Category: NATIONAL NEWS

A large number of vehicles including trucks are also stranded on the road as it has been for safety. Two terrorists were shot dead in an ongoing operation by security forces in Srinagar this evening, the police said. The encounter between the terrorists and the security forces started at Hydepora bypass. Minutes after the shootout started, police said a terrorist was killed. In a subsequent update, the police tweeted that one more unidentified terrorist has been killed. Some residents said they were trapped when the encounter started. “My brother is…

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Delhi Air Pollution: Supreme Court said in its order that “the major culprit of pollution” is industry, transport and road dust and “some part” is stubble burning. Farm fires only have a 10 per cent share in Delhi’s severe pollution, the central government today told the Supreme Court in a hearing on the air quality crisis in India’s capital. The contribution of stubble-burning – or burning of farm waste — to Delhi’s air pollution is 10 per cent, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the Supreme Court, stating that industry and road…

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Schools in four districts of Haryana that are close to the national capital will be shut till Wednesday, the Haryana government has ordered. In view of toxic smog and bad air quality in Delhi for over a week now, all government and private schools have been ordered to remain shut in the adjoining districts of the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. This order comes just a day after the Delhi government announced similar measures.  Construction activities, stubble burning, and burning of trash by municipal bodies have also been banned…

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Lockheed is ready to look at addressing India’s requirements including integrating existing systems and platforms with new generation applications American aerospace major Lockheed Martin on Sunday said it is ready to address India’s requirements for new-age military solutions in the domains of land, sea, space and cyberworld in sync with the robust framework of fast-expanding Indo-US strategic ties. William Blair, vice president and chief executive of Lockheed Martin’s India operations, said the company is “well placed” to partner with Indian entities in areas of unmanned platforms, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and machine learning among…

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November 14 is the birth anniversary of the country’s first Prime Minister and floral tributes are paid to his portrait in the Central Hall of Parliament every year. ior minister was present at the traditional function in parliament to mark the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru. Even Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha chairman Venkaiah Naidu had skipped the function, the party said. November 14 is the birth anniversary of the nation’s first Prime Minister and floral tributes are paid to his portrait in the Central Hall of…

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Case Against Tripura Journalists: Sources, however, claimed a team of cops had gone to question them after the complaint was filed. Two women journalists in Tripura have been named in an FIR (first information report) after a complaint by a supporter of the right-wing group Vishva Hindu Parishad. The journalists – Sammriddhi Sakunia and Swarna Jha – alleged that the cops came to their hotel early this morning and “intimidated” them; they said they were covering the recent incidents of violence in the state.  The journalists have been accused of “promoting…

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The opposition parties, in the past, have accused the government of misusing central investigative agencies amid probes targeting top leaders and former ministers. The government has brought two ordinances to extend the tenures of the CBI and Enforcement Directorate chiefs to up to five years. The chiefs of the central agencies currently have a two-year tenure. Both the ordinances have been signed off by President Ram Nath Kovind. The chiefs of the top agencies can be given extensions every year for up to three years after they complete the two-year…

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 Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that the country’s national security is “unpardonably compromised” as the government does not have a strategy on China. He cited a news report where the External Affairs Ministry and the Chief of Defence Staff had a different take on the China border issue. Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Bipin Rawat on Thursday said the controversy about the Chinese coming into the Indian territory and building a new village is “not true”, and that the villages were well within the Chinese side of…

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch two innovative, customer-centric initiatives of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the retail direct scheme and the integrated ombudsman scheme, via video-conferencing on Friday. In a statement on Thursday, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said the RBI Retail Direct Scheme is aimed at enhancing access to the government securities market for retail investors. It offers them a new avenue for directly investing in the securities issued by the Centre and the state governments. The investors will be able to easily open and maintain their…

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The arrested students are engineering students at the Raja Balwant Singh College in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. Three Kashmiri students were arrested by the Agra police yesterday for allegedly celebrating Pakistan’s win over India in the ongoing T20 World Cup. The arrested students are engineering students at the Raja Balwant Singh College in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. Arsheed Yousuf and Inayat Altaf Sheikh are in their third year of college, and Showkat Ahmed Ganai is in his fourth. The college had already suspended the students on Monday saying they were found “being involved…

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