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Regardless of countrywide protests, the federal government has hardened its place on the Agnipath, ruling out any rollback of the controversial army recruitment scheme.

Robust stand

• The three companies on Sunday got here out with a broad schedule of enrolment underneath the brand new coverage and asserted that it was aimed toward bringing down the age profile of the armed forces.
• The youths concerned in arson and violence whereas protesting the scheme won’t be allowed to affix the companies as a police verification course of shall be carried out earlier than enrolling anybody, Lt Gen Anil Puri, further secretary within the division of army affairs, asserted.
• He additionally stated the supportive measures for the Agniveers introduced prior to now few days weren’t due to the protests and arson, and the federal government was already engaged on them.

The schedule

• Navy: The primary batch of recruits will be a part of the coaching programme on INS Chilka in Odisha by November 21. The Navy will recruit each women and men as ‘Agniveers’ underneath the scheme.
• Air Power: The coaching for the primary batch of recruits will begin by December 30.
• Military: The primary batch comprising 25,000 personnel will be a part of the coaching programme within the first and second week of December. The second lot will be a part of their coaching round February 23. Extra particulars right here

And a gaffe…

• BJP common secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Sunday stoked an argument after his comment that if he has to nominate safety personnel as his celebration workplace, he would give precedence to those that have served as Agniveers. Extra particulars right here

The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) on Sunday claimed duty for the assault on Gurudwara Karte Pawan in Kabul on Saturday, which left two folks lifeless, with the three attackers later killed by Taliban forces.

Why it did so

• The ISKP, which is an affiliate of the Islamic State, stated that the assault, which additionally left seven folks injured, was carried out as “an act of help for the Messenger of Allah” — referring to the remarks in opposition to Prophet Mohammad by two BJP spokespersons.
• The ISKP, which doesn’t differentiate between Hindus and Sikhs and mistakenly considers the latter as a part of the identical neighborhood, stated that one among its attackers “penetrated a temple for Hindu and Sikh polytheists”, opening fireplace on the gathered congregation which it claimed, erroneously, left 50 folks lifeless.
• The ISKP, which is a Sunni dominated terrorist group, had earlier warned of assaults on Hindu “apostates” in a video message earlier, to avenge what it known as the blasphemous remarks in opposition to the Prophet.

E for emergency?

• The Centre in the meantime has granted nearly 100 e-visas to Afghan Hindus and Sikhs following Saturday’s assaults on the Gurudwara, which in 2020 too, was the goal of a suicide bomber assault that left 25 folks lifeless

Floods and landslides attributable to incessant rain have battered Assam for the previous six days, forsaking an enormous path of destruction throughout the northeastern state.

42 lakh hit

• 9 folks, together with three kids died on Sunday, taking the toll from this 12 months’s floods and landslides to 71.
• Greater than 42 lakh persons are hit attributable to floods. Barpeta is the worst-hit district with over 12.76 lakh folks struggling, adopted by Darrang and Nagaon.
• The mighty Brahmaputra is flowing above the hazard marks at Neamatighat in Jorhat, Tezpur in Sonitpur, Goalpara and Dhubri cities, in response to the Central Water Fee bulletin.

Capital chaos

• Incessant rain has wreaked havoc within the state capital, Guwahati, resulting in huge waterlogging in lots of areas throughout town. At some locations, water has touched the chest stage.

Landslides

• Large landslides had been reported from Cachar, Dima Hasao, Goalpara, Hailakandi, Kamrup Metropolitan and Karimganj.
• The state authorities is monitoring the provision of inventory of gas and important meals objects in Barak Valley districts as landslides have triggered a disruption of provides by way of roads.

Kaziranga inundated

• At the least 5 animals, together with a leopard, have been killed in floods within the Kaziranga Nationwide Park (KNP), to date this 12 months, an official assertion stated on Sunday.
• Greater than 15 % of the park, which is house to the world-famous one-horned rhino, has been inundated.

• Passengers on board a Delhi-bound SpiceJet flight from Patna had a slim escape when their plane caught fireplace quickly after taking off from town airport on Sunday, and made an emergency touchdown earlier than hovering for a number of minutes within the air.
• The trigger: The plane made a turnback attributable to a suspected fowl hit, which pressured the pilot to close one of many engines and return to town airport. Three fan blades had been discovered broken throughout an inspection later, the airline stated.
• And the scare: Some passengers stated they felt tremors contained in the airplane quickly after the takeoff and the lights began turning off. “We raised an alarm. The crew members requested us to maintain calm and knowledgeable us that an emergency touchdown was being made,” a passenger stated.
• Touchdown: Hearth engines had been deployed on the runway of the Patna airport the place the emergency touchdown was made although the flames had, by then, come underneath management. Not one of the passengers had been harm.
• Investigation: The civil aviation regulator, DGCA, will probe the matter, saying the pilots dealt with the scenario properly.
• In the meantime, an IndiGo airplane needed to return to Guwahati quickly after its takeoff attributable to a fowl hit.

