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In a serious safety lapse, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was stranded on a flyover in Punjab for 15-20 minutes after farm protesters blocked the route of his cavalcade whereas he was on his solution to the Nationwide Martyrs Memorial on the Hussainiwala border with Pakistan. The Union Ministry of Dwelling Affairs, “taking cognisance of this critical safety lapse”, sought an in depth report from the Punjab authorities and requested it to “repair duty for this lapse and take strict motion”.
Key to the unprecedented safety breach involving the Prime Minister in Punjab is how his cavalcade was, successfully, grounded for quarter-hour on a flyover en path to his vacation spot. The Indian Express spoke to a number of police, native officers and protesting farmers who blocked the highway, to search out that behind the breach was a series of lapses marked by crossed wires, the exigencies of politics and a failure by the state police and administration to reply as per protocol.
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No less than 900 people were scammed of over Rs 1,200 crore after they invested in an “preliminary coin providing” floated by a Kerala man for a non-existent cryptocurrency, Enforcement Directorate officers mentioned. ED sources mentioned funding in pretend crypto cash had taken place in 2020, largely throughout the lockdown. The affected folks had purchased the “Morris Coin”, listed with a Coimbatore-based cryptocurrency change known as Franc Trade, in a fashion much like an preliminary public providing buy.
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The Assistant Report Officer court docket in Ayodhya has declared a authorities order transferring practically 21 bigha (52,000 sq. metres) of Dalit land to Maharishi Ramayan Vidyapeeth Belief on August 22, 1996, void after discovering the transfer to be “illegal”. The order comes 5 days after the investigation by The Indian Categorical revealed that native MLAs, shut kin of bureaucrats, and kin of income officers, purchased land in Ayodhya to money in on the momentum in the true property market after the Supreme Courtroom cleared the development of the Ram temple.
The Mumbai police has made their third arrest in the case associated to the app which hosted doctored images and objectionable feedback focusing on Muslim ladies — a 21-year-old Delhi College pupil from Uttarakhand. The app was hosted on US-based GitHub on December 31. Doctored pictures of a minimum of 100 Muslim ladies, together with lewd remarks and feedback, have been posted on-line.
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International locations all over the world, including India and america, have revised their pointers for house isolation of delicate and asymptomatic circumstances of Covid-19 amid the current Omicron wave. The Ministry of Well being too has reduce the isolation interval — and, just like the CDC, it has not recommended testing before a patient leaves isolation. That is largely as a result of infections attributable to the brand new variant are believed to be milder, with a shorter incubation interval and faster restoration.
In 2021, a yr when the second wave of the pandemic relegated discretionary spending to the backburner, luxury goods and items bucked the trend. Prime-end vehicles, gold, jewelry and super-luxury residential tasks recorded a surge in numbers over the last yr, topping not simply the pre-pandemic ranges but additionally, in some circumstances, ranges reported 5-10 years in the past.
When a BJD MLA from Lanjigarh in Odisha’s Kalahandi district arrived in Baitikhaman village to inaugurate a telecom tower, he didn’t look forward to finding a rickety bamboo construction adorned with a banner that learn ‘BSNL 4G’. Offended villagers, who organised the pretend occasion, mobbed the MLA and demanded better mobile network in the area. “The pretend inauguration was our manner of protesting towards politicians and their pretend guarantees,” one villager mentioned.
Within the newest version of Categorical Adda, former Head Coach of the Indian cricket staff, Ravi Shastri, spoke on the current Virat Kohli–Sourav Ganguly controversy, similarities between himself and Kohli, and on the powerful selections he needed to make as head coach.
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Has Rishabh Pant ever been profitable together with his down-the-track heaves to pacers in Exams? He has tried that shot many occasions prior to now – in Australia, in England, in India – however has hardly linked. Often, he misses. This time, he obtained the sting and shoved India into danger territory.
Delhi Confidential: Apparently, Rajnath Singh performed an vital position in reinstating the Kalyan Singh authorities in 1998. On Singh’s ninetieth delivery anniversary, the Defence Minister shared footage of the 2 of them on the gates of Rashtrapati Bhavan, the place they’d gone to hunt the President’s intervention in saving the federal government and “defending the Structure and democracy” after then-UP Governor Romesh Bhandari allowed the then chief of Loktantrik Congress Jagdambika Pal to develop into CM.
On this episode of ‘3 Things’, we focus on why the biggest farmer union in Punjab remains to be protesting. We additionally speak about Congress’ marathons in UP and the ballot guarantees of different political events for the UP elections.
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