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A man rows a boat with his wife on floodwater to refill their gas cylinder, in Sivasagar, Assam
Around 200 Air India cabin crew who were recently inducted on a contract basis, have been terminated: Report
Healthcare spends, making India slum-free should be govt's priority: Experts
The government can turn Covid-19 crisis into an opportunity by investing in healthcare, and it should also pursue making all the cities slum-free by 2023, according to economists.
At the seventh economic conclave - organised by State Bank of India on Saturday, there was an unanimity among the economists on laying greater thrust on decentralisation in policy-making in the future, as a one size fits all approach may not work always.
Dubey's family, maid returned to Lucknow after cremation: Police
Vikas Dubey's wife, son and maid, who were picked up by the STF for questioning in connection with the deadly ambush of a police team, returned to their home in Lucknow after the gangster's cremation in Kanpur, police said on Saturday.
The gangster's wife, Richa Dubey, their son and maid were kept at a mahila police station in Kanpur after being brought from their Krishna Nagar residence in Lucknow for questioning, a police official said in Kanpur. He said Richa Dubey and the maid were questioned for more than 5 hours.
They returned to Lucknow Friday, another police official said here.
However, they have not appeared in public since the cremation in Kanpur on Friday, when Richa Dubey said her husband "did wrong and he deserved this fate."
Indian Coast Guard Ship Rajkamal rescued 6 Sri Lankan fishermen along with boat
One of the two terrorists neutralised today in J&K's Baramulla
A team of Indian Army, Assam Rifles&Arunachal Police in a joint operation neutralised 6 active cadres of NSCN
Kanpur Encounter case: Mumbai today arrested one accused Arvind alias Guddan Ramvilas Trivedi, driver Sonu Tiwari
There is hardly any understanding of sport among people in India: Rijiju
Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday rued that people in India, including some of his colleagues in Parliament, have limited understanding of sports and emphasised on the need to create a sports culture in the country.
Rijijiu was amazed that his colleagues felt that people like Jyoti Kumari, Kambala jockey Srinivas Gowda and Rameshwar Gurjar -- who became social media sensation -- were Olympic prospects.
Jyoti Kumari had cycled down from Gurugram to Bihar, carrying her ailing father amid the Covid-19 pandemic and Karnataka's Gowda was claimed to have run 100m in about 11 seconds.
Tablighi Jamaat: Delhi court grants bail to 75 Thai and Nepalese nationals
A Delhi court Saturday granted bail to 75 foreign nationals from Thailand and Nepal, who were charge-sheeted for attending a Tablighi Jamaat congregation here allegedly in violation of visa norms, indulging in missionary activities illegally and violating government guidelines issued in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gurmohina Kaur granted the relief to the foreigners on furnishing a personal bond of Rs 10,000 each.
Till date, 445 foreign nationals from 33 different countries, who were charge-sheeted in the case have been granted bail by the court.
The police had in June filed 59 charge sheets, including supplementaries, against 956 foreigners belonging to 36 different countries in the case.
ED raids Delhi-NCR travel firms, CAs for suspected e-visa fraud; seizes over Rs 3.50-cr cash
The Enforcement Directorate has seized Rs 3.57-crore cash after raiding tours and travel firms and their CAs in Delhi-NCR to probe alleged irregularities in processing of e-visa applications for foreigners wishing to travel to India.
The central probe agency said on Saturday it raided eight locations in Delhi and Ghaziabad on July 9 under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).
The raids were carried out at the residences and offices of directors of several tour and travel companies and their chartered accountants and Rs 3.57-crore cash along with incriminating documents and digital records were seized, the agency said in a statement.
The ED had received "specific inputs" that these entities were involved in unauthorised receipt of foreign remittance through payment gateways in the name of providing e-visa services to foreigners, it said.
Mumbai unit received a tipoff that one accused in Kanpur encounter case has been in Thane: Maharashtra ATS
Chirag backs Tejashwi over no polls during corona times
Speculation is rife in Bihar after Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) chief Chirag Paswan supported Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) Tejashwi Yadav over the issue of holding Assembly elections during corona times.
Chirag, who has differences with Janata Dal (United), has supported Tejashwi by saying that the Bihar Assembly elections should not be conducted in the time of a pandemic. The question that arises now is whether Chirag is getting closer to the leaders of the Grand Alliance.
Chirag has many times criticized the Bihar government in public. He had removed the LJP's Munger district president from the post only because he had spoken in the media about 'uniting the NDA'.
According to sources, Chirag is upset with the seat sharing formula of the NDA. It is believed that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is very angry with Chirag and is in favour of giving only 25 to 30 seats to the LJP in the coming Bihar Assembly elections. On the other hand Chirag is demanding at least 42 seats.
No guarantee Trump will back India against China if tensions escalate: Former US NSA John Bolton
Former United States national security advisor John Bolton has said that if the Sino-India border tensions escalate, there is no guarantee that US President Donald Trump will back India against China.
China has been behaving in a belligerent fashion all around its periphery, certainly in the East and South China sea, and its relations with Japan, India as well as others have declined, Bolton told WION TV in an interview.
On how far Trump was prepared to go to back India against China, he said, "I don't know which way he would go and I don't think he knows either. I think he sees the geostrategic relationship with China, for example, exclusively through the prism of trade."
"I don't know what Trump will do after the November elections once the guard rail is removed... He'll be back to the big China trade deal. If things were to develop between India and China in a more critical fashion, I'm not sure where he would come down," the former US envoy to the UN said.
They are playing games to topple our govt on behest of their central leadership: Ashok Gehlot
Sonia Gandhi holds virtual meeting with Congress Lok Sabha MPs
Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday held a meeting with the party's Lok Sabha MPs through video conferencing to discuss the challenges posed by Covid-19 and the current political situation in the country.
The Congress has been seeking direct cash transfer to the vulnerable sections in the fight against the coronavirus. It has also been targetting the central government over the India-China border tensions.
The party has slammed the Centre over the hike in fuel prices.
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First Published: Jul 11 2020 | 7:32 AM IST