After greater than a 12 months of looking for an acceptable candidate to fill the place of ONGC chairman and managing director (CMD), the oil ministry has proposed altering the eligibility standards for the submit, as additionally the tenure.

The brand new norms

• Whereas the outdated rule states that the minimal age for an individual to be appointed CMD of ONGC ought to be 45 years, the brand new proposal requires a most age restrict of 60 years as on the date of the prevalence of the emptiness, which within the present case is April 1, 2021 — when the final full time CMD Shashi Shanker superannuated on March 31 final 12 months.
• In an workplace memorandum despatched to the Division of Personnel and Coaching (DoPT), the ministry has additionally proposed shortening the tenures of the ONGC CMD, from the present 5 years to 3 years.

What this implies

• The elevating of most age implies that present performing CMD Alka Mittal, who’s scheduled to retire in August as she superannuates, is eligible to be thought-about for the CMD’s submit. The proposal, if accepted, can even make former ONGC Director (Finance) Subash Kumar — who additionally served as performing CMD previous to Mittal — eligible to be thought-about for the highest submit.

• Beginning in the present day, Sri Lanka’s total public sector shall be shut down as extreme gas shortages have crippled the island nation, which is going through an existential financial disaster. The Sri Lankan schooling ministry additionally requested all academics of presidency colleges and government-aided non-public colleges to conduct courses on-line attributable to extended energy cuts.
• Quick depleting gas shares have led to lengthy queues at petrol pumps which have taken a toll on the endurance of Sri Lanka’s residents. In Visuvamadu, 365 kilometres north of Colombo, the Sri Lankan army opened fireplace after some folks pelted stones at a military truck, damaging it. The rioting broke out after the petrol pump ran out of gas. In response to the police, 4 civilians and three troopers had been injured within the firing and stone pelting.
• The nation, which is going through 13 hour lengthy energy cuts, needed to droop reimbursement of $7 billion of its overseas out of the $25 billion that is because of be repaid by 2026. Its complete debt at present stands at $51 billion. The federal government, which has additionally declared Fridays as holidays, has additionally accepted grant of 1 vacation per week for the subsequent three months to authorities officers to interact in farming with a purpose to alleviate the looming meals disaster.

BJP president J P Nadda held a gathering on Sunday with the ruling celebration’s 14-member administration group for the July 18 presidential election and deliberated upon the ballot technique. The opposition events will meet tomorrow to choose their joint candidate for the election.

BJP assured!

• It’s claimed that the BJP, with its allies and independents, has the required variety of votes to make sure the victory of its candidate.
• After the BJP’s presidential candidate is introduced, the group will journey throughout the nation to marketing campaign and coordinate with the celebration’s models for the elections, in response to celebration insiders.

Mamata to skip meet

• West Bengal chief minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is unlikely to take part within the opposition assembly convened by NCP chief Sharad Pawar on June 21 on the upcoming Presidential ballot attributable to prior engagements.
• A senior TMC chief is more likely to be current on the assembly. Throughout the June 15 assembly, it was determined {that a} frequent candidate, who will “uphold the democratic ethos of the nation”, could be chosen because the opposition nominee.
• As many as 17 events attended the assembly. However the AAP, SAD, AIMIM, Telangana Rashtra Samithi and Odisha’s ruling BJD skipped it.

• The India-South Africa (SA) T20 collection ended 2-2 after the fifth and last match of the collection was washed off attributable to rains in Bangalore. India, who had been put into bat first after SA gained the toss, scored 28 for the lack of two wickets in 3.3 overs on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium earlier than rains disrupted the play and compelled gamers off the sphere.
• Play, which began 50 minutes late attributable to a downpour, was lastly known as off after there was no let up within the rain even after 90 minutes. When play was stopped, Shreyas Iyer and skipper Rishabh Pant had been on the crease, with scores of 0 and 1 respectively. India misplaced each openers to SA’s tempo bowler Lungi Ngidi, who first bowled the left-handed Ishan Kishan for 15 after which received his opening companion Ruturaj Gaikwad for 10.
• The guests had gained the primary two matches, with India bouncing again in fashion to win the subsequent two. The Proteas, who had been captained by stand-in skipper Keshav Maharaj, had been additionally hampered on Sunday by the absence of their common captain Temba Bavuma, who was dominated out of the line-up attributable to an elbow damage he suffered within the group’s earlier loss on Friday at Rajkot. For India, Bhuvneshwar Kumar was named the Participant of the Collection.