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जागरण संवाददाता, धनबाद। Elephant Herd Camps on Railway Track ः झारखंड में हाथी और मानव के बीच टकराव एक गंभीर समस्या है। पिछले एक महीने में ही तीन दर्जन से ज्यादा लोगों की मा्ैत हाथी हमले में हो गई है। इस बीच सोमवार की देर शाम पूर्व मध्य रेलवे के धनबाद रेल मंडल में एक अजीबोगरीब घटना घटी। मालगाड़ी की चपेट में आने से हाथी का एक बच्चा घायल हो गया, जिसकी बाद में मौत हो गई।धनाबद-डालटनगंज रेल मार्ग 12 घंटे तक रहा प्रभावित बच्चे की मौत के बाद हाथी झुंड रेलवे ट्रैक आ गया। झुंड में शामिल नाराज हाथी काफी देर तक भाग दौड़ करते रहे। इसके बाद रेल प्रबंधन के हाथ-पांव फुल गए। रेल परिचालन को रोक दिया गया। धनबाद से डालटनगंज मार्ग पर ट्रेनों के पहिए थम गए। बाद में रेल प्रशासन से निर्देश पर ट्रेनों के मार्ग बदल दिए गए।धनबाद होकर रवाना हुई 13025 हावड़ा भोपाल एक्सप्रेस को पहले बरकाकाना स्टेशन पर रोका गया। बाद में बरकाकाना से हजारीबाग टाउन, कोडरमा और गया के रास्ते चलाया गया। इसी तरह अन्य ट्रेनों का भी मार्ग बदला गया। रात 12 बजे तक ट्रैक पर हाथी झुड डटा रहा। उनके जाने के बाद रेल परिचालन शुरू हुआ।कुत्रीटोला गांव के पास हुई घटना जानकारी के अनुसार मालगाड़ी की चपेट में हाथी के बच्चे के आने की घटना महुआ मिलान और निंद्रा रेलवे स्टेशन के बीच स्थित कुत्रीटोला के पास हुई। घटना के बाद हाथियों के झुंड ने रेलवे ट्रैक को जाम कर दिया था। काफी प्रयास के बाद रात 1 बजे अपलाइन पर परिचालन शुरू किया गया। इसके बाद मंगलवार सुबह 6 बजे डाउन लाइन पर परिचालन शुरू हुआ।घटना के बाद हाथियों का झुंड रेलवे ट्रैक पर जमा हो गया था। इसके कारण धनबाद रेल मंडल के बरकाकाना-बरवाडीह रेलवे सेक्शन पर रेल परिचालन पूरी तरह बाधित हो गया। घटना की जानकारी मिलने के बाद रेलवे विभाग और फॉरेस्ट डिपार्टमेंट के अधिकारी घटनास्थल पर पहुंचकर हाथियों के झुंड को रेलवे ट्रैक से हटाने का प्रयास शुरू किए, लेकिन हाथी इतने उग्र थे कि उन्हें वहां से हटाना काफी मुश्किल हो गया था।विधिवत पूजन के बाद हुआ अंतिम संस्कार घटना से आक्रोशित हाथी रात भर रेलवे ट्रैक के आसपास ही जम रहे, लेकिन जैसे-जैसे सुबह हुई वैसे ही हाथी जंगल की ओर चले गए, घटना में हाथी के बच्चे की मौत के बाद ग्रामीण भी काफी मायूस नजर आए, ग्रामीणों ने मृतक हाथी के बच्चे को पारंपरिक रूप से कफन से ढक दिया और इसका विधिवत पूजन भी किया। इसके बाद वन विभाग ने पोस्टमार्टम किया। फिर हाथी के बच्चे के शव को दफना दिया गया।

PATNA: Bihar government is likely to further restrict open sales of meat, following earlier orders prohibiting sale of meat near religious places. State deputy chief minister Vijay Kumar Sinha, who also holds revenue and land reforms department, said on Monday that only licensed sellers would be allowed to sell meat across the state. Sale of meat in the open will not be allowed in any condition. Only those with proper authorisation will be permitted to sell meat,” he told the media. In March last year, Uttar Pradesh government banned sale of meat within 500 metres of religious places.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday inaugurated the AI Impact Expo, welcoming global leaders, innovators, experts, technology enthusiasts and policymakers from around the world to discuss artificial intelligence. ADVERTISEMENTModi welcomed global leaders for the expo and summit in an ‘X’ post, saying, “Bringing the world together to discuss AI!. Over 20 heads of state, 60 ministers and vice-ministers and 500 global AI leaders, comprising CEOs, founders, academicians and researchers, are also attending the events. However, many attendees took to social media to air grievances about inconveniences they faced on Day 1 of the expo. One X user said, “An AI Summit that sidelines its own builders?

