SOURCE: ANI

Additional Director General of Police, Jammu Zone, Anand Jain on Monday visited Doda to take stock of the security situation of the district and operational preparedness, area domination, and enhanced surveillance being carried out there in the aftermath of the terror attack in the Basantgarh area. While interacting with the Special Operation Group, the ADGP Jammu Zone complimented them for their hard work and assured them of providing all support for strengthening the security grid.

While reviewing the Crime position, the ADGP stressed upon the officers to ensure quality investigation of under investigation cases, and inquest proceedings, besides arrest of absconders, tracing out of missing persons and minimising the pendency including disposal of backlog cases. The ADGP directed the officers to make special efforts to collect the electronic and other circumstantial evidence in UAPA and NDPS cases and dispose of the cases against sufficient evidence to ensure conviction.

SOURCE: ANI

DRDO chairman Dr Samir V Kamat says “It is very critical that we should be prepared to make all the defence systems that our services need to fight the war. We have to be prepared to make these systems within the country and also ensure that the dependence on foreign suppliers is to a minimum.

If that is not the case, we will not be able to sustain a war for very long. PM Modi has given a call that we should become Aatmanirbhar at the earliest and that we also become a technology leader by the year 2047.”

SOURCE: PTI

Gopi Thotakura, an entrepreneur and a pilot, on Sunday became the first Indian to venture into space as a tourist aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin’s NS-25 mission. Thotakura was selected as one of the six crew members for the NS-25 mission, making him the first Indian space tourist and the second Indian to venture into space after the Indian Army’s Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma in 1984.

Blue Origin’s seventh human flight, NS-25, lifted off from Launch Site One in West Texas on Sunday morning, the company announced on social media. This mission was the seventh human flight for the New Shepard programme and the 25th in its history.

SOURCE: ANI

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Sreedhara Panicker Somanath attended a programme at a school on Sunday and said that the space agency aims to explore human space flight activities and build space stations.

While speaking with the reporters, Sreedhara Panicker Somanath lauded the Chandrayaan Mission and said, “I would like to say today, after the successful Chandrayan Mission, the world is looking at us. We have announced Space Act Reforms in 2020 and there is a new Indian Space Policy 2023 by the government which has enabled private companies and institutions to come and work together.”

SOURCE: AFP

A stranded cargo ship that has been blocking one of America’s busiest ports will be removed Monday nearly two months after it struck and destroyed a bridge in Baltimore, authorities said over the weekend. The complex operation would see the nearly 1,000-foot (300-meter) Dali container vessel transported to a marine terminal, marking a major step in reopening the key shipping channel.

The Singapore-flagged ship lost power before it plowed into a support column of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, causing it to collapse and killing six construction workers who had been atop the major transit route.

SOURCE: PTI

Jailed radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who is contesting from the Khadoor Sahib seat in Punjab as an Independent candidate, has been allotted the poll symbol of ‘mike’. He was among the 169 Independent contestants, out of total 328 candidates who have been allotted election symbols.

Amritpal, the chief of the ‘Waris Punjab De’ outfit, is lodged in Assam’s Dibrugarh jail under the National Security Act. Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa, who is contesting from the Faridkot (reserve) constituency as an Independent, has been allotted the poll symbol of ‘Ganna Kisan’ (sugarcane farmer). Khalsa is the son of Beant Singh, who was one of the assassins of late prime minister Indira Gandhi.

SOURCE: PTI

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Sunday urged the Centre to order a probe into the twin terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir a day earlier and also asked Pakistan to stop supporting terrorism in the region.

The former chief minister said if a probe is not ordered into the two gruesome incidents, his party would “invite an international committee” to conduct an investigation to find out the culprits behind such attacks.

SOURCE: ANI

The Border Security Force along with the Punjab Police recovered a drone in the border area of Tarn Taran district on Saturday. The recovery was made in a joint operation with Punjab Police. “During the search operation, at about 11:30 am, troops successfully recovered 01 drone from a farming field adjacent to village Rajoke in Tarn Taran District. The recovered drone has been identified as a China-made DJI Mavic 3 classic.

A reliable information and coordinated efforts of BSF and Punjab police successfully recovered yet another illicit drone from across the border,” an official statement issued by BSF read. Earlier, the Border Security Force (BSF) detected and recovered a Pakistani drone from the border area of Amritsar district on Thursday.

SOURCE: PTI

More than 3,300 CISF personnel will take over the complete counter-terrorism and anti-sabotage security duties at the Parliament complex from Monday, following the withdrawal of over 1,400 CRPF staff from the country’s most important symbol of democracy, official sources said.

The Parliament Duty Group (PDG) of the CRPF wound up its entire administrative and operational paraphernalia — vehicles, weapons and commandos — from of the complex on Friday and its commander, a Deputy Inspector General (DIG)-rank officer, handed over all the security points in the complex to the incoming CISF group, the sources said.