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Despite protests across the country, the government has tightened its position on Agneepath, rejecting any rollback of the controversial military recruitment scheme.

hard stand

• The three services on Sunday came out with a detailed schedule of enrollments under the new policy and said it is aimed at reducing the age profile of the armed forces.
• Opposing the plan, Lt Gen Anil Puri, Additional Secretary, Department of Military Affairs, said youth involved in arson and violence would not be allowed to join the services as police verification process would be done before enrolling anyone.
• He also said that the supportive measures for firefighters announced over the past few days were not due to protests and arson, and that the government was already working on them.

Program

• Navy: The first batch of recruits will join the training program onboard INS Chilka in Odisha till November 21. Under this scheme, the Navy will recruit both men and women as ‘Agnivar’.
• Air Force: The training of the first batch of recruits will start from December 30.
• army: The first batch with 25,000 personnel will be involved in the training program in the first and second week of December. The second team will join their training around February 23. more information Here

And a joke…

• BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Sunday courted controversy after his remark that if he has to appoint security personnel as his party office, he will give priority to those who have worked as Agniveers. more information Here

The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) on Sunday claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack on Gurdwara Karta Pawan in Kabul, in which two people were killed, with three attackers later gunned down by Taliban forces.

Why Did you do this

• The ISKP, which is affiliated with the Islamic State, said the attack, in which seven people were injured, was carried out as “an act of support for the Messenger of Allah” – two carried out by the BJP against Prophet Mohammed. Referring to the remarks, Spokesperson.
• The ISKP, which does not differentiate between Hindus and Sikhs and mistakenly considers the latter to be part of the same community, said one of its attackers “entered a temple for Hindu and Sikh polytheists”, gathered opened fire on the congregation, which he claimed, accidentally killed 50 people.
• The ISKP, a Sunni-majority militant group, had earlier warned of attacks on Hindu “apostates” in a video message as revenge for blasphemous remarks against the prophet.

e for emergency?

• Meanwhile, the Center has provided around 100 e-visas to Afghan Hindus and Sikhs after Saturday’s attacks on the gurdwara, which was also the target of a suicide bomber attack in 2020, in which 25 people were killed.

Floods and landslides triggered by incessant rains have hit Assam badly for the past six days, causing massive destruction across the northeastern state.

42 million hits

• nine peopleThree children, including three children, died on Sunday, taking the death toll from floods and landslides this year to 71.
• More than 42 lakh people are affected by the floods. Barpeta is the worst-affected district, with over 12.76 lakh people suffering, followed by Darrang and Nagaon.
• According to the bulletin of the Central Water Commission, the mighty Brahmaputra is flowing above the danger mark in the towns of Nematighat in Jorhat, Tezpur, Goalpara and Dhubri in Sonitpur.

capital chaos

• Incessant rains have wreaked havoc in the state capital Guwahati, causing water-logging in many areas of the city. Somewhere the water has touched chest level.

landslide

• Massive landslides were reported from Cachar, Dima Hasao, Goalpara, Hailakandi, Kamrup Metropolitan and Karimganj.
• The state government is monitoring the availability of fuel and essential food items in Barak Valley districts as the supply through roads has been disrupted due to landslides.

Kaziranga Submerged

• At least five animals, including a leopard, have died in the floods in the Kaziranga National Park (KNP) so far this year, an official statement said on Sunday.
• More than 15 percent of the park, home to the world famous one-horned rhinoceros, has been submerged.

• Passengers on board a Patna-Delhi SpiceJet flight narrowly escaped when their plane caught fire soon after taking off from the city’s airport on Sunday, and made an emergency landing before hovering in the air for several minutes .
• cause: The plane made a comeback after being hit by a suspicious bird, forcing the pilot to shut down an engine and return to the city airport. The airline said that during subsequent inspection, three fan blades were found to be damaged.
• And intimidating: Some passengers said that soon after takeoff they felt tremors inside the plane and the lights started going off. “We sounded the alarm. The crew members asked us to remain calm and informed us that an emergency landing was being made,” said a passenger.
• Landing: Fire tenders were deployed on the runway of the Patna airport, where an emergency landing was made despite the flames being doused. No passenger was hurt.
• Investigation: Civil aviation regulator, DGCA, will look into the matterStating that the pilots handled the situation well.
• Meanwhile, a indigo aircraft Had to return to Guwahati soon after takeoff due to bird hit.

