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NEW DELHI: Rajnath Singh-led defence ministry has notified sixth positive indigenisation list (PIL) comprising 405 strategically important items with an estimated business potential of Rs 3,070 crore, a move that seeks to reduce dependence on imports and give a further push to ‘atmanirbharta’ in defence production.The list contains line replaceable units, sub-systems, sub-assemblies, spares, components and raw materials linked to key military platforms such as advanced and light utility helicopters, Su-30MKI and LCA (Tejas), armoured platforms like T-72, T-90 tanks and BMP-II, warships and missile systems.Notified by the department of defence production (DDP), the list includes 16 items of Indian…

Mumbai: Bombay High Court has directed the district collector (Mumbai suburbs) to remove encroachments next to a natural pond in Sector 7, Charkop, Kandivli (W) without favouring anyone.“It will be highly appreciable if the district administration initiates steps without being influenced by any person, howsoever high a position he may be occupying and ensures that the encroachment is removed without showing any favour to any person,” said a bench led by Acting Chief Justice Ravindra Ghuge on August 14.BMC had sought HC’s permission to carry out beautification and conservation of the pond due to the presence of mangroves. The collector…

New Delhi: Delhi Police commissioner Anurag Kumar Tuesday appointed 1996-batch IPS officer Ajay Chaudhary as the city’s new traffic chief as part of an overhaul of the force’s senior leadership.Forty-three officers were reshuffled, restructuring core divisions including crime, traffic, special branch, vigilance, intelligence, operations and district policing.Outgoing traffic chief Manish Agrawal has been posted as special CP of the protective security division, swapping roles with Chaudhary.Special CP Garima Bhatnagar will take on additional charge as managing director of Delhi Police Housing Corporation Limited, while David Lalrinsanga becomes special CP, operations, with additional charge of SPUNER (Special Police Unit for North…

Bengaluru: A 34-year-old social activist approached police alleging she was subjected to abusive messages, threats and online harassment after she uploaded a video about the seizure of an Android mobile phone from rape convict and former MP Prajwal Revanna at Central Prison.The complainant said after she posted the video on her Facebook page, she began receiving a barrage of threatening messages on both Facebook Messenger and Instagram from unknown persons using fake or suspicious accounts.She alleged the harassers falsely claimed she had made comments against Union minister HD Kumaraswamy even though she hadn’t in the video.Adding to her concerns, the…

Hyderabad: Hyderabad’s migrant-dominated IT corridor has emerged as one of the biggest flashpoints in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with Serilingampally and Rajendranagar (more than four in every 10 electors) reporting unusually high levels of voter deletions, migration-linked shifts and unmatched records.While more than 40% of electors in the two constituencies fall under the absent, shifted, dead and duplicate (ASDD) category, nearly 45% of digitised voters could not be linked to the previous electoral roll, underscoring the scale of churn in the city’s fastest-growing urban belt. Serilingampally, in particular, stands out for having both a high deletion…

Chennai: Galaxy Health Insurance Company has partnered with Zoho to design and deploy a regulator-compliant, enterprise-grade insurance distribution platform.This would enable the standalone health insurer to move from IRDAI approval to live, large-scale operations within a compressed timeframe in collaboration with Zoho’s Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS) team, a statement here on Tuesday said. The CRM-led platform accelerates time-to-value by enabling IRDAI-compliant agents and intermediary onboarding, tele-sales, customer support including grievance management, and automated commission processing at scale, it added.Noting that this translates into faster onboarding, quicker policy issuance, and improved transparency across the purchase journey for customers, the statement said,…

Ahmedabad: When a 64-year-old shopkeeper’s mobile phone began undergoing an automatic system update, he did not realise that he was about to become a cyberfraud victim. He put his phone aside and, within minutes, lost Rs 82,400 through an unauthorised UPI transaction.The complainant told Sarkhej police that he was at home around 2pm last Wednesday when his mobile phone started an automatic system update. He left the phone at home and went out. A while later, he returned to see that his UPI account allegedly showed a balance of only Rs 83.5.Upon checking his bank statement, the complainant found that…

WATER LEVEL OF TWIN RIVERS RISING Prayagraj: With the constant rise in the water level of the twin rivers – Ganga and Yamuna, district authorities have sounded an alert asking people living in low lying areas to shift to relief camps.District authorities after acknolwedging that both rivers are flowing four to five meters below the danger mark, have taken an extensive exercise to identify relief camps across the district.Plans are afoot to set up around 103 relief camps including 12 in city and rest across the district in case of floods.On Tuesday, the water level of Ganga at Phaphamau and…

Prof K Umamaheshwar Rao, director, NIT RourkelaHigh-strength road material developed by recycling coalSubhasrita Choudhury, research graduate, NIT RourkelaProf Manoj Kumar Mishra, NIT RourkelaProf K Umamaheshwar Rao, director, NIT RourkelaHigh-strength road material developed by recycling coalSubhasrita Choudhury, research graduate, NIT RourkelaProf Manoj Kumar Mishra, NIT RourkelaProf K Umamaheshwar Rao, director, NIT Rourkela Rourkela: Researchers at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela (NITR), led by director K Umamaheshwar Rao, have secured a patent for a high-strength composite material made from coal mining and industrial waste that could be used to build roads capable of withstanding heavy vehicular traffic.According to a statement issued…

In the district, around 30% of the electorate has been struck off the rolls Gurgaon: Rules have been eased for voters served notices during the first phase of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with booth level officers (BLOs) now visiting colonies and societies to collect documents instead of residents having to attend hearings.A list of hearing venues where residents can submit their documents was earlier published by the administration. But the rules have been made more flexible for voters, who can now submit proofs to their respective BLOs either at the time of receiving the notice or at…