365 passengers landed at IGI airport from Sudan below Operation Kaveri, in New Delhi on April 29, 2023
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Ahead of Amarnath Yatra, safety companies talk about safeguarding of Kashmir freeway
With the Amarnath yatra simply two months away, safety companies on Saturday mentioned methods and means to sort out threats like vehicle-borne improvised explosive gadgets 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 target of the assembly. The risk posed by vehicle-borne improvised explosive gadgets and different potential militant threats had been debated and counter-measures had been mentioned, they mentioned.
Quarantine services being arrange for these arriving from Sudan, says Centre
The Indian authorities is evacuating about 3,000 passengers of Indian Origin from Sudan, and crucial 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 they’d not been vaccinated towards yellow fever. All passengers shall be launched after 7 days if they continue to be asymptomatic, it added.
Access to primary provides restricted at protest website, 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 below ‘FEMA violations’
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) searched the premises of Think & Learn Private Limited, which runs the net personal training portal Byju’s, in Bengaluru, below provisions of Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA). An announcement 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 below the scanner.
SEBI seeks 6-month extension to finish Adani probe
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on April 29 requested the Supreme Court for six extra months to full 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 within the Hindenburg report.
Government more likely to ask addicts to submit for rehabilitation to keep away from jail time
As the Union authorities debates decriminalising consumption of narcotic medicine and psychotropic substances, it’s doubtless to usher in a coverage the place addicts and customers must submit themselves earlier than therapy centres and declare themselves as such as a way to escape legal prosecution. Currently, below the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, the consumption of any narcotic medicine or psychotropic substance could 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 analysis establishments
The Department of Science and Technology (DST), which is the primary supply of funds and sustenance for not less than 30 autonomous analysis our bodies — a few of them of worldwide status — is in the midst of a “rationalisation” train that entails merging, “disengaging” and even closure of some organisations. The DST train is an element of a bigger challenge initiated by the Centre to scale back the variety of autonomous establishments funded by numerous Ministries.
Operation Kaveri: Fresh batch of 365 individuals return dwelling from Sudan
India on April 29 introduced again dwelling a recent batch of 365 individuals below its mission to evacuate stranded Indians from strife-torn Sudan. The return of the recent batch of Indians got here a day after 754 individuals arrived in India in two batches below the evacuation mission. The complete variety of Indians who had been introduced again dwelling now stands at 1,725, in accordance with official knowledge. The Indians had been introduced again dwelling from the Saudi Arabian metropolis of Jeddah the place India arrange a transit camp for the evacuees.
The a hundredth episode of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s month-to-month radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ shall be broadcast reside within the United Nations headquarters in New York. The Consulate General of India in New York, together with group organisations, can also be internet hosting the published of the a hundredth episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ for members of the Indian-American and diaspora group in New Jersey throughout a particular occasion at 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
PM should 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 concerning the Union authorities’s negligence that reportedly led to the demise of 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel within the Pulwama terror assault 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 pondering whether or not their pricey ones can be alive in the present day had the federal government not been “apathetic and negligent”.
L-G Saxena seeks report in reference to 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 — known as for the resignation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over the quantity spent on renovating his official residence.
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 means 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 closing on Sunday.
