Jammu & Kashmir DG Prisons Lohia Found Brutally Murdered at Home, Police Look for Absconding Domestic Help

Last Updated: October 04, 2022, 07:00 IST

Director General of Prisons, J&K, H.K Lohia (left) during a blood donation camp at Central Jail in Srinagar. File. (Image Credit: PTI)

Director General of Police Dilbag Singh described it as an “extremely unfortunate” incident and said a manhunt had been launched to nab his domestic help identified as Jasir, who is absconding

Jammu and Kashmir’s Director General (Prisons) Hemant K. Lohia was found murdered at his residence in Jammu on Monday night with police suspecting his domestic help as the main culprit.

Director General of Police Dilbag Singh described it as an “extremely unfortunate” incident and said a manhunt had been launched to nab his domestic help identified as Jasir, who is absconding.

According to Singh, the suspect even tried to set fire to the body of 57-year-old Lohia, who was promoted and appointed as Director General of prisons in the Union Territory in August.

Mukesh Singh, Additional Director General of Police, Jammu Zone, said Lohia, a 1992-batch IPS officer, was found dead with burn injuries on his body and his throat slit when he visited the house in Udaiwala on the outskirts of Jammu.

The guards stationed at the officer’s residence observed fire in Lohia’s room. He explained that they had to break open the door because it was locked from the inside.

The ADGP said the preliminary investigation of the crime scene points to murder.

“The domestic help has gone missing. “The search for him has begun,” he said, adding that forensic and crime teams are on the scene.

“The investigation has begun.” Senior officers are on the scene,” the officer said, adding that the J&K Police family is devastated by the death of their senior officer.

With inputs from PTI

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રાવતને હવે કોંગ્રેસ(Congress)માં કોઈ ભવિષ્ય દેખાતું નથી. જેના કારણે તેમણે કોંગ્રેસ છોડવાના સંકેત આપ્યા છે. જો રાવત કોંગ્રેસ છોડી દે છે, તો ઉત્તરાખંડ(Uttrakhand)ના કોંગ્રેસ એકમ માટે આ એક મોટો આંચકો માનવામાં આવશે.

harish Rawat- Former CM Uttarkahand

ઉત્તરાખંડ(Uttrakhand)ના પૂર્વ સીએમ હરીશ રાવતે (harish rawat) સોમવારે કોંગ્રેસ છોડવાના સંકેત આપ્યા છે. તેમણે કહ્યું કે ભારત જોડો યાત્રા(Bharat Jodo yatra) પછી હું કાર્યક્ષેત્ર અને કાર્યપદ્ધતિ નક્કી કરીશ. થોડો આરામ સારો છે. હું મારા વતન ગામ અને કોંગ્રેસીઓ માટે હંમેશા ઉપલબ્ધ રહીશ. પાર્ટીની સેવા માટે હું દિલ્હીમાં ઉત્તરાખંડના એક નાના પ્રભુત્વવાળા વિસ્તારમાં પણ મારી સેવાઓ આપીશ. આના પરથી સ્પષ્ટ થાય છે કે રાવતને કોંગ્રેસમાં હવે કોઈ ભવિષ્ય દેખાતું નથી. જેના કારણે તેમણે કોંગ્રેસ છોડવાના સંકેત આપ્યા છે. જો રાવત કોંગ્રેસ છોડી દે છે, તો ઉત્તરાખંડના કોંગ્રેસ એકમ માટે આ એક મોટો આંચકો માનવામાં આવશે.

તેમણે તેમની પોસ્ટમાં એમ પણ કહ્યું કે ઉત્તરાખંડની આર્થિક, સાંસ્કૃતિક અને સામાજિક રીતે સંભવિતતા અંગે મારા મગજમાં પરિપક્વ વિચાર આવ્યા પછી જ હું રાજ્ય નિર્માણની તરફેણમાં આવ્યો છું. પાર્ટી લાવવામાં પણ લાગી. વર્ષ 2000 થી, આ સંદર્ભમાં સતત મંથન કર્યું. તક મળતાં જ મેં 2014થી પૃથ્વી પર આ મંથનને ઉતારવાનું શરૂ કર્યુ.

