The education ministry is coming up with plans to recognise in-service training received by ‘Agniveers’ as credits for graduation. On June 14, the Union defence ministry unveiled the ‘Agnipath’ scheme, a pan India merit-based recruitment scheme for inducting youngsters into all three services of the armed forces. Under this scheme, …
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who has been questioned by the Enforcement Directorate for nearly 30 hours in the past three days in connection with the National Herald money laundering case, requested the agency to postpone further questioning to Monday. He was asked to reappear before the agency on Friday. According …
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The Congress, on Thursday, hit out the government over the Agnipath scheme for recruitment of soldiers on a short-term basis, saying it carries multiple risks and subverts the longstanding traditions and ethos of the armed forces, and may turn out to be a case of “penny wise and security foolish”. …
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The ED has allowed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s request to defer his questioning in the National Herald money-laundering case from June 17 (Friday) to June 20 (Monday) owing to personal reasons, officials said on Thursday. The Congress MP wrote to the investigating officer of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to allow …
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Imagine the Indian Penal Code as a rambling, ramshackle bazaar. Rambling, because its 23 chapters and 511 sections supply numerous legal provisions that the police and the courts would want to maintain law and order. Ramshackle, because the bazaar has stood for 160 years, its shaky colonial-era underpinnings denied the …
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Congress leader and MP Manish Tewari, on Thursday, said the new ‘Agnipath’ scheme is a much-needed reform in the right direction while noting that the armed forces should not be an employment guarantee programme. The government, on Tuesday, unveiled the scheme for the recruitment of soldiers in the Army, Navy …
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On Thursday, the leadership and cadre of Telangana Congress party hit the streets protesting the Enforcement Directorate grilling their senior leader and MP Rahul Gandhi for three days, terming it “harassment”. Senior leaders of the party scuffled with the police at various places in Hyderabad even as youth congress workers …
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Over the past few days, the Congress has been staging protests in various parts of the country against Enforcement Directorate (ED) questioning party leader Rahul Gandhi in connection with a money laundering case pertaining to the National Herald-AJL deal. While the party has been accusing the Delhi Police of high-handedness …
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Supreme Court Judge Justice M.R. Shah was rushed from Himachal Pradesh to Delhi on Thursday via air ambulance after he suffered a heart attack. "Hon’ble Justice MR Shah Judge Supreme Court of India has suffered a heart attack while he was in Himachal Pradesh. Arrangements being made to rush him …
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The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the Maharashtra government and the Mumbai District Caste Certificate Scrutiny Committee to file their replies to a plea filed by former Mumbai NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede, challenging a show cause notice issued to him by the committee. A bench of Justices R …
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