The anti-terror operation has been intensified by the army and the Jammu and Kashmir police.
Srinagar:
Two more soldiers have been injured today in the encounter, which is underway in the dense forests of Kokernag in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
The army and the police launched a joint search operation to hunt down the terrorists late at night on Tuesday. The fierce encounter broke out in the early hours of Wednesday.
The General-Officer-Commanding (GOC) of the Chinar Corps, Lt General Rajiv Ghai and the GOC of the Victor Force, Maj General Balbir Singh are closely monitoring the operations and said the terrorists will not be spared.
The anti-terror operation has been intensified by the army and the Jammu and Kashmir police, and new-generation weapons and devices are being used to pin the terrorists down. The forces are also using the strike-capable Heron drones in the operation that has been underway for over 40 hours.
The Army, Police Joint-Operation
On the night of September 12-13, a joint search operation by the army and the Jammu and Kashmir police was launched, and a cordon was laid in search of two to three terrorists in the Garol village area of Anantnag, officials said.
Following an extensive search, the forces ascertained that the terrorists were in a hideout in the higher reaches of the village in the dense forest area.
Colonel Manpreet Singh, led the search column of 19 RR, with Major Aashish Dhonchak, the commander of the Kokernag company of 19 RR, accompanying him in the operation. They moved through the entrants and rugged terrain of the forests.
Around noon yesterday, the column came under heavy fire from the terrorists who were hiding. The search column retaliated and engaged, but in the fierce gunfight, Colonel Singh, Major Dhonchak and DSP Himanyun Bhat suffered gunshot wounds and later died due to the injuries.
Colonel Manpreet Singh, Sena Medal (Gallantry), was the Commanding Officer of the 19 Rashtriya Rifles Unit (19 RR) and Major Aashish Dhonchak, Sena Medal (Gallantry), was the company commander of 19 RR. Himanyun Muzamil Bhat was a Deputy Superintendent (DySP) in the Jammu and Kashmir Police.
Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha today laid a wreath to pay homage to the army officers in Srinagar. The bodies of the officers will be transported through a special aircraft to their native hometowns.
The army said the bodies of the officers were retrieved through a specialized operation in the treacherous terrain of Kokernag.
The Jammu and Kashmir Transport Department, in its drive to increase ease of doing business with the government and eliminating corrupt practices, launched a new online module for transfer of vehicle ownership in the union territory.
Updated On – 12:26 AM, Fri – 15 September 23
The Jammu and Kashmir Transport Department, in its drive to increase ease of doing business with the government and eliminating corrupt practices, launched a new online module for transfer of vehicle ownership in the union territory.
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Transport Department, in its drive to increase ease of doing business with the government and eliminating corrupt practices, launched a new online module for transfer of vehicle ownership in the union territory, an official said on Thursday.
The new module would enable both the buyer and the seller to have the option of electronically signing the legal documents, required for application process through their Aadhaar-registered mobile number.
“This has not only made the process of making transfer of ownership application much easier but also obviated the requirement for the buyer and seller to visit the Motor Vehicle Department’s offices in person to get their identities verified as the same is being accomplished through the Aadhaar enabled e-Signing process,” a statement said.
“Earlier, the buyer and seller of a vehicle had to download application forms, fill them manually on the portal, upload back and submit the physical copies in the Transport Department’s Offices too. But now after introduction of this ambitious initiative, Form 29 and Form 30 shall be auto-generated through fetching of relevant information from VAHAN and Aadhaar databases.”
The statement added that earlier, the buyer and seller had to upload some extra documents such as sale-deed, address proof and others.
But now, there will be no such requirement, if the buyer and seller opt for the e-Sign method of application.
“Also, processing of such applications used to take weeks or even months, but now with the use of e-Sign method the same would take hours if not minutes, because all the relevant data will be fetched through VAHAN and Aadhaar databases, obviating the need of another verification by Motor Vehicle Department Officials,” the statement said.
The sports ministry on Thursday shared a revised list of Indian contingent for the upcoming Asian Games, adding 22 new sportspersons and naming 25 replacements, which include athletes, coaches, and support staff. Modern Pentathlon was also added to the list, thus taking India’s participation to a total of 39 sporting disciplines at the showpiece.
