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Singing of national anthem "Jana Gana Mana" has been made compulsory at all madrassas in Uttar Pradesh from Thursday, an official said here.The Registrar of the Uttar Pradesh Madrassa Education Board, SN Pandey, also issued an order to this effect to all the District Minority Welfare Officers on May 9.

According to the decision taken in the board meeting on March 24, the singing of national anthem at the time of prayer at all madrassas across the state has been made mandatory, he said. He said regular classes at the madrassas began from May 12 after Ramzan holidays, and the order came into effect from the same day.

Army chief General Manoj Pande on Thursday reviewed the prevailing security situation and operational preparedness along the frontier in eastern Ladakh, even as the continuing military confrontation with China has entered the third year now.

On his first visit to Ladakh after becoming the Army chief, Gen Pande was briefed on the situation by top commanders, including Northern Command chief Lt-General Upendra Dwivedi and 14 Corps commander Lt-General Anindya Sengupta.

“The high level of operational readiness being maintained by the forces while undertaking a high tempo of capability development was highlighted in the briefings,” an officer said.

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the CBI to file a status report of its probe into the 10-year-old UPA-era coal scam cases and the Manipur extra-judicial killing cases in which the court had in 2017 ordered the central agency to probe the incidents.

In the coal scam case, the PIL petitioner's counsel Prashant Bhushan said that though nearly 10 years have passed, the CBI is yet to conclude its probe into all UPA-era coal block allotment cases, in which coal blocks were allocated to private parties for exploitation allegedly without following any procedure resulting in huge loss to exchequer.

In usual alliance is in the making between MVA & BJP government in Madhya Pradesh on political crucial issue of restoration of OBC quota in urban and rural bodies

CM Uddhav Thackeray expects to speak to his counterpart Shivraj Chauhan to explore an option of filing a joint review petition against SC’s recent rulings

Both may lead a joint delegation to sensitise PM and CJI on OBC quota issue and why the postponement of local body elections in its absence is necessary

Maharashtra SEC moves an application in SC with a plea to allow pre-poll process by end of July as conducting polls in July and August won't be possible in the middle of monsoon

Amid a growing demand-supply mismatch of electricity and high cost of power to commercial units, businesses and other establishments are increasingly relying on diesel generators (gensets) to ensure uninterrupted power supplies. At last count, the country’s diesel genset capacity was about 95 gigawatt (GW), or a quarter of the total installed power capacity in the country (400 GW).

As against this, renewable energy capacity (wind+solar) at the end of April 2022 was 109 GW, but the power generated in these units is just a quarter of that at present.

Diesel gensets, unlike utility-scale plants that run on diesel as a fuel, are mostly used as back-up power in areas where reliability of power is a big concern.