Author: Amit Bhanot

AU विदेशी फंडिंग की जांच को गठित एसआईटी के रडार पर प्रदेश के सभी 24 हजार मदरसे हैं। इनमें से 16 हजार पंजीकृत हैं, जबकि बाकी आठ हजार अवैध हैं। एसआईटी सबसे पहले नेपाल सीमा पर बीते दो दशकों के दौरान बने नये मदरसों की जांच करेगी। एसआईटी की पहली बैठक में इस पर सहमति बनी है। यह भी तय किया गया है कि जिन मदरसों में विदेश से पैसा भेजा जा रहा है, उनके खिलाफ मुकदमा दर्ज कराया जाएगा। बता दें कि शासन के निर्देश पर प्रदेश के मदरसों में विदेशी फंडिंग की जांच के लिए एडीजी एटीएस मोहित…

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FE The government is planning to register solar panels made up of only domestically manufactured cells, wafers and polysilicon under the Approved List of Models and Manufacturers in the next 3-4 years. Minister for New and Renewable Energy RK Singh has also asked the concerned officers of his ministry to prepare a policy in this regard. ALMM was introduced by the government to boost domestic manufacturing of solar panels. The modules with less efficiency are removed from the ALMM, the minister said. “We will evolve our policies. We will only protect those modules, which are made-in-India cells. In one or two…

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NLC India Limited a Navratna Central Public Sector Undertaking, under the Ministry of Coal hasincorporated a wholly owned subsidiary NLC India Green Energy Limited (NIGEL) specially focusing on taking up all Renewable Energy initiatives. The first Board meeting of the company was held, and the appointment of key managerial positions were approved along with adoption of the company’s logo. Shri. Prasanna Kumar Motupalli, the Chairman of NIGEL while releasing the logo of the company said that the new company with focused attention on Renewable energy projects will help in increasing the RE power generation capacity faster. With industry climate very…

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BS Cooperation Minister Amit Shah will on Monday launch a logo, website and brochure of a newly established National Cooperative for Exports Limited (NCEL) at a national symposium in the national capital. Shah will also distribute membership certificates to NCEL members at the symposium to be organised at the Pusa complex here. “A wide range of issues, including channelising cooperatives for linkages to export markets, the potential of Indian agri-exports and opportunities for cooperatives, among others, will be discussed in the symposium,” the ministry said in a statement. NCEL came into existence after Shah put an emphasis on the need…

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BS As the overall air quality index (AQI) declined to the ‘very poor’ category in the national capital on Sunday, visuals of stubble getting burned in a field in Haryana’s Karnal has surfaced. A total of 48 cases of stubble-burning has been reported in the state till date this season. The state’s Agriculture Department has also imposed a fine of Rs 53,000 on farmers who were found burning the stubble. “We are forced to set fire to the straw as we have to sow the next crop, we are getting late in it, that is why we have to burn…

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PTI Any expectation that conflicts and terrorism can be contained in their impact is no longer tenable, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday. In an address at an event, Jaishankar, delving into geopolitical upheavals witnessing the world, said the ripple impact of what is taking place in the Middle East right now is still not entirely clear. The external affairs minister said the consequences of various conflicts in a globalised world spread far beyond immediate geographies as he cited the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war.

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PTI Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will celebrate Dussehra with Army soldiers at a forward base in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tawang on Tuesday, sources in the security establishment said. The defence minister is also set to perform “Shastra Puja” (worship of weapons) in Tawang, they said. Singh’s decision to celebrate Dussehra with the soldiers at the strategically-important location that is close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) comes at a time India and China have been engaged in a bitter standoff in certain friction points in eastern Ladakh for more than three years.

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PTI India on Sunday sent more than 38 tonnes of relief material including medicines and medical equipment for the people of Palestine amid mounting global concerns over the plight of civilians living in Gaza. The consignments were sent in a C-17 transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force to El-Arish airport in Egypt. Various international aid agencies have described the situation in Gaza as “catastrophic”. The Israeli military has been carrying out retaliatory air strikes on Gaza following the unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7 by Hamas.

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PTI Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has fined state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) for not installing pollution control devices at their petrol pumps. IOC has been fined Rs 1 crore and BPCL Rs 2 crore, the two firms said in separate stock exchange filings. “The company has received a direction from CPCB to pay compensation of Rs 1 crore for non-installation of Vapour Recovery Systems (VRS) at retail outlets in National Capital Region (NCR),” IOC said adding the fine was for not installing VRS at petrol refuelling stations within the timeline prescribed by the…

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NagalandPost PSU major Oil India Ltd (OIL) on Sunday said it has successfully shut leakage from an abandoned well in Assam’s Dibrugarh district. The state-run energy firm successfully handled the crisis after scrambling different departments to shut the well, an official release said. “After nearly 60 hours, the uncontrolled flow of fluid (mainly water) from well NHK-67 near Duliajan was capped successfully around 12.44 pm today,” it added.The company said the well was re-capped by the in-house Crisis Management Team (CMT) with support from various other departments of the OIL. “An in-house on-site task force was coordinating the activities on…

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