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In his first visit to Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of special status on August 5, 2019, Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed Security situation in presence of Lt Governor at a unified command meeting Manoj Sinha, top officials of J&K Police, Army, paramilitary forces and intelligence agencies. Expressing concern over the “targeted killing” of civilians in the Valley, Shah called for “strategic planned protection of minorities” and “flexible patrolling of the guards”.
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At a time when there is a lot of uproar over the arrest of Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in its suggestion Review the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, has recommended a more humane approach to prison escape for drug users and addicts. The ministry has sought de-possession of small quantities of drugs for personal consumption. It has also suggested amendments to the Act to deal with people who use or depend on drugs.
The post-mortem report states that Bhogilal Pal died of cardiac arrest. However, his family says what exactly was the death of the 53-year-old farmer? Concerns about the arrangement of fertilizer For his land in Nayagaon village of Lalitpur district. On the second day on Friday, he was standing in a queue outside the shop trying to arrange the same when he fell. The administration says that there is no shortage of fertilizers in the district, but the demand had suddenly increased due to the recent rains.
P Chidambaram writes On pluralism and migration across South Asia: “If some Indians – not all – can find excuses to taunt, abuse, harm, hurt, terrorize or kill Muslims, so can Hindus living in other countries.” And will Sikhs not become the object of taunts, abuses, harm, hurt, terror or murder? In a combustible subcontinent, ‘action’ and ‘reaction’ can never be neatly separated.”
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Seven more bodies of members of two different trekking teams who were hit by bad weather in Uttarakhand have been recovered. whereas 12 out of 21 trekkers have now been confirmed dead. Three are missing. Two of the dead, whose bodies were found near the Lamkhaga Pass bordering Himachal Pradesh, were part of an 11-member West Bengal team that went missing while on their way from Harsil in Uttarkashi to Chitkul. The bodies of five of these had been found earlier.
government is So far to notify two transfers out of 24 The number of judges of the High Court who were recommended by the Supreme Court collegium more than a month ago. The judges whose transfers are pending are Justice Soumen Sen of the Calcutta High Court and Justice Joymalya Bagchi of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. On October 2, two weeks after the recommendations, CJI Raman said he was assured by the Union Law Minister that the recommendations would be “cleared in a day or two”.
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With India and Pakistan set to play their T20 World Cup group league matches on Sunday – with both teams playing for the first time in three years – former Pakistan captain Asif Iqbal’s mind goes back to the early 1980s. Shyam Bhatia, an Indian expatriate and cricket patron in Dubai, recalls Javed Miandad’s six against Chetan Sharma. For old-timers, an India-Pakistan match in the United Arab Emirates will always be about nostalgia, albeit with a venue-switch from Sharjah to Dubai. Today, the Sharjah Throwback Has Been Relevant, Because It Was The starting point of the game’s most followed cricket rivalry at a neutral location.
With UP elections approaching and both BJP And with the BSP going at a brisk pace to woo OBCs and SCs across the state, the SP has also joined the queue. For the first time since the formation of the party in 1992, itFormed a dedicated wing for Scheduled Castes (SC): Samajwadi Babasaheb Ambedkar Vahini. And while its own leaders claim that this is a masterstroke, the party has appointed a Dalit leader who was with the BSP for 29 years to head this new wing.
Over the past two decades, migrant laborers from the heartland of India have become one integral part of Kashmir’s economy. But recently there has been an exodus of these workers from the Valley due to civilian killings. This has happened once earlier also after similar killings following the Centre’s decision of August 5, 2019, which stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its special status. NS Indian Express Explores the economy that rests on its workers and the migrants who have found homes here.
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Director Aparna Sen was recently honored with the Kim Jisok Award for her film ‘The Rapist’ at the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF). in one interview with Indian ExpressIn this article, she talks about working with her daughter Konkona Sen Sharma to produce the film, and why the award is important.
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