Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
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Topic: CAPF

35 lakh ‘Ayushman’ health cards given to CAPF personnel & their families: MoS Nityanand Rai

PTI -
Union Minister Nityanand Rai said the beneficiaries of the scheme can avail cashless healthcare benefits at a chain of 24,000 hospitals across the country.

‘Neutral’ central force to be deployed along Assam-Mizoram border, says home ministry

PTI -
Assam and Mizoram governments have agreed to withdraw their respective state police and CAPF will take over the responsibility of the inter-state border.

Another 71 CAPF companies sent to West Bengal amid poll-related violence

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Till now, a total of 1,000 companies were earmarked for the conduct of elections in the state that has 294 assembly seats.

5 months since Amit Shah’s ‘Made in India’ push, CAPF canteens yet to go full swadeshi 

Ananya Bhardwaj -
Union Home Minister Amit Shah had announced that CAPF canteens will only sell swadeshi goods amid a push by Modi government to make India self-reliant.

Read my lips, forget the camera

Shekhar Gupta -
Say Central forces' angry soldiers. They need reform, committed leaders. And very sensitive handling.

CRPF officer booked for ‘making fake RSS Twitter handle, using it for IPS parity campaign’

Sanya Dhingra -
The CRPF officer has denied allegations of impersonation. The controversy comes amid a longstanding campaign among CAPFs to seek parity with IPS officers.

Govt transfers CRPF officer behind list of ‘swadeshi’ items removed from CAPF canteens

Sanya Dhingra -
The CRPF officer had issued an order junking more than 1,000 products by firms such as Dabur, VIP, Nestle from CAPF canteens. The order was later put on hold.

PM’s promises to private sector reassuring, but shouldn’t be limited to words. Govt must act at lightning speed

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Govt puts on holds list of non-Swadeshi items for CAPF canteens

PTI -
According to officials, the list of banned items included many made in India products, leading to it being put on hold, and a revised list will be released soon.

IPS Abhinav Kumar’s allegations baseless. CAPF cadre officers fighting an existential battle

Sanjiv Krishan Sood -
The unyielding stubbornness of the IPS officers leading CAPFs towards addressing genuine grievances of cadre officers has forced them to approach the courts.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping | Representational image| kremlin.ru

Chinese economy is feeling the heat. Blame Xi’s political Lysenkoism, vaccination policy

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Smarting from the failures of his Great Leap Forward campaign, which hit the economy hard, Mao launched the 1962 war with India to rally the nation behind him.
Illustration by Soham Sen

Forget Gyanvapi for a moment, Varanasi needs justice for a recent carnage: 2006 IM bombings

Congress Chintan Shivir to conclude today, CWC to give final nod to committees' recommendations

For long, Congress wavered on social justice. Now it’s waking up to BJP’s OBC politics

Economy

Congress supporters staged a protest against inflation in Ranchi on 10 May | ANI

As inflation breaks records, Modi govt plans to counter criticism ahead of anniversary & polls

Neelam Pandey -
While retail inflation hit an 8-year high of 7.8% in April, wholesale inflation surged to a 9-year high of 15.08% on the back of elevated food and energy prices in the same month.

Defence

Satellite image of the development on the site | Twitter | @detresfa_

China building ‘bigger, broader’ 2nd bridge at Pangong Tso that can carry armoured columns

Snehesh Alex Philip -
China's People's Liberation Army aims for multiple routes to counter any possible operations by the Indian forces on the southern banks of the Pangong Tso in the future.

National Interest

How Congress is like the Ambassador & why Indian politics needs a brand new set of wheels

Shekhar Gupta -
Like the car, nothing the party has done to reinvent itself has worked. Only way forward is to offer something looking towards the future, not in image of glorious past.

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