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PDP’s leader of the House in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, Waheed Ur Rehman Para, has written a letter to Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather, questioning allowing three private members’ resolutions on restoration of statehood in the concluding phase of the Budget session that is scheduled to commence on Monday after a 12-day recess.

He also demanded reinstating his Martyrs’ Day resolution to push for a public holiday on July 13 in the memory of 22 men who fell to the bullets of the Dogra king’s soldiers outside the Srinagar central jail on that day in 1931.

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The Ministry of Defence on Friday ruled out any proposal to reduce the physical test parameters between male and female candidates for recruitment in the Indian Army. This information was shared by Union Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth in response to a written question in the Lok Sabha. “No such proposal has been moved by the Indian Army till date,” he said.

DMK MP Kalanidhi Veeraswamy had asked whether the government is proposing to reduce the physical test parameters between male and female candidates for recruitment in the Indian Army. 

SOURCE: IANS

The police authorities are awaiting an expert analysis following the discovery of numerous army-grade hand grenade shells and cartridges concealed within a well in the Ranjhi Amnala area of Madhhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur.

The startling find was made during the annual cleaning of the well recently, a routine task that took an unexpected turn this year. As workers carried out their duties, they stumbled upon the submerged shells and cartridges of ammunition, which already have gathered rust, prompting immediate notification to the police.

SOURCE: IANS

The Tenyimi Union Nagaland (TUN), an apex body of five major tribes in Nagaland, has reiterated its support to the Nagaland Assembly resolution and urged the Centre not to fence the India-Myanmar boundary in the interest of the Naga community.

TUN President Kekhwengulo Lea said that the apex body strongly supported the Nagaland Assembly resolution adopted on March 1, 2024, urging the Union government to reconsider its decision to erect a fence along the India-Myanmar border.

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India on Sunday sent 31 tonnes of humanitarian aid, including replenishment stores for an Indian army field hospital unit deployed in Myanmar, to augment New Delhi’s efforts to provide succour to the quake-hit neighbouring country.

The aid was sent in a C-17 Globemaster heavy-lift aircraft. It took off from the Hindon air force station in Ghaziabad early on Sunday, a senior official said. “#OperationBrahma@IAF_MCC C> C-17 plane departs for Mandalay with 31 tons of humanitarian aid, including replenishment stores for the Indian army field hospital unit,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar posted on X and also shared a few photos.

SOURCE: IANS

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has provided Rs 217 crore as financial support in the last fiscal year (2024-25) for relief and rehabilitation measures for those people displaced due to the ethnic violence in Manipur since May 3, 2023, officials said here on Sunday.

More than 50,000 men, women, and children have been staying in around 250 relief camps in many districts after they were displaced from their homes and villages soon after the ethnic violence broke out 23 months ago.

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An Indian Navy warship operating in the Central Arabian Sea provided urgent critical medical assistance to a Pakistani crew member on a fishing vessel off the Oman coast, the Navy said on Sunday.

INS Trikand, a mission-deployed stealth frigate of the Indian Navy, on Friday intercepted a distress call from an Iranian dhow Al Omeedi, operating approximately 350 nautical miles east of the Oman coast. The Navy, in a release, said upon investigation, it was found that a crew member of the vessel had sustained severe injuries to his fingers while working on the engine and was in critical condition and that he had been transferred to another dhow, FV Abdul Rehman Hanzia, which was en route to Iran.

SOURCE: IANS

In a major breakthrough against cross-border smuggling and terror networks, Amritsar Rural Police apprehended a man named Jarman Singh, who was linked to ISI, with weapons and counterfeit currency, Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said on Sunday.  

One Glock 9mm pistol, one .30 calibre pistol, three magazines and Rs 2,15,500 fake currency were seized. Preliminary investigation revealed the consignment was sent by operatives of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the premier intelligence agency of Pakistan, to create unrest in the region, said DGP Yadav.

SOURCE: PTI

Sri Lanka on Sunday released at least 11 Indian fishermen as a special gesture, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitched for resolving the vexed fishermen issue with a “humane approach”. The fishermen issue figured prominently during talks between PM Modi and Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Saturday.

“We also discussed issues related to fishermen’s livelihood. We agreed that we should proceed with a humane approach in this matter,” Modi said in his media statement after meeting Dissanayake.

SOURCE: PTI

The Indian Navy ensures that “no nation suppresses another” in the Indian Ocean Region on the basis of overwhelming economy and military power, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday. The remarks, made while addressing an event at the strategic Karwar naval base in Karnataka, comes in the backdrop of China’s increased military muscle-flexing in the region.

Singh flagged off Indian Ocean Ship (IOS) SAGAR — carrying crew members from India and nine other countries — that set sail on a nearly month-long deployment in the south-west Indian Ocean Region (IOR).

SOURCE: PTI

From carrying rocket parts on bicycles and satellites on bullock carts in the 1970s, India has become one of the world leaders in the space sector through its successful Mars orbiter and Chandrayaan missions, which have also made several world records, ISRO chairman V Narayanan said here on Saturday.

Speaking at the 27th convocation of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) – Kozhikode, Narayanan said the country has come a long way from when it launched its first satellite – Aryabhata — on a Soviet rocket.

SOURCE: PTI

Describing India and China as rich countries, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said while America is willing to continue to help those affected by the Myanmar earthquake, other countries should also pitch in to provide humanitarian assistance during such crises worldwide.

“Well, we’re not the government of the world. No, we will provide humanitarian assistance just like everybody else does and do it the best we can. But we also have other needs we have to balance that against. We’re not walking away from humanitarian assistance, Rubio told the media at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on Friday.

SOURCE: PTI

A para jump instructor from the Indian Air Force’s Akash skydiving team succumbed to injuries suffered during a “demo drop” in Agra on Saturday, the IAF said.

The force shared the information in a post on X. Sources, said the instructor, an officer in the air force, died at a military hospital after suffering the injury. “A Para Jump Instructor from the IAF’s Akash Ganga Skydiving Team succumbed to injuries sustained during a Demo Drop at Agra today. The IAF deeply mourns the loss, and extends heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family, standing firmly with them in this hour of grief,” the IAF posted on X.

SOURCE: PTI

 A Bangladeshi version of a meeting between chief adviser Muhammad Yunus and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “mischievous and politically motivated”, especially the aspects relating to attacks on minorities and Dhaka’s request for extraditing former premier Sheikh Hasina, people familiar with the matter said on Saturday.

Yunus’ press secretary Shafiqul Alam in a Facebook post on Saturday said the chief adviser raised with Modi in the meeting in Bangkok Bangladesh’s request for the extradition of Hasina and the “response was not negative”.

SOURCE: PTI

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on defence cooperation between India and Sri Lanka, signed Saturday during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the island nation, will remain in force for five years, the country top defence official Sampath Thuiyakontha said.

“India annually trains around 750 Sri Lankan military personnel. This defence partnership continues to be an invaluable asset,” Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Thuiyakontha told a press briefing here. The MoU on defence cooperation will remain in force for five years, he said, adding that the decision to formalise the MoU was reached during the 2023 defence dialogue between the two nations, with the Sri Lankan cabinet approving the agreement in January this year.