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June 17, 2022

AGNIPATH: TRIAL BY FIRE

Protests erupt across north India, buses and trains burnt, and highways blocked; opposition comes down heavily on the defence recruitment scheme; political leaders call it 'fatal' for country's future

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Cdr. Vasudev Puranik takes charge as MDL Director

Cdr. Vasudev Puranik, IN (Retd), has assumed the charge of Director (Corporate Planning & Personnel) in Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) on June 9, 2022.

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Edible oil cos cut retail prices Rs 10-20 per litre

Slash prices on eased supply: SEA

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French, German, Italian Leaders Visit Ukraine

The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania arrived in Kyiv on Thursday in a show of collective European support for the Ukrainian people as they resist Russia's invasion, marking the highest-profile visit to Ukraine's capital since Russia invaded its neighbour.

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Covid Deaths Rise, Reversing 5-week Decline, Says WHO

After five weeks of declining coronavirus deaths, the number of fatalities reported globally increased by 4% last week, according to the World Health Organisation.

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Biden Nominates Indian-American Iyengar To Top Pentagon Position

US President Joe Biden has nominated security expert Radha Iyengar Plumb to the post of Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, the latest Indian-American to be named for a key position.

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Javelin star Neeraj to lead 37-member athletics team

The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Thursday named a 37member Indian athletics team, to be led by Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, with the selection committee picking the athletes on expected lines with no major surprises.

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New national record eludes Chanu despite gold medal

Olympic medalist Mirabai Chanu won the gold medal comfortably but could not better her national record in snatch at the inaugural Khelo India Women Weightlifting League tournament here on Thursday.

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The Free Press Journal is one of the oldest English Daily newspapers from Mumbai with a heritage of more than 90 years. And yet, The Free Press Journal is a contemporary paper and rooted in current urban realities.

In keeping with the international trend, it has reinvented itself in terms of design, get up and content. It means different thing to different people – a platform for the articulate, a trendsetter for the young and a chronicle for the old.

It was at the forefront of freedom struggle against the British and continues with the free and fearless journalism till date. Indeed, the history of The Free Press Journalism mirrors that of Indian independence.

Swaminath Sadanand, a 30-year-old idealist from Madras trudged his way to Bombay and with a vision that was to prove uncomfortably ahead of his day, brought out a newspaper as unorthodox in character as it was innovative in concept. For Swaminath Sadanand, the Free Press Journal was not so much a business venture as a cause.

The spirit with which he launched the paper and ran it for almost three decades helped it make it an integral part of two great Indian movements — the struggle for independence and the evolution of Indian publishing.