As protests against the armed forces’s special Agnipath scheme, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced that it will reserve 10 per cent vacancies for recruitment in Central Armed Police Forces and Assam Rifles for Agniveers. The MHA also announced that there will be a three years age relaxation beyond the prescribed upper age limit to Agniveers for recruitment in CAPFs and Assam Rifles. Further, for the first batch of Agniveer, the age relaxation will be for 5 years beyond the prescribed upper age limit. With violent protests escalating over the Centre’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme, the opposition pressed for its immediate withdrawal…
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday that Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir were likely to be held by the end of the year. “It appears to me that the electoral exercise may begin by the end of the current year. There are strong possibilities,” he said in Jammu while speaking at a function organised to mark the 200 years of the coronation of Maharaja Gulam Singh, the first Dogra ruler of undivided Jammu and Kashmir. Referring to the recently completed delimitation exercise, he said the composition of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly was going to change after the…
Geneva-based global media safety and rights body, Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) has concern over the police inaction to nab the killers of Dhaka-based television journalist Abdul Bari, who was found dead on the bank of Hatirjheel lake in Gulshan area of the capital city on 8 June. Journalist Bari (28), who was associated with private channel DBC as a news producer, faced severe stabs by miscreants on his stomach and neck. Hailing from Sirajganj Sadar, Bariearlier worked for Mohona Television. “PEC is alarmed at sharp increase in the number of journalists affected by violence this year, where Ukraineand Mexico emerge as the…
One person was killed in police firing in Secunderabad, the first casualty of protests against the Agnipath defence recruitment scheme that raged through several states for the third day on Friday with trains torched, public property vandalised and many thousands blocking tracks and highways. At least 200 trains were affected, 35 cancelled and 13 short-terminated, railway officials said. As angry crowds, some armed with brickbats and stones, fanned out across large parts of India, from Uttar Pradesh to Telangana and Bihar to Madhya Pradesh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Army chief Gen Manoj Pande were among those who stepped…
Vivatech 2020, Europe’s biggest start-up conference has recognized India as the “country of the year.” It is a tremendous honour for India to be named “country of the year” in Vivatech 2020. This is due to the global contribution of Indian start-ups. This is how Indian start-ups are recognised, said, Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology. The combination of billions of smartphones, billions of bank accounts with billions-plus digital identities help in enabling the creation of novel use cases for technology development in India, said Vaishnaw while inaugurating the India pavilion at the Vivatech technology exhibition. “A journey in which…
A Turkish court imprisoned pending trial 16 Kurdish journalists and media workers for allegedly “spreading terrorist propaganda” on June 16. The European and International Federation of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) and their four Turkish affiliate strongly condemn these massive arrests of journalists on groundless charges and urge for the immediate release of all of them.Last week, Turkish police detained 21 Kurdish journalists and media workers in a massive operation in the Kurdish-majority southeastern province of Diyarbakir on terrorism charges. Police raided the homes of several journalists working for the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya News Agency, the all-female Jin News website, a production company called Pel, and the Dicle…
Reiterating that India is a peace-loving country which has given the message of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (the whole world is one family) to the world, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh asserted that “we have never tried to hurt any country in any way, nor have we tried to capture even an inch of anyone’s land. He, however, assured the Nation that if an attempt is ever made to hurt the unity and integrity of the Nation, the Armed Forces will give a befitting reply. He exuded confidence that the Armed Forces will face the future challenges with full strength and their valour…
Union Minister of State Earth Sciences Dr Jitendra Singh said that the coastal cleanup drive will be carried out at 75 sea beaches across the country for 75 days from July 3 to September 17. He chaired a meeting to review preparations for the upcoming “International Coastal Cleanup Day 2022” on Thursday, at Prithvi Bhavan, Ministry of Earth Sciences headquarters here. He said that this year’s event also coincides with the celebrations of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav in the 75th year of country’s independence. Talking about the uniqueness of this year’s event, Dr Singh said that it will be the…
Committee to Project Journalists (CPJ) expressed concern over the reports indicating that British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira were killed while working in the Amazon and urges Brazilian authorities to ensure a timely forensic analysis and, if their deaths are confirmed, bring all those responsible to justice. “Their loved ones, colleagues, and the public deserve to know what happened to Dom and Bruno and why they are not home with their families right now,” said Natalie Southwick, CPJ’s Latin America and the Caribbean program coordinator Meanwhile, CPJ said that in the U.S., false narrative, threats of arrest…
The biggest war machine in history, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is having its Summit on 29-30 June in Madrid, Spain. One more summit where the war hawks of 30 countries and their governments will ratify and develop their imperialist plans as the “world sheriff’.” The history of NATO is full of crimes, wars, interventions and Coup d’Etats. NATO was never a defensive organisation and even less today. It was and is the armed wing of US and EU imperialism. The World Peace Council was from the first moment of NATO’s foundation against it, our members and friends are…