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military leadership Agneepath scheme rollback ruled outEven as thousands of candidates continue to protest across the country, and several opposition parties have extended their support to the protesters, asking the government to reconsider or withdraw the new policy.
Department of Military Affairs (DMA) Additional Secretary Lt Gen Anil Puri warned during a press conference, “Every person, who wants to join Agniveer, has to pledge that he has not participated in the protest, or vandalism. “.
Consider this: Government records show a large reduction in the number of ex-servicemen recruited in government jobs as compared to the vacancies reserved for them.
Candidates speak: A 21 year old aspirant told Indian Express“I am trying hard to get a job without any pension and medical benefits and not giving assurance of another job. What will be the reaction of a politician if the one who allows him to become MP or MLA for just one term? the law?”
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Part 3 of an express inquiry into the proposed changes to NCERT textbooks under its latest “rationalization” exercise reveals that there has been a deep cut in the content of Islamic rulers. here’s what we found,
Most of the changes related to Muslim rulers are made in a textbook: several pages of the Delhi Sultanate, ruled by several dynasties including the Mamluks, Tughluqs, Khiljis and Lodis, and the Mughal Empire have been removed from the Class 7 history textbook. ‘Our Past – II’.
In Class 12 History textbook, the chapter ‘Kings and Chronicles: The Mughal Courts’ (Subject in Indian History – Part II) has been omitted.
In an interview with The Indian ExpressCongress leader and independent Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal said on Enforcement Directorate’s inquiry Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders, the need for the opposition to speak in one voice and the government’s Agnipath Plan.
The Hindu: An Alternative History, a book by Wendy Doniger, one of the world’s leading scholars of Hinduism, Sanskrit and mythology, had to be withdrawn in 2014 after a campaign against it in India. in an idea exchangeDoniger speaks about how she discovered Sanskrit and Hinduism, her response to her most successful book, and why, at its core, Hinduism has always been diverse.
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While demand for steel and cement is showing an uptick, automobiles and consumer goods continue to decline. Analysts said 75-80 per cent capacity utilization – the ratio of actual output to potential output that can be produced under normal conditions – needs to be maintained for more than 3-4 quarters for the industry to turn into an expansionary drive. Is. But experts believe tighter monetary policy terms and weaker demand Investing can weigh on sentimentTea.
in different incidentsTwo SpiceJet planes returned to their native airports soon after take-off on Sunday, with one in Patna being hit by a bird and the other from Delhi facing a technical snag, leading to a “cabin pressure problem”. Went. In the third incident, an IndiGo plane came back to Guwahati after being hit by a bird minutes after take-off. Aviation safety regulator DGCA will investigate all three incidents.
A 50-year-old Mumbai police inspector has emerged as a well-known figure for probing key cases in the Maharashtra government that are being seen as “politically sensitive”. The Indian Express has learned that Sanjay Mohite of Mumbai Police City Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey had chosen to handle these cases, including “an investigation” against a senior IPS officer who has been accused of having links with a gangster by a retired officer.
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India will end a six-year engagement between 2012 and 2018, nearly four years after China withdrew from an ambitious hydroelectric project – West Seti – in Nepal. what could it mean As for the future of India-Nepal relations and other hydropower projects in the region, when competition is bound to be tough.
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Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra met Jan Selezny, the supreme god of the javelin faithful, while training in Turkey, before returning to action for the first time since winning Olympic gold. There was a time when elezn’s YouTube videos regularly ate up most of Chopra’s mobile data. In fact, it will become an obsession for Khandara’s teenager. Because in the world of track and field, iron run-up Considered a work of art.
in today ‘3 Things’ podcast, We talk about the response of defense aspirants and veterans to the Agneepath scheme amid escalating protests, a growing number of major floods in Northeast India and India’s poor rank in the Environmental Performance Index.
till tomorrow,
Leela Prasad and Sonal Gupta
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