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Retired IAS officer Pradip Sharma arrested in Bhuj land allotment case during his posting as Kutch collector

Rajkot, Sep 23: Retired IAS officer Pradip Sharma was arrested on Thursday in a case of allegedly causing loss to the state exchequer by illegally allotting a piece of government wasteland to a farmer in Bhuj during his tenure as the collector of Kutch between 2003 and 2006. He will be produced in the court with a demand for remand in this matter. A first information report (FIR) was registered on Thursday against Sharma, a 1984-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer by Kalpana Gondia, mamlatdar of Bhuj town at CID border zone police station at Bhuj in Kutch district. According

US says it expects India to work with Canada on murder case

WASHINGTON/OTTAWA, Sept 23 (Reuters) – The United States made clear on Friday that it expected the Indian government to work with Canada on efforts to investigate the possible involvement of New Delhi agents in the murder of a Canadian citizen in June. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that Ottawa had credible intelligence linking Indian agents to the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, prompting an angry reaction from New Delhi, which denies the allegation. “We are deeply concerned about the allegations that Prime Minister Trudeau has raised,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters in

India frees Kashmir separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq after four years

Srinagar (India) (AFP) – The Indian government freed Kashmir’s chief Muslim cleric and influential separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday after more than four years of house arrest. The 50-year-old was detained along with other political leaders and thousands of residents when the government cancelled the Muslim-majority region’s constitutional semi-autonomy and imposed federal rule in 2019. A months-long internet shutdown followed as India bolstered its armed forces in the region to contain protests. Most detainees were subsequently released, but the Mirwaiz remained unable to leave his residence, down the street from his Jamia Masjid mosque in Srinagar. Thousands of

Millions of people living with both chronic pain and mental ill health – study

Arizona [US], September 22 (ANI): Millions of people are living with a combination of chronic pain and mental ill health, according to research published in the journal PAIN by the University of Arizona Health Sciences, roughly one in every twenty persons in the United States suffers from both chronic pain and anxiety or depression, resulting in functional impairments in daily life. Prior research has shown that chronic pain along with symptoms of anxiety or depression are biologically linked. This study is one of the few to examine the national prevalence of chronic pain with anxiety or depression symptoms in adults.

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