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Army foils infiltration bid, kills terrorist

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Army on Friday stopped  an infiltration bid by killing terrorist along the Line of Control in Poonch area of Jammu and Kashmir. according to officials. 

“At around 1000 hours today, vigilant soldiers of the army noticed suspicious activity along the Line of Control in the Poonch sector (J-K), where some people were attempting to cross across into the Indian side,” according to a defence spokesman. 

He claimed that when the infiltrators began fire on the soldiers, the soldiers retaliated by engaging them in fire, which resulted in the death of one terrorist. 

 

“His body has been retrieved along with two AK-47 rifles, a pistol, and war-like supplies,” the spokesman added.  

Jammu and Kashmir Police has said that 40 foreign terrorists have been killed in the Kashmir region in 2022 so far.  

Most of these terrorists belonged to either Lashkar-e-Taiba or Jaish-e-Mohammad terror outfits. 

Delhi MCD polls: Voting on Dec 4, results on Dec 7

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Delhi State Election Commission on Friday announced that voting for the 2022
Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls will be held on December 4.

Counting will be held on December 7 and the results will be announced the same day.

With the announcement of the Delhi civic polls, the Model Code of Conduct has come into force in the national capital.

“The notification for the civic body poll will be issued on November 7. The last day for filing the nomination is November 14 and the scrutiny of the nomination will be held on November 16. The last date for withdrawal of candidature is November 19, ” Delhi State Election Commisioner Vijay Dev said.

“The MCD has jurisdiction in 68 assembly constituencies, ” Vijay Dev said, adding “as per 2011 census, out of 250 wards, 42 have been reserved for the SC. Out of those 42 seats, 21 are reserved for women.”

“As on today, we have total 1.46 crores voters in Delhi. Around 13, 665 polling stations will be set up for the polls”, ” he said.

This year, the Central government unified the three corporations – East Delhi Municipal Corporation, South Delhi Municipal Corporation and North Delhi Municipal Corporation – into one MCD. After a Home Ministry notification, the total number of MCD wards in Delhi has been reduced to 250 from earlier 272. As many as 42 wards are in reserved category.

 

Shiv Sena leader Sudhir Suri shot dead during protest in Amritsar

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Shiv Sena leader Sudhir Suri was shot dead by in Punjab’s Amritsar on Friday, police said. The incident took place outside Gopal Mandir on Majitha Road- one of the busiest places in Amritsar,- where Suri and some other leaders of the party were holding a protest, they said.

According to police, more than five shots were fired at Suri after which he fell down and lost consciousness. He was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to bullet injuries, they said. The accused has been arrested and the weapon used in the crime seized, police said.

Sudhir Suri was in the hit list of several gangsters for a long time and was provided security by the government with around eight Punjab Police personnel being attached with him, they said.

Reacting to the incident, Punjab BJP president Ashwani Sharma said the law and order situation has completely broken down in the state.

Congress state president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said the law and order in state was going from bad to worse.

RSS & BJP should stop interference in election of SGPC office-bearers: Harjinder Singh Dhami

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Says Iqbal Singh Lalpura misusing constitutional post at the behest of BJP

Amritsar:  Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) President Harjinder Singh Dhami alleged that Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are making mischievous attempts to take control of SGPC, the representative organisation of Sikhs.

He said BJP leader Iqbal Singh Lalpura, Chairman of National Commission for Minorities (NCM), working under BJP’s policy of controlling SGPC is asking the members of Sikh body to vote against the candidate of Shiromani Akali Dal in the upcoming annual election of Sikh body on November 9. He said big temptations are being given to buy votes of SGPC members by leaders who joined BJP from different parties. He said several SGPC members have disclosed this fact to him.

During a press conference at the SGPC office in Amritsar on Friday, Harjinder Singh Dhami said the Congress party had been interfering in Sikh affairs for a long time and now, BJP is also following the same path.

He said BJP and RSS controlled office-bearers of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) to make them work as per their wishes, and now efforts are being made to break SGPC through a separate Gurdwara management committee for Haryana.

“Now, going further, pressure is being put on SGPC members before SGPC’s annual elections. BJP leader Iqbal Singh Lalpura, who is Chairman of NCM, is interfering to harm the Sikh body by forgetting the dignity of his constitutional position. The Minorities Commission is responsible for protection of minorities in the country and to resolve their issues. But its chairman is acting against minorities as per policy of his party (BJP)”, said Harjinder Singh Dhami.

He said that the annual election of office-bearers of SGPC is an issue of members elected by Sangat, in which no external interference can be tolerated. “I advise Lalpura to stay in his jurisdiction and BJP people should not interfere in the election of Sikh body”, he quipped.

