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Jun22017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Job cuts exaggerated, to hire 20,000 this year: Infosys COO

National

IT services major Infosys today said it will hire 20,000 people this year as against only 400 people being asked to leave on performance grounds and termed reports of large-scale job losses as "overstated". Infosys COO UB Pravin Rao said the technology-driven transformation presents new opportunities for companies like Infosys. "With respect to all the talks of layoffs, it's regular performance based things that we do every year. The number is really 300-400, which is consistent with what we have seen every year," Rao told reporters after a 30-minute meeting with IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. He said the country's second largest software exporter is "creating more jobs, adding more people and letting go of only minuscule number of people, purely from performance related perspec...

May312017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Normalcy restored in Kashmir Valley after 3 days of restrictions and strike

J&K

Normalcy returned in Kashmir valley today after three days of restrictions and strike in the aftermath of killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Sabzar Bhat in an encounter with security forces. There were no restrictions anywhere in Kashmir, officials said, adding life was going on normally across the valley. Shops, offices, fuel stations and other business establishments opened here this morning, while public transport resumed after three days, the officials said. They said similar reports of restoration of normalcy were received from other districts of the valley. However, the officials said classwork in all schools and colleges in the districts of Anantnag, Shopian, Pulwama and Budgam has been suspended for the day as a precautionary measure. They said all higher secondary schools...

May302017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh orders strict adherence to BJP’s vision document

Uttarakhand

Describing BJP’S vision document as an “article of faith” for him, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has told all government departments to follow it verbatim and deliver on commitments made to people. Rawat who held a meeting with officials on the party’s vision document here yesterday asked all departments to tailor their proposals strictly in accordance with the commitments made by the party in its vision document for Uttarakhand assembly polls 2017 and submit them to him. Making it clear that no negligence on their part in this regard will be tolerated, the Chief Minister said the vision document is an “article of faith” to him which has to be followed verbatim. “All promises made in it have to be delivered on fully in a time-bound manner and departments must de...

May292017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

10 facts you need to know about ISRO’s GSLV-Mk III

National

The GSLV-Mk III-D1 launcher would carry GSAT-19 satellite which has a mass of 3,200 kg. The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III), the heaviest rocket ever made by India and capable of carrying large payloads, is set for launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on June 5, 2017. Here are a few facts you need to know about the rocket. GSKV-Mk III is capable of launching four-tonne satellites in the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). The rocket is also capable of placing up to eight tonnes in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO), enough to carry a manned module. GSLV-Mk III’s first developmental flight, D1, will carry on June 5 the GSAT-19 satellite — developed to help improve telecommunication and broadcasting areas. This is India’s first full...

May282017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat begins 4-day visit to Myanmar to further strengthen defense & security cooperation

National

Army Chief Gen Bipin Rawat today began a four-day visit to Myanmar during which he will meet the country s iconic leader Aung San Suu Kyi and hold talks with top military leadership to further ramp up defence and security cooperation between the two countries. Myanmar is one of India’s strategic neighbours and shares a 1,640-km-long border with a number of northeastern states including militancy-hit Nagaland and Manipur. General Rawat is scheduled to meet Suu Kyi, who is Myanmar’s Foreign Minister, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, and Vice Senior General Soe Win, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services and Commander-in-Chief of Army. In the meetings, both sides are expected to explore ways to further broaden security and defence engagements, ...

May242017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

1 killed, 24 injured after Mayawati’s rally in Saharanpur

Uttar Pradesh

At a time when myriad questions are being raised regarding the deteriorating law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh, fresh clashes have resulted in the death of one person and injuring several after Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati’s public meeting in Saharanpur district’s Shabbirpur village. A total of 24 people have been reportedly injured in what victims say has been caused largely by “Rajputs” or upper caste Hindus in the region. While it is not clear if all of the 24 injured belong to the Dalit community, The Indian Express reports that 13 injured in the fresh clashes were from the minority community, with at least one from the Muslim community. The spiralling caste-based violence in the region has increased due to high “political undercurrents” and inaction by police, despit...

May242017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

AAP received Rs 50 lakh each from 4 companies on single day

Delhi

In a new revelation, media has accessed documents which show that at least four companies had donated Rs 50 Lakh each on a single day to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Shiv Charan Goel. The party, however, did not disclose the donation details to the Election Commission about the funding. Notably, AAP is already facing a probe in disclosed funding case after the sacked Delhi Water Minister, Kapil Mishra, alleged party leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of corruption charges. Mishra, in a press conference, on Sunday, May 14, also alleged that the ruling party of Delhi is involved in taking donations from various sources. He disclosed a slew of documents showing how senior AAP leaders and Arvind Kejriwal knew about a major donation scam involving “crores of rupees”. Minutes after...

May242017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

ED arrests Misa Bharti’s CA in Rs 8,000 crore PMLA scam

Bihar

In a big setback to RJD, Enforcement Directorate arrested chartered accountant allegedly linked to former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharti in Rs 8,000 crore PMLA cases. The CA, Rajesh Agarwal, has been arrested under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and will be produced in court today, officials said. Agarwal was allegedly instrumental in providing accommodation entries to many high-profile people to help launder their funds. These included those being probed by the Income Tax Department in the Rs 1,000 crore dubious land deals case allegedly linked to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad’s family, they said. The CA, officials said, was also allegedly involved in routing funds for the Jain brothers, Virendra and Surendra, a...

May232017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Indian Sukhoi jet with two IAF officers goes missing near Indo-China border

National

An Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi-30 fighter jet with two pilots on board went missing from near the Indo-China border in Assam. The Sukhoi took off from the IAF Tezpur air base, located only about 172 km from Indo-China border in Arunachal Pradesh, on a routine training mission. A massive search operation, also involving helicopters, has been launched to trace the plane and the pilots, aged between 25 and 30, Defence spokesman Lt Col Sombit Ghosh of the Army’s IV Corps told media. The identity of the two pilots has not been disclosed. An IAF statement that the plane was part of a two- aircraft formation. Sonitpur Deputy Commissioner Manoj Kumar Deka told reporters that the Airforce station had informed him that the last radar and radio contact with the plane was made at around 11.10 a...

May122017 by Team - The Digital IndianNo Comments

Triple talaq is ‘worst form’ of marriage dissolution: Supreme Court

National

Triple talaq is the “worst” and “not a desirable” form of dissolution of marriage among the Muslims, even though there were schools of thought which called it “legal”, the Supreme Court observed today. The second day of the day-long hearing on the matter also saw two veterans, jurist Ram Jethmalani and former Union Minister and Islamic scholar Arif Mohammad Khan, coming out all guns blazing against the practice of triple talaq. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar said there are “school of thoughts (which) say that triple talaq is legal, but it is the worst and not a desirable form for dissolution of marriages among Muslims.” The remark was made by the bench when senior lawyer Salman Khurshid referred to the various schools of thought and the stand of All I...