Saturday, December 27, 2025

Rahul Gandhi violated security rules 113 times: CRPF

By
Tehelka WebDesk
-

New Delhi:  The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) said that necessary security arrangements were made for Rahul Gandhi as per the guidelines, but he violated the rules 113 times and was duly informed of the same.

CRPF deployed in Gandhi’s security responded to the question raised by the Congress regarding the lapse in his security and the letter written by the party to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

The CRPF, in its reply submitted to the MHA, said that Gandhi violated the fixed security instructions several times since 2020, including during Bharat Jodo Yatra.

It added that the violations had been brought to the leader’s notice from time to time.

According to CRPF, the arrangements were made in coordination with the state police and security agencies, after advanced communication regarding security before each tour, in addition to Advanced Security Liasion (ASL) that was done for Gandhi’s security before the Yatra entered Delhi.

According to CRPF, the Delhi Police informed that security personnel were deployed adequately, and that the security arrangements made for the protectee work when the person himself follows the prescribed guidelines.

The Congress demanded for Gandhi’s security in Bharat Jodo Yatra from the Central Government.

Congress General Secretary, K.C. Venugopal had written a letter to Home Minister Amit Shah regarding the same, wherein he claimed of lapses in Gandhi’s security in the Delhi leg of the Yatra.

The Intelligence Bureau has questioned many people involved in the yatra in this regard.

PM Modi announces relief for victims of Andhra stampede

By
Tehelka WebDesk
-

New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh from the PM Relief Fund (PMNRF) to the kin of the seven people who died after falling in a drainage canal in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore district during former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s roadshow.

“Pained by the mishap at a public meeting in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh. Condolences to the bereaved families. May the injured recover soon. An ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh from PMNRF would be given to the next of kin of each deceased and the injured would be given Rs 50, 000, ” Modi tweeted on Thursday.

During the incident on Wednesday in Kandukur town which took place soon after the TDP chief arrived to address the roadshow, eight people were also injured.

After the tragedy, Naidu immediately cancelled the meeting and announced Rs 10 lakh to the kin of the deceased.

Delhi air quality dips to very poor category

By
Tehelka WebDesk
-

New Delhi : Amid the chilly weather, the air quality in the national capital dipped to very poor quality as the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of the city reached 311 on Thursday morning, according to data from the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).

The AQI at Dhirpur entered into a severe category with PM 2.5 at 324, under a ‘very poor’ category.

Experts said that the air quality may also remain in a very poor category on Friday.

The AQI between zero and 50 is considered good, 51 and 100 satisfactory, 101 and 200 moderate, 201 and 300 poor, 301 and 400 very poor, and 401 and 500 severe.

In Pusa, the AQI recorded PM 2.5 at 318 very poor category.

At Lodhi Road, the Air Quality Index with PM 2.5 concentration was at 3o1 under the very poor category and the PM 10 stood at 163 under the moderate category. In Ayanagar the PM 2.5 was at 286, poor category while the PM 10 reached 156, in moderate category.

The Air Quality Index at the city’s Mathura Road was also under the very poor category with PM 2.5 at 312 with PM 10 concentration at 255 under the poor category.

According to the forecast from the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR), the air quality of the city will deteriorate further under a very poor category with PM 2.5 reaching 322 and the PM 10 concentration at 184 under ‘moderate category’ on Friday.

However, the Air Quality Index of Delhi’s neighbouring cities of Noida stood at 339 under very poor category and the PM 10 concentration at 207 under poor category, while Gurugram’s AQI was reported at 303 under the very poor category and the PM 10 concentration at 146 under moderate category.

Meanwhile, Delhiites woke up to a thin layer of fog and a cold day with Palam weather station in Delhi recording a minimum temperature of 9.7 degree Celsius while Safdarjung recorded a minimum temperature of 7 degree Celsius.

