President Murmu urges all citizens to consider voting as their contribution to nation-building

New Delhi (PTI): As the Election Commission aims to ensure 75 per cent voter turnout in future elections, President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday urged people to consider voting as their contribution to nation-building.

She said people must vote with the spirit of “nation paramount”.

Addressing an event, she said it is a great achievement of India’s election process and democracy that the active participation of women in the democratic pro- cess is continuously increasing. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the number of women voters was slightly higher than that of men. She noted that for the first time in the history of Indian Parliament, the total number of women MPs in both the Houses together have reached the 115 mark.

Param Vir Chakra winners Subedar Major (Honorary Captain) Bana Singh, 8 JAK LI (Retd); Subedar Major (Honorary Captain) Yogendra Singh Yadav, 18 Grenadiers (Retd) & Subedar (Honorary Lieutenant) Sanjay Kumar, 13 JAK Rifles. Ashok Chakra winners are Major Gen CA Pithawalla (Retd); Colonel D Sreeram Kumar & Lieutenant Colonel Jas Ram Singh (Retd).

Thirty CBI officers were awarded police medals on Wednesday. Six officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) were awarded the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service (PPMDS) while 24 were awarded the Police Medal for Meritorious Service (PMMS).

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Pune: After the police investigation, it was found that seven members of a family who were found dead in a river in Pune were murdered. Earlier it was expected that the family, including three children, died because of suicide. But the police is now saying that they have arrested five people who are the cousins of one of the deceased, Mohan Pawar. Police said that the four brothers and their sister killed the family due to an old family enmity.

The bodies of seven members of a family were found in a river in Maharashtra’s Pune, police said on Tuesday (January 24).

With Ravi Shankar Makes Emergency Halt

New Delhi: A helicopter carrying Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar & 3 others made an

Tirupur from Bengaluru. The other people in the chopper were two of his assistants and the pilot. Sources told that the helicopter made the emergency landing due to poor weather conditions and the pilot complained of difficulty in navigating.