Advanced Micro Devices Inc is partnering with Tata Consultancy Services to deploy the US chip maker’s latest AI data centre technology in India, challenging Nvidia in one of the world’s fastest-growing markets. AMD will offer its Helios data centre blueprint and will work with TCS to support up to 200 megawatts of AI infrastructure capacity in India. AMD’s push in India underscores a wider strategy to supply end-to-end AI infrastructure to governments and companies racing to build local computing capacity. The AMD partner said last week that it is seeing about 20 to 25 per cent of chip deployments going to AMD, compared with 99 per cent of AI chip deployments going to Nvidia in 2025. TCS managing director and CEO K. Krithivasan said: “This collaboration lays the foundation for AMD’s first Helios-powered AI infrastructure in India.

Anthropic’s revenue run-rate in India has doubled in four months, chief executive officer Dario Amodei said on Monday, underscoring the rapid adoption of the AI start-up’s Claude coding product in the country. Anthropic, which announced its India expansion in October 2025 and opened its Bengaluru office on Monday, said the world’s most populous country is the largest market for its Claude AI model after the United States. ADVERTISEMENTThe India operations will be led by Irina Ghose, who recently served as managing director of Microsoft India. The announcements come ahead of Amodei’s appearance at the India AI Impact Summit later this week. Nearly half of Claude’s use in India relates to computer and mathematical tasks, including application development, system modernisation and production software.

The government’s updated ‘Urban Challenge Fund’ has rendered the attention of urban local bodies (ULB) an even more precious resource as they struggle to complete unfinished work under other schemes, including AMRUT, Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0, ‘Smart Cities’, and Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, which also suffer from chronic underutilisation. The government has pitched the fund as a move towards “market-linked, reform-driven and outcome-oriented” urban infrastructure, with the Centre covering 25% of project cost if cities raise at least 50% through bonds, loans, and PPPs. The ₹5,000 crore guarantee may ease borrowing for smaller cities, but proper accounting and administrative capacity are essential. Across sectors, the Centre has, since 2014, increasingly reduced the share of public support while asking public systems to fill the gap using private finance. Private capital is not illegitimate and public systems should sometimes raise revenues; the issue is that the Centre increasingly conditions public support on market access instead of ensuring minimum service guarantees first.

Elon Musk’s social media platform X stopped working on Monday evening following an outage. By 7.30pm IST, monitoring website DownDetector showed thousands of users reporting issues. It was unclear whether the X outage was related to Cloudflare’s issues. Unlike other brands, X does not have a dedicated status page explaining its response to ongoing issues when its service goes down. By late evening, DownDetector showed more than 41,000 reports of outages at its peak.

It signals commitments on economic security, digital trade, regulatory standards, and strategic alignment. Regulatory Concessions: The joint statement commits India to address what Washington describes as long-standing regulatory barriers. Digital Trade Rules: The US’s call to remove “discriminatory or burdensome practices” and create clear digital trade rules is aimed at ensuring free access for American tech firms to India’s vast market. $500 Billion Commitment: The joint statement mentions India’s intention to purchase $500 billion worth of US goods over five years. As talks move toward a full bilateral trade agreement, India must navigate these risks carefully.

The India AI Impact Summit 2026, which was inaugurated by the prime minister and has brought together technology entities, politicians and businesses, among others, signifies two important global developments. But a public good need not be an egalitarian resource: the tools that power AI, from data to computational infrastructure, are not evenly distributed across nations. Moreover, India faces stiff challenges in the form of data quality, safety and interoperability: these could be subsequent restraints holding the country back in the global AI race. India, where data are inexpensive but data literacy seemingly expendable, has a lot of ground to cover in this respect too. The AI Summit should be a platform for the world to deliberate on AI’s revolutionary potential but also the technology’s regulatory needs.

Macron's visit to India is a significant milestone in the India-France strategic partnership, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) cooperation and emerging technologies. French President Emmanuel Macron, along with First Lady Brigitte Macron, has arrived in Mumbai, India, for his fourth visit to the country, marking a significant milestone in India-France relations. "The visit will impart further momentum to the vibrant India-France strategic partnership," he said. During the visit, Macron and PM Modi will hold wide-ranging discussions in Mumbai further to strengthen bilateral cooperation under the Horizon 2047 Roadmap. Following their Mumbai engagements, the delegation will travel to Delhi for the India AI Impact Summit 2026.

