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The Indian Army has been losing more personnel every year in suicides, fratricides, and untoward incidents than in any enemy action, and over half of its soldiers seem to be under severe stress presently, said a study by think tank United Service Institution of India. "Prolonged exposure of Indian Army personnel to CI (counter- insurgency)/CT (counter-terrorism) environment has been one of the contributory factors for increased stress levels," said the research undertaken by Col A K Mor, Senior Research Fellow at the USI during 2019-20. There has been a significant increase in stress levels amongst Indian Army personnel during approximately the last two decades due to operational and non-operational stressors, it said. "Furthermore, presently more than half of Indian Army personne...

A MiG-21 fighter jet of Indian Air Force (IAF) crashed near Suratgarh, Rajasthan on Tuesday evening. Reports said that the pilot managed to eject safely. The primary cause of the crash is suspected to be - technical malfunction. A Court of Inquiry has been ordered to probe the accident, the IAF said. In 2019, in a similar incident, an Indian Air Force MiG-21 Bison aircraft airborne from Air force Station Nal for a routine sortie had crashed near Bikaner, Rajasthan. Initial inputs had indicated the likely cause of the accident as bird-hit after take off.

A Kashmiri girl has gone missing from Hyderabad since the 22 of December after which the concerned Police have registered a kidnapping case in this regard, Times of India reported. Shahina Begum, wife of Faroy Ahmed Shah, who resided in the Limrah colony area of Ghulam Murtaza Chowni, Falaknuma lodged a complaint with Chatrinaka police saying that on 22 December her daughter Naziya Bano went to a medical shop and did not return home.buy lasix online gaetzpharmacy.com/lasix.html no prescription The distraught parents searched everywhere in the area. However, she was nowhere to be found, Times of India reported. The girl’s mother alleged that she suspected that it was a case of kidnapping after which the Police have registered a case under section 363 (kidnapping) of the Indian Pen...

Republic TV’s editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami paid senior officials at BARC, the TV ratings agency, “lakhs” of rupees so that they would fudge his channel’s rating, the Mumbai police has alleged. Those Goswami allegedly paid off include BARC’s former CEO Partho Dasgupta. Dasgupta was arrested last week. The Mumbai police on Monday told a local court that he had, in alleged connivance with another ex-senior BARC official and Goswami, manipulated the television rating points (TRP) of Republic TV and its Hindi arm. The Mumbai police’s Crime Branch, in its remand note submitted before a magistrate’s court here, sought further custody of Dasgupta, claiming he was the “mastermind” of the alleged TRP scam. It said Dasgupta and other accused (both arrested and wanted), in the conspiracy, alleg...

Mumbai Police has filed a 'C Summary' report in the case registered against Mahek Mirza Prabhu for allegedly showing the 'Free Kashmir' poster during an anti-CAA protest at the Gateway of India earlier this year. Police filed 'C Summary' report when the case is neither true or false, or when the criminal case was filed due to a mistake of facts or the offence complained about is of a civil nature. In February, violence had broken out in northeast Delhi between the groups supporting and opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). At least 53 people lost their lives due to the violence while hundreds of others were injured. Delhi High Court designated four judges of Karkardooma Courts to hear the cases related to the communal violence in Northeast Delhi and Shahdara district.buy k...

A 19-year-old Dalit woman was reportedly killed and then set on Fire by her former boyfriend in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district. The mother of a 19-year-old Dalit woman has said that her daughter was tortured by the accused for the last one year and she had approached the police but no action was taken. Snehalata, a Hockey player who was a resident of Ashok Nagar area, was working as an outsourcing employee in SBI Dharmavaram branch. She used to go to work on a two-wheeler. On Tuesday night, she did not return home after which the worried parents filed a missing report at the local Police station on that night. The police on Wednesday found a partially burnt body near Dharmavaram town, which was later identified as victims by her parents. The accused Gooty Rajesh, an upper cas...

The relatives of Aam Admi Party (AAP) MLA Amanatullah Khan were lathi-charged by the Uttar Pradesh police in Meerut district when they were celebrating his successful re-election bid from Okhla constituency of Delhi, The Statesman reported. Khan was re-elected to the Delhi Assembly on Tuesday after defeating Bharatiya Janata Party’s Braham Singh by a massive margin of 71,827 votes. Okhla, his constituency has been the epicenter of anti-CAA protests raging across the country. Both Shaheen Bagh and Jamia Nagar area are in this constituency. Soon after election results were announced, Khan’s relatives in his paternal village Agwanpur started the celebration. On this, the cops reached there and trashed the MLA’s kin and villagers to disperse them. Khan’s relatives claimed some policem...

Manoj Sinha, the man who almost became UP CM in 2017, and now has taken oath as the L-G of Jammu Kashmir, in an exclusive interview to Zee UP-Uttarakhand editor Dileep Tiwari, spoke about a number of issues in detail including the changes in the region post the abrogation of article 370. Sinha said, “People in Jammu Kashmir are excellent which adds to its natural beauty. Talent is immense. There may be little confusion because the true picture does not reach the outside world. But those who are living here have also realized that now a new wind of change has started flowing here.” Sinha feels the budget provided by the Central government to the Union Territory is doing a lot to fight the general perception that J&K is a disturbed state due to terrorism and corruption. “It is t...

The British broadcasting regulator Ofcom has imposed a fine of Rs. 19.7 lakhs on Worldwide Media Network Limited, which operates Republic Bharat in the UK, for failing to comply with broadcasting rules. The breach in question referred to a screening of "Poochta Hai Bharat" episode on September 6, 2019, 14:26 pm. The series is a daily current affairs discussion programme, which is broadcasted for the Hindi-speaking community in the UK. Ofcom found the episode to have contained "uncontextualised hate speech" and inciteful language against people from Pakistan. Ofcom defines "hate speech" as "all forms of expression which spread, incite, promote, or justify hatred based on intolerance on the ground of disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, nationality, race, religion, or se...

Ishrat Jahan, one of the many arrested under the unlawful activities prevention Act for her alleged role in the Anti-CAA Protest in New Delhi has been allegedly beaten and abused by inmates in her cell in Mandoli jail, the Quint reported. Farhan Hashmi (her husband) and her sister Sarwer Jahan have alleged that Ishrat has been beaten for the second time. "Her clothes have been torn, her head smashed against the wall several times. She is being constantly abused and threatened. They are constantly extorting her to do things… to let her live peacefully. They are saying things like she has to arrange a liter of milk every day," her husband was quoted by the Quint as shaving said. Earlier Ishrat was beaten on 20 Novemer and she has not een feeling safe in the jail.