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Image for representation | Photo Credit: The Hindu Gold smuggling has reduced significantly since July 2024 when the government slashed import duty on the precious metal to 6%, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) Chairman Sanjay Kumar Agarwal said. As per the latest available data, Customs and DRI officers seized 847 kg of … Read more
Image for representative purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images w has observed that the illegal felling of 980 trees in Greater Noida was not taken seriously by the Uttar Pradesh authorities and asked the principal chief conservator of forest to appear virtually before it on May 13 to apprise it on the action taken. … Read more
Union Home Minister Amit Shah. File | Photo Credit: ANI Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday (February 9, 2025) that “Naxals” will be eradicated by March 31, 2026 and no citizen of the country has to lose his life due to it. Mr. Shah said this after the security forces killed 31 Maoists … Read more
President Droupadi Murmu. File | Photo Credit: PTI President Droupadi Murmu will visit the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj on Monday (February 10, 2025) and take a holy dip at the Sangam, her office said. Maha Kumbh, which began on Paush Purnima (January 13), is the world’s largest spiritual and cultural gathering, attracting devotees from … Read more
Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal A. P. Singh (R), and Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Upendra Dwivedi react upon landing after taking a sortie aboard a Tejas aircraft ahead of the ‘Aero India 2025’ at the Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru, Karnataka on February 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: … Read more
DIG Patiala (range) Mandeep Singh Sidhu meets farmers leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal after Doctors started his treatment after 54 days of fast unto death over various demands near the Khanauri border in Patiala. | Photo Credit: ANI Two prominent farmer bodies on Sunday (February 9, 2025) claimed that medical aid to fasting farmer leader Jagjit … Read more
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar receives a warm welcome from BJP MP CP Joshi on his arrival, in Chittorgarh on February 9, 2025. Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Bhagirath Choudhary is also present. | Photo Credit: ANI Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday (February 9, 2025) said farmers play a key role in the … Read more
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh addresses the inauguration of Aero India 2025 at Yelahanka Air Force Station, in Bengaluru on Sunday, February 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI “The Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) production line has stabilised, not only with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) but also the General Electric (GE) engines, and we are sure from … Read more
Prayagraj: Devotees cross a pontoon bridge near Sangam during the ongoing ‘Maha Kumbh Mela’ festival, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI A severe traffic congestion extending for kilometers was witnessed on the routes to the Maha Kumbh Mela here on Sunday with Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav asking the … Read more
Rohingya refugees at Kalindi Kunj in Delhi. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea of an NGO seeking direction to the Centre and the Delhi government to grant Rohingya refugees based in the national capital access to public schools and hospitals. A bench of Justices … Read more