the foursome’s bond has become apparent.

“The Quadrilateral format of USA-Japan-India-Australia is one of the many multilateral dialogues in the region, and [is] not directed to any country,” Pankaj Saran, India’s ambassador to Moscow, told Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency after Modi’s Shangri-La speech.

The annual Malabar Naval Exercise, held off Guam in mid-June, underscored the divisions within the Quad. A U.S. aircraft carrier, Indian stealth corvettes and a Japanese helicopter carrier took part, but Australia sent no vessels because India opposed its participation.

The Indian government’s recent stance “is raising apprehensions [about] whether New Delhi was doling out concessions to accommodate Beijing’s concerns,” said Prateek Joshi, research associate at the Vivekananda International Foundation, a think tank in New Delhi.

At least, Modi appears to be returning his diplomatic posture to neutral. This is in line with India’s traditional stance dating back to Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Indian prime minister. At the Bandung Conference in Indonesia in 1955, Nehru called for countries to refrain from siding with the U.S. or the Soviet Union and urged them to adopt a policy of nonalignment instead.

But there is more to Modi’s strategy than maintaining equal distance from two global powers. He seems to want India to be an active participant in both the U.S.- and China-led camps.

Political experts the Modi clarion call of inclusiveness of all development for all. Modi’s “inclusiveness” extends not only to the U.S. and China but also to Southeast Asian countries. He is treating them as partners in shaping the Indo-Pacific order.

At the end of May, before his Shangri-La address, Modi met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Jakarta and declared that India would upgrade the status of the countries’ relationship to a “comprehensive strategic partnership.” This is similar to the level accorded to India-U.S. ties.

Modi and Widodo also agreed that their countries should engage in “regular bilateral dialogue and consultation on strategic defense and military issues.”

The courtship of Southeast Asia’s largest economy raised some questions about Modi’s plans.

“India probably has no intention of inviting other countries to the Quad,” a diplomat from one member of the strategic dialogue said. Even so, “India may be trying to create a new security framework in the Indo-Pacific region with Southeast Asian nations, in order not to leave the issue only to big powers.”

The diplomat added that “a partnership of India, Indonesia and Vietnam is an option.”

To summarize Modi’s audacious balancing act: He is participating in Western efforts to check Chinese power, while agreeing with Xi on the need to avoid stepping on each other’s toes. At the same time, he is keen to establish Southeast Asia as a third countervailing force. And he wants to keep India at an equal, close distance from all three camps.

But this carefully crafted strategy could easily falter if India is perceived to be leaning more toward any one of the three.

Who was the architect of these risky tactics? “Most probably [the strategy] was made by Modi himself,” said a foreign policy expert in New Delhi.

Foreign secretaries appear to have had a hand in it as well, the expert said. The previous secretary, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, is believed to have made the case that moving closer to the U.S. was in India’s interest. But Jaishankar retired in January and was succeeded by Vijay Gokhale, a former ambassador to Beijing.

Modi is said to have pushed for Gokhale’s appointment. With trade friction between Washington and Beijing heating up, many in India felt the need to brace for U.S. President Donald Trump’s unpredictability. To do that, the expert said, Modi likely decided to change his diplomatic formula and mend relations with China.

The prime minister has shown a preference for top-down decisions on other matters, too. He was behind the government’s overnight invalidation of nearly 90% of the bank notes in circulation in 2016. He shared the plan with only the finance secretary and five or six others, according to a government source.

Although the sudden demonetization did not achieve its intended purpose of prompting Indians to disclose hidden wealth, the policy tapped into broad public resentment of the affluent. So, politically, it was a big success.

Modi, who makes little secret of his ambition to leave a legacy greater than Nehru’s, seems to see diplomacy as another way to win hearts and minds.

“In America, England, France and Germany, India is being praised. What is the reason? No! Modi is not the reason. You people are the reason,” the prime minister said while stumping for local elections.

“In the eyes of the common voters, it is seen as Modi has been able to put India on the world map,” observed Sanjay Kumar, director at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies. “People think he [is] able to conquer the world, and big leaders of the world cannot dare to ignore him.”

Yet, the prime minister is gambling with a protean diplomatic strategy that features simultaneous, deep involvement with two antagonistic powers. And there is no guarantee that cooperation with Southeast Asia will produce a sufficiently powerful third pole.