ફેસબુક પર પોસ્ટ કરતા હરીશ રાવતે લખ્યું કે ઉત્તરાખંડ કોંગ્રેસ હજુ પણ પોતાને બદલશે નહીં! વ્યક્તિએ પોતાની જાતને બદલવી જોઈએ. આ નિર્ણાયક વિચારને આગળ વધારવા માટે હું ભગવાન બદ્રીનાથ પાસે આશીર્વાદ માંગવા ગયો. મારા મને મને ભગવાનના દરબારમાં સ્પષ્ટ કહી દીધું છે કે હરીશ, તેં ઉત્તરાખંડ પ્રત્યેની તારી ફરજ પૂરી કરી છે. ઉત્તરાખંડીયતનો એજન્ડા અપનાવવો કે નહીં અપનાવવાનો પ્રશ્ન ઉત્તરાખંડની જનતા અને કોંગ્રેસ પક્ષ પર છોડો!

રાવત અહીં જ નથી અટક્યા, તેમણે રાહુલ ગાંધીના નેતૃત્વમાં ચાલી રહેલી ભારત જોડો યાત્રા પર પણ મોટું નિવેદન આપ્યું છે. તેમણે કહ્યું કે “ભારત જોડો યાત્રા” સમાપ્ત થયાના 1 મહિના પછી, હું સ્થાનિક અને રાષ્ટ્રીય પરિસ્થિતિઓનો પક્ષી આંખનો દૃષ્ટિકોણ લઈને કાર્યવાહી અને કાર્યપદ્ધતિનું ક્ષેત્ર નક્કી કરીશ. થોડો આરામ સારો છે. ત્યારે ભારત જોડો યાત્રા એટલો મહાન કાર્યક્રમ છે.

હરિદ્વાર પ્રત્યેનું મારું કૃતજ્ઞ મન મને મારા સામાજિક, સાંસ્કૃતિક અને વ્યક્તિગત સંબંધો અને નિષ્ઠા જાળવવા દે છે. હું મારા વતન ગામ અને કોંગ્રેસીઓ માટે હંમેશા ઉપલબ્ધ રહીશ. પાર્ટીની સેવા માટે હું દિલ્હીમાં ઉત્તરાખંડના એક નાના પ્રભુત્વવાળા વિસ્તારમાં પણ મારી સેવાઓ આપીશ.

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Last Updated: October 04, 2022, 06:30 IST

World Animal Day is significant as it reminds us how animals improve our lives. (Representative image: Shutterstock)

This year the theme for World Animal Day is a “shared planet” which highlights that the world belongs to every living creature and not just humans

WORLD ANIMAL DAY 2022: October 4 is marked as World Animal Day, a global initiative for animal rights that aims at ensuring better standards for animal welfare. This day in general not only educates people about our most endangered species but also teaches how to rescue them. World Animal Day is gradually turning into a global event that unites and encourages the animal protection movement. People can commemorate this day by contributing something to animal rescue shelters, launching animal welfare campaigns, and more.

World Animal Day: History and Significance

World Animal Day was celebrated for the first time on March 24, 1925, in Berlin, Germany on the initiative of cynologist Heinrich Zimmermann. His purpose to introduce this occasion was to spread awareness about animal welfare. More than 5,000 people attended the first event organised and offered their support for the cause. Interestingly, World Animal Day coincides with the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.

The day is significant as it reminds us how animals improve our lives. It also aims to motivate various communities and groups against the brutal behaviour of animals.

World Animal Day: Theme

This year the theme for World Animal Day is a “shared planet” which highlights that the world belongs to every living creature and not just humans.

World Animal Day: Quotes

1. “Animals are such agreeable friends? They ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.” – George Eliot
2. “An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.” – Martin Buber
3. “He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”- Immanuel Kant
4. “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace.” – Milan Kundera
5. “Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.” – Alfred A. Montapert

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Lucknow: The selection of highly qualified candidates for the CM Fellowship Programme has been completed and their training is scheduled to start from October 10.
The 100 fellows, comprising 41 PhDs, 43 masters’ degree holders and three MTechs, will be posted in the coming month to work on the government’s aspirational blocks programme.
Alok Kumar, secretary, planning department, said that the two-week training programme, to be inaugurated by chief secretary DS Mishra, will include training on three modules. “About 50% of the training time will go into the main subject matter, which is the aspirational blocks programme. The fellows will be told about the programme, what they will be required to do and an in-depth coaching on various aspects of development work. For this, we are trying to get heads of departments like basic education and panchayati raj to speak to the trainees,” he said.

