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The government on Tuesday nominated 28 non-official members including Byju's founder and CEO Byju Raveendran and Kris Gopalakrishnan from Axilor Ventures on the National Startup Advisory Council.The council was set up last year to advise the government on measures needed to build a strong ecosystem for nurturing innovation and startups in the country.“The Central Government has now decided to nominate the non-official members on the National Startup Advisory Council representing various stakeholders,” the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) said in a statement.It said these include founders of successful startups, veterans who have grown and scaled companies in India, persons capable of representing the interest of investors into startups, persons capable of representing interests of incubators and accelerators, representatives of associations of stakeholders of startups and representatives of industry associations.The term of the non-official … [Read more...] about 28 non-official members nominated to National Startup Advisory Council

The State Civil Supplies Corporation has surpassed the record set by itself in the procurement paddy in the kharif marketing season this year compared to the last year by procuring 47.87 lakh tonnes so far against 47.8 lakh tonnes procured last year. Chairman of the corporation Mareddy Srinivas Reddy stated here on Monday that the paddy procurement was done by opening 6,505 purchase centres across the State and the farm produce worth over ₹9,000 crore was procured from about 11 lakh farmers. Of the total amount, ₹8,375 crore was already credited into the bank accounts of farmers directly. Speaking after releasing the new year diary and calendar of the corporation employees, he stated that 1.75 lakh tonnes of rice is being supplied to about 87.54 lakh households at 6 kg of rice per person per month at a nominal price of ₹1 a kg under the public distribution system. Besides, another 1.2 lakh tonnes is being supplied to welfare hostels and for mid-day meal scheme in … [Read more...] about Kharif paddy procurement reaches new milestone

Women outnumbered men in all constituencies. This represented a net increase of 2.97% over the 9,74,754 voters before the drive was undertaken across the Union Territory. The drive, held between November 16 and December 15, had set January 1, 2021 as the qualifying date. A total of 39,562 claims for inclusion and 10,635 requests for deletion were admitted. … [Read more...] about Voter numbers in Puducherry cross 10 lakh

"Our nation faces urgent economic and national security challenges, and we believe that delaying the confirmation of our government's principal economic official would create unnecessary risk during this critical time," the former secretaries wrote Tuesday in a letter. … [Read more...] about Yellen urges Congress to pass new COVID-19 relief package as recovery stalls amid surging cases

During his tenure, Chung was deeply involved in the Korean Peninsula peace process, including negotiation between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States, the Blue House said. … [Read more...] about S.Korean president names ex-top security adviser as new foreign minister