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“Drones Not Made On Roads, Are State-Supported Systems”: Top Army Officer

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General Pandey told DIN the Army is “well aware these assets and tech – like drones and drone warfare – are state-supported systems” and that such threats may continue and even increase The technology used in Sunday’s drone strikes on an Air Force base at Jammu airport indicate “state-support” and involvement of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lt General DP Pandey, Corps Commander of the 15 Corps in Srinagar, told NDTV on Wednesday. General Pandey said the Army is “well aware these assets and tech – like drones and drone warfare…

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Answer to crisis is to put money in hands of people: Chidambaram on govt package

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A day after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a package to support the pandemic-hit economy, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Tuesday said the answer to this “crisis” is to spur demand by putting money in the hands of the people, especially the poor and the lower middle classes. Sitharaman on Monday announced Rs 1.5 lakh crore of additional credit for small and medium businesses, more funds for the healthcare sector, loans to tourism agencies and guides, and waiver of visa fee for foreign tourists as part of a package…

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Death toll rises to 11 at Florida building collapse site

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Rescuers searching for a fifth day for survivors of a Florida condo building collapse used bucket brigades and heavy machinery Monday as they worked atop a precarious mound of pulverised concrete, twisted steel and the remnants of dozens of households. Authorities said their efforts were still a search-and-rescue operation, but no one has been found alive since hours after the collapse on Thursday. Two more bodies were recovered Monday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 11. More than 150 others are still missing in the community of Surfside, just outside…

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Sensex, Nifty start on flat note amid mixed global cues

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Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty opened on a flat note on Tuesday tracking a mixed trend in global markets and sustained foreign fund outflow. The 30-share BSE index was trading 22.82 points or 0.04 per cent higher at 52,758.41 in initial deals. Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty inched 7.45 points or 0.05 per cent up to 15,822.15. Asian Paints was the top gainer in the Sensex pack, rising over 1 per cent, followed by PowerGrid, L&T, TCS, Reliance Industries, HCL Tech and ITC. On the other hand, ICICI Bank, M&M,…

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SC rejects plea seeking SIT probe into alleged forceful conversion in Haryana’s Nuh

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 The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking setting up of a special investigating team (SIT) to probe the alleged forceful conversion of Hindus in Haryana’s Nuh district. Sorry, the plea is dismissed, a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana told senior advocate Vikas Singh, who was appearing for the petitioners. Singh told the bench, also comprising Justices A S Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy, that two of the petitioners had visited the area and met people there including the family of 21-year-old Nikita Tomar, who…

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Karan Johar to make a film on lawyer-activist C Sankaran Nair

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Filmmaker Karan Johar on Tuesday announced that his next production venture is based on the life of C Sankaran Nair, the former President of the Indian National Congress and member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council. Titled “The Untold Story of C Sankaran Nair”, the film is inspired from real life events and adapted from the book The Case That Shook the Empire , written by Raghu Palat, (great-grandson of Sankaran Nair) and his wife Pushpa Palat. The movie, to be directed by Karan Singh Tyagi, will unravel the legendary courtroom…

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Pessina’s goal celebration becomes a sensation back in Italy

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Matteo Pessina’s goal-scoring celebration diving face-first on the turf with his arms nearly flat by his side has become quite a sensation back home in Italy. Rightfully so. The 24-year-old midfielder, who only joined his national team for the European Championship after another player was injured, scored what turned out to be the winning goal in extra time against Austria in the round of 16. It was the most spontaneous thing in the world. It didn’t seem real to me that it had really happened and I did the stupidest…

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India records 50,040 new COVID-19 cases, 1,258 fresh fatalities

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A single-day rise of 50,040 fresh COVID-19 infections took India’s tally to 3,02,33,183, while the number of active cases dipped to 5,86,403, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Sunday. The death toll climbed to 3,95,751 with 1,258 more people succumbing to the viral disease in a day. Active cases now comprises 1.94 per cent of the total infections, the data updated at 8 am showed. Recoveries outnumbered daily new cases of COVID-19 for the 45th consecutive day with the number of people who have recuperated from the disease…

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Infrastructure vow was not intended to be veto threat: Biden

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Aiming to preserve a fragile bipartisan deal on infrastructure, President Joe Biden endorsed it without hesitation Saturday, walking back from a threat to veto it if Congress also didn’t pass an even larger package to expand the social safety net. Biden said he didn’t mean to suggest in earlier remarks that he would veto the nearly USD 1 trillion infrastructure bill unless Congress also passed a broader package of investments that he and fellow Democrats aim to approve along party lines, the two together totalling some USD 4 trillion. Speaking…

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Dawood’s brother Iqbal Kaskar gets one-day NCB custody in drugs case

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 A court at Bhiwandi in Maharashtra’s Thane district has remanded Iqbal Kaskar, brother of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, in the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) custody for one day in a drugs case. Magistrate M M Mali on Friday remanded Kaskar in the anti-drugs agency’s custody. Kaskar’s alleged involvement in the case surfaced following the recent seizure of 27 kg of hashish. The NCB officials had sought his custody for examination in the case, an official has said. The NCB had recently arrested seven persons in two cases in which…

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