Ghazipur (UP), Apr 23: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today addressed a seminar on ‘National Education Policy 2020' organized at Dalimss Sunbeam School Gandhi Nagar, Ghazipur. He also felicitated meritorious students. In his keynote address on ‘Contribution of new National Education Policy in Building Developed India', the Lt Governor highlighted the vision and aim of NEP 2020. He said the education policy focuses on nurturing creative potential of students and promotes critical thinking and problem-solving. “National Education Policy's aim is to prepare individuals who are not only knowledge ..read more

SRINAGAR, Apr 23: As the process for filing of Nominations by the Contesting Candidates for the General Lok Sabha Elections-2024 is going on, five more Candidates filed nomination papers from 02-Srinagar Parliamentary Constituency in the Office of Returning Officer (RO) 02-Srinagar Parliamentary Constituency here on Tuesday. The candidates, including Mirza Sajad Hussain Beigh, Jibran Dar, Shahnaz Hussain Bhat and Shamim Ahmad Parray filed their nomination papers as independent candidates. Similarly, Younis Ahmad Mir also submitted his nomination papers today before the Returning Officer (RO ..read more

Kokernag (J&K), Apr 23: The PDP has become the BJP's C-team and people should only look towards INDIA bloc candidates in the Lok Sabha elections to defeat the communal forces, National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said on Tuesday. Abdullah made the remarks while speaking to reporters after an election rally in south Kashmir's Kokernag. He said, “We have said from the start. If we have to defeat the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir, if we have to defeat the communal forces trying to spread poison across the country, people should only look towards candidates of the INDIA bloc — National Confere ..read more

CHANDIGARH, Apr 23:  Punjab police has arrested a member of a terror module who was allegedly being handled by Pakistan-based operatives, police said on Tuesday. The Director General of Police, Punjab, Gaurav Yadav said that preliminary investigations reveal that the accused was tasked to carry out target killing in the Jammu and Kashmir region to create fear and unrest. Pakistan-based operatives were allegedly handling the accused, the DGP said. “Acting swiftly in an intelligence-based operation, Counter Intelligence (of Punjab police) #Jalandhar averts target killings planned by cross-b ..read more

Agencies Jammu Tawi:  Motorola, India's best## 5G smartphone brand recently launched segment's best 5G all-rounder the moto g64 5G, with the segment's best features like segment's only in-built 12GBRAM + 256GB Storage, shake-free 50MP OIS Camera with Quad Pixel Technology and a massive 6000mAh Battery along with other amazing features like 120Hz 6.5” Full HD+ Display, highest 14 5G bands with VoNR support and World's 1st MediaTek Dimensity 7025 processor makes it segment's more powerful# 5G smartphone in the segment. It's 12GB+256GB variant is available at just Rs. 15,999* with offers and ..read more

Agencies The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has commissioned a quality check on MDH and Everest products. This follows complaints that several popular spice mixes of the two leading brands contained traces of ethylene oxide more than the permissible levels, official sources said. This move by FSSAI comes after Hong Kong and Singapore recalled variants of the two masala majors' products in their countries. Sources said that FSSAI, in the quality checks, will also assess whether the products sold by MDH and Everest match the Indian standards of chemical residue as prescribe ..read more

New Delhi, Apr 23: Stepping up its attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his ‘redistribution of wealth' remark, the Congress on Tuesday said he will never tell people that more than 40 per cent of the wealth created in the country from 2012 to 2021 has gone to just one per cent of the population, and asserted that only an INDIA bloc government can deliver a vastly more inclusive economic growth. At a rally in Rajasthan on Sunday, Modi had said that if the Congress came to power, it would redistribute the wealth of people to “infiltrators” and those who have more children, and cited forme ..read more

New Delhi, Apr 23: Coming down hard on Congress leader P Chidambaram over his remarks on the Citizenship Amendment Act, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Tuesday that they have been fighting against Congress' appeasement politics for years and the Congress should rise out of it and try to perform on the agenda of development. Amit Shah said that Congress wants to scrap the CAA just to appease their vote bank. “Since the 1960s, Congress has made appeasement politics its weapon to win elections. We had been fighting against this for years. Since 2014, PM Modi has set the development agenda a ..read more

KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 23: Ten people were killed on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, after two helicopters collided in mid-air during a rehearsal for a Royal Malaysian Navy parade, the navy said in a statement. All 10 were crew members aboard the aircraft involved in the accident, which occurred at the Lumut naval base in the western state of Perak at 9.32 a.m. Tuesday morning (0132 GMT), the navy said. “All victims were confirmed dead at the scene and sent to the Lumut army base hospital for identification,” the Navy said. Seven crew members were aboard the AW139 maritime operation helicopter, the navy s ..read more

TAIPEI, Taiwan, Apr 23: A cluster of earthquakes struck the island republic of Taiwan early Tuesday, the strongest having a magnitude of 6.1, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no reports of casualties in the quakes, although there were further damages to two multi-story buildings that had been evacuated following a magnitude 7.4 quake that hit the island earlier this month, killing 13 people and injuring over 1,000. That earthquake was centered along the coast of the rural and mountainous Hualien County. It was the strongest earthquake in the past 25 years in Taiwan and was f ..read more