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| Day after Home Minister’s high-level meeting Reasi bus attack case transferred to NIA | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, June 17: To identify some locals involved in providing logistics and other supporters of the terror groups active in the Rajouri and Reasi districts, the bus attack case of Pouni is transferred to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
A day after Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high-level meeting to review the security situation in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the Ministry of Home Affairs transferred the investigation of the Reasi bus terror attack to the NIA.
Nine pilgrims from Delhi, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh lost their lives when unidentified terrorists ambushed a bus carrying devotees to the holy cave shrine of Shiv Khori in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Quoting an MHA official, a news agency reported that the investig... | |
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| After ECI’s initiatives, BJP starts process for Assembly polls in J&K | | Union Minister G Kishan Reddy appointed as party’s election in-charge in J&K | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 17: The ruling BJP has begun preparations for the highly anticipated first Assembly elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir by appointing Union Minister G Kishan Reddy as the election in-charge.
Following the successful Lok Sabha elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has initiated the process of conducting Assembly polls in J&K to establish a representative government in the Union Territory.
An order issued by Arun Singh, the National General Secretary of the BJP, confirmed the immediate appointment of Union Minister G Kishan Reddy as the election in-charge for Jammu and Kashmir.
In addition to Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP has ... | |
| | | | CDS Gen Anil Chauhan visits Jammu, reviews security | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 17: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan on Monday arrived on a day-long visit to Jammu to review the security situation and operational preparedness in the region, officials said.
Gen Chauhan’s visit comes soon after Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the security situation and the preparations for the annual Amarnath Yatra on Sunday.
The CDS arrived at 16 Corps headquarters in Nagrota, where he is scheduled to review the security situation of t... | |
| | | | NSA Doval, his US counterpart review ICET implementation | | |  Agencies
New Delhi, June 17: NSA Ajit Doval on Monday held extensive talks with his American counterpart Jake Sullivan, focusing on implementation of the ambitious India-US Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (ICET), bilateral defence ties and regional security situation.
Sullivan is visiting Delhi from June 17 to 18, in the first trip to India by a senior Biden administration official after the Modi government came to power for the third term.
The US National Security Advis... | |
| | | | ‘Bharat’, ‘India’ to be used interchangeably in textbooks: NCERT Chief | | |  Agencies
NEW DELHI, June 17: “Bharat” and “India” will be used interchangeably in NCERT textbooks as is the case in the country’s Constitution, National Council of Educational Research and Training Director Dinesh Prasad Saklani has said.
The comments assume significance in the wake of a high-level panel working on the social science curriculum recommending that “India” should be replaced with “Bharat” in school textbooks for all classes.
In an interaction with editors at the agency’s he... | |
| | | | ‘Papa bus ek baar aa jao, phir mission pe chale jana’ | | 7-year old son of martyred Army Colonel sends voice message to his father | |  Early Times Report
Anantnag, June 17: In a heart-wrenching tale of love and loss, seven-year-old Kabir remains unaware of the harsh reality that his father will never return and the young boy relentlessly sends voice messages to Colonel Manpreet Singh's number pleading with him to come back.
"Papa bus ek baar aa jao, phir mission pe chale jana (Papa, please come back once, and then you can resume your duties)." Some of these heartfelt messages are whispered in secrecy to avoid his mother's... | |
| | | | Terrorist killed in Bandipora encounter | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, June 17: A terrorist was killed in an encounter with security forces in Bandipora district on Monday, officials said. The gunfight broke out after security forces launched a cordon and search operation in the Aragam area of the district on Sunday night following information about the presence of terrorists there, they said.
The army’s Srinagar-based Chinar Corps said one terrorist has been killed. The operation was in progress till last reports, it said.
“Based on specific intelligence input regarding presence of terrorists, a joint operation was launched by the Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police on the intervening night of June 16-17 in the gener... | |
| | | | Hizbul terrorist arrested | | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, June 17: Security forces arrested a Hizbul Mujahideen militant in Handwara sub district, police said on Monday. He was in touch with a Pakistan-based handler.
Zakir Hamid Mir, a resident of Kachri, Chougal was arrested in a joint operation of forces which was launched last night.
“Yesterday, we got an input about the presence of a terrorist who was waiting to carry out a terror attack. Following which a joint operation with Army’s 30 RR and other security forces agencies was launched. During the operation the terrorist was arrested,” Superintendent of Police, Handwara Dawood Ayoub said.
He added a Chinese pistol, a hand grenade and two magazines of a p... | |
| | | | Fire destroys over 200 bee boxes | | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 17: More than 200 boxes of honey bees were destroyed in a fire in the outskirts of Jammu city, officials said on Monday. A fire erupted suddenly in the boxes kept in a bee colony in R S Pura area late Sunday night, they said.
Fire tenders rushed to the spot and prevented the blaze from spreading to other parts of the bee colony, they said.
With the boxes, thousands of bees perished in the fire, locals said.
The reason for the fire is yet to be determined.... | |
| | | | Action will be taken against guilty | | NEET Exam | | | Agencies
BHUBANESWAR, June 17: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said the government would take strong actions against functionaries of the National Testing Agency (NTA) if they were found to be involved in irregularities in the conduct of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), 2024. Pradhan made this statement during his visit to Sambalpur in Odisha on Sunday. He said two types of irregularities in the conduct of NEET have come to the limelight.
As per preliminary information, grace marks have been awarded to some students as they were dissatisfied as they were allotted less time than the prescribed duration, he said.
The government has disapproved the grace ma... | |
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