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The official added that under the social media guidelines for the forces , it is clearly mentioned that troopers and officers must not accept friend requests from strangers and also refrain from putting out official details on their profile.

Documents seen by HT show that troopers and officers have been asked to be particularly careful while using Facebook, Twitter, Vkontakte, Qzone, Odnoklassniki, Linkedin and Google+.

There are lapses, the ITBP officer admitted, usually involving junior troopers. “They do not have that much access to sensitive information but whenever such things are noticed, measures are immediately taken to inform the concerned jawan. With the checks and balances in place that we have, no untoward case has been reported.”

Subimal Bhattacharjee, a cyber policy adviser and a member of the Research Advisory Network of Global Commission on Internet Governance, said this looks like a “surveillance exercise” aimed at finding out three key details: size of companies posted in sensitive regions, troop movement and type of weapons used by forces.

“Despite being directed to check their social media activities, paramilitary forces are increasingly using online platforms to communicate. The threat is very real and security personnel have been found using symbols and uniforms of their force, making them vulnerable,” Bhattacharjee said.

A senior Border Security force offer added: “We can’t say for sure whether the profiles are handled by Pakistani or Chinese nationals but without a doubt there is a malafide intent beneath all this.”

A senior officer of the CRPF said

that while the social media monitoring cells are monitoring online activities 24X7, there is a need for far greater vigil given the vastness of social media.

on condition of anonymity

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“Then only, they will become the real leaders. If they try to break the line, they will be finished,” he said.

The old guard in the Congress has been feeling increasingly anxious about their future role in the organisation since Gandhi took over as the party chief in December last year.

For his part, Gandhi has repeatedly sought to reassure the seniors that a possible generational shift and proposed reforms in the organisational structure will not render them irrelevant in the party. He has often said that seniors and the Gennext will have to work together to revive the Congress.

“Rahul Gandhi has maintained that he will use the experience of seniors and energy of young leaders in reviving the Congress,” Gehlot said. “I have been witness to changes in Congress since the times of Indira Gandhi. The present senior leaders are all products of Youth Congress. Many of us became chief ministers and some general secretaries. When Rajiv Gandhi came, he promoted several young leaders and they got protection during Sonia Gandhi’s tenure. This debate is not new. Rahul Gandhi will not force the seniors to sit at home.”

In the coming days, Gandhi is expected to reconstitute the powerful Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party's highest decision-making body, and also carry out an organisational reshuffle to make it fighting fit for the 2019 general election, which will be preceded by a string of sate polls.

His predecessor and mother Sonia Gandhi said this month that the new Congress chief faces a tough task of striking a balance between the old guard and the young leaders.

“He wants a balance of young and seniors. It is not an easy task. But he has made it clear that he values the role and contributions of seniors,” she said at the India Today conclave in Mumbai on March 9. but people coming to weekly special clinics will have to come back following week.

Aman Kumar, 27, who runs a shop in Saket, got his wife to Safdarjung to get her dressing changed on Friday. “She had an abdominal surgery last month and the stitches got infected. The doctor asked us to come to the OPD to get a fresh dressing today, but it is a holiday so I will have to close my shop again tomorrow to be back,” he said.

With OPDS shut, many patients have started thronging the emergency departments. “The emergency attendance has nearly doubled today,” said a data entry operator at the AIIMS emergency department.

“I came to the emergency department because I was told that there are no doctors in the OPD; it was the same yesterday, and we cannot keep waiting,” said Diwakar Kumar, whose diabetic father’s kidneys and eyes have been affected due to the high blood sugar levels. The duo is from Begusarai, Bihar.

Other hospitals have also registered increased footfalls in the emergency. “The footfall has definitely gone up in the emergency by 20%-30%, but this happens whenever OPD services are closed. We treat, and give medicines even to those patients who don’t need emergency treatment and ask them to come back to the OPD later,” said a doctor on duty at Lok Nayak hospital’s emergency unit. allegations pertain to the period between December 2013 and May 2015.

The law ministry official defended the ministry’s act of directly referring the matter to the Karnataka high court, saying that a fresh complaint was made to both the Prime Minister and the President in December 2017, which was then sent by these offices to the law ministry’s department of justice. HT has copies of the identical complaints. The district judge declined comment on the issue. HT is not naming him.

The official said the complaint was sent “routinely” to the HC Registrar General “because all ministries are bound by the Vishaka guidelines which say they must act on each complaint and file a status report on what happened.” The ministry had only asked for information on the action taken not insisted on an inquiry”, the official added.

Describing the probe against the district judge as uncalled for, Justice Chelameswar pointed out in his letter that the judge’s name was cleared by the SC collegium after the allegations levelled against him were proved to be “incorrect and concocted”.

