Patna-Ranchi completes 1st trial run

The Patna-Ranchi Vande Bharat Express successfully completed the first phase of its trial run on Monday. The semi highspeed train, which arrived here around 12.40 pm from Patna, left for the Bihar capital on its return leg at 2.20 pm, CPRO of Ranchi Railway Division Nishant Kumar told PTI.

A loco-pilot of the train told reporters that the journey from Patna to the Jharkhand capital was hassle-free. A senior official, who did not wish to be quoted, said if everything goes

U’KHAND TO ACT TOUGH AGAINST VIOLATORS OF LAW directed the senior officers to take every possible measure to ensure that people living in vulnerable locations are safe.

The Indian Coast Guard has taken all the preventive measures. Our ships have relayed the message to all the mariners, and the port authorities to come back to safer areas.

 Police closed the visitors’ entry to Girguam Chowpatty beach due to Cyclone’s landfall in Kutch, in Mumbai on Monday.

 Delhi, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and west UP may get rains on Thursday & Friday under influence of Biparjoy which is gaining steam in Arabian Sea.

 The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has also predicted light rain and generally cloudy on June 15 and June 16 in Delhi.

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Uttarkashi: Uttarakhand Police said that strict legal action would be initiated against those violating law & order & assured that they are conducting flag marches & taking other measures in areas, which has been seeing tensions between communities. “Recently there have been incidents of elopement in Uttarkashi, Vikas Nagar & other areas. Police are doing their duty to establish peace”, Additional DGP (Law & Order) V Murugesan said.

Mizoram government has sought Rs 10 crore from the Centre to provide relief to the 10,700 people, sheltered in the state after being displaced due to the ethnic violence in Manipur since May 3. “The Union govt has not yet responded to the Chief Minister’s request,” Lalchamliana, who also holds the Disaster Management and Rehabilitation portfolio, told the media.

The tiny northeastern state has been providing shelter to 34,278 refugees from Chin state of Myanmar as well as 773 refugees from Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of southeast Bangladesh.

New Delhi: Congress on Monday questioned PM Modi’s silence on the Manipur violence and demanded that an all-party delegation be sent to meet all the stakeholders in the crisishit northeastern state. Congress General secretary Jairam Ramesh, along with Mukul Wasnik and Manipur and Mizoram in-charge Bhakta Charan Das said, “Two weeks since the Union Home Minister went to Manipur on a three-day visit and announced a series of measures, the state continues to burn. Violence and arson continues in all peripheral areas.”

smoothly, the final run of the train would be conducted later this month.

There was a huge gathering of selfie-takers at Ranchi station. Similarly, crowds were visible at Koderma, Hazaribag and Barkakana stations. The train was welcomed in Jharkhand at Koderma station by Hazarabag MP and senior BJP leader Jayant Sinha, who also travelled in it from Koderma to Barkakana

As Indian carriers Air India and IndiGo prepare to expand their global presence in civil aviation, the DGCA has made it easier for Indian carriers to fly to new destinations abroad.

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Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said that the Reserve Bank of India and Central Bank of the UAE are in active dialogue for a RupeeDirham trade mechanism. "Talks for in Rupee-dirham are progressing at a fast pace and the Finance Ministry of India is very supportive of it," Goyal said addressing the first meeting of the joint committee of the India-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).

"If we recall in March 2022 when we got talking about how we can make business more at- tractive between the two countries how we can help our business persons reduce operating costs and transaction costs.

Dialogue of the RupeeDirham trade was actually sown in that meeting. It's just about a year since then, but both countries have made significant progress." He, however, did not mention any timeline on the finalization of the Rupee-Dirham-based trade mechanism.

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Students pursuing MBBS need to complete the course within nine years from the date of admission, while they will get only four attempts to clear the first year, according to the new regulations issued by the National Medical Commission. Counselling shall entirely be based on the seat matrix provided by NMC.

To this end, the civil aviation regulator has decreased the earlier 33 checkpoint assessment to just 10 checkpoints now. This has been done to make it easier for airlines to expand their network to destinations that have no airline services in place.

"The DGCA conducts this assessment to

The civil aviation regulator has decreased the earlier 33 checkpoint assessment to just 10 checkpoints now check the preparedness levels of Indian airline operators before permitting their operations to a new foreign destination. In order to further ease the process for grant of such permission the existing regulatory requirements have been comprehensively reviewed in consultation with all stakeholders and the current

33-point checklist has been rationalised and reduced to a 10-point checklist related to their preparedness for the intended operations, removing other generic and redundant provisions in the existing checklist," a DGCA official said.

"The objective of this rationalisation is to simplify and facilitate the process for Indian carriers to start operations on a new international destination and would significantly reduce the documentation/compliances required to be submitted by the operators," the official added.

NIA shares footage of attack on Indian High Commission

New Delhi: India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has released over 2 hours of CCTV footage of the attempted vandalisation of the Indian High Commission in London by anti-national elements. NIA has appealed to the public to provide information regarding the people seen in the CCTV footage to the agency.

Nilakshi accredited as next Indian envoy to Georgia

New Delhi: Nilakshi

Saha Sinha, the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Armenia, has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to Georgia. She was appointed as Ambassador of India to the Republic of Armenia this January.

Odisha Train Crash: UAE-based Indian to donate money

Dubai: A 28-year-old

Abu Dhabi-based Indian chef, who recently won a cash prize of more than 4 lakhs in a lottery, has pledged to donate a portion of his winnings to the victims of the Odisha train accident that claimed 288 lives, a media report said.

8 people including 3 children die in car accident in Nepal

Kathmandu: At least 8 people, including 3 children died on Monday after the car they were travelling in veered off the road in Nepal’s Pyuthan district, police said. The 7 victims identified so far - 3 women, a man & 3 children were pilgrims who were returning from the Temple.