Meanwhile, Harjinder Singh Dhami thanking the Guru for announcing his nomination as candidate for SGPC President post also thanked Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal and entire leadership besides SGPC members.

However, today SAD spokesperson Dr. Daljit Singh Cheema had announced in the morning about the nomination of Harjinder Singh Dhami as party candidate for the post SGPC president in the annual elections of SGPC to be held on November 9 at Teja Singh Samundari Hall in the Golden Temple complex.

On this occasion, Dhami also appealed to former SGPC President Bibi Jagir Kaur that she is highly respectable and she should walk together to strengthen the Shiromani Akali Dal and SGPC as she did earlier

53% Delhi-NCR residents blame stubble burning for poor air

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New Delhi:  Nearly 53 per cent Delhi-NCR residents identified stubble burning by farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh as the primary cause for toxic air in Delhi and surrounding areas.

To understand what the perception of citizens is on the primary cause of high levels of pollution in Delhi-NCR, online community platform LocalCircles reached out to residents of Delhi, Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad and Gurugram.

Over 20,000 responses were received in the survey in which 61 %  respondents were men while 39 per cent respondents were women.

To gauge the perception of Delhi-NCR residents on the primary cause of toxic air, the survey asked: “What according to you is the primary reason for bad air quality during October to December in Delhi NCR?”

In response, the majority of the 10,037 respondents to the query identified stubble burning by farmers in adjoining states as the root cause.

The data break-up shows 53 % of respondents identify “stubble burning by farmers in Punjab, Haryana and UP” while a much smaller percentage or 13 per cent believe the primary cause is “motor vehicle emissions”; seven per cent blame it on “garbage burning in the city”; seven per cent on “industrial emissions”; 7 per cent on “construction activity”; while 13 per cent have no opinion.

When asked about supporting the introduction of an odd-even vehicle scheme in Delhi-NCR as a solution to reduce the air pollution level, nearly 56 per cent of respondents do not support it while 38 per cent are willing to support this step to reduce pollution and 6 per cent have no clear opinion.

Pollution level in Delhi has been in severe category since the last couple of days and GRAP III has kicked in banning construction activities.

Mamata Banerjee writes to PM, seeks excise relief on Bengal rice variety

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking exemption on the 20 per cent excise duty levied on the special rice variety ‘Gobindobhog’.
According to the letter, “without exemption in excise duty, the exports for the particular variety of rice will be affected badly.” The chief minister has also pointed out in the letter that in the absence of relief in excise, the farmers producing this particular variety of rice, will also suffer because of lack of exports.
The chief minister has also pointed out that Gobindobhog variety of rice was extremely popular in some European and West Asian countries like the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait. According to her, the Gobindobhog variety of rice is also used for various religious occasions.
The state government too encourages the farmers to produce this variety of rice for its popularity overseas, the letter said.
The chief minister also pointed out that the Centre has recently exempted excise duty on Basmati rice and going by that logic similar relief should be allowed on Gobindobhog variety.
She also argued that since the price of the Gobindobhog variety is higher than the minimum support price (MSP), the relief in excise is necessary for the farmers to continue with the smooth production of the variety.
The chief minister also pointed out that this particular variety of rice was also awarded the Geographical Indication (GI) tag in 2017.
Gobindobhog is a short grain, white, aromatic and sticky variety of rice with a buttery flavour mostly cultivated in certain districts of West Bengal. The principal districts where this particular variety of rice is cultivated include East Burdwan, Hooghly, Nadia and Birbhum. This variety of rice is also cultivated in certain districts of Bihar and Chhattisgarh.

Trust, credibility important for developed nation: PM Modi

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that for a developed country, trust and credibility are critical, noting that the earlier governments failed to earn people’s trust.
Addressing a programme marking the vigilance awareness week of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) at Vigyan Bhawan, Modi said, “Earlier the governments not only lost people’s confidence but they also failed to trust people.”
“We have been trying to change the system of scarcity and pressure for the last eight years. The government is trying to fill the gap between the supply and demand, ” he added.
The Prime Minister also launched the Management System portal of CVC on the occasion.
“For a developed India, trust and credibility are critical, ” he said further, adding that technology, service saturation and Aatmnirbharta are the three key ways of tackling corruption.
“For a developed India, we have to develop such an administrative ecosystem with zero tolerance on corruption, ” Modi emphasised.
He suggested to the CVC officials present on the occasion to devise a way of ranking departments on the basis of pending corruption cases and publish the related reports on a monthly or quarterly basis.
“Institutions acting against the corrupt and corruption like the CVC don’t have to be defensive, ” he advised.
“When you take action with conviction, the whole nation stands with you, ” said the Prime Minister.
Touching upon the worrying trend, the Prime Minister said, “We have seen that many times the corrupt people are glorified in spite of being jailed even after being proven to be corrupt.”
“This situation is not good for Indian society. Even today, some people give arguments in favour of the corrupt who have been found guilty. It is very necessary for such people, such forces to be made aware of their duty by society. In this also concrete action taken by your department has a big role, ” he said.
Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, P.K. Mishra, Minister of State for Personnel & Parliamentary Affairs Jitendra Singh, Cabinet Secretary, Central Vigilance Commissioner Suresh Patel and Vigilance Commissioners P.K. Srivastava and Arvinda Kumar were also present on the occasion.

