After being denied licence for guesthouse by MCD because it lacked a fire safety clearance, owner Bajaj obtained a licence for it under Delhi govt's B&B scheme.
Only one operational entry-exit gate in front, no fire-fighting equipment, illegal construction of 24 rooms instead of sanctioned 6: Flourish Stays B&B never even applied for fire safety clearance.
At least 10 people have been killed & as many others injured in explosions at makeshift firecracker unit in Thrissur. Safety lapses, heat & festival demand in focus.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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