Pawar calls for ballot paper based polls in rebel village

Pawar calls for ballot paper based polls in rebel village

Monday, 09 December 2024 | TN RAGHUNATHA | MUMBAI

During his visit to Markadwadi village in western Maharashtra’s Solapur district which created history last week by attempting unsuccessfully to hold a “mock ballot paper poll", NCP (SP) President Sharad Pawar on Sunday gave a fervent call for dumping the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and reverting to the ballot paper-based...

Fight breaks out between trainee IPS officer and UPSC coach

Monday, 09 December 2024 | Staff Reporter | New Delhi

A fight broke out between a 2023-batch trainee IPS officer and a UPSC coach at a wedding in southwest Delhi's Kapashera area.According to the police on Sunday, the incident took place on December 6 and resulted in both sides filing complaints at the local police station. Vikas Dhayal, a Rajendra Nagar...

India's success with UPI offers replicable model for other nations: Experts

Monday, 09 December 2024 | PNS | New Delhi

India's success with UPI offers a replicable model for other nations, a paper written by noted experts asserted, arguing that how this indigenous fintech solution combined public digital infrastructure with open banking policies to reduce financial exclusion, foster innovation, and promote equitable economic growth. The paper, which runs into 67 pages,...

Policeman shoots colleague dead before killing self near Udhampur

Monday, 09 December 2024 | Mohit Kandhari | Jammu

In a rare incident of fratricide, a head constable of Jammu and Kashmir police allegedly shot dead his colleague in a fit of anger before shooting himself dead with his service weapon in a moving police van on Jammu Srinagar National Highway near Udhampur early Sunday morning.  According to local police, ...

TMC civic board issues documents to Afghans

Monday, 09 December 2024 | Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata

In a shocking revelation six Afghan nationals who were recently detained in Delhi were issued credentials including birth and death certificates from the civic authorities of Malbazar Municipality run by the Trinamool Congress, sources said. The reports come at a time when the central intelligence agencies have alerted the Home Department...

Gurugram municipality forms dedicated Sanitation Security Force

Sunday, 08 December 2024 | Parvesh Sharma | Gurugram

The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has formed a dedicated Sanitation Security Force (SSF) to monitor the growing waste management and cleanliness challenges in the district. The SSF has already seized six vehicles while monitoring various places in a single night. Additional Commissioner of MCG Dr. Balpreet Singh said that monitoring...

Kashmir-based NGOs under scrutiny

Sunday, 08 December 2024 | Mohit Kandhari | Jammu

The investigating agencies probing the role of facilitators and sympathizers responsible for rehabilitating illegal immigrants from Myanmar in and around vital security installations in Jammu have gathered credible evidence against some of the Kashmir-based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs) who have deployed their young volunteers to assist them.   Meanwhile, a senior Cabinet minister...

101 farmers resume their march to Delhi today

Sunday, 08 December 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

Punjab farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher said on Saturday that they have not received any message from the Centre for talks to address their issues and added that a group of 101 farmers will again begin their march to Delhi on December 8. In a related development, farmer representatives and...

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