India's National Disaster Response Force on Monday began withdrawal of its men from quake-hit Nepal after the country asked foreign rescue teams to end their work.
A day after he was shunted out of the post of Mumbai police commissioner, senior IPS officer Rakesh Maria on Wednesday said he was not contemplating quitting.
The experts agreed that the lockdown has helped in slowing down spread of the virus but insisted that the situation has not reached a plateau and that there was an urgent need to upgrade healthcare facilities to deal with the crisis.
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a gazette notification under the National Security Guard Act, empowering the NSG Director General or an Inspector General of the force authorized by DG NSG to requisition aircraft from any operator registered in India in the interest of public safety for public service.
Anil Kumar Sinha, a 1979-batch Indian Police Service officer, on Wednesday took over the reins of the Central Bureau of Investigation at a time when the agency is facing criticism from courts over its handling of probe in coal allocation and 2G scams.
Senior IAS officials are protesting against the posting of a junior officer of Indian Information Service of the 1982 batch to hold the post of Principal Director General of Press Information Bureau.
Three rebel border guards, who gunned down Bangladesh Rifles chief Major General Shakil Ahmed and other army officers during the two-day long mutiny last month in Dhaka, have been identified, reports said on Wednesday.
Foreign companies see a "lot of turnaround" in India and a "lot of positive attitude" is building towards it, says CII.
Senior IPS officer Alok Kumar Verma will be the new Police Commissioner of Delhi, succeeding B S Bassi who retires on February 29.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday assured the Centre of all cooperation to fight terrorism and promised to work together, as the country's security and intelligence chiefs including National Security Advisor Ajit Doval discussed with her the Burdwan blast case.
In the wake of Mumbai attacks by terrorists who came by the sea route, the Centre on Friday decided to authorise the Coast Guard to check all the "suspicious merchant vessels" prior to entry at the country's ports.
The security forces did not suffer any casualty in the encounter.
The SIT was created by Supreme Court and notified by the government last year to curb black money.
Officials said as part of the reorganisation in the Commission, a move is afoot to strengthen the PEO with new roles, powers and jurisdiction.
A total of 946 medals have been announced by the Union home ministry for personnel and officers of Central Armed Police Forces and state police forces, out of which three have been decorated with the President's Police Medal for Gallantry (PPMG) while 177 have been awarded the PMG.
Director General of Police, Karnataka, K Srinivasan on Thursday said that IT companies in Bengaluru should do a proper background check before recruiting people into their companies.
In a move that may cripple the nation's oil and gas production, the shipping ministry has issued new norms for operation of vessels in the Indian waters that will force leading operators like Oil and Natural Gas Corp and Reliance Industries to shut offshore operations.
DG Shipping had in May banned operations of all vessels that are more than 25 years old. ONGC has more than 100 vessels operating off the East and West coast providing supporting services to oil and gas production. A Reliance Industries executive said the company faced a similar fate for its 40-plus vessels working on bringing the gas field in Krishna Godavari basin to production.
Kiyani is a non-controversial officer, who had in the past not come to notice for any dubious association with the Taliban or Al Qaeda or any of Pakistan's fundamentalist organisations.
Singh held that India wanted to engage in dialogue with Pakistan at different levels and that was why Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recently met his Pakistani counterpart PM Nawaz Sharif at Ufa in Russia.
The ship carrying 4,200 tonnes of sugar was travelling between Mumbai and Mogadishu. "The hijackers of MV Victoria have offloaded the cargo from the vessel. Now negotiations are on for the safe release of the crew that includes 10 Indians," a top DG Shipping official told PTI.
The DGH said that RIL's initial production from the D6 block is likely to be of around 15 million standard cubic metres per day.
Between 2011 and 2014, they indirectly determined the price of tyres in the market, says report
An ex-gratia of Rs 4 lakh, including an immediate relief of Rs 50,000, was announced by the collector for the kin of the deceased.
Ajay Mathur, currently director general of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, has been appointed as the new DG.
General Taj has been closely associated with Musharraf, having been his military secretary at the time of the 1999 coup.
'In the last two months, we have only done 16,000 tests and that is nothing.' 'If coronavirus cases in the community picks up and infection spreads, then we will be in big trouble.'
Arjun Tendulkar, son of cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and a left-arm pacer, has been named in the 15-member Mumbai squad for the upcoming 'Bapuna Cup' to be held in Nagpur.
Repeated violation of ceasefire and frequent infiltration attempts by terrorists will be in top agenda of the meeting between heads of border guards of India and Pakistan to be held in New Delhi next week.
Having the ITBP and the Army at the same operational location will resolve these issues as well, the sources said.
Harendra Singh complained to Hockey India about the sub-standard quality of food and hygiene level at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Bengaluru, where the national team is currently training ahead of the Champions Trophy.
The Border Security Force, which has one of the biggest contingents of women personnel in its combat ranks, has decided to train them in special commando skills which are used to render difficult tasks.
Bhutto was killed in a gun-and-bomb attack during an election campaign rally on December 27, 2007 outside the Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi.
Home Minister Rajnath Singh sought a detailed report from the jail chief on the whole issue.
She has sought a high-level inquiry into his disappearance as well as the recent rejection of his plea for voluntary retirement.
While Gehlot is learnt to be leading the race for chief minister's post, Pilot is also putting up stiff resistance and is staking his claim.
Eminent scientist S Christopher was on Thursday appointed as the director general of the Defence Research and Development Organisation for a two-year term.
Chetri was awarded the DG medal for his 30 years' outstanding services and nominated for President's Award.
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'Tehran senses that the Modi government is inexorably gravitating toward the US-Israeli-Saudi axis, jettisoning India's traditional independent Gulf policies,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
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