&w=3840&q=100)
LIVE news updates: Pakistan began pleading with entire world to stop India, says Rajnath Singh
Today's top news: In a landmark moment, the National Defence Academy (NDA) in Pune saw its first cohort of 17 women cadets graduate on Friday, alongside more than 300 male cadets. This marks the successful completion of the NDA's inaugural co-educational batch.
The cadets passed through the symbolic 'Antim Pag' at the Khetrpal Parade Ground, a key ceremonial tradition at the tri-service training academy, often referred to as the cradle of military leadership.
These women cadets were admitted to the NDA's 148th course in 2022 after a Supreme Court directive in 2021 led the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) to open applications to female candidates.
India plays a pivotal role in supporting United Nations peacekeeping missions, including efforts to promote accountability for crimes committed against peacekeepers, according to Jean-Pierre Lacroix, the UN's Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations. Lacroix made the remarks at a press briefing on Thursday, held in observance of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers.
11:58 AM
Eminent Kannada poet HS Venkatesha Murthy no more
Acclaimed Kannada poet and playwright H S Venkatesha Murthy, widely known as HSV, died at a private hospital here on Friday, Murthy was 80. He had been suffering from age-related ailments. He is survived by four sons, they said. He was a prolific writer, who contributed significantly to Kannada literature as an essayist, playwright, novelist, children's literature author, translator, critic, poet, and film song-story-dialogue writer.
11:17 AM
Vehicle skids off road in J-K, eight police personnel
At least eight police personnel were injured on Friday as their vehicle skidded off the road in Uri area of Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district, officials said.
The injured police personnel were rushed to sub district hospital Uri, they said, adding their condition was stated to be stable.
11:11 AM
CBI arrests deputy director of ED in bribery case
The CBI has arrested Deputy Director of Enforcement Directorate in Odisha, Chintan Raghuvanshi, in connection with an alleged bribery case, officials said Friday.
The agency had conducted a trap operation on Thursday on getting inputs that the officer was allegedly going to take the bribe amount of Rs 20 lakh from a Bhubaneswar-based mining businessman, they said.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Indian Express
27 minutes ago
- Indian Express
Back in public eye: Madhya Pradesh minister who put party in a spot with remarks on Col Sofiya Qureshi
After his remarks on Operation Sindoor caused an uproar, Madhya Pradesh Tribal Welfare Minister Vijay Shah made his first public appearance in 17 days when he visited the family of a rape-murder victim in Khandwa. Shah was booked by the Madhya Pradesh Police last month after saying in a public meeting in Mhow on May 11 that India taught a lesson to those responsible for the Pahalgam terror attack using 'their own sister'. While he did not name anyone, it has been alleged that he was alluding to Colonel Sofiya Qureshi, who had briefed the media when Operation Sindoor was underway. The minister is now under investigation by a Supreme Court-ordered special investigation team (SIT), and had not been seen in public until May 28, when he visited the grieving family of a woman who was gangraped and murdered in Khandwa district's Khalwa region. Both the Madhya Pradesh High Court and the Supreme Court have reprimanded the minister for his statement, and Shah has apologised for the comments three times. The ruling BJP went into damage control mode, and the central leadership of the party is yet to take a call on Shah's future. While his visit to Khandwa on May 28 marks his first public outing since the backlash, he did not speak to the media. Local BJP sources said Shah spent over two hours with the victim's family and promised both financial support and systemic interventions. He reportedly handed over a Rs 60,000 cheque, committed to building a tin roof for the family's house, and promised further financial assistance, sources said. 'He also said that a young girl in the family who had dropped out of school would be re-enrolled. Monthly monitoring meetings are to be initiated in the area to track school dropouts,' a BJP leader said. The Opposition Congress had launched a sarcastic 'missing minister' campaign, plastering posters across Indore and Bhopal with his photograph and a mock reward of Rs 11,000 for anyone who could find him. During this period, Shah skipped the special Cabinet meeting in the historic Rajwada palace to commemorate regional icon, Ahilyabai Holkar, on May 20 and another special Cabinet meeting hosted in the scenic town of Pachmarhi on Tuesday, to honour tribal icon and freedom fighter, Raja Bhabhoot Singh. Shah had also skipped the 300th birth anniversary events of Ahilyabai Holkar, for which Prime Minister Narendra Modi had arrived in Bhopal on May 31. The Supreme Court has extended the operation of its interim order protecting Shah from arrest. It also closed the suo motu proceedings pending before the Madhya Pradesh High Court as it is already seized of the matter. The SIT had submitted its report to the Supreme Court, which contained investigation details like forensic evidence, and sought more time for the probe.
