Davinder Singh was arrested earlier this year while ferrying two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway and was suspended in January.
Villagers in Budgam's Nasrullah Pora had gathered at a mosque last Friday, and the police arrived to disperse them. By that night, their property had been destroyed.
A total of 105 Police Medals for Gallantry and three President's Police Medal for Gallantry will go to the J&K police, according to a Union Home Ministry order.
J&K Police chief Dilbag Singh said the force has recommended taking back the gallantry medal awarded to Davinder Singh, who is being investigated for links to Hizbul Mujahideen.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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