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SFA under scanner for PDP-regime scam 10/22/2022 11:28:33 PM Early Times Report Jammu, Oct 22: The State Football Academy has come under the scanner of the authorities for allegations of a multi-crore scam during the previous regime, while the Jammu and Kashmir government is set to order a high level probe. Sources said the government has received credible inputs that the SFA, since its inception during the Peoples Democratic Party led government, was being “misused to benefit some quarters close to a shady coterie.” Sources said while the “very inception of the SFA was under the scanner of the authorities” what has come to fore is that crores of rupees have been misappropriately used to benefit some quarters close to the previous regime. Sources said in brazen violation of service conduct rules, some of the government employees posted at the SCFA were drawing salary and other benefits from multiple quarters. In one such case, the official documents reveal that a brother duo from Srinagar “grabbed millions from the SFA in violation of norms.” While the brother duo, government employee were already drawing salary from their parent d...   READ MORE

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Sarkar AAP ki hain, air pollution bhuljaiye Kejriwal silent on Punjab farm fires 10/22/2022 11:28:28 PM Agencies Haryana, Oct 22: Amidst farm fires raging in Punjab, the Aam Admi Party (AAP) Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, is maintaining silence. When farm fires used to rage in Punjab earlier, Kejriwal used to be the first one to raise, hue and cry over these fires. Haryana's Home Minister Anil Vij has questioned Kejriwal’s silence over farm fires raising air pollution levels in the National Capital Region (NCR). But this time around Kejriwal is quiet as his own party is in power in Punjab. The pollution levels would increase with bursting of crackers during Diwali season. With several states involved, it has been difficult to fix accountability over the matter, which has also b...   READ MORE   Gujarat Shocker: AAP Corporator bites female security guard at Municipal Corporation meeting in Surat 10/22/2022 11:28:16 PM Agencies Surat, Oct 22: Sejal Malaviya, an AAP corporator in Surat, bit a female security guard when she was being moved out a meeting of the Surat Municipal Corporation's General Board The incident took place on Friday during the zero hour of the meeting when BJP leader Amit Rajput tried to raise the oath issue involving Delhi's former Social Justice Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam. This was opposed by the attending AAP councillors, leading to a ruckus In response to the ruckus, Surat Mayor Hemali Boghawala suspended AAP corporator Mahesh Anghan from the meeting, after which security guards were ordered to move all the party corporators out. During this, Malaviya bit the security guard. ...   READ MORE   Pak needs to continue taking credible, verifiable action against terrorism: India 10/22/2022 11:28:08 PM Agencies New Delhi, Oct 22: The world should remain clear that Pakistan must continue to take “credible, verifiable and irreversible” action against terrorism, India said after anti-money laundering watchdog FATF removed the neighbouring country from its “grey list”. The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) took Pakistan off a list of countries under increased monitoring, also known as the “grey list”. “It is in global interest that the world remains clear that Pakistan must continue to take credible, verifiable, irreversible and sustained action against terrorism and terrorist financing emanating from territories under its control,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson A...   READ MORE   Terror funding case: SIA conducts raids at multiple places 10/22/2022 11:28:03 PM Early Times Report Srinagar, Oct 22: The Jammu and Kashmir State Investigation Agency (SIA) on Saturday carried out raids at 14 places in three districts of the Valley as part of its investigations into a terror funding case, officials said. An agency spokesman said 14 houses and a business premise of suspects in Srinagar, Sopore, Baramulla and Shopian were searched in compliance to a search warrant obtained from the Court of Special Judge, designated under the NIA Act (TADA/POTA) Srinagar. "Continuing to rein in the financial networks of terror outfits with a purpose of destroying the ecosystem and support structure of terrorism completely, the State Investigation Agency today conduct...   READ MORE   Security forces cut short terrorists' survival rate in Kashmir 10/22/2022 11:27:58 PM Agencies Jammu, Oct 22: The “all-out campaign” launched by the security forces to kill all active terrorists yielded encouraging results because nearly 150 terrorists have been eliminated so far this year in Kashmir Valley alone. These terrorists were eliminated in almost all parts of the Kashmir Valley in different encounters. Furthermore, the survival rate of active terrorists is also drastically decreasing as a result of strengthening the intelligence network and this campaign. Security forces have eliminated a number of newly recruited terrorists in different areas of Kashmir Valley which is a clear indication that their (terrorists') surviving rate is drastically decreasing due t...   