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<p>The Ministry of Home Affairs has filed an application in the Supreme Court stating that Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel deployed at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital are facing severe difficulties due to lack of accomodation and basic security infrastructure.</p> <p>The application states that the troops are presently staying at CISF Unit SMP, Kolkata despite the constraints being faced by the accommodating unit.</p> <p>”The traveling time from SMP Kolkata to RG Kar Hospital is nearly 01-hour from one side and it is difficult to discharge duties effectively and to mobilize CISF troops to duly and promptly respond during contingencies,” the application read.</p> <p>The Supreme Court on August 20 had directed the Centre… Read More »CISF Personnel At RG Kar Hospital Facing Severe Difficulty: Home Ministry Tells Supreme Court

<p>The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, has greenlit 10 capital acquisition proposals worth Rs 1.45 lakh crore, aiming to significantly enhance India’s defence capabilities. The Ministry of Defence (MoD), in a <a href=”https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2051323″>statement</a> issued on Tuesday, emphasised that “99% of the total cost of AoNs (Acceptance of Necessity) is from indigenous sources under Buy (Indian) and Buy (Indian-Indigenously Designed Developed and Manufactured) categories.”</p> <p>Among the major approvals is the procurement of Future Ready Combat Vehicles (FRCVs), which is intended to modernise the Indian Army’s tank fleet. The MoD highlighted that the FRCV “will be a futuristic Main Battle Tank with superior mobility, all-terrain ability, multilayered protections, precision &amp; lethal fires… Read More »Rajnath-Led DAC Approves 10 Capital Acquisitions Worth Rs 1.45 Lakh Cr For Future-Ready Combat Vehicles, Radars

The housing of Central Industrial Security Forces, deployed at the hospital where the shocking rape-murder of a doctor took place last month, appears set to be the next flashpoint between Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP. The Centre has now gone to the Supreme Court, contending that the Bengal government must house the CISF personnel who have been delegated to ensure security at the hospital. Anything less, it said, would amount to contempt of court.

A woman and her partner from Cornwall have been sentenced to prison for plotting to drug and rape her six-year-old daughter. The couple, whose identities are being withheld to protect the victim, were sentenced at Plymouth Crown Court on Friday, August 30. The woman, from East Cornwall, received a 17-year prison sentence, while the man, from North Cornwall, was sentenced to 13 years. Both were also given a 20-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order, reported ITV News.  The investigation began in 2021 when the man accidentally left his phone with someone at a pub, who then discovered disturbing messages related to the sexual abuse of a young girl. Police seized the phone as evidence and subsequently… Read More »UK Woman And Partner Jailed After Planning To Drug, Rape Her Six-Year-Old Daughter

The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party have reached a ‘principal understanding’ to ally ahead of next month’s Haryana Assembly election, sources told NDTV Tuesday evening. The next step is to discuss seat-sharing, for which Rajya Sabha MPs Raghav Chadha for the AAP and KC Venugopal for the Congress will meet either tonight or tomorrow. All of this comes hours after it emerged that Rahul Gandhi suggested the INDIA bloc members continue a partnership formed before the April-June general election. In Haryana the Congress and AAP contested the state’s 10 Lok Sabha seats 9:1, with the former winning five and the latter none. Mr Gandhi, sources said, is keen to sweep as many of the… Read More »Congress-AAP Alliance In Haryana? Negotiations To Begin Soon: Sources