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New Delhi, Dec 15 (PTI) Lt Governor V K Saxena has approved a proposal of the Delhi Police to appoint two special public prosecutors in the Shraddha Walkar murder case, Raj Niwas officials said on Thursday.
The gory details about Walkar's murder shook the entire nation last month after the Delhi Police arrested her live-in partner Aaftab Amin Poonawala on November 12.
During interrogation, Poonawala confessed to killing Walkar and chopping her body into 35 pieces and disposing them in various parts of the capital, police had said.
"LG V K Saxena has approved the proposal of the Delhi Police for appointment of Special Public Prosecutors to represent the State in the Trial Court in case FIR No. 659 dt. November 10, 2022 u/s 365/302/201 IPC, registered at PS Mehrauli.
"The matter relates to the gruesome Shraddha murder case. Madhukar Pandey and Amit Prasad, advocates, will be accordingly representing the Delhi Police as special public prosecutors in the matter," an official told PTI.
Odisha BJP MPs, including Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan & Ashwini Vaishnaw, wrote to and met Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya over Ayushman Bharat Yojana & demanded its implementation in Odisha, they also highlighted Odisha’s deterioration in State Health Index, ANI reported.
West Delhi acid attack: DCW issues notice to two e-commerce portals for selling acid, PTI reported.
"A few bone samples matched the DNA of Shraddha's father, clarifying that they belonged to Shraddha. They were collected by Delhi Police from the jungles of Mehrauli and Gurugram," ANI reported citing sources.
Rescue & fire fighting operation is underway at the Avignon Park building in Mumbai
Delhi LG VK Saxena has approved the proposal to convene the first meeting of the newly elected Corporation on Friday, January 6, 2023, ANI reported.
"The last of the 36 IAF Rafale aircraft landed in India after a quick en-route mid-air refuelling from a UAE Air Force tanker aircraft after taking off from France to reach India": Indian Air Force (IAF) informed.
Fire breaks out at Avignon Park building in Mumbai's Lower Parel area. As many as 4 fire engines rushed to the spot. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained, ANI reported.
| Even when there was no liquor ban here, people died due to spurious liquor -even in other states. People should be alert. As there is a liquor ban here, something spurious will be sold due to which people die. Liquor is bad & shouldn't be consumed: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar said, as per ANI.
The procedure to form a new government formally begins in Nepal. Election Commission submits the final report for the November 20 election to President, Nepal's Chief Election Commissioner stated, as per ANI.
Departmental action and transfer of Marhaura Sub-Divisional Police Officer, Yogendra Kumar recommended and Masrakh SHO Ritesh Mishra and Constable Vikesh Tiwari suspended with immediate effect, ANI reported.
The death toll in Chapra due to the consumption of spurious liquor rises to 30, ANI reported.
Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla to hold meeting with civil aviation ministry, airlines on the issue of crowding at Delhi, Mumbai airports, PTI reported.
The World Health Organization said Wednesday it hoped that Covid-19 would no longer be a public health emergency in 2023, as it urged China to share information that could pinpoint how the pandemic started, AFP reported.
"All of us are aware that the question of equitable representation on and increase in membership of the Security Council has been on the UNGA agenda for 3 decades. While the debate on reforms meandered aimlessley, the real world has changed dramatically," EAM S Jaishankar said in UNSC, as per ANI.
"During the Covid pandemic, many vulnerable nations from the global south got their first vaccines from beyond the traditional sources. Indeed, the diversification of global production was itself a recognition of how much the old order has changed," he added.
France and the United Kingdom, two veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council, reiterated their support for a permanent seat for India at the powerful horse-shoe table.
“France supports the candidacy of Germany, Brazil, India and Japan as permanent members. It also wishes to see a stronger presence of African countries, among both permanent and non-permanent members,” French Ambassador at the UN Nicolas De Riviere said in his remarks at the UN Security Council open debate on ‘Maintenance of International Peace and Security: New Orientation for Reformed Multilateralism’ chaired by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar.
Riviere said the Security Council remains the “keystone of our collective security architecture”.
“I want to reaffirm forcefully that France is in favour of a reform of the Security Council…We support an enlargement of the Security Council to take into account the emergence of new powers that are willing and able to assume the responsibility of a permanent presence in the Security Council.” UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward said as the UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly “publicly reiterated this week, we support new permanent seats for Brazil, Germany, India and Japan, and permanent African representation”.
Stressing that the world today is very different to the one that gave birth to the UN in 1945, Woodward said, “It is right that we consider how the UN and the multilateral system should evolve. The Security Council must, as others have said, become more representative of the world today and the UK has long called for its expansion, in both the permanent and non-permanent categories.” Jaishankar arrived here Tuesday to preside over two signature events on counter-terrorism and reformed multilateralism being held under India’s current Presidency of the UN Security Council, before the curtains come down this month on the country’s two-year tenure as elected member of the powerful 15-nation group. (PTI)
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IAF To Carry Out 2-Day Exercise In Northeast From Thursday
The Indian Air Force will carry out a two-day exercise in the Northeast involving almost all its frontline fighter jets and other assets deployed in the region amid the fresh tensions between Indian and Chinese troops in the Tawang sector of Arunachal Pradesh following the last week's face-off in the area, PTI reported.
Sources said the exercise is aimed at checking the IAF's overall combat capability and military preparedness in the region.
They, however, said the exercise was planned much before the face-off between the Indian and Chinese armies and it is not related to the incident.
The sources said IAF's frontline fighter jets including Sukhoi-30MKIs and Rafale jets will be part of the exercise besides several other platforms deployed in the region.
All frontline air bases and some key Advanced Landing Grounds (ALGs) in the Northeast are set to be involved in the exercise, said a source.
The sources said the top brass of the Eastern Air Command will also undertake a comprehensive review of the IAF's preparedness in the region in view of the overall security matrix.
IGI Airport CEO Summoned By Parliamentary Panel To Discuss Congestion Issues
Amid rising complaints of congestion at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport, which has led to passengers missing their flights and facing long delays while checking in due to high footfalls at peak hours, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism, and Culture has summoned the airport chief to discuss the matter on December 15.
The Rajya Sabha panel headed by MP Vijaysai Reddy has summoned the CEO of Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) and Chairman of the Association of Private Airport Operators on Thursday to hear their views on the "development of greenfield and brownfield airports and issues pertaining to civil enclaves in defence airports", according to the notice issued for the meeting.
The issue of congestion at Delhi airport has even reached the Parliament where several MPs last week took it up with Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia in the Lok Sabha.
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