The second part of the programme will deal with management and use of technique while the third component, which will be about 25% of the training, will be motivational. For this, Kumar said, the department is arranging for retired bureaucrats, IIM experts etc to conduct these sessions. “We will also have sessions on Zoom for experts who are out of the city. The entire programme will be videographed so that we can monitor the training. One session will also be held by chief minister Yogi Adityanath but the details of that are yet to be finalised. During the two weeks, we will also give out the postings to the fellows,” Kumar said.
The training will be conducted at the State Institute of Rural Development campus in Bakshi ka Talab where the fellows will also be put up in the hostel.
The programme, being organised for the first time, saw more than 26,000 persons apply for 100 posts. The selected fellows will be placed under district magistrates and block development officers. They will work on contract for a year at a stipend of Rs 30,000 per month and will get an additional Rs 10,000 per month for travel and a one-time payment of Rs 15,000 for a tablet.
They will be employed full time and their work will include review of implementation of projects, compilation of primary data, handling problems and giving suggestions to make projects and schemes people friendly. They will be required to submit monthly progress reports in which they will detail public perception about schemes and the challenges being faced in their implementation.

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In a first, RBI to tell government why inflation target is breached

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The MPC is expected to meet towards the end of the month as a communication must be sent to the government within a month of the retail inflation data being released. Inflation based on the consumer price index (CPI) is due to be released on October 12.
Officials said that under the law, the letter from the RBI will be confidential and it will be for the government to decide if it wants to make the contents public. “It is privileged communication and it cannot simply be released. It is not the only communication between the regulator or other wings of the government that is confidential,” said an officer.

They explained that based on the communication, the finance ministry will decide if other steps are required, although the government and the central bank have already taken several steps to cool down inflation.
While the MPC has raised rates by 1.9 percentage points, the government has tweaked import duty on several products, including farm goods, in addition to restricting export of several items in a bid to enhance availability in the domestic market.
A few years ago, the government had amended the RBI Act, which led to the establishment of the MPC and a target of 4% inflation was fixed, allowing for deviation of up to 2% on either side.
While inflation has remained largely within the band, for the last few months it has remained above 6%, first due to the impact of Covid-19 and supply disruption and subsequently due to the war in Ukraine, which sent global commodity prices soaring.
RBI expects inflation to moderate to 5.8% during the March quarter, compared to the 7% reading in August. RBI expects retail inflation to come closer to the 4% target over a two-year cycle. “That is our expectation even now. But there are so many uncertainties that are playing from time to time,” RBI governor Shaktikanta Das had said during the post-policy media interaction on Friday.

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The publication of that genome opened the door to investigating questions that had bedevilled paleontologists since Neanderthal fossils were first found in a German quarry in 1856: how did those early humans relate to modern ones, and what made them different?
Paabo’s abiding obsession — how to recover and analyse ancient genetic material — seemed destined to founder in the face of vexing technical difficulties, the Nobel committee said on Monday. Ancient DNA suffers from chemical damage and tends to be present in ancient samples at very low levels. It can easily be drenched in the DNA of scientists charged with handling it, making it difficult to distinguish ancient genes from modern ones. And bacteria too can leave DNA in fossils.

But Paabo harnessed the latest technology for sequencing DNA. When he needed more bone, he navigated the political sensitivities of obtaining chunks of fossils from other countries. He designed “clean rooms”, labs with high standards for cleanliness that protected specimens from contamination. And once he and his team unravelled the millions of fragments of DNA in the fossils, they used sophisticated statistical techniques to pick out the modern genetic contaminants.
“It was certainly considered to be impossible to recover DNA from 40,000-year-old bones,” said Dr Nils-Goran Larsson, the chairman of the Nobel Committee for medicine and a professor in medical biochemistry for the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

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Neanderthals lived across much of Europe until they disappeared about 30,000 years ago for reasons that remain the subject of intense debate. The ancestors of modern humans evolved in Africa before migrating to Europe and Asia, where they mixed with more ancient human forms and picked up genetic changes that strengthened their chances of survival in new environments. Those included gene variants that improved the ability to live at high altitudes and influenced how the immune system responded to infection.
It took some three decades of research for Paabo to describe the Neanderthal genome. He first went looking for DNA in mummies and older animals, like extinct cave bears and ground sloths, before he turned his attention to ancient humans. “I longed to bring a new rigor to the study of human history by investigating DNA sequence variation in ancient humans,” he wrote in his 2014 memoir ‘Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes’.
Paabo drew early inspiration from his Nobel laureate father, Sune Bergstrom, and in his memoir, recounts that he learned later in life of his father’s “double life”, that his existence had been kept a secret from his father’s other family. Of his own family, he says he “had always thought of myself as gay” before meeting the woman who would become his wife. He now identifies as bisexual and has two children with primatologist Linda Vigilant.

