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The Defence Ministry said that it will be a dedicated platform with helicopter landing capabilities, adding the training ship will be an advanced one with modern high-tech surveillance.Its monitoring systems will provide profound insight and expertise to the ICG cadets on the challenges at sea while ensuring the security of coastline and offshore assets.For this initiative, the Ministry of Defence has signed a contract for the construction of a training ship for the Indian Coast Guard (ICG).This contract was signed with Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) at a cost of Rs 310 crore under the Buy (Indian-IDDM) category in Delhi…

New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) on Tuesday felicitated members of the Indian shooting squad that claimed the second-highest number of medals for India in the 19th Asian Games that ended in Hangzhou last week. The 33-member squad came back from Hangzhou, China, with a historic best-ever haul of 22 medals, including seven gold from the continental multi-sport extravaganza.The squad, including coaches and support staff, were felicitated at a simple ceremony at the Finals Hall of the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range (DKSSR) in the national capital, the NRAI informed in a release on…

Chennai, Oct 17 (IANS) Software major Infosys Ltd has been gradually increasing the quantum interim dividend to its shareholders over the years.Announcing the second quarter results for FY24, the company had declared an interim bonus of Rs 18 per share with a face value of Rs 5. In 2018, the company had declared an interim dividend of Rs.7 and followed it up with Rs 8 in 2019. The next three years saw Infosys declaring interim dividends of Rs 12 (2020), Rs 15 (2021), Rs 16.50 (2022) and Rs.18 this year — the highest since 2018. In terms of percentage the…

“Since a transgender person can be in a heterosexual relationship like a cis-male or cis-female, a union between a transwoman and a transman, or a transwoman and a cisman, or a transman and a ciswoman can be registered under Marriage laws,” said a constitution Bench headed by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud. It said that a transgender man has the right to marry a cisgender woman under the laws governing marriage in the country, including personal laws. “Similarly, a transgender woman has the right to marry a cisgender man. A transgender man and a transgender woman can also marry,” it added. The…

Kamal Nath led MP Congress has promised to fill two lakh vacant posts and promised that at least one lakh job vacancies will be created for youths in rural areas. In its manifesto, the Congress has mentioned that more than two crore youth are unemployed, and of them, several lakh are skilled and they will be provided jobs through various schemes. Job-oriented diploma courses related with farming, animal husbandry, and fisheries would be included in school education, it said.The Congress also said that if it forms the government in Madhya Pradesh, it would allocate a Rs1,000 crore corpus fund for…

Mizoram beat Mamta Modern School, Vikaspuri, New Delhi, 3-2 in a tight contest and T.G English School, Bishnupur, Manipur got the better off Shri Sainik Awasiya Mahavidyalaya, Bhaktapur, Nepal 3-0, while Jharkhand comprehensively beat Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Maheshpur, Pakur, Jharkhand 5-0 to confirm their places in the knockout stages.In the other group stage matches at the Ambedkar Stadium, Kamla Devi Public School, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh comprehensively beat Air Force Bal Bharti School, New Delhi 7-0 in a Group E match with Rohit Singh scoring four goals for the winners. In a Group F match, Govt. Senior Secondary School, Namchi, South…

The Bigg Boss has announced that the residents of each makaan must nominate one occupant, who doesn’t deserve to be in their chosen space for eviction.Most of the inhabitants of the ‘Dil’ makaan nominated contestant Mannara Chopra, and this didn’t go down well with the nominee, who alleges that she has been betrayed. This led to her breaking down in tears. Bigg Boss announced the first nomination of the house and asked the housemates to name one contestant they think should be evicted.Aishwarya Sharma,Vicky Jain, Isha Malviya and several others took Mannara’s name and sent her to the ‘unsafe zone’.Mannara…

According to LGBTQ rights activists, they will now take up the matter with the Union government entrusted with the task of forming a panel to decide the rights and entitlements of the community in India.They want to ensure that the proposed panel is not biased against same-sex marriages and has people who are sympathetic to the cause of the LGBTQ community too.According to senior counsel of Calcutta High Court, Kaushik Gupta, the apex court’s refusal to legalise same-sex marriages and the decision to deny the LGBTQ community the right to adopt children is heart-breaking for the community.“While those are undoubtedly…

The repairs and maintenance works were carried out from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the two runways — 09/27 and 14/32 — as part of the annual exercise to enhance the operational efficiency of the CSMIA, with a six-month advance notice, as it handles more than 930 flights daily.On Tuesday, the maintenance teams undertook the installation of runway edge lights for portion of intersection of runway 14/32, trenching work for laying underground cables for segregation of AGL (Aeronautical ground lights) near the beginning of runway 09, validation of strength of RESA (runway end safety area) for runway 09 and…

“The penalty on ICICI Bank was imposedfor contravention of sub-section (1) of Section 20 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (the BR Act) read with directions issued by RBI on ‘Loans and Advances-Statutory and Other restrictions’, sub-section (2) of Section 6 and Section 8 of the BR Act read with directions issued by the RBI on ‘Financial Services provided by the Banks’, and non-compliance with the RBI directions on ‘Frauds classification and reporting by commercial banks and select Fls,” the RBI said.For Kotak Mahindra Bank, the penalty has been imposed for non-compliance with official directions on “Managing Risks and Code…