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Vol. 03, Issue No. 26 June 28, 2019.
India Perspectives
India Perspectives is the flagship publication of the Ministry of External Affairs. Richly illustrated, this magazine provides our readers with an insight into India’s culture and tradition along with elements of contemporary India. Click here to read more‌. Ministry of External Affairs, India
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Know India Programme (KIP) 2019-20 www.kip.gov.in Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, is accepting applications for 54TH, 55th and 56TH editions of Know India Programme. For details please visit www.kip.gov.in S. No.
No. of KIP
Partner State
Duration of the whole Schedule for KIP in India Partner State.
visiting Last date of online submission of applications on KIP Portal.
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54th KIP
Punjab, Haryana.
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55th KIP
Goa
3rd September to 7th September to 16th 15th July, 2019. 27th September, September, 2019 2019.
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56th KIP
Kerala,
1st October to 25th 5th October to October, 2019. October, 2019.
and 1st August to 25th Punjab – 6 August to 10th 30th June, 2019. August, 2019 August, 2019; & Haryana -10th August to 15th August, 2019.
14th 15th August, 2019
Points to note: o This programme is open to 3rd generation youth/children [between the ages of 18-30 years] of Indian origin PIO/OCI Card holders who have never visited India before. o Minimum qualification required for participating in KIP is Graduation from a recognized University /Institute or enrolled for Graduation; knowledge of English essential – will have to show required documents in this regard. o The applicants also need to submit the following: o Medical Fitness Certificate; o Information on allergies, if any; o If selected they will also need to submit: o International Travel and Medical Insurance Cover 1|P a g e
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Incredible India Road Show 2019 (June 26, 2019) The Ministry of Tourism of the Government of India and the India Tourism Office in New York in partnership with the Consulate General of India in Vancouver organized the Incredible India Road Show 2019 on 26th June at JW Marriott Parq in Vancouver. The objective of the event was to promote tourism to India and to showcase what India has to offer to a traveler from Canada. The B2B part of the event was attended by tour operators, travel agents, travel writers and media persons. Mrs. Meenakshi Sharma, Director General of Tourism in India, Consul General Mrs. Abhilasha Joshi and Minister of Jobs, Trade and Technology of BC, Honorable Bruce Ralston addressed the participants during the latter half of the event. Mrs. Sharma gave a detailed presentation of tourism opportunities for business and leisure travelers to India. A potpourri of cultural Indian dances were performed by various local artists under the aegis of the India Cultural Association (ICA) of Vancouver.
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Cultural Heritage - Festivals of India Behdienkhlam Festival (July 14, 2019) Behdienkhlam Festival is the most celebrated Cultural festival among the Pnars. Behdienkhlam (chasing away the Demon of Cholera) is celebrated annually in July after the sowing period, the most important dance festival of the Jaintia tribes. This festival Tour is also an invocation to God, seeking his blessings for a bumper harvest. The women however do not participate in the dancing, as they have an important function of offering sacrificial food to the spirits of the forefathers. The festival held at Jowai is one of the most well-known and recreational festival in Meghalaya. A series of religious rites is being performed by the Daloi (chief). During the Behdienkhlam Cultural Festival Tour, young men make a symbolic gesture of driving away of the evil spirit, plague and disease by beating of the roof of every house with bamboo poles. The climax of the celebration is the fight for a large undressed beam by two groups of people in opposition to each other. This leads to the heavy beam get across a muddy ditch called Wah-eit-nar. A lot of horse play enters into this part of the event, when mud is smeared by the participants on each other. During the celebrations of Behdienkhlam festival of North East India, the ceremony and ritual is carried out for three days and on the last day, in the afternoon people would gather in a place called Aitnar and both young and old would dance to the tunes of the pipes and drums. The dancers are highly emotional when tall-decorated structures called rots and a wooden post-called khnongs would be brought into the pool. It is desirable that there should be rain on the day of the festival. The climax of this famous festival of North East India is when people dressed up in their best attire would converge to a place called Mynthong to witness a game played similar to football, called dad-lawakor. The game is played with a wooden ball between the Northerners and the Southerners. The side wins the match by putting the ball on the other side would signify that in the following year there would be a bumper harvest in that particular region. In the evening there would be a lot of funfair and merry making. Visit http://www.north-east-india.com/meghalaya/behdienkhlam-festival.html for more information...
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News from/of India 1. PM Modi beats Trump, Xi, Putin, becomes 'world's most powerful leader 2019' in UK magazine poll Beating Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emerges as the 'World's Most Powerful Person 2019' in the reader's poll conducted by UK-based British Herald magazine. While PM Modi won with 30.9 percent votes, he was followed by Vladimir Putin (29.9 percent), Donald Trump (21.9 percent), and Xi Jinping with 18.1 percent votes. The website described him as a key figure in the Asian region who has played an active role in implementing his "act east policies". It also complimented the global recognition PM Modi received regarding efforts towards climate change as it affects millions of rural Indians. Read more… (International Business Times, Saturday, 22nd June 2019, 10:54 am)
2. International Yoga Day underlines strength of India’s role on world stage India’s prime minister Narendra Modi has continued his quest to use yoga to promote his country on the world stage, leading by example on International Yoga Day. PM Modi successfully lobbied the United Nations to designate June 21 International Yoga Day in his first year in power in 2014. Since then, just as China under President Xi Jinping has given countries pandas for their zoos in a show of goodwill, Mr. Modi has used one of India’s most popular exports to assert his nation’s rising place in the world. Read more… (Irvine Times, Friday, 21st June 2019, 10:42 am)
3. Jokowi and PM Modi’s budding bromance The re-election of India’s PM Narendra Modi and Indonesia’s Joko “Jokowi” Widodo saw India-Indonesia relations take another step forward after both leaders congratulated each other on social media. The results put both leaders in a strong position to advance a comprehensive strategic partnership they signed in 2018. Indeed, in political backstory, both Modi and Jokowi already have much in common -– rank outsiders with humble origins, who fought their way to the top of the leadership heap. Jokowi was a former furniture businessman and Modi was a tea seller before switching to politics. Read more… (The Interpreter, Thursday, 20th June 2019, 12:11 pm)
4. One stereotype at a time: Meet the female scientists putting India on the global map When Seetha Somasundaram, the Program Director, ISRO Space Science Program Office, successfully led the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) to Mars, she put to rest all kinds of stereotypes associated with India. Some of them were—Indian women remain confined to homes, science is a male-dominated field, India is a country of poor and hungry people, it is a land of sadhus, and that superstitions still rule people’s lives and more. Read more… (The Better India, Monday, 24th June 2019, 10:44 am)
5. How mangrove nurseries are changing the lives of Odisha women & the forest around them In the coastal state of Odisha, India, women farmers have turned a crisis into an opportunity. Cyclones, rising sea levels and increasing water salinity have devastated their communities and turned swaths of fertile ground into wasteland. For years, these women lost income, their health and nutrition suffered, and they found themselves ever more marginalised. Then, through a development programme focussed on gender, they came up with simple, innovative solutions that helped to transform their communities. Two of these innovations were mangrove nurseries and floating gardens. Read more… (The Print, Monday, 24th June 2019, 10:50 am)
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