| Republic Day: 29 CISF personnel get police service medals
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| Twenty-nine CISF officials, including five from the fire wing, have been decorated with different police service medals on the eve of the Republic Day, a force spokesperson said on Saturday. The awardees include senior Commandant Vishnu Swarup, Commandant H K Brahma and Assistant Commandant Abdus Salam. Swarup, who joined the force in 1997, has served in all the theatres that the CISF is deployed in like coal fields, airports security, Delhi Metro and port security. He is also credited with raising its first aviation security training institute at Arakkonam in Tamil Nadu. Officers awarded the distinguished service medal include Deputy Inspector General Sanjay Prakash, Assistant Commandant Harish Singh Karmyal, Assistant Sub Inspector Rajender Babu. Five officials have been decorated with the fire service medals including ASIs Rashpal Dass and Darmiyan Singh. The about 1.66-lakh personnel strong force guards 61 civil airports of the country apart from guarding sensitive infrastructure .
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| Kejriwal won Delhi in 2015 by misleading people, this time he will fail: Shah
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| Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah claimed on Saturday that Arvind Kejriwal had won the 2015 Delhi Assembly polls by "misleading people", but this time he would fail. "He (Kejriwal) had won the 2015 election by misleading the public. What happened after that? What happened in Varanasi, Punjab, Haryana? They lost and he will fail in Delhi too this time," Shah said. "The people of Delhi have made their decision for 2020 as well. The trend is set to continue. We won 88 per cent of the booths in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls," he added. The home minister was addressing a gathering at the "Jeet Ki Goonj" event held in the Jawaharlal Nehru (JLN) Stadium ahead of Delhi Assembly elections. "When you support the BJP, you support the promise to secure the national boundaries of India. When you support the BJP, you are supporting the mission to make India a global figurehead," Shah told the gathering.
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| Koregaon Bhima case transfer to NIA: Patil hits out at Centre
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| Senior Maharashtra minister and the NCP's state unit chief Jayant Patil on Saturday attacked the Centre for transferring the probe into the Koregaon Bhima violence case to the National Investigation Agency. He said the Centre had "different motives" while bringing in the NIA to probe the matter, though he did not elaborate on what these motives were. The Centre transferred the probe to NIA on Friday. The case pertains to caste violence that took place at the Koregaon Bhima war memorial near Pune on January 1, 2018 after provocative speeches were allegedly made at a conclave called 'Elgar Parishad' a day earlier. Speaking on the issue here, Patil said NCP chief Sharad Pawar had demanded the formation of a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the case as it did not find the one conducted by Pune police under the previous BJP-led government to be "satisfactory". "But the Union government, having different motives, transferred the case to NIA," Patil alleged. The Pune ...
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| Selection process for TN BJP Prez to be held soon
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| The new President of Tamil Nadu unit of BJP would be appointed in a week or 10 days, senior party leader L Ganesan said on Saturday. The BJP's TN unit, with a strength of about 35 lakh, was functioning headless since Tamilisai Soundararajan quit the post in September 2019, after being appointed as the Telangana governor. Talking to reporters here, Ganesan said the President of the party's state unit would be selected in a week or 10 days. ".. Most likely it may happen in a week or 10 days.." he said. Recently, reports emerged that the top post was filled and the name of the candidate would be announced by party leader and Uttar Pradesh Minister Sidharthnath Singh during his visit to the State on January 17. Those who were heading the post of Tamil Nadu unit in the past include former Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan, La Ganesan, KN Lakshmanan, C P Radhakrishnan among others.
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| Muthoot Capital Services Q3 net down 23 pc to 19 cr
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| Muthoot Capital Services on Saturday reported a decline of 22.77 per cent in standalone net profit at Rs 18.95 crore for the third quarter ended December 2019. It had reported a net profit of Rs 24.54 crore in the October-December period a year ago, Muthoot Capital Services said in a regulatory filing However, its total revenue from operations rose 11.47 per cent to Rs 150.69 crore during the quarter under review as against Rs 135.18 crore in the corresponding period of 2018-19. Total expenses stood at Rs 125.34 crore.