As the new “Modi doctrine” begins to crystallize, India is gaining influence but also fueling apprehension across the region.

Nikkei staff writers Oki Nagai in Beijing and Nupur Shaw in New Delhi contributed to this report.

First poster of “Bhasoodi”

ON JULY 11, 2018 BY NARESH SAGARLEAVE A COMMENTEDIT

Sonu Thukral & well known Television Star Hina Khan launched the first poster of their upcoming music video “Bhasoodi” #bhasoodi

Shot in Patiala (Punjab), it’s going to be Hina Khna’s first music album.

Sung by Sonu Thukral, Produced by Arshdeep Singh & Swapan Monga. Music by Preet Hundal.

 4th National Conclave on Mines and Minerals

ON JULY 11, 2018 BY NARESH SAGARLEAVE A COMMENTEDIT

 4th National Conclave on Mines and Minerals will strengthen mineral auction regime: Narendra Singh Tomar;

New Delhi-10.07.2018: The 4th National Conclave on Mines & Minerals will be held on 13th July, 2018 at Indore for showcasing blocks which will be auctioned by the states in FY 2018-19 to the potential investors. Union Minister for Mines Shri Narendra Singh Tomar said that it will carry forward the efforts of the Government for strengthening the mineral auction regime as well as help in expediting auctions and bring in greater participation from the stakeholders. He said that the Central and State Governments have been working in coordination with each other to further strengthen the auction regime, and to identify more and more mineral blocks for auction to increase domestic mineral production. This Mining Conclave will provide unique opportunity to the State Governments to showcase their auctionable mineral blocks with regard to its exploration, mineral resources, transport connectivity from mineral block, policy scenario in State and incentives to attract prospective investors. It will also provide a great opportunity to the investors to identify the mineral blocks and participate in the auction of suitable mineral blocks, the Minister added.

Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, CEO, Niti Aayog and Mining Ministers of the State Governments have consented to participate in the Conclave.

Presentations on the different stages in auctioning of a mineral block and its operationalization such as identification and preparation of a mineral block for auction, steps involved in approval of mining plan and grant of statutory clearances, will also be organized. These presentations will be made by the organizations which have expertise in carrying out block preparation activities and nodal agencies responsible for grant of statutory clearances. The conclave would also have an exhibition in which the States would put up stalls to showcase their mineral blocks to be put up on auctions. The agencies concerned with pre auction preparations such as Exploration agencies (GSI & MECL), transaction advisors (SBICAP, CRISIL, KPMG), DGPS survey agency (MECON), etc would also put up their Stalls. IBM & MoEFCC would also put up stalls on mining plan and EC & FC processes. The public sector and private sector companies are being requested to put up stalls on mineral and metal industry overview for better appreciation of mining sector by the investors in terms of making investment decisions.

A Round Table will be organized for interaction between industry leaders and Hon’ble Ministers along with senior officials of the Ministry of Mines to discuss the way forward to further improve the policy environment and address various issues in the mining sector.

The participation of the industry and other stakeholders in the earlier conclaves was kept free of charge for encouraging their participation and the same will be continued in this conclave. Both the public and the private mining companies will actively take part in the conclave. Besides this, the metal and the allied sector, which is involved in the mining activity, would also participate in the conclave. This would provide an effective platform to the various Government organizations of the mining sector, viz. Union Mines Ministry, State Mining Departments, regulators such as IBM & DGMs, explorations entities GSI & NMET, etc. to interact with the mining and allied industry stakeholders.

Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI) has agreed to partner in the event. The PSUs which are closely associated with the mining activity directly or as an integral part of their production process, would be one of the major stakeholders assisting the Ministry in organizing the conclave. These PSUs are HCL, NALCO, & MECL under the Ministry of Mines and the companies in which the government stake is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Mines, viz. HZL & BALCO.

A webpage on the Ministry of Mines website, “NCMM July, 2018” has been created about the Conclave.

The Ministry of Mines organized the 1st National Conclave on Mines & Minerals on 4-5 July, 2016 at Raipur, 2nd National Conclave on Mines & Minerals on 15th Feb, 2017 at New Delhi and 3rd National Conclave on Mines & Minerals on 20th March, 2018 at New Delhi.