Taskar offers 24/7 healthcare @ Rs 1 per day

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Taskar touted as India’s 1st healthcare mall has offered unlimited doctor consultation,  24/7 healthcare services virtual and in-person covering all health-related issues – including consultation, treatment, medicines, lab tests and aftercare all for a health subscription of Rs 365 annually.

Taskar is a two-sided marketplace that allows doctors to prescribe to subscribers,  Pharmacies to deliver the meds, Hospitals to ensure IPD services and clinics to ensure in person trustworthy care. As at present it has presence in UP, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal.

Pankaj Singh, CTO, Taskar claimed, “ With this subscription model, one can walk into any of Taskar’s physical brick and mortar healthcare mall offering under one roof pharmacy, lab, dental clinic and eye clinic, health café and a range of other facilities”.

Prasoon, CEO of Taskar said, “The goal is to offer more convenient, accessible and affordable health care both in-person and virtually through 24/7 video consultations with specialists by taskar’s ecosystem of healthcare to the 600 million Indians who can neither afford private insurance nor are covered by a corporate plan but aspire for quality private care”.

Parwanoo-Solan section of NH-05 contributing to prosperity of Himachal

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New Delhi: Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, said on Tuesday that the Parwanoo-Solan section of NH-05 (old NH-22) in Himachal Pradesh has been developed under Phase III of the National Highways Development Project (NHDP) from the end of Parwanoo bypass to Solan, adding that the infrastructure of ‘New India’ is developing at a fast pace under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Gadkari said presently this national highway is part of the ancient and historical route known as Hindustan-Tibet Road. In the 70s, it was upgraded to the NH specification.

The minister said that this national highway connects the districts of Solan, Sirmaur, Shimla, Kinnaur, Lahaul and Spiti and its subdivisions, the Seraj region of Kullu district and the Karsog subdivision, which constitute more than 30 per cent of the land area in the state.

He said this project has brought a large number of electronic and non-polluting industries in the Shimla section of the state, in Parwanoo town, Solan and Sirmaur districts.

Gadkari said the border areas of Kinnaur/Lahual and Spiti have been opened by the government for domestic and foreign tourists. The influx of tourists has contributed significantly to the development of road traffic in these districts and to the all-round economic development of the state.

The minister said the road height in this project area is 874 to 1, 659 metres above MSL (mean sea level).

Bollywood Actor-Filmmaker Pooja Bhatt joins ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’

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Bollywood Actror-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt on Wednesday briefly joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, which resumed in Hyderabad.

Bhatt walked with the Congress MP for some distance after he resumed the rally from Balanagar after the night-halt at Bowenpally.

For the second consecutive day, the foot march continued in Hyderabad.

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) chief A. Revanth Reddy, Congress Legislature Party leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka, MP Uttam Kumar Reddy and several other leaders and scores of party workers were participating in the yatra.

The rally will halt at a hotel at Hafeezpet, Madinaguda for a mid-day break.

The walkathon will resume in the evening from BHEL bus stand and halt at Muthangi with a corner meeting.

Meanwhile, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge interacted with Yatris at Bowenpally.

“They too are walking 3500 km with Rahul Gandhi and are a source of great inspiration to our party cadres. The yatra is bringing about a silent revolution that will change the political landscape, ” tweeted Kharge.

The newly-elected president of the party joined the yatra last night and addressed a public meeting at Necklace Road along with Rahul Gandhi.

The Cyberabad police have imposed traffic restrictions in the limits of Madhapur traffic division in view of the Yatra. Traffic curbs will be in place till 6 p.m.

Wednesday is the eighth day of the yatra in Telangana.

The foot march will continue in Telangana till November 7 with one-day break on November 4.  It will cover a total distance of 375 kms in 19 Assembly and 7 Parliamentary constituencies in the state. From Telangana the yatra will enter Maharashtra.

 

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