365 passengers landed at IGI airport from Sudan beneath Operation Kaveri, in New Delhi on April 29, 2023
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Ahead of Amarnath Yatra, security agencies discuss safeguarding of Kashmir highway
With the Amarnath yatra just two months away, safety businesses on Saturday mentioned methods and means to deal with threats like vehicle-borne improvised explosive units in south Kashmir. Officials mentioned securing the nationwide freeway, which connects Jammu with the Srinagar and the Amarnath route in south Kashmir’s Pahalgam, remained the main focus of the assembly. The risk posed by vehicle-borne improvised explosive units and different potential militant threats had been debated and counter-measures had been mentioned, they mentioned.
Quarantine facilities being set up for those arriving from Sudan, says Centre
The Indian authorities is evacuating about 3,000 passengers of Indian Origin from Sudan, and mandatory quarantine services are being organized at transit junctures in mission mode for incoming passengers. 1,191 passengers had arrived to date, of which 117 passengers had been at the moment quarantined as that they had not been vaccinated towards yellow fever. All passengers will probably be launched after 7 days if they continue to be asymptomatic, it added.
Access to basic supplies restricted at protest site, say wrestlers
Wrestler Bajrang Punia on Friday night time took to Instagram to accuse the Delhi Police of proscribing provide of electrical energy and rations. “At the protest site, they (police) have cut off electricity and have barricaded the site, making it difficult for us to access basic necessities like food and water, they even asked us to end our protest as FIRs have been registered against WFI President Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh,” Mr. Punia mentioned, in his Instagram video.
ED raid on edutech unicorn Byju’s in Bengaluru under ‘FEMA violations’
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) searched the premises of Think & Learn Private Limited, which runs the web non-public schooling portal Byju’s, in Bengaluru, beneath provisions of Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA). A press release by the ED revealed that ₹28,000 crore of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the corporate, and ₹9,754 crore abroad direct funding by the corporate are beneath the scanner.
SEBI seeks 6-month extension to complete Adani probe
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on April 29 requested the Supreme Court for six extra months to complete its investigation into Hindenburg Research’s damning report accusing the Adani Group of “brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud schemes over the course of decades”. The market regulator mentioned it was probing “12 suspicious transactions” raised in the Hindenburg report.
Government likely to ask addicts to submit for rehabilitation to avoid jail time
As the Union authorities debates decriminalising consumption of narcotic medication and psychotropic substances, it’s probably to usher in a coverage the place addicts and customers should submit themselves earlier than therapy centres and declare themselves as such with the intention to escape legal prosecution. Currently, beneath the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, the consumption of any narcotic medication or psychotropic substance might appeal to a jail time period of as much as one 12 months and/or fines as much as ₹20,000.
Centre plans an ‘overhaul’ of its research institutions
The Department of Science and Technology (DST), which is the principle supply of funds and sustenance for not less than 30 autonomous analysis our bodies — a few of them of world status — is in the course of a “rationalisation” train that entails merging, “disengaging” and even closure of some organisations. The DST train is a component of a bigger mission initiated by the Centre to cut back the variety of autonomous establishments funded by numerous Ministries.
Operation Kaveri: Fresh batch of 365 people return home from Sudan
India on April 29 introduced again dwelling a contemporary batch of 365 folks beneath its mission to evacuate stranded Indians from strife-torn Sudan. The return of the contemporary batch of Indians got here a day after 754 folks arrived in India in two batches beneath the evacuation mission. The complete variety of Indians who were brought back home now stands at 1,725, in line with official information. The Indians had been introduced again dwelling from the Saudi Arabian metropolis of Jeddah the place India arrange a transit camp for the evacuees.
100th episode of PM Modi’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ to be broadcast live in United Nations headquarters
The 100th episode of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s month-to-month radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ will probably be broadcast dwell within the United Nations headquarters in New York. The Consulate General of India in New York, together with neighborhood organisations, can also be internet hosting the published of the 100th episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ for members of the Indian-American and diaspora neighborhood in New Jersey throughout a particular occasion at 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
PM must break his silence on allegations raised by Satya Pal Malik: Congress
Prime Minister Narendra Modi should break his silence on the allegations raised by former Jammu & Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik relating to the Union authorities’s negligence that reportedly led to the loss of life of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel within the Pulwama terror attack in 2019, Congress’s nationwide spokesperson Supriya Shrinate mentioned. She mentioned Mr. Modi, the Union authorities and the BJP had been answerable to the households of the martyrs of the Pulwama assault, who had been considering whether or not their pricey ones can be alive right now had the federal government not been “apathetic and negligent”.
L-G Saxena seeks report in connection with Arvind Kejriwal’s residence renovation irregularity rowc
Delhi Lieutenant Governor (L-G) Vinai Kumar Saxena has taken cognisance of media studies on the alleged “gross irregularities” in reference to the renovation of the Delhi Chief Minister’s official residence at 6, Flag Staff House, Civil Lines, which was carried out by the Public Works Department. Earlier this week, the Delhi BJP — whereas citing purported paperwork from the Public Works Department — called for the resignation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over the quantity spent on renovating his official residence.
Satwik-Chirag become first Indian men’s doubles pair to enter Badminton Asia Championships final
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty grew to become the primary Indian males’s doubles pair to enter the ultimate of the Badminton Asia Championships after their opponents retired halfway by way of the semi-final match, right here on April 29. They face the eighth-seeded Malaysian pair of Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi, who defeated fourth seeds Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi of Japan 21-6 26-24 within the different semifinal, within the remaining on Sunday.