New Delhi: Making a special dispensation by relaxing the five-year rule for a central deputation, the government on Thursday appointed Durga Shakti Nagpal — the 2010 Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer who locked horns with the sand mining mafia in Noida — as an officer on special duty (OSD) to Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh. The appointments committee of the Cabinet headed by PM Narendra Modi on Thursday issued an order clearing her appointment for three years to the Centre. TNS
Badaun case: Cop absconding
Lucknow: The Badaun police is preparing to attach the property of the absconding constable accused of adducting and raping a minor inside the police station, said police sources. Despite an intensive search operation the dismissed constable Veerpal Singh Yadav is still at large. His accomplice Avinash Yadav was nabbed in a joint operation of Bareilly and Badaun police on Monday. TNS
Naidu on ‘ghar wapsi’
Gandhinagar: Amid a raging row over 'ghar wapsi' programme of right wing Hindutva groups, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said religious conversions have been happening for over 200 years with the help of foreign money.
"Conversions and re-conversions are happening for the last 200 years, much before formation of the Modi government. A lot of foreign money is being spent for conversion. It's an open secret to everybody," Venkaiah Naidu said. PTI