Assam, 18/6:The Brahmaputra and eight other rivers were flowing above the danger level at various places in Assam as the flood situation in the state still remained grim on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called up Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma at 6 am and took stock of the situation. Sarma said…
J&K, 18/6:The body of a police officer was found on Saturday near Jammu and Kashmir’s Pampore town. Police sources said the body of sub-inspector, Farooq Ahmad Mir with a bullet mark near his heart was found in the paddy fields of Samboora village. “He was posted in 23 Battalion of IRP at…
New Delhi ,18/6::With protests breaking out across the country over the armed forces’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) decided to reserve 10 per cent vacancies for recruitment in Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Assam Rifles for ‘Agniveer’Apart from that the MHA also announced 3 years age relaxation beyond upper age limit…
New Delhi, 17/7: Protests against the Centre’s ‘Agnipath’ recruitment scheme for the Armed forces spread from Bihar and Jharkhand to Odisha and West Bengal on Friday, with unhappy job aspirants coming out in large numbers torching and stopping trains and disrupting services across the eastern region. Besides targeting railway properties, the protestors attacked…
Holland, 17/6: England hit a world record one-day international score of 498-4 against the Netherlands in Amstelveen on Friday, with three men scoring centuries in the run blitz. Eoin Morgan’s side beat their own mark of 481-6 set against Australia at Trent Bridge in 2018, in the first match of the three-game series….
Mumbai, 17/6:Digital financial services firm One97 Communications’ Managing Director Vijay Shekhar Sharma has purchased 1.7 lakh shares of the company worth Rs 11 crore, according to a regulatory filing. The disclosures from the company, which operates under Paytm brand, show that Sharma bought the shares on May 30-31. On May 30, Sharma…
New Delhi, 16/6:The Centre’s decision to increase the upper age limit for joining the Agnipath scheme for recruitment in defence services will benefit a large number of youth, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday. He said the recruitment process in the Army had been affected for the last two years due to…
New Delhi, 17/6:British interior minister Priti Patel on Friday approved the extradition of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange to the United States to face criminal charges, bringing his long-running legal saga closer to a conclusion. Assange is wanted by US authorities on 18 counts, including a spying charge, relating to WikiLeaks’ release of vast…
Beijing, 17/6:China has put a hold in the UN at the last moment on a joint proposal by India and the US to list Pakistan-based militant Abdul Rehman Makki as a global terrorist under Al Qaida Sanctions Committee of the Security Council. Makki is a US-designated terrorist and brother-in-law of Lashkar-e-Taiba head and…
Patna, 17/6:Amid protest against new military recruitment scheme Agnipath, a mob on Friday morning set two coaches of a passenger train on fire in Bihar, according to multiple media reports. According to reports, the coaches of the Jammu Tawi Express train were set on fire at Mohiuddinagar station of Hajipur-Barauni railway line. …
