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https://ift.tt/dkhXVUC "Jai Shri Ram, Jai Shri Ram" -- the chant rang out loud in the heart of Gwalior this evening, as a heated confrontation unfolded between a police officer and a lawyer amid prohibitory orders and tightened security across the city. What started as a dispute over enforcing prohibitory orders, quickly turned into a dramatic face-off between senior police officer Hina Khan and advocate Anil Mishra. Both sides chanted of "Jai Shri Ram" before a stunned crowd. The atmosphere in Gwalior has been tense over the installation of a statue of BR Ambedkar at the Madhya Pradesh High Court premises. Though the Dalits have called off their protest march planned for October 15, a security blanket has been firmly spread over the city in view of earlier instances of caste conflict. According to eyewitnesses, advocate Mishra, former president of the lawyers' association, arrived with his supporters to recite Ramayan's Sundar Kand near Phoolbagh on Monda...

https://ift.tt/odwB7OS Pakistan is understood to have lost over 100 military personnel along the Line of Control during Operation Sindoor, Indian Army's Director General Military Operations Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai said on Tuesday, citing list of awards conferred posthumously by that country's military. The top military official also said that Pakistan lost at least 12 aircraft during the conflict in May while echoing the details shared by Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal A P Singh a few days ago. Lt Gen Ghai also said that the Indian Navy was fully ready to play its part and if Pakistan had decided to continue with the hostilities any further, it could have been "catastrophic for it, not only from the sea but from other dimensions as well". Sharing certain details of the May 7-10 hostilities, Lt Gen Ghai said Pakistan had resorted to cross-border firing immediately after India pounded nine terror targets on May 7. "Pakistanis possibly unwittingly let out their ...

https://ift.tt/7slbm5I A day after reports emerged that Foxconn - the world's largest contract mobile manufacturer - had denied making a fresh Rs 15,000-crore investment commitment in Tamil Nadu, the state's Industries Minister T R B Rajaa on Monday reiterated that discussions did indeed happen for a project of that scale, expected to create 14,000 high-value jobs. Rajaa's clarification came amid confusion triggered by Foxconn's reported statement said it doesn't consider these investments as new. "These investments were firmed up after a year-long struggle," Rajaa said. A senior official from the Minister's team told NDTV that Foxconn "does not consider this as fresh investment" because "talks have been ongoing for over a year."  Sources also indicated that the Taiwanese electronics giant is "under pressure from a US tech company amid tariff concerns," possibly explaining its cautious wording. The controversy erupted ...

https://ift.tt/Plm5IRd The friend of the medical student who was raped near a private medical college in West Bengal's Durgapur has been arrested by the police, taking the total arrests in the case to six. NDTV had reported earlier that the woman, a second-year MBBS student who had gone to West Bengal from Odisha to study, and her friend had stepped out of the IQ City Medical College in Durgapur's Shivapur area on October 10 and were accosted by a few people. She was allegedly taken to a forested area and raped. In his police complaint, the survivor's father had named the friend and said he had "misled her and took her to a vacant place under false pretexts". On Tuesday, before the friend was taken into custody, Asansol-Durgapur Commissioner of Police Sunil Kumar Choudhary had said five people had been arrested, whose presence had been established at the place where the crime was carried out, and the mobile phone snatched from the survivor had been recovered. ...

https://ift.tt/wS6azMf The long-awaited 8th Pay Commission is set to bring significant hikes in salaries for central government employees and pensioners. With a fitment factor likely around 1.96, minimum basic pay could nearly double, while total pay including Dearness Allowance (DA) and House Rent Allowance (HRA) is expected to rise substantially. Even if the full implementation of the 8th Pay Commission extends until 2027, the benefits will reportedly be effective from January 1, 2026 . Over 50 lakh central employees and around 65 lakh pensioners are expected to receive arrears once the new pay structure is introduced. What Is The Fitment Factor? A key component of determining salaries under the 8th Pay Commission is the fitment factor. This multiplier is used to calculate a new basic salary by multiplying an employee's current basic pay.  To understand, under the 6th Pay Commission, the minimum basic salary was Rs 7,000. The 7th Pay Commission applied a fitment factor of 2....

https://ift.tt/UmSlsCa Salman Iqbal, the long serving coach of Pakistan's top athlete Arshad Nadeem, was on Sunday banned for life by the country's Athletics Federation for violating the constitution of the Punjab Athletics Association, where he holds the position of President. Under the life ban, Iqbal cannot take part in any athletics activities nor coach or hold office at any level. The violations the Pakistan Amateur Athletics Federation (PAAF) has accused Iqbal of committing by holding elections of the Punjab body occured back in August. An inquiry committee was formed in mid-September and it recommended the ban on Iqbal on October 10, a day after his reply to the PSB came out. The decision appears to be linked to the recent crisp reply Iqbal had sent to the state-run Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) when they asked him to explain Nadeem's poor show in the World Athletics Championship in Tokyo. PSB also demanded to know details about the expenses incurred on the javelin t...

https://ift.tt/3RFqOud Ukrainian content creator Viktoriia Chakraborty has gone viral after sharing five observations she made while driving in India. Having lived in the country for more than eight years, Chakraborty detailed her experiences in an Instagram video titled: "8 years of driving in India as a Ukrainian and this is what I noticed." Chakraborty revealed that she had a tough time learning to drive in India, but owing to the 'kind strangers', she managed to get by. "When I first got behind the wheel here, I was terrified. People literally helped me park, yes, total strangers standing and guiding me like I was landing a plane (thank you, kind humans)," said Chakraborty. Here Are The Five Things She Noticed In India: Traffic is insane, but somehow there are fewer accidents than you'd expect. Honking is an entire language you slowly learn to understand. Moto drivers always getting scolded by the police, even when they do nothing. Rickshaws ...