India News Live Updates: Delhi govt plans to raise SDRF, incident response system for disaster management

ensions flared at Delhi University's Law Faculty on Tuesday after over 150 students were denied admit cards for upcoming exams due to low attendance, triggering protests by the students who disrupted an exam.

There was no immediate response available from the varsity.

The situation escalated late Monday night when a group of students allegedly broke into the examination department. By morning, they locked the examination centre, declaring, “If we can’t sit for the exam, no one will.” As a result, the 9:30 am exam was delayed by two hours. The university administration eventually intervened, broke the lock, and conducted the exam. Students without admit cards were not permitted to enter, sources said.

Karnataka recorded a total of 36 Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, pushing the state's active cases count to 100.

According to a bulletin issued by the health department, while the positivity rate in the last 24 hours is 9.44 per cent, total tests done in Karnataka in the last 24 hours is 381. This included 361 RTPCR tests.

Earlier in the day, Karnataka Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil said doctors and health workers have been instructed to wear masks.

The director-cum-principal of Bandla Hydro Engineering College in Himachal Pradesh's Bilapsur district who was arrested on charges of sexual harassment has been placed under suspension, Technical Education Minister Rajesh Dharmani said Tuesday.

Himanshu Monga (51) is accused of causing physical and mental abuse to female students and sending inappropriate calls and messages.

The principal was suspended after a committee constituted by the technical education department to probe allegations against him submitted its report, Dharmani said.

The Delhi government is planning to have an active 'Incident Response System' that will kick in during the time of a disaster even as there are also plans to raise an SDRF to tackle critical situations in the national capital, officials said on Tuesday.

According to a senior official, the government is working on developing a proposal for having an Incident Response System, which will comprise officials from different departments.

"Whenever a disaster happens, the steps include evacuation, transporting people to shelter homes, taking care of their food and health needs. The departments that are involved in this exercise more or less remain the same," the official said.

"With the Incident response System, we will have nodal officers marked for all kinds of situations, who in turn will have people under them," he added.

Through this system, there will be better coordination and the government will not be found wanting in case of a disaster.

Issuing the first statement after chairing a cabinet meeting in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said that the meeting -- first time that the J&K government has held a cabinet meeting outside the two cities of Jammu and Srinagar.

The meeting of the J&k cabinet comes a month after terrorists killed 26 tourists in Pahalgam's Baisaran valley. Following one of the worst terror attacks on civilians, India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7 demolishing nine terror centres across Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (Pok) and Pakistan. India inflicted severe damage on Pakistan's military infrastructure over the course of four days, subsequently leading to an understanding, initiated by Pakistan, to halt cross-border military attacks. Read more

In a push to revive Jammu and Kashmir's tourism after the horrific terror attack that killed 26 civilians, the J&K government led by chief minister Omar Abdullah held a special cabinet meeting in Pahalgam today.

This is the first time a cabinet meeting is taking place outside the traditional summer capital, Srinagar, or winter capital, Jammu, during this government's tenure.

The decision to hold a special cabinet meeting comes two days after Abdullah on Saturday proposed a dual approach to resuscitate Jammu and Kashmir tourism sector, severely impacted by the Pahalgam terror attack, urging the Centre to mandate PSUs to hold meetings in Kashmir and to convene parliamentary committee meetings there. Read more

PM Modi, in his address at Gandhinagar, urged the citizens to avoid foreign goods, and encourage the usage of domestic goods.

"We will become 3rd largest economy before 2047 without selling any foreign goods. I urge shopkeepers and businessmen to sell only 'Made in India' domestic goods," said PM Modi.

Prime Minister Modi has identified Tier 2 and 3 cities as the next growth drivers, saying they can play a vital role in making India the world’s third largest economy.

“Our growth centres are urban bodies, we have to make them the centres of the economy,” he said. Attention should be paid to these towns to script a new chapter of growth with the help of civic bodies to fire up the local economy. Civic bodies should also do value addition to farm products to involve villages in the process.

Increasingly startups are coming up in Tier 2 and 3 cities, with many led by women. These startups have the potential to aid growth.

"I want to tell the new generation how our country was ruined. If you study the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, you'll be shocked. It was decided that the dams built on the rivers of Jammu and Kashmir would not be cleaned. Desilting would not be done. The bottom gates for clearing sediments were to remain shut. For 60 years, these gates were never opened. Reservoirs that were supposed to be filled to 100% capacity have now been reduced to only 2% or 3%...Right now, I haven't done anything and people are sweating there (Pakistan). We have opened small gates for cleaning the dams, and there is already a flood there..."

Pakistan realized that it could not win over India so it started a proxy war, where terrorists are trained to compete soldiers and then sent to India to kill innocent civilians - PM Narendra Modi

"I have been in Gujarat for the past two days, yesterday I visited Vadodara, Dahod, Bhuj, Ahmedabad and this morning, Gandhinagar. Everywhere I went, it felt like a wave of patriotism, like the roaring sound of a saffron sea. The roar of the saffron sea, the fluttering Tricolour and immense love for the motherland in every heart. It was a sight to behold, it was an unforgettable scene..."

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and his wife were on Tuesday blessed with a baby boy at a private hospital in Kolkata. Yadav, the Leader of the Opposition in the Bihar assembly, took to social media to share the news. "Good Morning! The wait is finally over! So grateful, blessed and pleased to announce the arrival of our little boy. Jai Hanuman!" he posted on X.

Six people died on the Gandhi Bridge along the Dhule-Solapur National Highway near Gevrai town when an SUV hit a divider at around 11 pm last night. No one was injured initially. While passengers stepped out of the vehicle to remove it from the divider, a speeding truck rammed into them. All six people died on the spot. Further investigation is on: Navneet Kanwat, SP Beed - ANI

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New Delhi, May 27 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid tributes to India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary.

He said on X, "Tributes to our former PM, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary." Nehru is India's longest serving prime minister who was at the helm since its independence in August 1947 to till his death in 1964.

There was certainly a desire on the part of the terrorists to provoke communal tensions in India between Hindu and Muslim communities that failed spectacularly. All communities rallied around in a very united manner...in the briefings that Indian govt and Indian military gave every day during this 4 days of conflict, two of the military officers who were doing the briefings were women officers and one of them was a Muslim, which sent a clear message...that this is not about Hindu-Muslim, this is about terrorism. - Congress MP Shashi Tharoor during a media interaction in Georgetown

FIR filed against chief whip and BJP MLC N Ravi Kumar at Station Bazar Police Station in Kalaburagi for his alleged remarks against Kalaburagi Deputy Commissioner Fauzia Tarannum during the protest on 24th May.