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NEW DELHI: India, which had the ignominious reputation of being the only country in the world where a larger proportion of girls below the age of one died than boys, finally saw its male and female infant mortality rate (IMR) equalise in 2020. In 16 states, IMR remained higher for female babies than males, but the gap had reduced since 2011.
Infant mortality rate is the number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births.
In rural India, though the gap had reduced, female IMR remained marginally higher than male IMR. However, in urban India, where the gap between male and female IMR was higher in 2011, the female IMR fell below that of males by 2020.

In 2011, all states had higher IMR for female babies than males, except Uttarakhand, where the two rates were equal. But the SRS Statistical Report 2020 showed that in five states and the national capital territory, the IMR was the same for baby girls and boys and in eight states, the IMR for females was lower.

Chhattisgarh had the highest gap in 2020, with a male IMR of 35 compared to female IMR of 41. Though overall IMR in Chhattisgarh fell from 48 to 38, it is one of the few states where the gap between male and female IMR increased between 2011 and 2020. Other states which saw a marginal increase in the gap included Bihar, Assam and Karnataka.
In all states, the rural IMR was higher than in urban areas. But the gap between male and female IMR was greater in urban areas in many states including Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra and Haryana in 2011. By 2020, this trend was reversed in most of these states.
UN data for 2020 shows that among countries where the IMR was above 20, India was the only one where male and female IMR were almost the same. In every other case, male IMR was higher than female IMR by at least 2 years. The only other countries where the gap between male and female IMRs was one or less were those where infant mortality has been reduced to single-digit levels.

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J&K Top Cop HK Lohia Found Dead, Police Suspect Murder; Domestic Help Absconding

Last Updated: October 04, 2022, 00:42 IST

Lohia was appointed DGP of the Jammu and Kashmir Prisons Department on August 3, 2022 (Image: News18)

Lohia, a senior IPS officer, was found with a slit on the throat and then an attempt was made to set his body on fire

Jammu and Kashmir DG Prisons, HK Lohia, was on Monday late night found dead under suspicious circumstances at a house in the Udaywala area of Jammu. The police have suspected murder as his domestic help is currently absconding and teams have been formed to nab him.

Lohia, an IPS officer, was found with a slit on the throat and then an attempt was made to set his body on fire. The dead body has been brought to a government hospital in Jammu

According to ADGP Mukesh Singh, “First Examination of the scene of crime reveals this as a suspected murder case. The domestic help with the officer is absconding. A search for him has started. Forensic teams and crime teams are on spot. Investigation process has begun. Senior officers are on spot.”

Lohia was appointed DGP of the Jammu and Kashmir Prisons Department on August 3, 2022.

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J&K DG Prisons HK Lohia Found Dead Under Suspicious Circumstances, Police Suspect Murder; Domestic Help Absconding

Last Updated: October 04, 2022, 00:29 IST

Lohia was appointed DGP of the Jammu and Kashmir Prisons Department on August 3, 2022 (Image: News18)

The IPS officer was found with stab and burn injuries. His body is being brought to Government Medical College and Hospital in Jammu

J&K DG Prisons HK Lohia Found Dead Under Suspicious Circumstances, Police Suspect Murder; Domestic Help AbscondingIPS officer H K Lohia, who was recently appointed as the DGP of the Jammu and Kashmir Prisons Department, was killed on Monday. The official was murdered at a friend’s house in the Udaywala area of Jammu, officials said.

The IPS officer was found with stab and burn injuries. His body is being brought to Government Medical College and Hospital in Jammu.

According to ADGP Mukesh Singh, Lohia’s dead body was found under suspicious circumstances on Monday evening.

“First examination of the scene of crime reveals this as a suspected murder case. The domestic help with the officer is absconding. A search for him has started. Forensic teams and crime teams are on spot. The investigation process has begun. Senior officers are on spot,” he said.

Lohia was appointed DGP of the Jammu and Kashmir Prisons Department on August 3, 2022.

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હવે નહીં થઈ શકશે Google Translation, બંધ થઈ ગઈ આ સેવા! | Google Translation can no longer be done service has been stopped in china

જોકે ચીની યુઝર્સ આ ટ્રાન્સલેશનનો ઉપયોગ પણ નહીં કરી શકશે. રિપોર્ટ પરથી જાણવા મળ્યુ છે કે, ચીનમાં (China) અમેરિકાની ગૂગલ કંપનીની આ ટ્રાન્સલેશન સેવાનો ઓછો ઉપયોગ થતો હોવાથી બંધ કરવામાં આવ્યુ છે.

