Ensure that schools don’t sell books, uniforms, HC tells CBSE
New Delhi, May 2 (PTI): The Delhi High Court today directed the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to ensure that the schools affiliated to it must not indulge in commercial activities, such as selling books and uniforms, inside their campuses.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhothra also noted that the CBSE has recently issued a circular in this regard.
The court’s directions came during the hearing of a PIL filed by social worker Sunil Pokhriyal seeking direction to restrain the schools here from using their buildings to run commercial activities like selling of books and uniforms.
World is comfortable with India’s rising stature: PM
New Delhi, May 2 (PTI): The world is comfortable with India’s rising stature, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today as he met the latest batch of Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officers here.
Sharing his thoughts with the group of 41 officer trainees, he stressed on the need for the Foreign Service officers to be extremely well informed, and think in a global perspective, a PMO statement said.
“The Prime Minister said, that by and large, the world believes that India has a bright future, and is comfortable with India s rising stature,” according to the PMO statement.
Cop’s AK-47 rifle goes missing in Rajouri
Jammu, May 2 (PTI): A loaded AK-rifle of a policeman went missing in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district triggering concerns about security.
The loaded AK-47 rifle had been issued to policeman Syed Anwar which went missing in Thanamandi area of Rajouri town on Sunday, a police officer said.
Anwar was posted as a Personal Security Officer (PSO) of a judicial officer.
“A case has been registered and the hunt to recover the rifle is on”, the officer said.
Panic gripped the area after the incident forcing the authorities to sound an alert.
Army successfully test-fires Brahmos land-attack missile
New Delhi, May 2 (PTI): The Indian Army today successfully test fired an advanced version of the Brahmos land-attack cruise missile in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, revalidating the weapon’s strike capability.
The land-to-land configuration of Brahmos missile was launched from a mobile autonomous launcher (MAL).
The test firing of the block III version of the missile demonstrated the weapon’s unmatched lethality of hitting the centre of a designated target with “bull’s eye” precision, a senior army officer said here.
He said the supersonic cruise missile successfully hit the land-based target with desired precision in a “top attack configuration”, meeting all flight parameters in a copybook manner.
The test firing involved high level and complex manoeuvering by the missile, said the official.
Heatwave continues in Rajasthan
Jaipur, May 2 (PTI): Heatwave conditions continued today across Rajasthan with Churu city sizzling at 44 degrees Celsius.
Jaisalmer recorded a high of 43.5 degrees Celsius, followed by Barmer 43.2 degrees Celsius, Sriganganagar 43 degrees Celsius, Bikaner 42.5 degrees Celsius, Kota, 41.5, Jaipur and Ajmer each 40.7 degree Celsius.
The MeT department has predicted dust and thunderstorms with rains in the isolated areas in the state during the next 24 hours.
‘Trinamool, BJP to be main rivals in Bengal Panchayat polls’
Kolkata, May 2 (IANS): Claiming that the Congress and Left Front activists in the state are switching over to his party, BJP’s West Bengal unit chief Dilip Ghosh on Tuesday said that the BJP and ruling Trinamool Congress will be the main rivals in next year’s Panchayat (rural body) elections.
“The way the grass-roots workers from the Congress and Communist Party of India-Marxist are joining our party every day, it seems a majority of their candidates who won the last elections will be with us,” Ghosh told the media in Burdwan town in West Bengal district of the same name.
Woman who allegedly honey-trapped BJP MP arrested
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS): A Supreme Court lawyer who allegedly honey-trapped a BJP MP and later accused him of raping her was arrested by Delhi Police on Tuesday. An alleged kingpin of a blacklmailing racket, she will be in five-day police custody for interrogation.
Special Judge Hemani Malhotra allowed to quiz the woman lawyer after Public Prosecutor Atul Shrivastava told the court that the police required her custodial interrogation to probe the extortion and blackmailing allegations by Bharatiya Janata Party MP K.C. Patel, who represents Valsad in Gujarat in the Lok Sabha.
