The India Innovation Challenge Design Contest (IICDC), one of India’s premier innovation platforms for engineering students to create, innovate, aspire and contribute to make a difference to India’s success towards becoming an Innovation Hub. The recently concluded IICDC Conclave, 2019 edition was notable for a number of reasons.

‘India Business and Professional Forum (IBPF)’ in Finland has been created as a networking platform for Indian and Indian-origin professionals and entrepreneurs in Finland, working in an Indian/Foreign company or self-employed.

Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) is a flagship Mission under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, to reduce poverty and vulnerability of the urban poor households by enabling them to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, resulting in an appreciable improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis, through building strong grassroots level institutions of the poor.

Our ancient heritage gives great importance to the environment. A common theme in our ancient texts and literature is to caution against environmental degradation. In the Atharva Veda, Mother Earth is addressed directly – “May whatever we dig from you, grow back again quickly, and may we not injure you by our labour”.

A progressive track of urban development while keeping sustainability, disaster risk resilience and community building at its core has been the guiding principle for urban development during the last seven years of the Modi government.

Rashtriya Raksha University- RRU (www.rru.ac.in) is India’s premier public University in the field of national security and policing. RRU serves the academic, research, and training needs of the paramilitary and police forces of the country. The University contributes to India’s vision of prosperous and stable world order by furthering strategic cooperation with like-minded nations across the world.

Sh. Kiren Rijiju, Hon’ble Minister of State for Ayush (I/C) & Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports launched the Ayush Clinical Case Repository (ACCR) Portal and the Sanjivani Application (Version 3.0).

National Institute of Mental Health Rehabilitation (NIMHR), Sehore has been set up by the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Govt. Of India with the following objectives- 1. Rehabilitation services for the Persons with Mental Illness and developing standards for mental health rehabilitation 2. Human resource development for mental health rehabilitation 3. Deciding on policies and doing advanced research on mental health rehabilitation

‘Suggest a Tagline Contest for Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana’ Contest was launched by Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoA&FW) on the MyGov India platform from September 29th, 2020 to November 19th, 2020. The contest received an overwhelming response with over 7,728 entries across India.

We are living in truly challenging times. The loss of near and dear ones in the second surge of the Covid pandemic is painful. Those who have died include not only ordinary people but also eminent doctors, academics, business leaders, literary and public figures, editors and journalists, civil servants and people from the judicial fraternity. Their grief has to be our grief, too, because only by sharing sorrow can we develop a true national resolve.