“Never leave your language. Learn all other languages from around the world but don’t leave your native language. Language is a form of expression and not of your intelligence. You will have to keep your mother tongue alive,” Amit Shah told the gathering which also included teachers and guardians.
Solicitor general Tushar Mehta submitted before a bench of CJI UU Lalit, Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Bela M Trivedi that the Centre has filed its response but sought time on behalf of states. He said the response of both the states were crucial as 52 out of over 250 petitions filed on the issue are specific to Assam and Tripura.
Later in the day, PM targeted Congress over Patel’s photo not featuring in advertisements in newspapers given by the party-led government in Rajasthan and advised its leaders to first connect with the man who unified India.
Government hospitals in the town treated 56 people, of whom 15 are still to be discharged. Till late afternoon, people were spotted dashing in and out of hospitals with pictures of loved ones in the hope of either finding them alive.
The call for a CBI probe gained traction after Telangana police recently arrested three people for allegedly trying to bribe four TRS MLAs with Rs 100 crore each for defecting to BJP ahead of the high-stakes Munugode bypolls. Dismissing the charges, BJP functionaries moved the Telangana high court and requested a CBI inquiry.
“Today India is working with a new mindset and new work culture,” the PM said. “India is making fighter jets, tanks, submarines, medicines, vaccines, electronic gadgets, mobile phones and cars that are popular in many countries.”
Morbi MLA and minister of state Brijesh Merja confirmed 60-odd deaths as the prospect of finding survivors appeared to dim around 10.30pm, almost four hours after the bridge came down in a cacophony of snapping iron cables and horrified screams. Officials said the tragedy occurred between 6.30 and 7pm.
“We are committed to taking benefits of development equally to all sections and citizens,” PM Modi said, referring to a record increase in the number of tourists visiting J&K, which he attributed to infrastructure development and increased connectivity in recent times.
After her decision to join the Army was revealed, senior officers of the Army’s Northern Command had met and encouraged her. A social media handle of an Army corps had posted in December 2021: “We congratulate Mrs Rigzin Chorol (#VeerNari of Rfn Rigzin Khandap) of Zedang Sumpa Battalion, who has become an example of determination in Ladakh. She will be soon joining OTA, Chennai, to be the first Ladakhi woman officer of #IA.”
The sanctions regime has seen leaders of Pakistanbased groups like Lashkar-eTaiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) banned by the UN even though many others, some of whom are accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, have been shielded by China from similar action by the UN. He said despite the UN action, the threat of terrorism was only growing and expanding, particularly in Asia and Africa.
Cautioning states and UTs of emerging threats, including cyberattacks, from inimical forces as India marches ahead on the path of economic growth and competes with global powers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday told their law enforcement agencies to anticipate and understand the challenges that may stem from a sense of global competition but eventually turn into enmity.
In a statement, a defence spokesperson said, "These 75 projects — 45 bridges, 27 roads, two helipads and one carbon neutral habitat — are spread across six states and two Union Territories (UTs). Twenty of these projects are in Jammu & Kashmir; 18 each in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh; five in Uttarakhand and 14 in other border states of Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan.”
As the minister has said in the past, the ‘three mutuals’ include mutual respect, mutual sensitivity and mutual interest. While disengagement has been achieved at several friction points, India maintains that the process has to be completed in the remaining areas for restoring normalcy in ties.
Warships, submarines, fighters, aircraft and helicopters will be deployed by India, the US, Japan and Australia off Yokosuka in Japan from November 8 to 18 for the top-notch Malabar exercise, with the four 'Quad' countries having firmly declared their intent to deter any "coercion" in the Indo-Pacific with an eye on China's aggressive expansionist policies.
Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu briefed Singh on the deteriorating situation in Ukraine, including “his concerns about possible provocations through the use of a dirty bomb”, while discussing the conflict as well as bilateral defence cooperation. “Both ministers agreed to remain in touch,” the statement added.
Sources said the CVC had recently written to the federal auditor emphasising its preventive vigilance role as the anti-corruption watchdog while seeking access to such exclusive exit conferences. The CVC also monitors and recommends multi-agency probes on complaints of irregularities and corruption in central procurements and contract management.
The report, released early Wednesday, noted that globally such heat-related deaths had increased 68% during 2017-21, reaching 3,10,000 deaths annually. It said the death toll was significantly exacerbated by the confluence of the Covid-19 pandemic.
CCTV camera footage purportedly shows deceased Jameesha Mubin, whom the NIA had interrogated in 2019, and three of the arrested IS suspects placing two LPG cylinders and three drums filled with “light explosives” in the car around 11.30pm on Saturday, Coimbatore police commissioner V Balakrishnan said.
The MHA has cancelled the foreign funding licences of two trusts linked to the Gandhi family - Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) and Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust (RGCT) - citing violations of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010.
Air quality was in the 'poor' cateogry on Chhoti Diwali - AQI at 259 - but it was the cleanest since 2015. Weather analysts identified low stubble count due to late withdrawal of monsoon, and low wind speed to carry stubble smoke as major factors for the slightly better air quality.
The United Kingdom’s Queen Consort Camilla landed in Bengaluru on a private visit for her first overseas tour. She came by a British Airways flight Thursday, travelled by road for nearly 40 km from Kempegowda International Airport to Soukya, a tony holistic health and wellness centre near Whitefield. She’ll be undergoing rejuvenation therapies during her nearly 10-day visit.
In the first cyberterrorism conviction in Maharashtra, computer engineer Anees Ansari was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday for conspiring to kill children at the American school in Bandra Kurla Complex in 2014.
India on Wednesday announced its fourth negative arms import list, under which 101 products will be progressively banned from December 2022 to December 2032, in a bid to boost domestic defence production and exports. The defence ministry's fourth arms embargo list, or the 'positive indigenisation list' as it is called, was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the ongoing DefExpo at Gandhinagar.
For the fourth time since June this year, China has put on hold a US-India proposal for a UN ban on a Pakistan-based operative of terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba. The proposal came days before the ongoing FATF meeting which may see Pakistan exiting the grey or increased monitoring list of the global terror-financing watchdog.
China on Wednesday put a hold on a proposal by India and the US at the United Nations to blacklist Pakistan-based militant Hafiz Talah Saeed, the son of Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed, in the second such move within two days. Hafiz Talha Saeed, 46, is a key leader of the dreaded terrorist group LeT and the son of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed.
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