A ‘cold day’ is when the minimum temperature is less than or equal to 10 degrees Celsius below normal and the maximum temperature is at least 4.5 degrees below normal. A ‘severe cold day’ is when the maximum is 6.5 degrees or more below normal. A ‘severe’ cold wave is when the minimum temperature dips to two degrees Celsius or the departure from normal is more than 6.4 degrees Celsius.

Mehbooba, Abdullah to join Rahul Gandhi’s yatra in Kashmir

By
Tehelka WebDesk
-

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti will join the Kashmir leg of the “Bharat Jodo Yatra” spearheaded by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, she said on Tuesday.

National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah is also expected to take part in the yatra when it enters Jammu and Kashmir next month.

“I’ve been formally invited to join @RahulGandhi ji for his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kashmir today. Salute his indomitable courage and I believe it is my duty to stand with someone who has the courage to challenge fascist forces. Will be joining him in his march towards a better India,” the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said in a tweet.

Rahul Gandhi will hoist tricolour in Srinagar.

However, Union minister Anurag Thakur  has asked Gandhi if he wanted to vitiate the atmosphere in Kashmir. He stressed that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir has improved significantly under the Modi government.

“Now tourists can visit every corner of Jammu and Kashmir. This shows that the situation has improved in Jammu and Kashmir. There are no stone pelting incidents. Does Rahul Gandhi want to go there to spoil the atmosphere?” Thakur asked.

BJP MLA resigns from Tripura Assembly, to rejoin Congress

By
Tehelka WebDesk
-

Agartala:  BJP MLA Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl, who resigned from the Tripura Assembly on Wednesday, giving another jolt to the ruling party ahead of the Assembly polls, would join the opposition Congress on Thursday.

State Congress President Birajt Sinha and party’s lone MLA Sudip Roy Barman separately told IANS that Hrangkhawl, along with few other leaders of different parties, would join the Congress at a big public meeting here on Thursday.

Roy Barman, six other MLAs including Hrangkhawl and many leaders quit the Congress in 2016 and joined the Trinamool Congress. However, the next year, they joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Roy Barman and three BJP MLAs – Burba Mohan Tripura, Ashis Das, and Ashis Kumar Saha – quit the saffron party separately this year.

Das joined the Trinamools last year but quit it in May this year while Roy Barman, also a former Minister, and Saha joined the Congress in February this year.

Burba Mohan Tripura joined the influential tribal-based party Tipraha Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA), headed by former royal scion Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman.

A veteran tribal leader, Hrangkhawl, who was elected to the Assembly from the Karanchara Assembly seat in northern Tripura’s Unakoti district, is the 5th BJP MLA and 8th MLA of the BJP-IPFT (Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura) ruling alliance to quit since last year.

Accompanied by several Congress leaders, including former MLA Saha, the 66-year-old lawmaker submitted his resignation letter to Assembly Secretary Bishnu Pada Karmakar on Wednesday as Speaker Ratan Chakraborty is away from Tripura.

“Hrangkhawl’s resignation would be accepted by the Speaker once he returns to the state, ” Karmakar told IANS.

Hrangkhawl, who was elected to the state Assembly four times since 1988, after submitting his resignation letter, told the media that he has quit the party and the membership of the Assembly on personal grounds.

“I would decide my future course of action very soon, ” said the tribal leader, who was close to BJP-turned Congress MLA and former minister Sudip Roy Barman.

BJP’s ally IPFT MLAs — Mevar Kumar Jamatia, Brishaketu Debbarma and Dhananjoy Tripura also quit the party and the Assembly before joining the TIPRA following open differences with the ruling parties and the government.

The TIPRA is now ruling the politically-important 30-member Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC).

Assembly elections to Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland are expected to be held in February 2023.

The BJP, in alliance with the tribal-based party IPFT, came to power in the 2018 assembly polls thrashing the CPI-M led Left parties, which governed the northeastern state for 35 year in two phases (1978-1988 and 1993-2018).

In the last assembly polls, the BJP and IPFT secured 36 and 8 seats respectively in the 60 member house while the CPI-M bagged 16 seats.

