Sixty-five-year-old Maurya who has long been associated with the BJP was sworn in as the Uttarakhand governor on August 26, 2018, taking over from Krishna Kant Paul at the end of his five-year tenure.

Sources said the ongoing situation in Afghanistan figured in the meeting among other important matters.

Amit Shah said Chanu brought honour for the country by winning a medal at the Tokyo Olympic games and is now a proud member of the police force.

The beat constable, the cop in-charge of the smallest unit under a police jurisdiction, is the main and the most important person who makes the democracy successful, the Union home minister said.

Chanu had clinched a silver medal in the 49kg category weightlifting that opened India's account at the Tokyo Olympics.

Chanu had clinched a silver medal in weightlifting in the 49kg category that opened India's achievement account at the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics.

"Our police have kept a vigil in coastal and forest regions. We will not tolerate anti-national activities. We'll always fight against these divisive forces. These forces are handled with the help of the NIA," Bommai said.

VP M Venkaiah Naidu also greeted the nation on Rakshabandhan and urged people to ensure a safe environment for the women.

Crores of people across the country including me are in pain due to the demise of Kalyan Singh. He was a senior BJP leader and hero of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement. He fought for the rights of the backward communities for many years, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

Sources said that in view of the elections, the strategy for the upcoming party programmes in the coming months was discussed, including the party's Booth Vijay Sankalp program which is going to start on August 23.

The SAD president said Chandigarh was an inseparable part of Punjab and should be transferred to the parent state as soon as possible.

Harsha Vardhan was posted as the Super Intendent, Special Investigation Cell in Arunachal Pradesh, where he led the investigation into a major recruitment scam in the exam conducted by the Arunachal Pradesh Staff Selection Board (APSSB).

The first darknet vendor of psychotropic substances, the first cyber terror case and the espionage case was solved under the leadership of KPS Malhotra.

This medal was constituted in 2018, with the objective to promote high professional standards of investigation of crime and to recognize Excellence in Investigation by investigating officers. 

A delegation of BJD MPs from both the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his Parliament chamber and submitted a memorandum in this regard.  

Expressing concern over the fear of "inimical powers from across the border trying to exploit the resentment and disgruntlement against the government", Amarinder Singh sought an enduring and expeditious solution to the farmers’ concerns.

Shah said projects worth around Rs 900 crore (of the total project cost of Rs 5,300 crore) are taken up in his Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency while projects worth Rs 630 crore were inaugurated and foundation stones were laid for other projects worth Rs 241 crore.  

The four accused persons, including a priest, allegedly cremated the body of the girl without her parent's consent or informing the police. The matter surfaced after the victim's family staged a protest along with the local people on Sunday night.

Sharad Pawar, the chief of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Tuesday.

The JD(U) had also passed a resolution in support of the caste-based counting of population, a move with potentially wide political ramifications, in its national executive meeting on Saturday where Singh was elected its president.