At a high-level meeting held at Chhattisgarh police headquarters on Thursday to chalk out strategies for peaceful voting in Maoist-affected Bastar, that goes to polls on April 19, ‘target-based’ operations and inter-state coordination among security forces became the focal point of discussions. There are indications that air chief marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhary could visit Chhattisgarh…
MEERUT: The MP/MLA court of Bulandshahr sentenced ex-MLA Bhagwan Sharma alias Guddu Pandit to a jail term of two years and five months for violation of Covid guidelines along with a fine of Rs 25,500.Special public prosecutor Hitendra Verma said, “On May 11, 2020, Pandit had assembled a crowd outside his house to offer food…
NEW DELHI: Terming Narendra Modi‘s remark on China as cowardice, Congress Thursday accused the Prime Minister of disrespecting the martyrs of Galwan clashes, and demanded that he apologise to the country for his clean chit to China on its invasion of Indian territory in 2020. AICC spokesman Jairam Ramesh also accused UP chief minister Yogi…
Modi accused Congress of demolishing temples in Rajasthan for appeasement. He criticized Congress for disrespecting Ram temple and boycotting the pran pratishtha of Ram Lalla in Ayodhya, while praising a strong Modi government for national security. Source link
MUMBAI: In the battle against drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), young children have faced a particularly challenging hurdle: the painful injectables in treatment regimens. These medications, notorious for their severe side effects, added an extra layer of distress to an already daunting ordeal for infants and children. Now, with approval of Delamanid for children under 5 in…
CHANDIGARH: Nearly eight years after three senior IAS officers made an official visit to Paris, Chandigarh’s director general of audit (central) has pointed out that the trio made “unauthorised” expenditure in excess of Rs 6.72 lakh and flouted rules in extending their visit, hotel bookings, and travel dates.In June 2015, the then Union Territory’s adviser…
RAIPUR: Stepping up action in the alleged liquor scam, economic offences wing (EOW) on Wednesday arrested in Bihar former excise department special secretary Arun Pati Tripathi, an Indian Telecom Service officer on deputation to Chhattisgarh govt. He is being brought to Raipur, officials said. Tripathi, who was managing director of state marketing corporation, was granted…
NEW DELHI: Apple has warned users in 92 countries, including in India, about an ongoing Pegasus-like spyware attack that targets a very small number of individuals – often journalists, activists, politicians and diplomats.Though deployed against a small number of individuals and often involving exceptional costs, mercenary spyware attacks are “ongoing and global”, according to an…
NEW DELHI: Canada has retrenched dozens of Indian staffers from its diplomatic missions in India apparently because of the reduction of Canadian staff available to “effectively manage and maintain in-country operations”. India had last year expelled 41 Canadian diplomats to ensure parity in diplomatic presence, following which Canada had shut in-person operations in its Mumbai,…
NEW DELHI: Over 500 land parcels spanning 4,885 hectares — the size of nearly 6,000 football fields — across 10 states have been approved for tree plantation ever since the Green Credit Programme (GCP) kicked off in the country. These states, along with three others, have together identified over 10,000 hectares of land for the…