Taliban says ‘No’ to Women

By
Mahie
-

After Taliban took over Afghanistan on August 15, 2021 the country and its citizens are facing many stringent restrictions , specially women who are facing restrictions on their basic rights of Education. Taliban have been seen increasing the curbs on women time and gain. Recently , the Talibans banned women from Universities in Afghanistan,. Not only women but girls are also restricted from schools. Many women protesters from Afghanistan Women’s Unity and Solidarity group raised their voices against these  restrictions imposed by Taliban but soon these demonstrations were shut down by Taliban officials. “ They destroyed my  future’’ said a Kabul University student.  The United Nations has also raised serious objections to Taliban policies.

In September 2021, The Taliban’s said that the women can attend Universities but will only be allowed to be taught by the professors  of same sex or elderly people. After few months , they shut down the Secondary Schools education for girls. Due to these restrictions many school going girls got disappointed as they were being deprived of their basic rights. ‘’ I want to study and make my career in Medicine but they have ordered us to stay home.’’ said Zaiba a school going girl.

The Atrocities of Talibans did not stop here, after some time the  girls and women’s  were prohibited from entering public places like parks , gyms and malls. Women were also forced to cover themselves in public places. They have to cover themselves completely including their faces. In the series of bans recently Taliban guards stopped hundreds of young girls also from entering the college campus. They suspended the education of women till further orders.

United Nations has also raised objections on Taliban’s restrictions on women . The UN  Secretary- General Antonio Guterres  decried increasing restrictions on women’s rights in Afghanistan, urging the country’s Taliban rulers to reverse them immediately. United Nations Secretary Council reiterated its deep concern of the suspension of schools beyond the sixth grade. The Equal and meaningful participation of women and girls in Afghanistan is needed,” it said in a press release.

United Nations  High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said in a statement issued in Geneva that no country can develop or prosper if one section of the population will be excluded. Everbody should be treated equally, he said that he fears that this will pose risk beyond  Afghanistan borders.

They also urged to reopen schools and allow women to go for work. The UN also said that no country can develop and survive if human rights are violated. These restrictions will only increase the sufferings of Afghanistan. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk also said that banning women from working in NGOs would only decrease the income of Afghan people. “Women and girls cannot be denied from their basic rights” added Turk.

Many Afghan families residing in India are also criticizing the policies of Talibans. They are concerned about their friends and families who are still in Afghanistan and are forced to accept the bans levied on them. Though they are happy that they are in India but fear for the people of Afghanistan.

India logs 188 fresh Covid cases in last 24 hrs

By
Tehelka WebDesk
-

New Delhi:  India reported a total 188 fresh Covid cases on Wednesday in the last 24 hrs, against 157 cases reported the previous day, said Union Health Ministry.

However, no Covid related death has been reported in the same period in the country. The active caseload of the country stands at 3, 468 cases, accounting for 0.01 per cent of the country’s total positive cases.

The weekly positive rate of the country currently stands at 0.18 per cent, while the daily positive rate stands at 0.14 per cent.

The recovery of 141 patients in the last 24 hours took the cumulative tally to 4, 41, 43, 483. Consequently, India’s recovery rate stands at 98.80 per cent.

Also in the same period, a total of 1, 34, 995 tests were conducted across the country, increasing the overall tally to over 91.01 crore.

With 90, 529 vaccines administered in last 24 hrs, India’s Covid-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 220.07 crore as of Wednesday morning.

Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker held a discussion with the Speaker of the Telangana Vidhan Sabha

By
Tehelka WebDesk
-

Chandigarh: Punjab Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan discussed various important issues with Telangana Vidhan Sabha Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy. During the meeting both the leaders shared their experiences regarding the functioning of the Vidhan Sabha.
On the invitation given by the Speaker of the Telangana Vidhan Sabha,  Sandhwan reached the Telangana Vidhan Sabha and met the Speaker Reddy. Many MLAs were also present on this occasion.
According to a spokesperson of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, both the leaders discussed legislative buisness as well as agriculture, dairy farming, culture, sports, science, technology etc. After the meeting Sandhwan said that he learned a lot during the discussion. On the occasion  Sandhwan was warmly welcomed.

