Vulgarity in films, serials affecting youth, says Ramdev; bats for Indian value-based education
Panaji, Feb 17: Yoga guru Ramdev on Friday claimed various films and television serials were propagating vulgarity, which was affecting the youth.
He was talking to reporters here on the eve of the three-day Yoga camp being held at Miramar Beach.
"Today, there are porn films, and all around there is vulgarity in films and serials. The younger generation is getting carried away with such content," Ramdev said.
Speaking about the three-day Yoga camp, Ramdev said programmes would include 'Sanatan Sangeet Mahotsav', which will be attended by well-known singer Kailash Kher.
"I have used the word Sanatan as it has ethos of all our eternal ideology and values. It inculcates all the religions, including Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Siddha. Sanatan also has the basics of Islam and Christianity. Sanatan is a non controversial term, which has nothing to do with any specific religion or political agenda," he said.
There would be a programme involving students and teachers at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee stadium in Bambolim on February 20 with the aim of linking education in Goa with the Bharatiya Shiksha Board.
The Bharatiya Shiksha Board will connect children to Indian value-based education so that they don't get carried away, he claimed.
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India to get first national security semiconductor fabrication plant
Wilmington (PTI): Under a transformative collaboration with the US, India will get a national security semiconductor fabrication plant that will produce chips for use in military hardware and next-generation telecommunications.
The India-US joint project was announced following talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden in Wilmington on Saturday.
A joint fact sheet on Modi-Biden talks said the two leaders "hailed" the semiconductor project as a "watershed arrangement".
It will be the first ever India-US semiconductor fabrication partnership.
It is the first time ever the US military has agreed to do a partnership for these highly-value technologies with India and it is a watershed moment as it is as significant as the civil nuclear deal, people familiar with the matter said.
"President Biden and Prime Minister Modi hailed a watershed arrangement to establish a new semiconductor fabrication plant focused on advanced sensing, communication, and power electronics for national security, next-generation telecommunications, and green energy applications," the fact sheet noted.
It said the "fab, which will be established with the objective of manufacturing infrared, gallium nitride and silicon carbide semiconductors, will be enabled by support from the India semiconductor mission as well as a strategic technology partnership between Bharat Semi, 3rdiTech, and the US Space Force."
The Fab becomes not only India’s first, but one of the world's first multi-material fabs for national security, the people cited above said.
The fact sheet said Modi and Biden praised combined efforts to facilitate resilient, secure, and sustainable semiconductor supply chains including through GlobalFoundries' (GF) creation of the GF Kolkata Power Center in Kolkata.
It said the project will enhance mutually beneficial linkages in research and development in chip manufacturing.
"The leaders welcomed steps our industry is taking to build safe, secure, and resilient supply chains for US, Indian, and international automotive markets, including through Ford Motor Company's submission of a Letter of Intent to utilize its Chennai plant to manufacture for export to global markets," the document said.
It said Modi and Biden commended ongoing efforts to build more expansive cooperation around 5G deployment and next-generation telecommunications.
This includes the US Agency for International Development's plans to expand the Asia Open RAN Academy with an initial USD 7 million investment to grow this workforce training initiative worldwide, including in South Asia with Indian institutions.