India will have a total of 655 athletes bound for the Asian Games — to be held in Hangzhou, China from September 23 to October 8 — along with 260 coaches and support staff, taking the country’s overall contingent tally to 921.
In shooting, India have added Manisha Keer, Preeti Rajak and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa, while in athletics, Amlan Borgohain, Preeti and Prachi have been added to the squad.
The sport of Ju-Jitsu has the addition of Anwesha Deb, Nikita Chaudhary, Uma Maheshwar, Kamal Singh and Tarun Yadav.
Janhvi Choudhary has been added in aquatics, Suraj Yadav in wushu, whereas Mayank Chaphekar will be the only athlete in modern pentathlon.
Vishal Ruhil, Keshav, Suchika Tariyal and Jyoti Tokas are four additions to kurash, whereas men’s team pursuit cycling will also have four more athletes in Venkappa Shivappa Kengalgutti, Neeraj Kumar, Manjeet Kumar and Dinesh Kumar.
There has been no change in out of pocket allowance from the last Asian Games held in 2018 in Indonesia with the ministry announcing an allowance of USD 50 per day.
“Out of Pocket allowance to the contingent members @ US $ 50 per day – to be remitted directly to the bank account of the athletes and officials by the Sports Authority of lndia,” the ministry said in a release.
The ministry added that accommodation charges and out of pocket allowance will be paid for “period of actual stay in Asian Games Village subject to one day of stay after conclusion of the competition/the Games, as the case may b
Another 14 charges of a similar nature were considered for his sentencing. (Representational)
Singapore:
A 35-year-old Indian origin officer with Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower was jailed for five weeks on Thursday for having asked an ex-colleague from DBS Bank to access the salary information of his colleagues, according to a media report.
Dinath Silvamany Muthaliyar, a Singapore citizen, who asked his former colleague Liong Yan Sin at DBS bank to access the profiles in the database containing information about customers, pleaded guilty to four counts under the Computer Misuse Act, Channel News Asia reported.
Liong had access to the details due to his job as a collections officer, where he attended to queries by bank customers, and spoke to them about outstanding payments and payment plans.
However, Liong was not supposed to disclose or access information outside of the parameters of his duties.
Dinath, too, was a collections officer before joining the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), where he was a levy administration manager.
In June 2018, Dinath asked Liong to help him find out the salary details of colleagues at MOM so that he could compare them with his own.
“The accused wanted to find out his colleagues’ salaries to ascertain his standing in respect of his salary and the difference between his salary and his colleagues’ salaries,” the prosecution said.
Liong agreed and accessed the DBS database to conduct searches between June 2018 and November 2018.
He then disclosed the information to Dinath via WhatsApp. Across all the charges, at least seven colleagues were affected.
The prosecution sought six to seven weeks in jail for Dinath, stating that the culpability of the accused was lower than Liong, as the latter had been in a position of trust when he committed the offence.
Dinath pleaded guilty to four counts under the Computer Misuse Act for abetting Liong to conduct the unauthorised searches and four counts under the Banking Act for abetting Liong to disclose information that he was not authorised to.
Another 14 charges of a similar nature were considered for his sentencing, the report said.
The court heard that both Liong and Dinath had been aware of the rules prohibiting collections officers from disclosing customer information to third parties in an unauthorised manner and that they were not allowed to access customer information outside of their job scope.
Liong had earlier pleaded guilty to similar charges and was sentenced to 16 weeks in jail. Another man, Ang Kok How, who had also asked Liong to illegally obtain an acquaintance’s address, was sentenced to two weeks in jail.
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A woman was allegedly strangled to death by her husband, police said. (Representational)
Gurugram:
A 31-year-old woman was allegedly strangled to death by her husband in Bhondsi area on Thursday, police said.
According to the complaint filed by the victim’s brother Mukesh, around 2:30 am today, his brother-in-law Anil called him and asked him to reach Gurugram saying that his sister Seema was not feeling well.
“When I reached I found my sister dead. There were marks of scratches and injuries on Seema’s neck,” he alleged in his complaint.
Seema had a love marriage with Anil and they lived in Bhondsi’s Vatika Kunj with their one-year-old daughter, police said.