After more than a year of searching for a suitable candidate to fill the post of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of ONGC, the Oil Ministry has proposed to change the eligibility criteria and tenure for the post as well.

new norms

• While the old rule states that the minimum age for a person to be appointed as CMD of ONGC should be 45 years, in the new proposal the maximum age limit is 60 years as on the date of vacancy, which is currently the case as of April 1, 2021 When the last full-time CMD Shashi Shankar retired on March 31 last year.
• In an office memorandum sent to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), the ministry has also proposed to reduce the tenure of CMD of ONGC to three years from the current five years.

What does it mean

• The raising of the maximum age means that the current acting CMD Alka Mittal, who is due to retire in August, is eligible to be considered for the post of CMD. The proposal, if accepted, would also make ONGC’s former director (finance) Subhash Kumar – who also served as acting CMD before Mittal – qualified for the top post.

• Starting today, Sri Lanka’s entire public sector will be shut down as severe fuel shortages have crippled the island nation, which is facing an existential economic crisis. The Sri Lankan Ministry of Education has also asked all teachers of government schools and government-aided private schools to conduct online classes due to prolonged power cuts.
• Rapidly depleting fuel stocks have led to long queues at petrol pumps, affecting the patience of Sri Lankan citizens. At Visuvamadu, 365 km north of Colombo, the Sri Lankan army opened fire after some men pelted stones at an army truck, damaging it. The commotion started after the petrol pump ran out of fuel. According to the police, four civilians and three soldiers were injured in the firing and stone pelting.
• The country, which is facing 13-hour-long power cuts, had to defer $7 billion of its overseas repayment of $25 billion to be repaid by 2026. Its total debt currently stands at $51 billion. The government, which has also declared Friday as a holiday, has also approved giving one holiday per week for the next three months to government officials to engage in farming to mitigate the food crisis.

BJP President JP Nadda on Sunday held a meeting with the ruling party’s 14-member management team for the Presidential elections to be held on July 18 and discussed the election strategy. The opposition parties will meet tomorrow to choose their joint candidate for the elections.

BJP trust!

• It is claimed that the BJP, along with its allies and independents, holds the required number of votes to ensure the victory of its candidate.
• According to party insiders, after the announcement of the BJP’s presidential candidate, the team will travel across the country for campaigning and to coordinate with the party’s units for the elections.

Mamta will not attend the meeting

• West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is unlikely to attend the opposition meeting called by NCP chief Sharad Pawar on June 21 in the upcoming presidential election due to prior engagements.
• A senior TMC leader is likely to be present in the meeting. During the 15 June meeting, it was decided that a common candidate, who would “uphold the country’s democratic ethos” would be chosen as the opposition’s candidate.
• 17 parties participated in the meeting. But AAP, SAD, AIMIM, Telangana Rashtra Samithi and Odisha’s ruling BJD left it.

• The India-South Africa (South Africa) T20 series ended 2-2 when the fifth and final match of the series was washed out due to rain in Bangalore. India, who were put to bat after South Africa won the toss, scored 28 for two in 3.3 overs at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium before rain interrupted play and forced players to leave the field. thrown out.
• The game, which started 50 minutes late due to rain, was finally called off after 90 minutes of no rain. When the game was stopped, Shreyas Iyer and skipper Rishabh Pant were at the crease with scores of 0 and 1 respectively. India lost both openers to South African pacer Lungi Ngidi, who first bowled left-armer Ishan Kishan for 15 and then dismissed his opening partner Ruturaj Gaikwad for 10.
• The visitors had won the first two matches, with India coming back in style to win the next two matches. The Proteas, captained by stand-in skipper Keshav Maharaj, were also troubled on Sunday by the absence of their regular skipper Temba Bavuma, who was ruled out of the line-up with an elbow injury in the team’s previous defeat. In Rajkot on Friday. Bhuvneshwar Kumar was adjudged Player of the Series for India.