Plea in SC seeks inquiry commission to investigate Republic Day violence
Delhi Tractor Rally update: Plea says a three-member inquiry commission under the chairmanship of a former top court judge and two retired high court judges should be set up for collecting and recording evidence
PTI | January 27, 2021 | Updated 13:13 IST
Tractor rally violence: Delhi Police has registered 22 FIRs so far in connection with the violence in which over 300 policemen were injured, officials said on Wednesday
A plea was filed on Wednesday in the Supreme Court seeking setting up of a commission, headed by a retired apex court judge, to inquire the violence during the protesting farmers tractor rally in the national capital on the Republic Day. The plea has also sought direction to the concerned authority to lodge First Information Report (FIR) under relevant penal provisions against the individuals or organisations responsible for the violence and causing dishonour of the National Flag on January
YouTube paid $30B to creators, artists in last 3 years: CEO
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January 27, 2021
California, Jan 27: Google-owned YouTube has paid more than $30 billion to creators, artists, and media companies in the last three years, according to CEO Susan Wojcicki.
According to an Oxford Economics report, YouTube s creative ecosystem contributed approximately $16 billion to the US GDP in 2019, supporting the equivalent of 345,000 full time jobs. The UK in 2019 saw approximately 1.4 billion pounds contributed to the British GDP and the equivalent of 30,000 full time jobs. And in France, there was an estimated 515 million euros contributed to the French GDP and the equivalent of 15,000 full time jobs, Wojcicki said in a blog post on Tuesday.
The plea has also sought direction to the concerned authority to lodge First Information Report (FIR) under relevant penal provisions against the individuals or organisations responsible for the violence and causing dishonour of the National Flag on January 26.
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NASC, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, others launch IMAGE to provide farmers quality seeds
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By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja
As the nation yearns to boost food security, availability, and affordability, the National Agricultural Seeds Council, NASC, in collaboration with Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation, and Content Global Development, Tuesday, launched Institutionalizing Monitoring of Crop Variety Adoption Using Genotyping programme, IMAGE, to provide farmers quality and original seeds for cultivation.
The launch was made by the Director-General, NASC, Philip Ojo, at the Physical Launch and Constitution of the National Executive Steering Committee of the IMAGE project in Nigeria.
Ojo in his remarks said the launch of IMAGE marks the end of a process that started in December 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya, which was the project proposal formulation phase.
CGIAR Joins Forces with World Food Programme to Tackle Post-Pandemic Hunger From
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The Nobel Peace Prize-winning UN agency will work with CGIAR to bolster food systems amid the pandemic recovery, the climate crisis and the threat of instability.
“This partnership will help us carry on saving lives and changing lives so more people have the opportunity to prosper and be self-sufficient.”
The world’s largest publicly-funded agricultural research network, CGIAR, has united effort with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to help tackle hunger and malnutrition in the pandemic recovery.
CGIAR and WFP, winner of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to continue their long-standing partnership to build resilience and promote sustainable agriculture.