Fresh cold wave conditions likely to continue in Jan: IMD

By
Tehelka WebDesk
-

New  Delhi: The northern parts of the country will witness fresh cold wave conditions from December 31 onwards, said India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday.

R.K. Jenamani, senior scientist at the IMD, said cold days and severe cold days are mainly over south Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh.

“The cold to severe cold wave is expected to continue over Punjab, Haryana, north Rajasthan and Delhi. Dense to very dense fog will continue to prevail in the belt. From December 28, there will be improvement due to western disturbance and on December 29, fresh snowfall is expected in Jammu & Kashmir, Leh and some parts of Himachal Pradesh, ” said Jenamani.

Drizzle can be expected in parts of Punjab on December 29, said the IMD.

Delhiites woke up to a chilly morning on Tuesday and dense fog lowered visibility in some areas of the city, affecting road and rail traffic.

“A minimum temperature of 7 degree Celsius was recorded in Delhi, ” said the Meteorological (MeT) office.

The MeT office said that a layer of dense fog and moderate icy cold winds from the North were responsible for this steep fall in temperature.

“Northwesterly dry and cold winds will continue over Northwest India. However, intensity of fog may decrease leading to marginal increase in day temperatures and abatement of cold wave from parts of West Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Haryana. Minimum temperature may also increase marginally, ” said the MeT office.

“Light snowfall is going on over the upper reaches of Western Himalayas. Another Western disturbance is expected around December 30 and 31st. Moderate snowfall is possible during that time. Temperatures may dip once again on New Year eve, ” he said.

Credit offtake in elevated levels: CARE Ratings

By
Tehelka WebDesk
-

New Delhi : The credit offtake in India remained at elevated levels of 17.5 per cent year-on-year (YoY), reporting robust growth for the fortnight ended December 2, said credit rating agency CARE Ratings.
According to CARE Ratings report, the growth is driven by a low base, non-banking finance companies (NBFC), retail credit, higher working capital demand driven by inflation and improvement in capacity utilisation ratio, and rising demand for fresh capex.
The benefit of a lower base is expected to ease in the next few fortnights, optically leading to lower growth rates, CARE Ratings said.
With a large base, deposits saw a slower growth at 9.9 per cent y-o-y compared to credit growth of 17.5 per cent for the fortnight ended December 2.
The credit offtake expanded by over 1, 000 bps due to a low base, retail credit, inflation-led working capital requirement and MSMEs. It also increased sequentially by 1.2 per cent from the immediate fortnight (ended November 18), CARE Ratings said.
Deposits rates are expected to go up further due to rising policy rates driven by higher inflation, intense competition between banks for sourcing deposits to meet strong credit demand, widening credit deposit gap, and lower liquidity in the market, said CARE Ratings.
Over the last couple of years, (i.e., from February 28, 2020) credit offtake has mostly overcome the Covid induced lag and has grown by around 29.7 per cent to almost catch up with deposit growth of 31.4 per cent over the period, the credit rating agency said.
In absolute terms, credit outstanding stood at Rs 131 lakh crore as of December 2, rising by Rs 19.5 lakh crore over the last 12 months.
According to CARE Ratings, the credit offtake is anticipated to remain resilient in FY23, while the benefit of lower base will ease out in the next few fortnights, optically leading to lower growth rates.
A slowdown in global growth due to elevated interest rates, interminable pandemic restrictions in China, and multiple rate hikes in India could impact credit growth, the CARE Ratings report said.

1...377378379...1,606Page 378 of 1,606

MOST POPULAR

Load more

HOT NEWS

Tehelka
TEHELKA is the fastest growing national news group for English & Hindi news magazines. The core value of the brand is to uphold the truth with a free, fair and fearless attitude. The company has a high standard of excellence in journalism and a commitment to assist in India’s fight against corruption. News is published in the maximum number of languages to maintain a stronger circulation base across the country.
Contact us: wecare@tehelka.com