- 11th May, 2022 The Tribune India
- Shoot - on - sight orders in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka witnessed a tense day under curfew with troops on shoot-on-sight orders on Tuesday, a day after anti-government mobs set ablaze properties of ministers and a ruling party MP killed himself after critically wounding two protesters. - Gujarat poll: Rahul Gandhi kicks off campaign, woos tribals
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today launched the party’s election campaign for Gujarat from the tribal belt of Dahod, accusing the government of creating “two Indias” — one for the rich and the other for the poor. - Day after protests, structures razed in Delhi
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) today carried out an anti-encroachment drive on the Gurdwara road in New Friends Colony. - Mobile most owned item: Survey
Mobile phones are the most possessed household item in India, more than beds, mattresses, chairs and tables. - SC junks Majithia?s plea to drop cases; says move HC
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Majithia’s petition seeking quashing of cases registered against him by the Punjab Police under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, and asked him to move the Punjab and Haryana High Court. - Nuclear command & control
MAY 11, 1998, was a momentous day for India when it successfully carried out the first nuclear weapon test with PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the helm of national affairs. The nuclear Rubicon had been crossed and Vajpayee acknowledged the contribution of his predecessors who nurtured this dormant nucle - Of Copenhagen and saris!
THE PM’s recent visit to Denmark reminded me of my own short stay at that magnificent European capital, Copenhagen. Twenty years ago, three sari-clad movers and shakers of the Delhi Government set out to see the city’s fabled recycled roads and wind farms. I was accompanying CM Sheila Di - President Ram Nath Kovind presents military honours
President Ram Nath Kovind, at an investiture ceremony on Tuesday, awarded senior-most military commanders, including the now Army Chief General Manoj Pande, who led troops along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) during 2020 and 2021. - Pak using drones to push drugs, arms: Army Chief
Army Chief General Manoj Pande said Pakistan had been using drones to drop drugs, arms and ammunition on the Indian territory. Expressing concern, he said the matter was being looked into. - CBI raids eight locations in J&K Bank case
The CBI today carried out searches at multiple locations in the country in a case related to purchasing office of approximately 65,000 sq ft area by J&K Bank in Mumbai in 2010. Eight locations were searched in Jammu, Srinagar and Mumbai, including premises of then J&K Bank chairman Haseeb Dr - Police nab jilted lover for setting 22 - year - old girl on fire
Gurugram police on Tuesday arrested a 22-year-old jilted lover for allegedly setting a girl on fire, two days before her marriage, police said. The arrested accused revealed that he loved the girl, though she never reciprocated his proposal, and didn’t want her to get married somewhere else. - 9 pilots, 32 cabin - crew members failed pre - flight alcohol tests between Jan 1 and April 30: DGCA
Nine pilots and 32 cabin-crew members failed their pre-flight alcohol tests between January 1 and April 30, India’s aviation regulator DGCA said on Tuesday. - Railways launches 'baby berths' for passengers travelling with kids
To make train journey more comfortable for passengers travelling with infants, the railways has fitted foldable "baby berths" on the side of lower main berths of the Lucknow Mail as part of a pilot project. - NDRF earmarks 50 teams for undertaking rescue operations in areas affected by cyclone Asani
The NDRF has earmarked a total of 50 teams for undertaking rescue and relief operations in areas affected by severe cyclone Asani, the federal agency said on Tuesday. - Can sedition cases be kept in abeyance: Supreme Court asks Centre
As the Centre wanted to re-examine the law on sedition, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to spell out if all sedition cases filed across India could be kept in abeyance till the review of Section 124A of the IPC was completed.
- 10th May, 2022 The Tribune India
- President Kovind confers 13 Shaurya Chakra awards, including six posthumously
President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday conferred 13 Shaurya Chakra awards, including six posthumously, to armed forces personnel while Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande received the Param Vishisht Seva medal. - 326 sedition cases filed in 2014 - 19; only 6 convicted
A total of 326 cases were registered in the country under the controversial colonial era law of sedition between 2014 and 2019 in which just six persons were convicted. - Pakistan appoints ?Minister Trade? in Delhi mission
In the first olive branch extended towards India after the formation of a new rainbow government in Pakistan, Islamabad on Tuesday approved the appointment of a Trade Minister in the country. - Yasin Malik pleads guilty before Delhi court in case related to terrorism
Separatist leader Mohammad Yasin Malik on Tuesday pleaded guilty to all the charges, including those under the stringent Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), before a Delhi court in a case related to alleged terrorism and secessionist activities that disturbed the Kashmir valley in 2017, court - Shashi Tharoor and Vivek Agnihotri - Anupam Kher spar on Twitter over ?The Kashmir Files?
A verbal duel erupted between Shashi Tharoor and ‘The Kashmir Files’ duo of Vivek Agnihotri-Anupam Kher on Tuesday after the Congress leader tweeted about the movie being banned in Singapore, drawing sharp remarks from the director and the actor who also invoked Tharoor’s late wife - FCRA violations: MHA officials, NGO representatives under lens as CBI conducts countrywide operation
The CBI is conducting a major countrywide operation against Union Home Ministry officials, NGO representatives and middlemen for allegedly facilitating violations of rules in receiving foreign donations, officials said Tuesday. - Delhiites may soon have home delivery of liquor as GoM gives go ahead
Home delivery of liquor in the national capital is likely to see the light of the day soon, as a group of ministers (GoM) of the Delhi government has given a go ahead to it, officials said on Tuesday. - ?Brave and professional?: Father remembers Danish Siddiqui after second Pulitzer
Brave, empathetic to the pain in the world, yet professional about his and his family’s safety—this is how Danish Siddiqui’s father remembered him, the day he won his second Pulitzer prize. - Delhi BJP demands change in names of Delhi roads named after Mughal rulers
Ahead of the Delhi Municipal Corporation elections, the state BJP has opened a new front, seeking a change in the names of Delhi roads named after Mughal emperors.  - India fully supportive of Sri Lanka's democracy, stability and economic recovery: Ministry of External Affairs
India on Tuesday said it is "fully supportive" of Sri Lanka's democracy, stability and economic recovery, a day after the island nation's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa quit amid massive protests in the country over the government's handling of the economic crisis.
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