He had decamped with arms and ammunition in 2017 when he was posted as a guard at the Food Corporation of India (FCI), Budgam. The NIA on Saturday filed a supplementary chargesheet against a former Jammu and Kashmir policeman, who deserted the force and joined the Pakistan-based terrorist group Hizbul Mujahideen, for his alleged involvement in attacking a CRPF convoy in 2019, an official said.Naveed Mushtaq Shah, an ex-constable of Jammu and Kashmir police, had decamped with arms and ammunition in 2017 when he was posted as a guard at the Food Corporation of India (FCI), Budgam, an official of…
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Here’s our curated list of important tech news from this week in byte size. (Subscribe to our Today’s Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.)Instagram’s algorithm to downplay recycled content on ReelsInstagram’s recommendation software will start downplaying Reels that are recycled from other apps like TikTok with visible logos or watermarks, The Verge reported. The Facebook-owned company is getting better at using ranking signals that help in predicting whether people will find a reel entertaining and whether the platform should recommend it, the report noted. A recent Instagram post on…
She said the former Congress chief was creating fake narratives but does not have patience to listen to replies on allegations levelled against the government. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi saying he is becoming a “doomsday man” for India by constantly insulting constitutional functionaries and creating fake narratives on various issues. Replying to the general discussion on Budget in Lok Sabha, she said the former Congress chief was creating fake narratives but does not have patience to listen to replies on allegations levelled against the government. “We need to recognise these two…
The fines are for broadcasting a music video for a song called Bagga and Shera and a discussion programme, Panthak Masle. The U.K.’s media watchdog has imposed a total fine of 50,000 pounds on Khalsa Television Ltd. or KTV in Britain for broadcasting a music video and a discussion programme that was an indirect call for British Sikhs to commit violence and also contained a terror reference.The Office of Communications (Ofcom), the U.K. government-approved media regulatory authority, issued the order on February 12 following its findings dating back to February and November 2019.Its order also includes a direction for the…
A select list of stories to read before you start your day. An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck Tajikistan at around 10:30 p.m. IST on Friday, according to an early report from India’s National Centre for SeismologyThe population above 50 years of age, and people with co-morbidities in the 20 to 50 years age group are scheduled to start receiving the COVID-19 vaccine from March onwards, said All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Director Randeep Guleria on Friday, while answering questions related to the COVID-19 vaccination drive. He was speaking at an interactive programme organised by the Health Ministry.Scheduled…
The lockdown, which has shut restaurants and cafes for all but takeaway, hit just as Melbourne had geared up for the biggest weekend in nearly a year, with Lunar New Year celebrations, Valentine’s Day and Australian Open crowds. Australia’s second most populous state Victoria entered a five-day lockdown on Saturday as authorities raced to prevent a third wave of COVID-19 cases sparked by the highly infections UK variant.One new locally acquired case was confirmed in the past 24 hours, Victoria health authorities said on Saturday, taking the number of active cases in the state to 20.”A lot of people will…
The barrister best known for heading the United Nations’ special investigative team looking into Islamic State crimes in Iraq. Parties to the International Criminal Court on Friday elected Britain’s Karim Khan as the new prosecutor for a nine-year term starting on June 16.Mr. Khan won a secret ballot against three other candidates to replace lead prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. The 123-member Hague-based court, which began work nearly 20 years ago, handles war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and crimes of aggression.British barrister Karim is best known for heading the United Nations’ special investigative team looking into Islamic State crimes in Iraq.In…
There have been no claims of responsibility for the attack, but Islamic extremists linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group have staged regular attacks on UN peacekeepers and soldiers. One of the 28 UN peacekeepers wounded in an attack on a temporary United Nations base in central Mali has died from his injuries, the United Nations announced Friday. Mali remains the deadliest of the UN’s 12 far-flung peacekeeping missions and the peacekeeper from Togo was the sixth killed just since January in hostile acts in which 46 peacekeepers were also injured. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, who announced the peacekeeper’s…
The decision, reversing the former Trump administration’s blacklisting of the Houthis, is part of a policy shift by U.S.President Joe Biden aimed at easing the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and intensifying diplomacy to end Yemen’s gruelling civil war. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Friday that he will revoke – effective Feb. 16 – designations of Yemen’s Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization and a specially designated global terrorist group.The decision, reversing the former Trump administration’s blacklisting of the Houthis, is part of a policy shift by U.S.President Joe Biden aimed at easing the world’s worst humanitarian…
‘I don’t think Trinamool is anymore in control of Mamata; it is being run by some corporate advisers’ Hours after his dramatic resignation on the floor of the Rajya Sabha, former Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi speaks to The Hindu on the reasons for his exit from the Trinamool Congress.How long have you been contemplating leaving the party?I never thought of leaving the party. I have been talking to this leader, that leader, sending this message and that message. But there was no platform to address the issues that I have. When some insecure people become the leader of the party…