Here is what is making news on a Monday morning
After strict law, Haryana gives cows 24-hour helpline
The Haryana police on Sunday launched a 24-hour helpline (8284030455) for people to report incidents of cow smuggling or slaughter. The information that is provided will be relayed to police officials, who will send special teams set up for the purpose to the area.
(reported by The Indian Express)
Priyanka could campaign across UP for Congress
Congress is weighing the possibility of an expanded role for Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in the election campaign for UP assembly polls next year.
There has been intense speculation in the past few week about Congress's plan to bring Priyanka out of the family pocketboroughs of Amethi and Rae Bareli for campaigning in other parts of the state. There are indications that details of her role in the campaign will be firmed up once party vicepresident Rahul Gandhi returns from his vacation abroad this week. There is talk that Priyanka could address “as many as 155 rallies“ in UP.
(Reported by Times of India)
Valley simmering, Centre gets a security alert from state: 65 per cent spurt in infiltration
With a series of militant attacks pushing the Kashmir valley back to a familiar brink, security agencies in J&K have warned the Centre, in an overview of the scenario, that “alienation is on (the) rise” and that there is “anger against the (state) government”.
(Reported by The Indian Express)
Qaida asks Indians to launch lone-wolf ops
A day after the deadly terrorist attack in Dhaka in which 20 people were killed, al-Qaida on Sunday asked Indian Muslims to carry out lone-wolf attacks in the country on the lines of the strikes in Europe.
The head of al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), Asim Umar, issued a statement “inciting Indian Muslims to rise up and to follow the example of lone wolves in Europe and kill administrative and police officers in India“.
(Reported by Times of India)
Modi and Badals claim 18th-century Sikh icon
Competing for the appropriation of Sikh icons, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday paid tributes to legendary Sikh warrior Baba Banda Singh Bahadur on his 300th martyrdom anniversary .
At an event held in the capital that was attended by over 10,000 Sikhs, Modi also announced his government's plan to celebrate nationally the 350th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh at a grand scale. The Punjab CM also said his government would do the same.
(Reportd by Times of India)
Uttar Pradesh Polls 2017: Out of the woods, Amar, Beni may get seat at SP’s high table
Newly elected Rajya Sabha members from the Samajwadi Party, Beni Prasad Verma and Amar Singh, are likely to be included in the party’s national executive — to be reconstitute ahead of the Assembly polls next year.
Sources in the party said that SP president Mulayam Singh Yadav has tasked general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav with drafting the new national executive, which is likely to be announced soon with some new faces. A final decision on committee members will taken by Mulayam
Man makes lakhs selling forged fitness certificates to expatriates
Haidar is a 32-yearold computer operator, who has handed out forged fitness certificates to over 75 persons, making more than 10 lakh.
He worked for an authorised diagnostic centre that dispatches fitness reports to people applying to the Gulf countries for a job visa.
Without getting their blood tests or physical tests done — a prerequisite for applying for a work visa — Haidar drafted these reports based on the set pattern and declared the person fit.
(Reported by Hindustan Times)
Second NCR airport may be set up in either Jewar or Bhiwadi
The National Capital Region (NCR) may need a second airport within the next three years and the government has narrowed down the list of possible sites to two. The aviation ministry said the second airport could either be set up in Jewar in Greater Noida or Bhiwadi in Rajasthan. “The NCR will need a second airport soon,” said Mahesh Sharma, minister of state for civil aviation.
The earlier projections for the requirement of a second airport in the NCR in the next seven years will have to be reviewed with the government announcing its ambitious Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS).
(Reported by Hindustan Times)
Supreme Court: 3 per cent quota for disabled must in all posts
Quashing the central government’s earlier orders on restricting reservation for the differently-abled in promotion to Group A and Group B posts, the Supreme Court has ruled that three per cent reservation shall be provided to them in all posts and services under the Government of India.
(Reported by Hindustan Times)
400 green cases go unpunished for lack of law
There are almost 400 cases of green violations across the country where companies cannot be penalised for going ahead with their construction and expansion work without getting prior environmental clearance just because there is no process in place to deal with them.
The environment ministry is facing this peculiar situation due to quashing of the office memorandum (OM), issued in 2012 and 2013 to deal with violators, by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in July last year. The tribunal had quashed it after noticing certain anomalies.
(Reportd by Times of India)
Comments
0 comment