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| Guj: 11 'illegal' Bangladeshi migrants detained
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| As many as 11 Bangladeshi nationals who were living in the city illegally were detained here on Saturday, police said. The Special Operations Group of the Gujarat police said it detained 11 persons from a settlement near Chandola Lake in Ishanpur here. The police will now initiate the process to deport them to Bangladesh, SOG assistant commissioner of police B C Solanki said. "The 11 Bangladeshi nationals lived here illegally and worked as labourers. They have been detained and we will initiate the process to deport them," Solanki said. The detainees had failed to provide any documents supporting their Indian nationality, he said, adding that the police are investigating if they were involved in any criminal activity. The men were detained after the SOG formed two teams to find them following instructions from the police commissioner, the official said.
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| Coronavirus: Doctors' panel to be stationed at Amritsar airport starting Monday
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| The Punjab government has asked all district hospitals to put in place necessary arrangements to tackle any emergent situation in view of the outbreak of novel coronavirus (nCoV) in China, and said a team of doctors will be stationed at the Amritsar international airport starting Monday for screening passengers. "A panel of doctors will be sitting at the Amritsar international airport from Monday onwards (for screening of passengers). If any passenger comes with symptoms will be screened at that place and if required, next steps will be taken, said Dr Gagandeep Singh, State Programme Officer, Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (Punjab). "We have two international airports -- Amritsar and Mohali. There is no flight (from China) at Mohali but Amritsar airport does have some connecting flights which have halt at China and Hong Kong. "Our civil surgeons have taken meeting with the officials concerned at both airports and they have been alerted, said Singh. Amritsar was among 12 ...
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| Award-winning Gujarati film Hellaro screened in Delhi by Guj govt
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| Hellaro, which became the first Gujarati movie to win the National Film Award in the Best Feature Film category last year, was screened in the city on Saturday by the Gujarat government to "promote art and culture" of the state, according to an official press release. On the occasion of a special screening of the film, Arti Kanwar, Resident Commissioner, Gujarat Bhawan, said Gujaratis are "not only known for their entrepreneurship but also their art and culture is similarly rich and needs to be showcased in the national capital". This movie was "enjoyed and appreciated" by a number of diplomats, senior officers of the central government, film critics, journalists, the press release by the Gujarat government stated. Hellaro is about a group of women who break free from years of confinement, suppression and oppression of a patriarchal society, it said.
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| News Broadcasters Federation condemns attack on Deepak Chaurasia at Shaheen Bagh
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| The News Broadcasters Federation on Saturday condemned the alleged attack on News Nation consulting editor Deepak Chaurasia by protesters at Delhi's Shaheen Bagh and demanded police action against perpetrators of the violence. In a statement, the News Broadcasters Federation said it is extremely concerned about the repeated instances of violence directed at journalists in the line of duty at Shaheen Bagh. These attacks have been fuelled by a growing spirit of intolerance by those claiming to be protestors at Shaheen Bagh, NBF president Arnab Goswami said in a statement. "The most recent attack on senior journalist Deepak Chaurasia and his camera crew at Shaheen Bagh, which was recorded on camera, reflects the growing hostility of some of those at Shaheen Bagh towards journalists unwilling to toe their line," he said. In recent weeks there have been similar attacks on several other TV journalists in the course of which camera equipment has been broken and destroyed and some ...
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| Thane man booked for child marriage, rape
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| A Mumbai resident and some of his relatives have been booked in a Child Marriage Act case by Virar police in Maharashtra's Palghar district, an official said on Saturday. Nikhil Gohil, from Mazgaon in the metropolis, has also been booked for rape under Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, said Palghar police spokesperson Hemant Katkar. "Gohil got 'married' to a girl though she was a minor. He repeatedly raped her between February, 2018 and May last year. The girl's mother is a police constable and she filed a complaint with Byculla police station in Mumbai. The case was then transferred to Virar police station," another official said. He said no arrests have been made so far and probe was underway.
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