“We, the judges of the Supreme Court of India, are being accused of ceding our independence and institutional integrity to the executive’s incremental encroachment,” he wrote.

Listing the sequence of events, the law ministry official said the complainant made her first complaint on June 3, 2016 to the CJI, against the alleged harassment when the district judge’s name was already under consideration for elevation and soon after cleared by the SC collegium. She also sent her complaint to the law ministry which forwarded it to the collegium , but it was ignored, the official added. The ministry sent back the file recommending the appointment to the collegium, but this it has been returned (to the ministry), the official said. the report said.

India, which has a no-first use policy for its nuclear arsenal, began working on second strike capability soon after its nuclear tests in 1998. It has completed its nuclear triad and has the capability to launch strategic weapons from land, air and sea.

Without naming India, the Pakistan military also sought to blame New Delhi for disturbing the strategic balance in the region by acquiring nuclear submarines and nuclear-capable missiles.

The development of second strike capability “reflects Pakistan’s response to provocative nuclear strategies and posture being pursued in the neighbourhood through i nduction of nuclear submarines and shipborne nuclear missiles, leading to nuclearisation of Indian Ocean region,” the statement said.

The Babur missile was fired “from an underwater dynamic platform” and “successfully engaged its target with precise accuracy, meeting all the flight parameters”, the statement said.

A brief video posted on the ISPR website showed the red and white missile emerging from water and cruising over the sea before hitting a target on land. At the time of its launch from the underwater platform, the missile was within a capsule which was jettisoned when the Babur rose above the sea surface. The military did not say where the test was conducted.

The test was witnessed by director general of the Strategic Plans Division (SPD), which is responsible for managing Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, the commander of the Naval Strategic Force Command, senior officials, and scientists and engineers from strategic scientific organisations.

This is only the second time that Pakistan has announced a test of the submarine launched Babur-iii missile, with the first test being conducted in January 2017. During the first test, the Babur-iii was launched from an unidentified “underwater mobile platform”. The Babur-iii is the naval variant of the land-based Babur-ii, which was tested in December 2016. filed a case,” she said.

Anil Swarup, secretary, school education in the Union Human Resource Development Ministry, said the mail was sent at 1.39 am but directed to an official email address, so it was checked only at 8.55 that morning. “It was sent to controller of examination for cross checking but as per rules the question paper cannot be opened before 9.30 am. By the time we crosschecked, the paper had started and it was not possible to cancel it at that moment,” he said,

Meanwhile, the special investigative team, led by two deputy commissioner of police-rank officers, is yet to make a breakthrough in the case. Police have so far questioned around 34 persons, including students and tutors who received the question paper over Whatsapp. Police have also approached CBSE’S controller of examination, seeking details of those who had set the question papers, where they were stored and how they were distributed. misused. A committee will also be formed to bring in changes in the examination processes so that such leaks don’t take place next year, he said.

Swarup downplayed rumours about papers for other subjects being leaked. “Some people are trying to play dirty tricks, trying to show a paper on social media which is not the actual paper... most of the information being circulated on the social media is fake.” He said responsibility for the fiasco would be fixed after the investigation is complete. There have been several calls for the head of the CBSE chairperson.

CBSE chairperson Anita Karwal denied she had been questioned by the police. “They were trying to understand the process,” she said.

The Crime Branch of Delhi Police has identified over 10 Whatsapp groups, each having 50-60 members who are believed to be involved in the paper leak, one of the biggest scandals to have hit CBSE. The members of the group include private tutors, students and parents.

HRD minister Prakash Javadekar tweeted: “In the larger interest of academics and students the sensitive Govt has taken a decision not to have nationwide retest in Maths for class 10”.

“Out of 16 lakh students, more than 14 lakh students of Class X will not have to give retest in Maths. This is final decision. As far as Delhi and Haryana, where police investigation is on, retest for Class-x Maths will be conducted only if investigation points to large scale leak. There should be no confusion,” Javadekar tweeted. the year. The L-G’S office also said the file was returned with several observations on March 8 with an invitation to Gahlot to discuss the matter personally with Baijal. “However, no attempt has been made by the office of the minister to discuss the matter.” The L-G’S alleged move drew sharp criticism from CM Kejriwal. “I feel very sad that L-G is practically obstructing every scheme and every project of Delhi government. How do we run the government like this? My appeal to BJP - Don’t obstruct our work. I challenge your governments in other states to compete with us in work (sic),” Kejriwal tweeted. Baijal said Gahlot’s revenue department had placed on record similar schemes in other states such as Odisha, MP and Rajasthan where incometax payers have been excluded in addition to some other eligibility criteria.