Taipei: Helicopter crash kills eight people, including a Thai military commander. The incident occurred this morning. The accident is expected to take place in Taiwan on the presidential and parliamentary elections. The helicopter crashed in a mountainous area on the northern side of the island, officials said. Taiwan Air Force Commander confirmed at noon that Chief of Staff Shen Ying Ming and seven military personnel were killed. The accident occurred while the copter was trying to make an emergency landing.
New Delhi: 28 Aadhaar Seva Kendras have been set up across the country for new Aadhaar registration and Aadhaar corrections. The centers will be under UIDAI, the Aadhaar provider. This is in addition to the more than 38,000 Aadhaar enrollment centers run by banks, post offices, and state governments. UIDAI announced that it will be able to perform thousands of new registration and correctional tasks daily through the Aadhaar Seva Kendras, which operate every day of the week.
New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India has launched a new mobile app to know the value of currency notes. The Mobile Aided Note Identifier “MANI” app is designed by RBI for people with visual impairment. “It will be available on Android and IOS operating systems,” said Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das, who inaugurated the app in Mumbai.
Malayalam actor Balu Varghese is getting married in the new year. Balu revealed his love for the actress and model Aileena Catherine. Aileena revealed this via her Instagram story.
Last month, Balu proposed to Aileena in the presence of relatives and friends at Aileena’s birthday party. Aileena expressed her happiness in the Instagram post. Aileena took to Instagram to share the happy moments of her life.
Balu has done good roles in films like Honey Bee, King Liar, Ithihasa, Premassothram, Chungs, Vijay Super and Pournami.
New Delhi: India’s third mission to the Lunar will be completed by 2020 Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for External Affairs said.
“The Lander and Rover mission will be implemented in 2020. Chandrayaan 2 was not a failure, we have learned a lot from it. No country in the world has succeeded in its first attempt, and even the United States has tried many times. But we don’t need that much effort, ‘says Jitendra Singh.
Chandrayaan 2 was India’s first mission to land on the Lunar. The crash happened on September 7 while trying to land on the moon. Jitendra Singh confirmed this in Parliament. Had the mission been successful, India would have been the fourth country in the world to have successfully landed a soft landing.
The US, former USSR, and China are countries that have done soft landing before. But so far no one has been able to land in the South. The remains of the shattered Vikram Lander were confirmed by an Indian engineer, NASA.
Thiruvananthapuram: Election commission gives the opportunity to add the name in the voter’s list. New members can apply and, make corrections up to January 15. The final list will make on February 4, said, Chief Election Officer Tikaram Meena.
This list does not have any relation with the NRC, he added. And he added that will take strict action against doubling in the voter’s list.
Srinagar: The mobile SMS service which was disconnected in the state following the cancellation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir has been restored after five months from midnight on Tuesday. Internet services are also provided in government hospitals.
Jammu and Kashmir government spokesman Rohit Kansal said the government has decided to restore the Internet to all government hospitals along with a complete restoration of the mobile phone SMS service. Meanwhile, Kashmir’s internet and pre-paid mobile services have not yet been restored. Reports say Kashmir is witnessing the longest internet cancellation in a democracy.
“We are trying to take every possible step, slowly but surely,” said Kansal, who is also the Principal Secretary for Planning, Development, and Monitoring of the Jammu and Kashmir government.
Currently, students, contractors, tour operators, and government officials can access various Internet touchpoints, Kansal said. There are over 900 touchpoints and special counters in Kashmir’s major tourist destinations, hotels, and various districts. About six lakh people have availed themselves of these touchpoints.
Five MLAs have been released from their MLA hostel in Srinagar on Monday. Former chief ministers Farooq Abdullah, Umar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti is still in detention. “They will be released on the basis of law and order situation,” Kansal said.
Bhopal: Six people have died after a lift collapsed on New Year’s Eve. Many people were injured. The incident occurred at a farmhouse owned by Puneet Agarwal, a prominent industrialist in Patalpani, Indore.
Puneet Agarwal celebrated at the farmhouse for family members on New Year’s night. As people climbed into the lifts to get down, the belt broke and the injured were rushed to the hospital.
New Delhi: Bipin Rawat has been appointed as the Chief defense Staff. He will now serve as Chief of Defense, Chief of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the Chief of Defense Staff, which coordinates all three forces under the Commander-in-Chief of the Army. The general coordination between the three armies will now be this General. Bipin Rawat will also be the Defense Secretary’s Principal Military Advisor.
Bipin Rawat to retire tomorrow as the Chief of Army Staff, the Central Government has fixed the age and tenure of the Chief of Defense Staff. Accordingly, the government amended the 1954 laws. He will be the defense minister’s chief military adviser for three years. He is 65 years old. At the same time, the Chief of Defense Staff does not have commanding power over air, and naval forces.
Mumbai: Ajit Pawar was sworn in as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister. 36 ministers take office today. There is also an indication that Aditya Thackeray will join the Cabinet.
The cabinet is being expanded 32 days after the Maha Vikas Agati government headed by Uddhav Thackeray took office on November 28.
Ajit Pawar becomes the second minister after Maharashtra assembly elections
BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis has been sworn in as the chief minister and Ajit Pawar as deputy chief minister. But the two resigned after the Supreme Court ordered them to prove their majority in the Assembly.
