Prez calls for ‘unity, faith, sacrifice’
New Delhi: The country’s youth should adopt Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s slogans of ‘unity, faith and sacrifice’, President Pranab Mukherjee said in his message to the Netaji Research Bureau, Kolkata. Mukherjee said the life and sacrifices of Subhash Chandra Bose act as a beacon light for future generations and people should work towards making a strong, prosperous and progressive India. He asked the youths to once again adopt “the slogan of ‘Ittefaq, Itmad, Kurbani’ or Unity, Faith, Sacrifice as the clarion call of our nation. For his part, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “His bravery, courage and patriotic zeal inspire us. On his birth anniversary, I bow to the proud son of India, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Subhas Babu’s organisation and leadership skills were exceptional. He was a phenomenal personality, for whom good of the Nation was paramount.”
MEA asks indians o leave ukraine
New Delhi: Noting that despite its advisories not to stay in strife-torn regions of Donetsk and lugansk in Ukraine some Indian students have rejoined their institutes, India on Friday asked them to leave these regions immediately. Indian nationals are also strongly advised against travelling to these areas, the External Affairs Ministry said.
EC’s bid to make poll record process easy
New Delhi: The Election Commission is making all out efforts to make the process of registration and correction of details on the electoral rolls easier, Chief Election Commissioner HS Brahma said on Friday. He said in the Commission’s pursuit of “not just greater participation but complete participation,” the poll body will strive to guarantee registration of all eligible persons and facilitate voting by all who are enrolled. In a message ahead of the fifth Voters’ Day on January 25, Brahma said the theme for this year is Easy Registration, Easy Correction.’ later, at a national seminar at Amity University, he said it is the endeavor of EC to ensure that every eligible citizen in India gets an opportunity to vote.
babus told to file IPRs by Jan-end
New Delhi: All IAS, IPS and IFoS officers have been asked to file their Immovable Property Returns (IPRs) by this month end. These returns are in addition to the new ones now required to be submitted by the officers under the new provisions of the lokpal Act by April this year.The Government has also asked the concerned authorities to harmonise the respective service rules in such a way that the officers are not asked to file same property details twice annually, according to a DoPT order.
Irom Sharmila rearrested
Imphal: A day after being released from jail, rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila was on Friday arrested once again by police under the same charge of attempt to commit suicide by means of her indefinite fast. Imphal West Superintendent of Police Jhaljit said that Sharmila was arrested under section 309 of the Indian Penal Code for attempt to commit suicide. “She has been arrested for the same crime but it is a different case. For the last case she was released by the court and we arrested her under a new case,” he said.