Goa: Police stop IAS officer’s car for checking, forced to do squats; DG calls action unwarranted | Goa News

PANAJI: North Goa SP Harischandra Madkaikar on Tuesday allegedly made personnel attached to the Old Goa police station to do squats at his office in Porvorim after they stopped an IAS official attached to a central govt office during a nakabandi at Santa Cruz. Director general of police Alok Kumar said Madkaikar’s actions were unwarranted….

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Gadkari directs officials to carry out checking of all sleeper buses by govt-approved agencies | India News

NEW DELHI: Amid reports of widespread non-compliance of safety norms in sleeper coach buses, road transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday directed officials to carry out checking of all such buses by govt-approved testing agencies — ARAI, CIRT and iCAT — and ensure compliance.He was chairing a review meeting on the recent bus fires in…

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Government checking veracity of ‘surrender offer’ by Maoists | India News

NEW DELHI: CPI(Maoist), in a purported press statement signed by its top leader ‘Abhay’ – the nom de guerre used by senior-most politburo and central committee member Mallojula Venugopal Rao – has offered to lay down arms and enter into a temporary ceasefire.Pushed to the brink by sustained counter-Naxal operations in ‘core’ areas deep inside…

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