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SPO who decamped with two rifles in October held in central Kashmir

Srinagar, Dec 27 (UNI) A Special Police Officer (SPO), who deserted his post and decamped with two AK-47 rifles in October this year in Budgam, was arrested in central Kashmir.

Official sources said that following specific information, security forces apprehended the SPO, identified as Altaf Hassan, from Budgam during an operation late last night. “Altaf is being questioned,” they said, adding more arrest could be made in the coming.

Altaf, who was posted in Special Operations Group (SOG) camp in Chadoora, had gone missing with two AK-47 rifles and three magazines on October 24, 2020.
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MP CM makes path easier for ryots

27 Dec 2020 | 3:37 AM

Bhopal, Dec 26 (UNI) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan assured on Saturday that henceforward inked proformas vis-à-vis contracts – effectuated between cultivators and crop-purchasing companies, traders or other individuals – will be preserved at offices of sub-divisional magistrates so that peasants are not cheated in any manner whatsoever.
“Camps shall be conducted in all 313 janpad panchayats to make our tiller brethren aware of the nuances of fresh agrarian sector legislation and make benefits of these laws available to them,” the senior politician was officially quoted as saying.

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Special stamp on ‘Mamaji’

27 Dec 2020 | 3:22 AM

Bhopal, Dec 26 (UNI) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will be chief guest at a commemorative stamp release function marking the birth centenary year of renowned journalist Manikchandra Vajpayee who became popular as ‘Mamaji’ and whose indomitable spirit remained unscathed despite his incarceration for 19 long months during the Emergency.
Erstwhile governor of Haryana and Tripura Mr Kaptan Singh Solanki will preside over the Public Relations Department programme scheduled to commence at 1430 hrs in the imposing Minto Hall here. The event shall be telecast on regional channels and may be also viewed in social media, an official release said.

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Decks cleared for MP Religious Freedom Bill

27 Dec 2020 | 3:07 AM

Bhopal, Dec 26 (UNI) The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet on Saturday approved the Religious Freedom Bill, 2020 for presentation in the Assembly, official sources said.
The crucial decision was taken during an online meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

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MP CM bows to Udham Singh

27 Dec 2020 | 2:57 AM

Bhopal, Dec 26 (UNI) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan paid tributes on Saturday to Shaheed-i-Azam Udham Singh on his birth anniversary, it was officially learnt.
The senior politician offered flowers, at his residence, to a picture of the immortal revolutionary who owed allegiance to the Ghadar Party and – on March 13, 1940 – assassinated, in London, Punjab’s erstwhile lieutenant governor Michael Francis O’Dwyer in revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of April 13, 1919 when Acting Brigadier-General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer – ‘the Butcher of Amritsar’ – ordered soldiers of the British Indian Army to open fire on unarmed civilians thereby killing hundreds of innocents and injuring in excess of a thousand.

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Punjab govt was keen to implement new agri bill in September: BJP

26 Dec 2020 | 11:54 PM

Patna, Dec 26 (UNI) Accusing the Punjab government for adopting double standards over the ongoing farmer's agitation against the new agricultural laws, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday alleged that the state government was keen to execute the new agricultural law in September itself.

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