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Snubbed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar a few days back, the leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly, Tejashwi Yadav from the RJ(D), on Monday came down heavily on political strategist Prashant Kishor saying that he is “not a factor in Bihar”.

The leader of opposition has asserted that he took “no notice” of the IPAC founder who last week launched ‘Jan Suraaj’, a quasi-political platform, which according to Kishor might become a full-fledged party contesting elections at a later stage.

Yadav was responding to Kishor’s brutal take on his father Lalu Prasad Yadav, who had ruled the state as chief minister for seven years.

Good news for air passengers as connecting flights from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh to eight cities across the country are going to commence soon. In fact, flight connectivity for Surat, Dehradun, Rajkot, Kolkata, Patna, Jaipur, and Goa will start from Kanpur as soon as the taxi link is made from the runway of the new terminal at the airport.

Now Kanpur and Varanasi will also be connected via flights. SpiceJet has also added it to its schedule to start connecting flights from Kanpur to eight cities. For this, permission has also been obtained from the authorities.

A top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander was among two terrorists who were killed in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district on Sunday, police said.

The encounter in the wee hours of the day broke out after police and Army’s 9-RR jointly launched a search and cordon operation at Cheyan Devsar following inputs about the presence of the terrorists in the area, a police spokesperson said, seeking anonymity.

As the search party approached the spot, the hiding terrorists fired at the forces which immediately retaliated. A CRPF team later joined the operation.

At a time when other states are facing severe load shedding during the heatwave-like situation in their states, West Bengal is able to meet its power demand without any deficit. State average demand is between 9,000 and 9,200 MW and able to meet without any load shedding.

Last week the demand in Kolkata and neighboring areas under CESC was 2,334 MW.

According to a senior official from CESC, there is no shortage of power supply and incidents of load shedding have been curbed in the city and also in the state.

To enhance ease of doing business, the Department of Telecom has removed network operation and control center charges for the use of space segments for all services like VSAT, satellite telephony, etc for which permits are issued by the department. The DoT earlier levied Rs 21 lakh per transponder per annum for 36 megahertz of the spectrum on a pro-rata basis as NOCC charges.

The NOCC was created under the DoT to control the transmissions from the ground segment (satellite earth stations) along with the master control facility under the Department of Space. /Representative image

Besides this, the department also levied NOCC charges of Rs 6,000 for every trial of antenna that is used for receiving and transmitting signals.