Earlier on Thursday, President El-Sisi attended India's 74th Republic Day parade as the chief guest. He is the first Egyptian premier to have been invited to the Republic Day parade.
These Awards are conferred by the President of India at ceremonial functions which are held at Rashtrapati Bhawan usually around March/ April every year.
The electoral college consisting of 776 members of Parliament (543 from Lok Sabha, 233 from Rajya Sabha), plus 4,809 members of state legislative assemblies, will elect the next President on July 18.
Vinai Kumar Saxena will be the new Lieutenant Governor (L-G) of Delhi as President Ram Nath Kovind accepted the resignation of the incumbent LG Anil Baijal'.
Presidential intervention shapes and defines that vital consequential disturbance, just as the lack of it signifies the waste of that power and more importantly, responsibility. The expression and trigger of that careful intervention is key, as it needs to enrich and reiterate the profundity of constitutional morality, and not curb the same
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Kovind came close on the heels of his recent five-day visit to Italy and the United Kingdom.
The award comes in recognition of Prof Samanta's work on employing ultrafast and single-molecule spectroscopic techniques, stated a UoH release on Thursday.
The march came after the students gathered at Mandi House and then went to HRD Ministry office in protest against the January 5 attack on students inside the Periyar Hostel in the JNU campus.
The march started almost four hours late as the security forces had sealed all the gates of the JNU in early morning to stop the march.
This is the mess into which the office of the President of India has been plunged, even by one of his representatives in the states who made an election-related plea.
