New lTC: staff can fly to j&K in pvt airlines
New Delhi: The Central Government employees have been permitted to travel to Jammu & Kashmir by private airlines till September this year, as per new leave Travel Concession (lTC) rules. Existing norms allowed them to travel by Air India only. The Centre had in 2014 eased lTC rules to allow the employees to travel by air (only by Air India) to visit J&K, North-East and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
India joins missile proliferation regime
New Delhi: India has joined the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCoC) by notifying the HCoC Central Contact in Vienna through diplomatic channels. The HCoC is a voluntary, legally non-binding international confidence building and transparency measure that seeks to prevent the proliferation of ballistic missiles that are capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction.
SC refuses urgent hearing to UP neta
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to give an urgent hearing to former Uttar Pradesh MP Umankant Yadav, who sought suspension of his conviction and seven years sentence in a forgery case. Yadav is also a three-time BSP MlA from Jaunpur.