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ભારતના એક પડોશી દેશે હાલમાં Google Translationની સેવા પોતાના દેશમાં બંધ કરી દીધી છે. ભારતના દુશ્મન સમાન પડોશી દેશ ચીનમાં સરકારે આ પગલા લીધા છે. તેમના આ પગલાથી ચીનમાં ગૂગલ કંપનીની સેવાનો વ્યાપ હજુ નાનો થઈ જશે. ચીનમાં હવે ગૂગલ ટ્રાન્સલેશન વેબસાઈટ ખોલવા પર જેનેરિક ગૂગલ સર્ચ બાર દેખાઈ રહ્યુ છે. તેના પર ક્લિક કરતા ચીની યુઝર્સને હોંગકોગની ટ્રાન્સલેશન વેબસાઈટ સુધી પહોંચાડવામાં આવી રહ્યા છે. જોકે ચીની યુઝર્સ આ ટ્રાન્સલેશનનો ઉપયોગ પણ નહીં કરી શકશે. રિપોર્ટ પરથી જાણવા મળ્યુ છે કે, ચીનમાં (China) અમેરિકાની ગૂગલ કંપનીની આ ટ્રાન્સલેશન સેવાનો ઓછો ઉપયોગ થતો હોવાથી બંધ કરવામાં આવ્યુ છે.

Google Translationની સેવાને અચાનક બંધ કરવાના આ નિર્ણયની અસર ચીની એપ્સ પર પણ પડ્યો છે. ચીનમાં ગૂગલ ટ્રાન્સલેશન પર નિર્ભર ઘણી એપ્સ છે. ચીનની સરકારના આ પગલાની અસર આ તમામ એપ્સ પર પડશે. રિપોર્ટ અનુસાર ચીનના KOReader ડોક્યુમેન્ટ રીડર જેવી સેવાઓનો ઉપયોગ કરનાર હેરાન થઈ રહ્યા છે. વર્ષ 2006માં ગૂગલ કંપની એ ચીનમાં ગૂગલ સર્ચનું ચીની વર્ઝન રજૂ કર્યુ હતુ પણ તેને લોકલ સર્ચ એન્જિન Baidu દ્વારા ખતરનાક ટક્કર મળી.

2010માં બંધ થયુ સર્ચ એન્જિન

વર્ષ 2010માં ગૂગલે ચીનમાં પોતાની સર્ચ એન્જિનની સેવા બંધ કરી હતી. રિપોર્ટ અનુસાર વર્ષ 2010માં ગૂગલે જણાવ્યુ હતુ કે ચીનમાં હેકર્સ તેમના કેટલાક સોર્સ કોડની ચોરી કરી રહ્યુ છે. કેટલાક ચીની માનવાધિકાર કાર્યકર્તાઓના Gmail સાથે પણ છેડછાડ થઈ હતી. ચીની સરકારના વિચિત્ર પગલા અને કડક દેખરેખને કારણે ગૂગલે તેની સર્વિસ બંધ કરી હતી.

ઓછા ઉપયોગને કારણે બંધ

ગૂગલના પ્રવક્તા જણાવે છે કે કંપની એ ચીનમાં ઓછા ઉપયોગ થવાને કારણે Google Translationની સેવા બંધ કરી છે. ઓગસ્ટ મહિનામાં આ સેવાને ચીનમાં 5.35 કરોડ જ યુઝર્સ મળ્યા હતા. ગૂગલે વર્ષ 2017માં ચીનમાં આ સેવાની એપ લોન્ચ કરી હતી. ચીનના યુઝર્સને આકર્ષવા માટે તેમણે ચીની-અમેરિકી રેપર એમસી જિનનો પણ જાહેરાતમાં ઉપયોગ કર્યો હતો.

ચીનની મદદ માટે શરુ થઈ હતી

તે સમયે ચીની યૂઝર્સ સરળતાથી રોકટોક વગર ટ્રાન્સલેશન એપનો ઉપોયગ કરી શકતા હતા. અમેરિકાનું સર્ચ એન્જિન ગૂગલ એવુ માનતુ હતુ કે આ સેવાથી ભાષાને કારણે થતી વ્યવહારિક સમસ્યાને દુનિયામાંથી દૂર કરી શકાશે અને સૌ એકબીજાની ભાષા સમજી શકશે. ચીની લોકો દુનિયા સાથે જલ્દી અને સરળતાથી જોડાઈ શકશે. અમેરિકન કંપનીઓ આ પ્રયાસ ચીનની મદદ માટે જ હતો. ગૂગલ સર્ચ એન્જિન ફરી એકવાર ચીનમાં એન્ટ્રી લેવાનું વિચારી રહી છે. પણ કેટલાક અધિકારી અને નેતાઓના વિરોધને કારણે તેમણે પીછેહઠ કરી છે.

