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Union Minister Health & Family Welfare, Science and Technology and Earth Sciences and Vice President CSIR, Dr. Harsh Vardhan addressed the celebrations through video-conferencing in New Delhi.
He also inaugurated ‘Common Research and Technology Development Hub (CRTDH)’ supported jointly by DSIR and CSIR online.
On the occasion, prestigious CDRI Awards-2021 for Excellence in Drug Research was also announced.
Its construction would be finished on time before the next edition of men’s Hockey World Cup in 2023.
Naveen Patnaik announced that the proposed international hockey stadium, with a seating capacity of more than 20,000 people, would be named after freedom fighter Birsa Munda.
The Kochi Water Metro project by the Kochi Metro Rail Limited will act as a service to connect islands where the transport accessibility is limited.
The Symposium was held under the patronage of the Minister of Energy of Saudi Arabia Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud. The symposium was attended by the heads of all the top inter-governmental energy agencies – IEF, IEA, OPEC, IRENA and the GECF.
OPEC and EIA in their near-term outlook estimate that global fuel consumption will grow by 5.6 to 6 million barrels per day in 2021, where more than half of this growth will come from India and China. Natural gas demand is also projected to increase three-fold by 2040.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the seventh Director-General of the WTO. She took office on 1 March 2021, becoming the first woman and the first African to serve as Director-General. Her term of office will expire on 31 August 2025.