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" " IIT-DELHI, NEHRU LIBRARY, JAMIA MILIA AMONG THOSE HIT IIT Delhi, Jamia Milia university, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and Indian Medical Association are among 6,000 losing the FCRA (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act) registration on Saturday that is mandatory for any association or NGO to receive the foreign funds. “These entities either did not apply for renewal of their FCRA licence or the Union home ministry rejected their applications,” officials said. organisations Those whose FCRA licence validit expired include the Indira Gandhi National Centre For Arts (IGNCA), Indian Institute Of Public Administration (IIPA), Lal Bahadur 3-MEMBER PANEL to submit probe report in 7 days; Clash between 2 groups of boys blamed Police said around half-adozen dumper trucks and some machines were buried under the debris caused by the landslide which occurred around 9 am in Tosham block. Bhiwani CMO Raghuvir Shandilya had earlier said Toofan Sharma (30), a native of Bihar and Binder (23) from Baganwala in Jind district, have died in the incident. DSP (Siwani) Manoj Kumar said four to five people may still be trapped under the debris. Some locals, however, claimed that the number of those trapped could be more but there was no official confirmation on this. Youth held after celebratory firing video goes viral GST collection at Rs 1.29L cr in December New Year: Indian, Chinese troops exchange sweets The city police arrested a youth after his two videos of celebratory firing went viral on social media. The youth was seen firing bullets with a gun at a wedding function in the first video. In another video he was seen firing with the same gun on a mountain. As soon as the viral video reached Maharajpura police station, the police investigated the video and identified the youth as Prakash Nawariya, a resident of Bhind. After that the police launched a manhunt and caught the youth. The police also confiscated the NEW DELHI: GST revenues in December 2021 grew 13 per cent to over Rs 1.29 lakh crore, mainly due to pickup in economic activity and anti-evasion steps, the Finance Ministry said .Though the colon Saturday lection was lower than Rs 1.31 lakh crore mopped up in November, December is the sixth month in a row when the revenues from goods sold and services rendered stood at over Rs 1 lakh crore. "The gross GST revenue collected in Dec is Rs 1,29,780 crore, of which CGST is Rs 22,578 crore, SGST is Rs 28,658 crore, IGST is Rs 69,155 crore (including Rs 37,527 crore collected on import of goods) and cess is Rs 9,389 crore," the Finance Ministry said in a statement. NEW DELHI: India and Chinese troops on Saturday exchanged sweets and greetings at 10 border posts along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) including in eastern Ladakh to mark the New Year, officials said. The gesture by both sides came in the midst of an over 18 month-long standoff between the two sides in several friction points in eastern Ladakh. The border areas in the Ladakh region where the two sides exchanged sweets and greetings are Konkala, Chushul Moldo, Demchok Hot Springs, Daulat Beg Oldi, Bottleneck and KK pass, the officials said. A similar exercise was carried out in Nathula and Kongra La in North Sikkim. The two sides also exchanged sweets and greetings at Bum La and Wacha Damai border points along the LAC in the Arunachal Four people have been killed and many others are feared trapped following a landslide at Dadam mining site . here on Saturday Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij said several rescue teams have pressed into service for rescue work. Vij gave information about the death toll in a tweet. "I am deeply saddened over the incident that took place at the mining site in Bhiwani district of Haryana. The rescue operation is being run by the administration. NDRF team from Ghaziabad, SDRF from Madhuban and an Army unit from Hisar have been called. So far four people have died," said Vij in a tweet. gun from the youth and registered a case under arms act. City Superintendent of Police (CSP), Ravi Bhadauria said that the youth told police during interrogation that he had made the video to fulfill his hobby and made it viral on social media. The youth was in police custody and probe was on, Bhadauria added. CAPABLE of carrying up to 30 kg weight district, says that a tank is fixed in the drone. It is capable of carrying up to 30 kg weight. Seeds are filled in the tank and then seeds are sprinkled in the beds of the farmlands. Abhinav further says that he has demonstrated it in the fields of Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh) on the request of BHU scientists. He modified his drone in which a funnel with holes like a seed drill was installed at the bottom of the tank. In order to operate the drone, the farmers would have to know the basic knowledge to operate the drone. Shastri Memorial Foundation, Lady Shri Ram College for Women (LSR), Delhi College of Engineering and Oxfam India. There were 22,762 FCRA registered NGOs till , . Friday On Saturday it came down to 16,829 as 5,933 NGOs ceased to operate. #! ! Twelve people lost their lives and over a dozen others were injured in a stampede at the famous Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir in the early hours during a heavy rush of devotees on New Year. This is the first such tragedy at the shrine, located atop the Trikuta hills about 50 km from here - that attracts lakhs of people every year. The incident occurred between 2.30 AM and 2.45 AM on Saturday near a relatively narrow passage at gate number 3 outside the sanctum sanctorum of the hilltop shrine where devotees usually arrive round the clock after trekking from the Katra base camp, a dis- Jabalpur boy develops drone for sowing seeds in farmland A young engineer of the city, Abhinav Thakur has developed a drone for sowing seed in the fields. Abhinav, a resident of Madhotal locality in the 1( 3$7,(17 :$6 )281' 0,&521 326,7,9( ,1 ++,1':$5$ 21 $785'$< ($/7+ '(3$570(17 6$,' 7+$7 $ <($5 2/' *,5/ :+2 +$' 5(7851(' 5(&(17/< )520 7+( (7+(5/$1'6 +$6 7(67(' 0,&521 326,7,9( #+,/( 6+( +$6 %((1 $'0,77(' 72 ,675,&7 263,7$/ +(5 (17,5( )$0,/< +$6 %((1 48$5$17,1(' PUNE: Making an alarming revelation, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said on Saturday that more than 10 state ministers and over 20 legislators, besides at least one MP - Supriya Sule have tested Covid positive in the past few days. He also warned that stringent restrictions could be clamped if the new Covid cases or Omicron infections continue to spurt in the state, and appealed to people to follow Covid protocols. "We recently curtailed the Maharashtra Legislature session. Since then, over 10 ministers and at least 20 legislators have tested positive," a grim Pawar Jr said. He was interacting with media persons in Pune after visiting the Victory Monument at Koregaon-Bhima on the 204th anniversary of the Anglo-Maratha War. Saying that everyone wanted to celebrate New Year, , birthday weddings or other occasions, he said people bear in mind that the Omicron variant spreads very quickly and utmost precautions need to be exercised. 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" Over years, India has continuously endeavoured to sweeten and strengthen the bilateral relations with Pakistan through goodwill gestures like this one across the spectrum to ensure peace and tranquillity in the region," said an Army official. tance of nearly 13 km. A high-level inquiry was ordered into the stampede by Lt Governor (L-G) Manoj Sinha to be headed by Principal Secretary (Home) Shaleen Kabra with Divisional Commissioner Jammu Rajiv Langar and Additional Director General of Police Mukesh Singh as its members. Condolences poured in from all quarters and PM Narendra Modi spoke to Sinha and minister Jitendra Singh to take stock of the situation. According to eyewitness, the number of devotees was allegedly beyond the permitted level with flagrant violation of Covid norms, and some of the survivors accused the Jammu and Kashmir administration of mismanagement. Rs 500cr worth emerald lingam seized from locker An antique emerald lingam, estimated by the Idol Wing of the CID to be worth at least Rs 500 crore, has been seized from the bank locker of a resident of Thanjavur, an agrarian district in the rice bowl of Tamil Nadu. However, the exact value of the lingam is being ascertained. According to Idol Wing CID Additional Director General of Police K Jayanth Murali, the seizure was made based on a tip off that antique items were stored at the house of an elderly businessman Samiyappan in Thanjavur. Murali said a team led by Additional Superintendents of Police Rajaram and Ashok Natarajan, which went to Samiyappan’s house, grilled his son Arun Arun told the police about the antique idols. “ his father had safely kept an antique ‘maragatha lingam’ (emerald) in a bank locker. He handed it over to the police but said he was not aware how his father had acquired the lingam weighing about 530 grams and measuring eight centimetres in height,” Murali said. 60 villagers fulfil ‘vow’ by shaving their heads for no Covid-19 deaths Over 60 residents of a village in Neemuch district got their heads tonsured and held a mass feast at a temple to thank the deity for ensuring ‘zero fatality’due to Covid in their village in the year 2021. The ritual was held on Friday to fulfil the vow taken by villagers at the Devnarayan temple in Devari Khawasa village in Manasa tehsil when the pandemic was at its peak, a resident said. Villagers, including women, took out a procession in the village in the Neemuch district. They danced to the tune of religious songs while holding religious flags in their hands. Neemuch district and Manasa tehsil witnessed many fatalities during the first and second wave of corona resulting into the panic among the villagers. Many people in the village were infected with Covid-19, but none of them died and the patients returned home after recovering. “About 25-30 villagers were infected when the coronavirus pandemic was at its peak. At that time, people had taken a ‘Mannat’ (vow) in the ancient temple of Devnarayan ji to tonsure their heads and hold a ‘bhandara’ (mass feast) if no fatality is reported due to the pandemic in 2021,” Ambalal Patidar, a villager said. Another resident Amit Gurjar said that in a bid to thank , the deity 90 villagers shaved their heads and organised a feast. “We thanked the deity as no death due to Covid was reported in our village with a population of 2,500 even though some of the infected villagers were critically ill,” he claimed.