Prashant Mavani, is an expert in current affairs analysis and holds a MSc in Management from University of Surrey (U.K.). Above all he is a passionate teacher.

Vice President's Secretariat

• The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that Students should continue to learn, earn and yearn to serve with clear vision, pure heart and strong shoulders.

• The Vice President congratulated the students for acquiring the coveted degrees, prizes and medals and also congratulated the teachers for sharing and imparting invaluable knowledge to mould the young minds in different disciplines.

• The Vice President said that India is on the threshold of emerging as a major economic power and we are an old civilization with a young population which is a great demographic advantage of country.

• The Vice President said that we must prepare ourselves to cope with the emerging dramatic changes and we must be pro-active rather than be reactive. We must be agile and ride the waves of change, he added.

• The Vice President said that the Government of India is fully aware of the changing environment and is relentlessly orienting itselftowards innovation.

• He further said that it has taken many measures to transform the country into a digitally empowered knowledge economy and these include a number of flagship schemes and programs like ‘Make in India’, ‘Start up India’ & ‘Stand up India’ to give a huge fillip to manufacturing and entrepreneurship.

• The ‘Digital India’ program aims to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy, he added.

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Ministry of Tribal Affairs

• The “Aadi Mahotsav” is being organised by Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India at Dilli Haat, INA, New Delhi from 16th November to 30th November, 2017 with full enthusiasm & energy.

• The ‘theme’ of “Aadi Mahotsav” is ‘A Celebration of the Spirit of Tribal Culture, Cuisine and Commerce’.

• The genuine and authentic ‘Tribal Handicrafts’, ‘Mouth-watering’ and ‘Delectable Tribal Cuisine’ with Colorful and Vibrant Tribal Dance and Fine Music are being showcased in the “Mahotsav”.

• Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, Vice President of India inaugurated the fortnight-long festival on 16th November, 2017 at Dilli Haat, INA, New Delhi.

• The delectable tribal cuisine from different states prepared by eminent tribal Chef was relished by people of Delhi in Dilli Haat.

• Public announcement in Dilli Haat about each and every stall and the handicrafts products, Cuisine showcased made the visitors easy to reach the each and every stall and entire Dilli Haat was found in festivity.

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Global Entrepreneurship Summit-2017

• The 8th edition of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit-2017 will be held in Hyderabad from the 28th of this month.

• The theme of the Summit is Women First, Prosperity for All. Briefing media in New Delhi, NITI Aayog CEO, Amitabh Kant said, the event will focus on supporting women entrepreneurs and fostering economic growth globally.

• He said, women will represent 52.5 per cent of entrepreneurs, investors and ecosystem supporters at the Summit.

• "This is the first time that women have been majority of the participant of GES. Secondly, women from 127 countries are participating, 10 plus countries will be represented by all female delegation including Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Israel they will only have all women delegation."

• The summit is being co-hosted by India and the USA and being held for the first time in South Asia.

• It will focus on four areas -- Energy and Infrastructure, Digital Economy and Financial Technology, Health and LifeSciences and Media and Entertainment.

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• It is welcome and significant that Moody’s has revised and upgraded India’s credit rating, the first time since 2004.

• The revision, or, more accurately, the correction in Moody’s India’s credit outlook, does corroborate recent strongmacroeconomic performance — India’s economy remains one of the best performing globally — and points to stronger macro-fundamentals going forward.

• Other rating agencies like Standard and Poor’s and Fitch surely need to revise their India ratings as well.

• Multiple audit trails that GST is opening up would further widen India’s tax base, aided by the transparency inherent in rising popularity of digital payments.

• It is also notable that bankruptcy resolution of highly stressed assets in the vexed banking sector has begun, and India’s global ranking when it comes to ease of doing business has considerably improved.

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