READ MORE   Route your broadcast activities via Prasar Bharati: Centre tells States 10/22/2022 11:27:52 PM Agencies New Delhi, Oct 22: The Centre has issued an advisory asking Union ministries, state governments and union territory administrations not to enter into any broadcasting or distribution of broadcasting activities directly. In the advisory, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting asked those broadcasting their content to route it through Prasar Bharati. It also asked entities distributing the broadcasting content to "extract themselves" from it by December 31, 2023. The advisory is likely to impact Kalvi TV, an educational channel launched by the Tamil Nadu government which is available on some DTH platforms, and IPTV, launched by the Andhra Pradesh government. "No Mini...   READ MORE   Ahead of Gujarat polls, Amit Shah meets BJP leaders, workers 10/22/2022 11:27:46 PM Agencies Valsad, Oct 22: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday held a meeting with BJP leaders and workers of south Gujarat zone to review preparations for the upcoming state Assembly elections, dates of which are yet to be announced. State BJP president and Lok Sabha MP CR Paatil and Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel were also present in the meeting. Party leaders from seven districts of south Gujarat, including ministers, MLAs, Surat mayor, district panchayat presidents and office-bearers were present in the meeting held at Saurashtra Kadva Patidar Samaj Hall near Valsad city's Dharampur Chokdi. Talking to reporters, Shah said preparations for the Assembly election for seats in so...   READ MORE   PMAY has become major medium for ushering in socio-economic change: PM Modi 10/22/2022 11:27:16 PM Agencies Satna (MP), Oct 22: The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY) has become a “major medium for bringing in socio-economic change” in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday. He was speaking after conducting, virtually, the ‘grih pravesh’ ceremony of 4.51 lakh beneficiaries of the scheme in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district by pressing a remote button. Earlier governments did not do anything for the poor except coining the slogan of poverty removal and delayed the implementation of all such schemes, he alleged. These governments had no time for providing basic amenities to people, he said. The houses under PMAY have all facilities like electricity, water connect...   READ MORE   Hideout busted in Ramban, ammunition, explosives recovered 10/22/2022 11:27:08 PM Early Times Report Ramban, Oct 22: Security forces on Saturday busted a hideout and recovered ammunition and explosives in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district, officials said. Acting on specific information about the presence of arms and ammunition in a remote forested area in Khari tehsil of Ramban, the police and the Army launched a joint search operation there, they said. A militant hideout was unearthed and ammunition and explosive material were recovered, the officials said. The recoveries included 310 AK-47 rounds, 30 9mm rounds, one 9mm magazine, six AK rifle magazines, one grenade, one tape recorder, one handset with antenna and two cassettes, they said. Three battery termi...   READ MORE   BJP will retain power in Himachal Pradesh: Anurag Thakur 10/22/2022 11:27:02 PM Agencies New Delhi, Oct 22: Union Minister and BJP leader Anurag Thakur on Saturday exuded confidence that his party will again form government in Himachal Pradesh as people have seen the working of the "double-engine" government. The "double-engine" phrase is used by BJP leaders to emphasise that development will be expedited if the same party is at the helm in states and the Centre. Voting for the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections will take place on November 12 and the counting will be held on December 8. Speaking to reporters, Thakur said the BJP will again form the government in Himachal Pradesh. "Results will be in favour of the BJP because people have seen the working o...   READ MORE   India can fill the slot in global commercial satellite launch market: ISRO Chairman 10/22/2022 11:26:56 PM Agencies New Delhi, Oct 22: With a shortage of rockets to launch satellites, India with its LVM3 or GSLV Mk3 rocket now has a slot in the global commercial satellite launch market, said S.Somanath, Secretary, Department of Space and Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He also said India is planning to ramp up production of the LVM3 rocket. "There is a shortage of commercial satellite launch vehicles for putting into orbit multiple satellites to form a constellation. The Russian rockets are not in consideration now. Further the Ariane 6 rocket of Arianespace got delayed. The commercial potential of Chinese rockets is not accepted by the West. Hence India has a slot n...   READ MORE

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