Indian Express
28 minutes ago
- Indian Express
Kamal Haasan, and the Tamil vs Kannada over-reaction
The cacophony of outrage over Kamal Haasan's remark that Kannada was 'born out of Tamil' has reached an unseemly but not unexpected crescendo — it follows a pattern seen whenever the politics of language and the language of hurt sentiments are invoked. It has gone all the way to the Karnataka High Court, which advised Haasan to apologise and questioned his credentials to make such a statement, asking, 'Are you a historian, linguist?' But there are other pertinent questions, which the Court didn't ask: Is such escalation over a misinformed comment proportionate or justified? Does one need to be an expert, or even correct, to exercise the right to free speech? Is this an appropriate use of the state's time and resources? The fallout of Haasan's remark saw apologies demanded, protests held, effigies burnt, a police complaint filed, a state minister calling for a ban on screening the actor-politician's film Thug Life in Karnataka and the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce promptly obliging him. There is a history and a context to this mobilisation of linguistic grievance: In the present, it is exacerbated by growing resentment over the presence of people from other states, particularly Hindi speakers. Alongside this is an older anxiety over the dominance of Tamil speakers in Bengaluru, in the backdrop of the regional rivalry between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Looming over it all, but sometimes unmentioned in the context of North-South and South-South tussles, is the shadow of English. All this — with parallels across multiple states, for instance in neighbouring Maharashtra — creates fertile ground for a politics of relentless prickliness that makes mountains out of molehills. It can lead to violence, and often has. Haasan is wrong about Kannada and Tamil, and appears to be ill-informed about the history of the Dravidian languages. One did not come from the other — the two are better characterised as sisters. He has refused to apologise. The question is not whether or not he's been wise. What's questionable is the clamour for an apology — it comes from a place of parochialism. What is needed, instead, is an imagination that is broad enough to accommodate the aspirations of regional and linguistic subnationalism and address people's legitimate concerns about the future of their mother tongues. Also needed is a self-confidence to engage fruitfully with an increasingly cosmopolitan reality. Political leaders could do worse than take a leaf out of Karnataka Deputy CM D K Shivakumar's book. In one of the most sensible responses to this controversy, he said, 'We are not enemies; we are all friends. I don't want to comment on it because I don't know the history of that issue.'
Time of India
33 minutes ago
- Time of India
1,408 traffic violators stopped in their tracks
traffic violations road safety reckless driving Traffic West division cracks down on violators: Rs.7.38 lakh in fines in 1 dayThe Traffic Police of the West Division launched a special operation targeting various, resulting in the registration of 1,408 cases and the collection of Rs.7,38,700 in fines, on Monday. The crackdown aimed at curbing dangerous road behaviour such as triple riding, driving against one-way routes, violating no-entry zones, and unauthorised to the data released, a total of 45 cases were booked for triple riding, resulting in fines of Rs.22,500. Violations involving driving against one-way roads led to 114 cases and penalties amounting to Rs.58,500. The most common offence was parking violations across all categories, with 240 cases registered and fines totaling Rs.1,36,400. Meanwhile, 210 cases were filed for entering no-entry zones, collecting Rs.1,05,500 in fines. In addition to these, 795 cases were booked under other traffic violations, contributing to a significant Rs.4,16,800 in drivers and riders caught during the crackdown were educated about the importance of following traffic rules to ensurefor all. Authorities have confirmed that such special operations will continue in the coming days, reinforcing strict compliance and reducing accidents caused byA 19-year-old was booked for reckless driving after he was caught performing a wheelie on a public road in broad daylight on Old Mysore Road within the limits of the Magadi Road Traffic Police part of a special operation launched on the same day to curb dangerous driving, a team from the West Division was patrolling the area when they spotted the youth, identified as Janakiram, riding a scooter with its front wheel lifted off the ground, a stunt commonly known as police promptly intercepted the vehicle and seized it on the spot. Following a preliminary investigation, an FIR was registered against Janakiram under Section 281 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for endangering human life, Section 129 of the Indian Motor Vehicles (IMV) Act for not wearing protective headgear, and Section 189 of the IPC along with 177 for furnishing false information.A high-speed crash on the upper side of the BGS flyover claimed two lives and left two others seriously injured In the early hours of Tuesday. The incident occurred around 1.30 am near the Ganesh Temple when two motorcycles to police, Mani and his friend Akash were riding a bike at high speed when they lost control and crashed into an electric two-wheeler ahead of them. The impact threw both riders off the bike. Mani sustained a leg injury, while Akash suffered severe injuries to his face, head, and legs. He was later declared dead at Victoria electric two-wheeler was being ridden by Afzal and Qasim, who also fell due to the collision. Afzal dead, Qasim critical after the bike accident.