A senior police officer said an FIR of murder has been registered against Anil and the police are verifying the facts
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A woman was allegedly strangled to death by her husband, police said. (Representational)
Gurugram:
A 31-year-old woman was allegedly strangled to death by her husband in Bhondsi area on Thursday, police said.
According to the complaint filed by the victim’s brother Mukesh, around 2:30 am today, his brother-in-law Anil called him and asked him to reach Gurugram saying that his sister Seema was not feeling well.
“When I reached I found my sister dead. There were marks of scratches and injuries on Seema’s neck,” he alleged in his complaint.
Seema had a love marriage with Anil and they lived in Bhondsi’s Vatika Kunj with their one-year-old daughter, police said.
A senior police officer said an FIR of murder has been registered against Anil and the police are verifying the facts
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
Israeli Embassy’s effort to promote Hindi through Indian film dialogues is impressive, PM said. (File)
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded the Israeli embassy for putting out a video of its officials mouthing several popular Hindi film dialogues on the occasion of Hindi Diwas on Thursday.
Tradition, prestige and discipline are the three pillars of this Israeli embassy, PM Modi said, posting on Ex Israeli ambassador Naor Gilon’s wordplay on a dialogue from the 2007 film “Mohabbatein”.
Israeli Embassy’s effort to promote Hindi through Indian film dialogues is impressive, PM Modi said.
परंपरा, प्रतिष्ठा, अनुशासन… ये इस इजराइल एम्बेसी के तीन स्तंभ हैं।
भारतीय फिल्मों के डायलॉग के जरिए हिन्दी को लेकर इजराइली दूतावास का यह प्रयास अभिभूत करने वाला है। https://t.co/akaRyHYbaN
According to an official release by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, To complement PM GatiShakti’s National Master Plan, the National Logistics Policy was launched on 17 September 2022 by PM Narendra Modi
Published Date – 11:29 PM, Thu – 14 September 23
According to an official release by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, To complement PM GatiShakti’s National Master Plan, the National Logistics Policy was launched on 17 September 2022 by PM Narendra Modi
New Delhi: India marked one year of the National Logistics Policy on September 17, 2023, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the NLP last year to complement PM GatiShakti’s National Master Plan (NMP).
According to an official release by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, “To complement PM GatiShakti’s National Master Plan (NMP), the National Logistics Policy (NLP) was launched on 17 September 2022 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.” While the PM GatiShakti NMP addresses integrated development of the fixed infrastructure and network planning, the NLP addresses the soft infrastructure and logistics sector development aspect, inter alia, including process reforms, improvement in logistics services, digitization, human resource development and skilling, said the release.
As per the release, the vision of NLP is to drive economic growth and business competitiveness of the country through an integrated, seamless, efficient, reliable, green, sustainable and cost-effective logistics network by leveraging best-in-class technology, processes and skilled manpower. This will reduce logistics costs and improve performance.
The targets of the NLP are to reduce the cost of logistics in India, improve the Logistics Performance Index ranking – the endeavour is to be among the top 25 countries by 2030 and create a data-driven decision support mechanism for an efficient logistics ecosystem, it said.
“To achieve these targets, a Comprehensive Logistics Action Plan (CLAP) as part of the NLP was launched covering eight action areas including Integrated Digital Logistics Systems, Standardization of Physical Assets and Benchmarking of Service Quality Standards, Logistics Human Resource Development and Capacity Building, State engagement, EXIM Logistics, Services Improvement Framework, Sectoral Plans for Efficient Logistics (SPEL) and Facilitation of Development of Logistics Parks,” it added.
Since the launch of the NLP, significant progress has been made with respect to the implementation of the Policy. By means of regional conferences, one-on-one interactions, and inter-ministerial meetings, DPIIT has facilitated the implementation of NLP.
An overview of these outreach activities is the Inter-Ministerial meeting on 28 July 2023.
On completion of ten months of the launch of the National Logistics Policy (NLP), an inter-ministerial meeting to review the progress of its implementation was held by DPIIT, on 28 July 2023, it said.
During the meeting measures taken by different Ministries to improve logistics efficiency in the country were showcased.
The meeting saw participation from eleven infrastructure and user Ministries including the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH), Port Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW) and others.
The meeting was Chaired by the Special Secretary (Logistics). Secretary DPIIT joined during the closing session, said the release.