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Head of Russian-Occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant Has Been Released, IAEA Chief Says

Last Updated: October 03, 2022, 23:37 IST

Ukraine said a Russian patrol detained Ihor Murashov on Friday as he travelled from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant to the town of Enerhodar, where many of the plant’s staff live (Image: AP file)

Ukrainian staff continue to operate the plant in conditions the International Atomic Energy Agency says put safety at risk

The head of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine has been released, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday after a detention that Ukraine blamed on Russia and called an act of terror.

Ukraine said a Russian patrol detained Ihor Murashov on Friday as he travelled from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant to the town of Enerhodar, where many of the plant’s staff live. Ukrainian staff continue to operate the plant in conditions the International Atomic Energy Agency says put safety at risk.

The IAEA said on Saturday it had been in contact with “the relevant authorities” without mentioning Russia by name and said it had been informed that Murashov was in “temporary detention”.

“I welcome the release of Ihor Murashov, Director General of #Ukraine’s #Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant; I have received confirmation that Mr Murashov has returned to his family safely,” Grossi said on Twitter on Monday.

Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for shelling that has damaged buildings on the plant’s grounds and the IAEA has called for the establishment of a protection zone around the site to reduce the risk of a potentially catastrophic accident. Grossi is due to hold talks in Moscow and Kyiv this week.

The IAEA said on Saturday that Murashov’s detention “has an immediate and serious impact on decision-making in ensuring the safety and security of the plant”, adding to the existing security concerns at the facility.

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Narmada: હીરા ચોરીનો પોલીસે ગણતરીના કલાકોમાં ઉકેલ્યો ભેદ, મુદ્દામાલ સાથે લૂંટારૂઓને પોલીસે ઝડપી પાડ્યા | Narmada Police solve the problem of diamond theft in a matter of hours police nabs the robbers with the stolen goods

નર્મદાના રાજપીપળા એસ.ટી.ડેપોમાં હીરાની ચોરીનો ભેદ ઉકેલાયો છે. પોલીસે ગણતરીના કલાકોમાં મુદ્દામાલ સાથે લૂંટારૂઓને ઝડપી પાડ્યાં છે. છોટાઉદેપુરથી સુરત જતી એસ.ટી બસના ડ્રાઇવરને આંગડિયા કર્મચારીએ હીરાના પાર્સલ આપ્યા હતા.

TV9 GUJARATI | Edited By: Jayraj Vala

Oct 03, 2022 | 11:34 PM

Narmada: નર્મદાના રાજપીપળા એસ.ટી.ડેપોમાં હીરાની ચોરીનો ભેદ ઉકેલાયો છે. પોલીસે ગણતરીના કલાકોમાં મુદ્દામાલ સાથે લૂંટારૂઓને ઝડપી પાડ્યાં છે. છોટાઉદેપુરથી સુરત જતી એસ.ટી બસના ડ્રાઇવરને આંગડિયા કર્મચારીએ હીરાના પાર્સલ આપ્યા હતા. જેથી ડ્રાઇવરે 16 લાખ 61 હજારની કિંમતના 8 હજાર 768 નંગ હીરા પોતાની સીટ નીચે સુરક્ષિત મૂક્યા હતા. પરંતુ બસ રાજપીપલા ડેપો પર પહોંચતા ડ્રાઇવર નાસ્તો કરવા નીચે ઉતર્યા હતા.

પણ જ્યારે ડ્રાઇવર પરત ફરતા હીરાના પાર્સલ ગાયબ હતા. ડ્રાઇવરની ફરિયાદને આધારે રાજપીપલા પોલીસે વોચ ગોઠવી શંકાસ્પદ બે યુવાનોને ઝડપી પડ્યા હતા. શંકાસ્પદ યુવાનોની પૂછપરછ કરતા તેમની હીરાની લૂંટ કરી હોવાની કબૂલાત કરી હતી. હાલ પોલીસે બંને આરોપીની ધરપકડ કરી આગળની કાર્યવાહી હાથ ધરી છે.

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