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Charred: The blackened walls of Bhandara district hospital where a fire broke out on Saturday. Special Arrangement
A day after a blaze at a hospital in Bhandara killed 10 infants, National Fire Service College Director Ramesh Kumar said fire safety standards were being ignored in sensitive establishments, including hospitals, and the issue requires a lot of attention. There should also be periodic inspections, he said.
Mr. Kumar added that advanced fire safety equipment are needed to be installed in all buildings and have to be properly maintained by trained staff.
Three fire engineers from the National Fire Service College, a Nagpur-based autonomous body managed by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, are part of the team conducting a probe into the fire in the district hospital at Bhandara, he said.
Vijay s Master Box Office Collections May Suffer As Tamil Nadu Govt U-turn On 100% Seat Occupancy In Theatres Jan 10, 2021, 16:35 IST
As the fear of COVID remains, the state governments are also hesitating on opening all the public places. The theatres were finally opened to the public, but there is still a restriction on the 100% seat occupancy.
The Tamil Nadu government earlier changed their decision of allowing full occupancy and reversed it to limited seating. Given the festival rush and excitement of audiences over the new releases, the number of shows were increased. The theatres in Tamil Nadu will once again work with alternate seating arrangements.
Over 20,000 police officials across states and union territories were transferred in 2019 within a period of two years of their posting, with more than 70 per cent of the shunting happening at the station house officer (SHO) level, according to official data. Altogether, there were 20,637 transfers of police officials during 2019 within two years of their field posting, the Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D) stated in its latest data on police organisations updated till January 1, 2020. Officials included in the tally are SHOs, deputy superintendents of police (DySPs), assistant commissioners (ACPs), district SPs (SPs), deputy commissioners (DCPs), deputy inspector general (DIGs), inspector general of range (IG Range), additional CPs, and police commissioners who were transferred within a year or between one and two years of their posting.
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Home Ministry s Review Finds Delhi Riots Spontaneous When They Were Anything But
Successive accounts have pinned the beginning of the violence on incendiary speeches made by BJP leaders Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma.
File photo of Union home minister Amit Shah. Photo: PTI
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New Delhi: In its ‘Year End Review 2020′, the Ministry of Home Affairs has noted that the February violence in northeast Delhi which killed 53 people was a spontaneous one, indicating that the role of incitement by rightwing leaders played no part.
The violence which raged centring Jafrabad and Maujpur areas of the National Capital is understood to have affected the region’s Muslim population to an extent from which they are far from recovering, one year since. In addition to video evidence of police complicity and even police attacks on Muslims in the course of the riots, the investigation into the violence by an openly partisan Delhi police has raised rounds of questi