डिजिटल डेस्क, नई दिल्ली। इस्लामी देश पाकिस्तान में अल्पसंख्यकों की दुर्गति का अंदाजा इसी बात से लगाया जा सकता है कि गैर मुस्लिम नाबालिग लड़कियों पर होने वाले अत्याचार को तो यहां रोकनेवाला कोई नहीं है, लेकिन जिन अदालतों में पीड़ित अल्पसंख्यक न्याय मिलने की उम्मीद में जाते हैं, वहां भी उनके साथ घोर अन्याय ही होता है।इसकी ताजा मिसाल यह नाबालिग ईसाई लड़की है। पाकिस्तान की एक संघीय अदालत ने 13 वर्षीय ईसाई लड़की को उसका अपहरण करके जबरन मतांतरण करने के बाद उससे निकाह करने वाले अपहर्ता मुसलमान के ही हवाले कर दिया है। एक मुस्लिम व्यक्ति ने नाबालिग मारिया शाहबाज को जबरन इस्लाम कुबूल करवाकर उससे शादी की।न्यायाधीशों ने मारिया शाहबाज के माता-पिता द्वारा प्रस्तुत जन्म प्रमाण पत्र को स्वीकार नहीं किया, जो उसकी उम्र को साबित करता था। अधिकार समूह राह-ए-निजात मंत्रालय के अध्यक्ष सफदर चौधरी ने बताया कि न्यायाधीशों ने पहले के न्यायिक निष्कर्षों को भी खारिज कर दिया कि यह विवाह अवैध था।माता पिता फैसले से विचलित अब 13 वर्षीय लड़की के माता-पिता अदालत के फैसले से विचलित हैं। पेशे से ड्राइवर, लड़की के पिता शाहबाज मसीह ने बताया कि उनके पड़ोसी ने पिछले साल 29 जुलाई को मारिया शाहबाज का अपहरण किया जब वह पास की दुकान पर जा रही थी। तब से उनका परिवार उसे खोजने के लिए न्यायिक हस्तक्षेप की बार-बार मांग कर रहा है।

Of late, polarising narratives have dominated headlines from Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). Last week, BJP MLA Vikram Randhawa described residents from the Kashmir Valley as “land grabbers” who had illegally occupied land in Jammu. But with Sajjad Ahmad Kichloo from Kishtwar winning the Rajya Sabha elections, that gap was filled too. Mr. Choudhary became the first Hindu Deputy Chief Minister from the Pir Panjal Valley and also the first without a coalition government in place. If not for numerical necessity, it was the compulsion of inclusive politics that led the government to allocate two Cabinet berths to the Pir Panjal Valley.

Two men have been sentenced to eight years of rigorous imprisonment by a city court for their attack on a 24-year-old man in the Maidan area five years ago, which left him with five deep cuts requiring 80 stitches. The additional sessions judge, 1st Fast Track Court, Vichar Bhavan, announced the verdict on February 11. The incident in front of Fort William had left morning walkers with a sense of insecurity, prompting police to take several security measures in its aftermath. Two men, identified as Mohammad Imran and Sheikh Samir Hossain, were arrested from Beniapukur within days of the incident. According to sources, Sheikh Samir Hossain managed to secure bail from a lower court in 2022, but the police later had this bail cancelled by the higher courts.

Congress rally in Dehradun over VIP angle in receptionist murder case as probe intensifies Party demands arrest of alleged mystery figure as leaders cite rising crimes, police deploy over thousand personnel and divert traffic during massive protestPiyush SrivastavaThe Congress on Monday organised a rally and a protest in Dehradun against the Uttarakhand government’s alleged attempt to shield the “VIP” in the 2022 receptionist murder case and the deteriorating law and order in the state. We are on a dharna to demand the arrest of the VIP for whom the receptionist was killed,” Congress MLA Pritam Singh said. ADVERTISEMENT“We also want to bring to people’s attention how a murder is taking place in Dehradun every week. The situation in the districts is equally deplorable, but the Pushkar Singh Dhami government is in deep slumber,” Singh added. According to our estimate, there were over one lakh protesters in the rally and dharna,” said the officer, who didn’t want to be identified.