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Manipur Police has arrested a sixth person in connection with the May 4 parading of two women naked in Kangpokpi district of the state, officials said on Saturday. Police said the arrested person is a juvenile. Police had made the first arrest on Thursday, a day after a 26-second video of the horrific incident surfaced on July 19. Three more arrests were made later that day. The fifth accused, 19-year-old youth, was arrested on Saturday. One of the women seen in the video is the wife of an ex-army man, who served as a subedar in the Assam Regiment and had even fought in the Kargil War.  More than 160 people have lost their lives, and several have been injured since ethnic violence broke out in the state on May 3, when a 'Tribal Solidarity March' was organised in the hill districts to protest against the Meitei community's demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status. Meiteis account for about 53 per cent of Manipur's population and live mostly in the Imphal Valley, whil...

मेरठ के सरधना कोतवाली के अपराध निरीक्षण भवन में भीषण आग लग गई. आग लगने से थाने के चार सिपाही झुलस गए.आग लगने की सूचना के बाद दमकल की कई गाड़ियां मौके पर पहुंची हैं. पुलिस के मुताबिक, आग शॉर्ट सर्किट से लगी और उसके बाद आग तेजी से फैली. सरधना कोतवाली में लगी आग को कई किलोमीटर दूर से देखा जा सकता है. थाने से धुएं का गुबार निकलता भी नजर आया.  आग की चपेट में आने से कांस्टेबल केशव अत्री और हेड कांस्टेबल सुमित राजोरा गंभीर रूप से झुलस गए हैं. वहीं आग बुझाने के दौरान थाने के ही मुंशी हेमेंद्र और एक अन्‍य सिपाही भी झुलस गए. पुलिस के मुताबिक, सबसे पहले स्विच बोर्ड में शॉर्ट सर्किट से आग लगी. बरामदे में मैस है, जहां पर खाना बनाया जा रहा था और वहां पर सिलेंडर थे. उन्‍होंने बताया कि सिलेंडर के पाइप ने आग पकड़ ली. इसके चलते सिलेंडर फट गया और जोरदार धमाका हुआ. देखते ही देखते आग अचानक से पूरे बरामदे और अन्‍य कमरों में फैल गई. उन्‍होंने बताया कि मालखाने में भी आग लगी है. आग पर काबू पा लिया गया है. आग से कितना नुकसान हुआ है इस बारे में अब पता लगाया जाएगा.  पुलिस के मुताबिक, गं...

The Mumbai zonal unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized smuggled high-end watches worth more than Rs 30 crore from the residence of a Kolkata-based man, officials said on Saturday. Acting of a tip-off, the man was intercepted at the Kolkata airport last week after he arrived from Singapore, and a very expensive Greubel Forsey watch which he had not declared before the customs authorities was seized, A DRI release said here. While the man was arrested under the Customs Act, his house in an upscale residential complex in Kolkata was searched by officers of the DRI, Mumbai Zonal Unit, it said. As many as 34 watches of premium foreign brands including Greubel Forsey, Purnell, Louis Vuitton, MB and F, Mad, Rolex, Audemars Piguet and Richard Mille were recovered from the house, the release added. Most of these were limited edition watches with a total market value of more than Rs 30 crore, it said. Import of watches by individuals through the baggage attracts 3...

Following the viral video of women being paraded naked in Manipur, National Commission for Women chief Rekha Sharma on Friday said that there were several complaints from people outside the country and Manipur. She also mentioned that NCW is in touch with officers from Manipur.  Sharma was responding to the reports claiming that NCW has received a complaint through a letter on June 12 mentioning the horrific incident of women being paraded naked on May 4.   After the video went viral, the commission took suo motu cognisance of it on Friday and sought an explanation from authorities on the matter. “First of all, my JS is from Manipur and he is continuously in touch with the officers over there on the phone, so we are in touch with the officers in Manipur. Again and again, I am saying that there were many complaints, there was not one specific complaint and that too from people outside India and outside Manipur. So firstly they had to clarify that whatever written is tru...

देशभर में मॉनसून की भारी बारिश हो रही है. बारिश के बाद देश के 22 राज्यों के 235 जिले बाढ़ से प्रभावित हैं. कम से कम 10 हजार मकान तबाह हो गए हैं. कई हेक्टेयर फसल भी बारिश और बाढ़ में खराब हो चुकी है. समाचार एजेंसी PTI ने इसकी जानकारी दी. इस बीच महाराष्ट्र में भारी बारिश का अलर्ट है. जबकि उत्तराखंड के सात जिलों में अगले दो दिनों तक भारी बारिश की चेतावनी जारी की गई है. आइए जानते हैं अगले दो दिन यानी 22 और 23 जुलाई को देश के अलग-अलग राज्यों में कैसा रहेगा मौसम:-   उत्तराखंड के 7 जिलों में भारी बारिश की चेतावनी उत्तराखंड में भारी बारिश के बाद लैंडस्लाइड की घटनाएं बढ़ी हैं. आईएमडी ने शनिवार और रविवार को 7 जिलों में भारी बारिश की चेतावनी जारी की है. दो दिनों के लिए ऑरेंज अलर्ट जारी करके सभी जिलों के आपदा प्रबंधन विभाग और जिला प्रशासन को अलर्ट किया गया है. देहरादून, टिहरी, पौड़ी, हरिद्वार, नैनीताल, चंपावत और ऊधमसिंह नगर में भारी बारिश के आसार हैं. महाराष्ट्र का मौसम महाराष्ट्र के विदर्भ इलाके में भारी से बहुत भारी बारिश देखने को मिल सकती है. इसी को देखते हुए मौसम विभाग ने ऑरेंज अलर्ट ज...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has asked its schools to consider using Indian languages as optional medium of instruction to make multilingual education a reality. Schools affiliated to the CBSE has now an option of teaching in regional languages from pre-primary to Class 12. Till now, CBSE schools could teach only either in English or Hindi, unlike state board schools that can teach in English, Hindi or a state language. The CBSE's announcement is in line with the government's push for the National Education Policy (NEP). The University Grants Commission (UGC) had recently come up with a similar circular for higher education. "This is a historic decision and will open a world of opportunities for many children, besides Indianising teaching and learning systems in the country," Chamu Krishna Shastry, head of the high-powered Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti for the promotion of Indian languages under the Education Ministry, told NDTV today. "With the...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced that her government is planning a scheme to provide work to the poor in line with MGNREGA, the funds for which she claimed were stopped by the Centre. Addressing a rally in Kolkata, Ms Banerjee said the scheme will be named 'Khela Hobe' (Game On) -- the slogan of her party TMC during the 2021 assembly elections. "Despite being the best-performing state in the MNREGA scheme, the Centre has stopped funds out of sheer jealousy and vendetta politics. We will take our fight to Delhi, and on October 2, which is Gandhi Jayanti, we will hold a dharna in Delhi to press for our demands," she said. "We are planning to start our own 100-day job scheme and it will be named 'Khela Hobe'. The West Bengal government always stands for the poor, and we will create jobs for them," she added. The TMC also celebrates August 16 as 'Khela Hobe Diwas', during which different sports events are organis...