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New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said the recruitment into the military through the Agnipath scheme will begin soon. He advised the aspirants to begin their preparations. Calling the scheme a ‘golden opportunity’ to join the nation’s defence system and to serve the country, Singh thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for allowing age waiver […]

New Delhi: Several students along with the members of All India Students’ Association (AISA) on Friday staged a protest over the Central government’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme for recruitment in the armed forces and demanded its rollback. Holding placards, the students raised slogans against the government and sat in between the old Delhi Police headquarters and the Gate […]

Kolkata: The wave of agitations against Agnipath, the proposed short- term entry scheme to the armed forces, on Friday reached West Bengal. Till 11 a.m. on Friday, the agitations were restricted to Thakurnagar under Bangaon sub-division and Bhatpara under Barrackpore sub-division, both in North 24 Parganas district. At Thakurnagar railway station a group of youths […]

Lucknow: Roadways buses were vandalised in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad on Friday as mobs protesting against the ‘Agnipath’ scheme went on rampage. Youths protesting against the short-term contract scheme in armed forces, pelted stones and damaged government properties. In Mathura, the protesters also pelted stones and damaged shops and vehicles. In Ballia, violence continued as protesters, after […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate to the nation the main tunnel and five underpasses of Pragati Maidan Integrated Transit Corridor Project in the national capital on June 19. The Integrated Transit Corridor project is an integral part of Pragati Maidan Redevelopment Project. Prime Minister Modi will also address a gathering on the […]

New Delhi: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not understand what the people of the country want as he cannot hear anything except the voice of his “friends”. He said this a day after the government raised the upper age limit to 23 years from 21 years […]

New Delhi: India reported a single-day rise of 12,847 coronavirus infections, taking the overall tally of cases to 4,32,70,577, while active cases also went up by over 4,800, according to the Union Health Ministry data issued on Friday. The data updated at 8 am also recorded 14 fresh fatalities, pushing the overall death figure to […]

Patna: Violent protests over the Central government’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme for recruitment in armed forces continued across Bihar on Friday with agitators disrupting rail and road traffic and setting the Bhagalpur-New Delhi Vikramshila Express and Jammu Tawi-Guwahati Express trains on fire. Several organisations have given a 72-hour ultimatum to the Modi government to withdraw the Agnipath […]

Bengaluru: In a shocking case, the Karnataka Police have arrested a woman on charges of trying to smuggle drugs into the Central Prison of Parappana Agrahara in Bengaluru for her jailed son, police said on Friday. The arrested woman has been identified as Parveen Taj, a resident of Shikaripalya in Bengaluru. According to police, the […]

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) was conducting raids at multiple locations in Delhi-NCR in connection with a Prevention of Money Laundering case involving the national capital’s Health Minister Satyendar Jain. Jain was arrested on May 30 by the ED under section 19 of the PMLA. According to the sources, the ED officials were conducting […]

Panaji: Police in Goa have arrested a Delhi native for driving a Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) on the popular Anjuna beach while endangering the lives of tourists and the general public. #Beach|| This is what a insensitive Delhi based tourist did at Anjuna beach. pic.twitter.com/3epg6vdaPS — Goa News Hub (@goanewshub) June 16, 2022 Deputy Superintendent […]

Paris: Upbeat with India being recognized as the “country of the year” at Europe’s biggest start-up conference – Vivatech 2020, an Indian diplomat in France said that India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Rupay cards will soon be accepted in France. In an exclusive interview with ANI, Jawed Ashraf, Indian Ambassador in France, said, “India […]

Hyderabad: Debit and credit cardholders beware! Come July 1, your card details will get erased from e-commerce sites, apps and OTT platforms. One will have to restore their card number and generate a unique token from July onwards in order to make online payments. This is part of the new rules set by the Reserve […]

New Delhi: The government on Thursday increased the upper-age limit to 23 years from 21 years for recruitment under the Agnipath scheme for the year 2022 amid widespread protests against the new model for enrolment of soldiers into the three services. Unveiling the scheme on Tuesday, the government had said the entry age for all […]

Hyderabad: Cotton farmers have spent about Rs 500 crore buying herbicide-tolerant cotton seeds (HtBt). Cotton cultivation using HtBt seeds is considered illegal as the government has not yet approved its use. This year, the HtBt crop is likely to be about 20 per cent of the total extent (about 24 lakh hectares of 120 lakh […]

Hyderabad: The BJP appears to have a purifier effect on ‘tainted’ leaders who join the party. How else does one explain the phenomenon of leaders from opposition parties facing serious charges of corruption and financial irregularities suddenly turning up squeaky clean once they join the saffron party? From Himanta Biswa Sarma to Jyotiraditya Scindia, from […]

Hyderabad: For second consecutive day, the hashtag “#ModiMustResign” kept trending nation-wide with more than 1.2 lakh tweets for more than 18 hours. Apart from the TRS and other Opposition parties launching an attack on the Modi government, the netizens of India as well as Sri Lanka joined the tirade against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kickstarted […]

Hyderabad: The Central government’s ill-thought-out Agnipath scheme for short-term recruitment in the Indian Armed Forces has come under tremendous fire from various sections of the society, including ex-servicemen, doctors, engineers, politicians and members of the BJP too. Voicing extreme concern over what is being described as a disastrous move, they demanded that the BJP government […]

New Delhi: The Opposition on Thursday stepped up its attack on the government over the Agnipath scheme amid protests against it in several parts of the country and demanded that it be scrapped, even as official sources asserted that no change is being done to the Army’s regimental system under the new initiative. While Congress […]

New Delhi: The Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021, aimed at enabling consumers to chose between multiple service providers just like in case of telecom services, is likely to be introduced and pushed for passage in the monsoon session of the Parliament scheduled to begin in July. Addressing the India Energy Transmission Summit 2022 organised by FICCI, […]

Chandigarh: Police in Haryana’s Palwal town fired shots into the air to disperse hundreds of violent protesters out on the streets on Thursday to demonstrate against the Agnipath scheme for recruitment to defence services. Five police vehicles were torched, several roadways buses damaged in stone-pelting and the National Highway 19 was blocked. Even the protesters […]

Chhapra (Bihar): At least three trains were set on fire in Bihar as protests against the Centre’s Agnipath recruitment scheme turned violent in the Chhapra, Gopalganj and Kaimur districts on Thursday. Several aspirants for the armed forces are unhappy with the changes introduced under the new recruitment scheme for the Indian Army, particularly the length […]

By Amitava Mukherjee Kolkata: Sharad Pawar’s refusal to become the unanimous opposition candidate for the post of the next President of India should be seen as a setback for Mamata Banerjee who had tried to hog the limelight by organising a joint meeting of opposition parties at New Delhi. Although some vernacular dailies of Kolkata […]

Hyderabad: Will the prediction by researchers from IIT-Kanpur, made in February that India will face a fourth Covid wave from June 22, 2022 come true? Given the steady rise of Covid infections across different states including Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, fuelling fears of a Covid fourth wave, the prediction from IIT-Kanpur researchers, appears […]