The most prominent example was a museum in Agartala, where the govt allocated Rs 10 crore, of which Rs 5 crore was released in 2021-22. However, no expenditure has been recorded.
The two-day national conclave, ‘Authorless Horizons: AI, Authorship and the Emerging Creative Ecosystem’, opened on 2 June at Delhi’s India International Centre.
Culture minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat presented data for 24 states in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, showing that at least 414 sites are under encroachment.
Figures were shared in response to question in Lok Sabha on whether government was aware of financial distress among tourism stakeholders in the Union Territory.
‘We aren’t worried about foreign tourists going to Kashmir. As long as Indians keep going, we are happy,’ Shekhawat said at a meet organised by the Women Journalist Welfare Trust.
Watching Manmohan Singh's last press conference as PM, where he answered 62 unscripted questions from 100 journalists, is an exercise in realising how far India’s political culture has shifted.
The young people broke the self-imposed silence among the elite not to speak a word critical of the Modi government, except to whisper on the sidelines, looking left, right and behind.
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