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After UNSC maritime session, Pak threatens continued militarisation
10 Aug

After UNSC maritime session, Pak threatens continued militarisation

editor0 Commentsbreaking news, India, International
Pakistan has threatened to continue militarising citing what it claimed was a “geo-strategic competition and the pursuit of military dominance by some states”, while mentioning India. After Monday’s high-level meeting on maritime security at the UN Security Council, Pakistan’s Permanent Representative Munir Akram sent a written statement to the Indian Mission to be included in the record of the session. India is the current President of the Council and the meeting was presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Akram asserted that “India has nuclearised the Indian Ocean and continues to induct advanced weapons systems and naval delivery platforms” with…
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Biopic can wait, want to focus on the game for now: Neeraj Chopra
09 Aug

Biopic can wait, want to focus on the game for now: Neeraj Chopra

editor0 CommentsEntertainment, India, Sports
Neeraj Chopra, who made history on Saturday by winning India’s first-ever gold medal in athletics at the Olympics, is now setting sight on next year’s Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, and the World Championships. Excerpts from an interview with the star Indian athlete: Q: What does it feel like to be India’s first-ever track & field medallist?Ans: Feeling great to win the first medal in track and field for India, that too gold. It has been a very fantastic start. Can’t express it in words. It was a very proud moment when our country’s national anthem was playing and I was…
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BJP leader, wife shot dead by terrorists in Anantnag
09 Aug

BJP leader, wife shot dead by terrorists in Anantnag

editor0 CommentsCrime, India,
Kulgam district president of BJP Kisan Morcha, Ghulam Rasool Dar, and his wife Jawahira Bano were on Monday afternoon shot dead by terrorists in the busy Lal Chowk area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag. The critically injured couple was taken to the hospital where they succumbed. Security forces have cordoned the area and launched a search for the terrorists. Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha condemned the incident and said that the perpetrators of violence will be brought to justice very soon. He tweeted; “I strongly condemn brutal terrorist attack on the Sarpanch GH Rasool Dar and his wife Jawhara Banoo of Redwani…
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Actress Shilpa Shetty and her mother accused of fraud
09 Aug

Actress Shilpa Shetty and her mother accused of fraud

editor0 Commentsbreaking news, India
Film actress Shilpa Shetty and her mother allegedly have been accused of cheating crores of rupees. Shilpa Shetty and her mother Sunanda Shetty started a fitness company called Iiosis Slimming Skin Salon and Spa. The responsible officials of the company approached many people in the name of opening their branch. It is alleged that Shilpa Shetty and her mother took crores of rupees from two people in the name of opening a branch of the centre. Millions of rupees were collected from them in the name of wellness center. Two FIRs have been registered at Hazratganj and Vibhuti Khand police…
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Rupee snaps 5-day winning streak, drops 11 paise against US dollar
09 Aug

Rupee snaps 5-day winning streak, drops 11 paise against US dollar

editor0 CommentsBusiness, India,
Halting its five-session winning run, the rupee on Monday declined by 11 paise to close at 74.26 (provisional) against the US dollar, tracking the firm American currency. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the domestic currency opened at 74.21 against the American currency and slipped further to close at 74.26, registering a decline of 11 paise over its previous close. On Friday, the rupee had settled at 74.15 against the US dollar. During the session, the local unit touched an intra-day high of 74.21 and a low of 74.29 against the US currency. The dollar index, which gauges the greenback’s…
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SC notice on plea seeking transparency in vaccine clinical data
09 Aug

SC notice on plea seeking transparency in vaccine clinical data

editor0 CommentsCovid19, Health, India
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on a plea seeking transparency in clinical trial data for the vaccines being administered in India under emergency use authorization and also a stay on the vaccine mandates, which is being issued by authorities in various parts of the country. Advocate Prashant Bhushan, representing petitioner Jacob Puliyel, vehemently argued that there is evidence in the medical literature that, vaccines that have not been adequately tested for safety or efficacy are now licensed under emergency use authorization without the data being disclosed to the public. Bhushan emphasized coercive mandates for use of these inadequately…
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Threat to human rights highest in police stations: CJI N V Ramana on custodial torture
08 Aug

Threat to human rights highest in police stations: CJI N V Ramana on custodial torture

editor0 CommentsIndia
Chief Justice N.V. Ramana on Sunday said the threat to human rights and bodily integrity are the highest in police stations and even the privileged are not spared the third-degree treatment. Justice Ramana was delivering the keynote address at an event organised by the National Legal Services Authority of India (NALSA) to launch the "vision and mission statement" and the mobile app for NALSA. "To keep police excesses in check dissemination of information about the constitutional right to legal aid and availability of free legal aid services is necessary. The installation of display boards and outdoor hoardings in every police…
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The Union government is likely to launch a digitized platform for migrant workers
08 Aug

The Union government is likely to launch a digitized platform for migrant workers

editor0 CommentsIndia
Workers in the informal economy are estimated to contribute nearly 50% to the country’s gross domestic product or GDP, a measure of incomes and output.The Union government is likely to launch by next week a digitized platform for migrant workers that will enable authorities to direct state-run benefits to them and intervene during crises.The platform will allow migrants to register themselves. Registered workers will get a unique ID. The CSCs are points of access to a host of government digital services across the country. According to the first official cited above, the portal is similar to a platform launched last…
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Kerala Plane Crash Survivors offered a Final Compensation by Air India Express
08 Aug

Kerala Plane Crash Survivors offered a Final Compensation by Air India Express

editor0 CommentsAccident, India
The Air India Express flight from Dubai with 190 people on board, including a six-member crew, overshot the tabletop runway during landing at the Kozhikode Kerala airport amid heavy rains on August 7, 2020. all 165 passengers, who were injured and to the family of 19 flyers who died in the plane crash, in Kerala's Kozhikode district last year has been offered a compensation by Air India Express.Allegedly 80 out of the 165 injured flyers have taken up the offers given by the airline however the remaining 85 injured flyers and the family of the 19 passengers who died hasn’t…
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India sees single-day rise of 38,628 Covid-19 cases, 617 deaths
07 Aug

India sees single-day rise of 38,628 Covid-19 cases, 617 deaths

editor0 CommentsCovid19, Health, India,
India recorded a single-day rise of 38,628 new coronavirus cases, taking the infection tally to 3,18,95,385, while the death toll climbed to 4,27,371 with 617 fresh fatalities, the Union health ministry said on Saturday. The active cases in the country have declined to 4,12,153 and comprise 1.29 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded at 97.37 per cent, the ministry data updated at 8 am showed.A decrease of 2,006 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours, it said. The ministry also said that 17,50,081 tests…
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