The meeting was divided into two sessions. Session, I focussed on a review of measures undertaken by DPIIT and Session II covered progress in the implementation of the NLP by participating Ministries.
DPIIT organised five regional workshops between 20 March and 12 April 2023. All workshops had a dedicated session on NLP, wherein key features and progress of NLP were showcased and participating States/UTs presented the status and key highlights of respective State Logistics Policies and other interventions, according to the release.
Over 500 participants covering Officials from all 36 States/UTs and concerned line Ministries/Department, and representatives from knowledge partners and multilateral organisations, attended these workshops, it added.
In an endeavour to further improve India’s ranking in the LPI, DPIIT has undertaken several measures.
“To appraise the World Bank team about the several initiatives and reforms of the Government of India and draw their attention to the need for greater emphasis on objective-based methodology for LPI scoring, the Secretary of DPIIT met senior officials of World Bank Group at their headquarters in Washington DC,” said the release.
In continuation with that DPIIT held a series of meetings with the World Bank Group [Logistics and Infrastructure India team] and concerned line Ministries.
A dedicated Unit is being set up within the Logistics Division to develop and implement an action plan for improving India’s LPI ranking.
In addition, concerned line Ministries are setting up a dedicated cell for a focused project-based approach to improving India’s performance across the six LPI parameters.
“In line with an approved institutional mechanism for the NLP, an Inter-Ministerial SIG was constituted on 14 March 2023. Chaired by SS (Logistics), this group comprises representatives from MoRTH, MoR, MoPSW, MNRE, MoP, DoT, MoPNG, MoCA, NITI Aayog, MoEFCC, MoHUA, DoR and DoC,” said the release.
The SIG has been constituted to facilitate speedy resolution of logistics services and processes-related issues of the industry, in a coordinated manner. Resolution of issues through SIG shall promote inter-operability; eliminate fragmentation in documentation, formats, processes, and liability regimes and reduce gaps in regulatory architecture, it added.
As of date, 29 logistics sector associations are registered on the E-LoGs portal, with a total of 71 issues, of which 34 issues have been resolved.
Regular roundtables with industry players and SIG meetings are held. To date, six meetings of SIG, along with industry associations have been held, it said.
For digital integration in the logistics sector and to provide a single sign to users who are trading goods and using multiple modes of transport the Unified Logistics Interface Platform (ULIP) was launched along with the NLP, according to the release.
ULIP is an indigenous data-based platform that integrates 34 logistics-related digital systems /portals across Ministries / Departments. It is worth noting that GST data is also being integrated with ULIP.
ULIP provides opportunities for the private sector to develop use cases on ULIP. By signing Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) and after due diligence, data on ULIP can be accessed through API integration and private players can develop apps/use cases, it added.
“Over 614 industry players have registered on ULIP. 106 private companies have signed NDAs142 companies have submitted 382 use cases to be hosted on ULIP. 57 applications have been made live,” it said.
Infrastructure gaps are being addressed and digital initiatives are being undertaken (under the National Committee on Trade Facilitation), an EXIM Logistics Group has been constituted,and a comprehensive port connectivity plan developed by M/o port shipping and waterways, to address last and first mile infra gaps and promote seamless movement of goods to ports.
“60 projects of MORTH and 47 Railways have been sanctioned to improve last-mile connectivity to ports. To improve port productivity and address issues, several meetings have been held with MOPSW, port authorities, etc., port process studies have been conducted at 3 Major Ports (Chennai, JNPT and Vishakhapatnam), and visits to ports are being undertaken by DPIIT,” said the release.
The Logistics Data Bank (LDB) is an application that tracks and traces EXIM cargo.
With greater predictability, transparency and reliability, logistics costs will come down and wastages in the supply chain will be reduced, it said.
“Using LDB data, a new analysis of port-wise vessel turnaround time is being prepared. Congestion between the port and the nearest check post is provided in the form of Port to CFS/ICD (For import cycle), CFS/ICD to Port (For export cycle), and Port to the nearest toll plaza,” it added.
Using these analytics, port authorities are taking measures to improve performance, said the release.
The United Nations has called for an investigation into the forced stripping of five Palestinian women by Israeli soldiers during a raid into their home in al-Khalil.
