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Moments after the Supreme Court announced permanent commission and command posting for women in the Army on Monday, Lt Col Seema Singh’s phone rang. Her husband, who retired as a colonel from ordnance corps and is in Mumbai, was on the other line. “We have done it,” he said. And Singh broke into a smile.

Twenty-eight years after they first entered the Army, women officers broke an armour-plated ceiling on Monday when the Supreme Court ordered grant of permanent commission (PC) in 10 non-battlefield services in three months and held them to be eligible to hold command posts.

The longest one, which lasts for about five minutes, shows the hounding of students and vandalising of university property — furniture and CCTV — inside the reading room by cops who have handkerchiefs tied over their faces. Another shows a group of youths throwing stones at the police while the last one reveals students streaming into the main hall of the library.

The committee — set up to suggest ways to implement Clause 6 of the Assam Accord that envisages constitutional, legislative and administrative safeguards to protect, preserve and promote cultural, social, linguistic identity and heritage of the Assamese people — has in its report, likely to be submitted to home minister Amit Shah soon, also suggested reservation of 67% of seats in state assembly for indigenous people.

Moreover, the almost 13-lakh strong force, which includes almost 43,000 officers, has neither trained women officers for command nor given them the responsibility till now. Women officers, unlike their male counterparts, were not mandated to undergo the ‘junior command course’ and other ‘adjunct courses’ as young captains or majors till now.

This means the four men will be executed on the said date, unless Pawan Gupta decides to file mercy or curative petitions at the last minute as he is the only one who hasn’t exhausted all legal remedies provided under the Constitution.

Here are the big sports events lined up for Tuesday (February 18) that comprise action from Premier League and Asian Wrestling Championship.

A compulsive phone photographer, Parineeti knew that the Samsung Galaxy M31 is her perfect vacation companion- after all, it comes with a 64-megapixel quad camera.

A day before 328 Americans were to return from a contaminated cruise ship in Japan, the US Embassy said no one infected with the coronavirus would be allowed to board US charter flights. However, the evacuees on their way to US military bases shared the cargo planes with 14 infected who were confirmed positive just as they were boarding buses to the airport.

In the latest episode of Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke, Mishti tells Abir that she only wanted to help Kuhu. Kuhu’s dad, Shaurya asks Kuhu about the divorce papers.

A new policy of staggered procurement of major military platforms including for 114 fighter jets for the Indian Air Force will be adopted to address the problem of obsolescence and encourage the domestic defence industry, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat said on Monday. He said going for mega deals at one go may make the platforms redundant after a while.

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Out of Bigg Boss 13 after four long months, Bigg Boss 13 winner Sidharth Shukla has resumed his regular life. The actor headed to gym and posed with model and actress Neha Malik.

Kings XI Punjab is set to acquire the St Lucia franchise of the Caribbean Premier League, becoming the second IPL team to own a CPL outfit after Kolkata Knight Riders.

In the latest episode of Kahaan Hum Kahaan Tum, Rohit recalls that Sonakshi once asked him to give red heart balloons to her on each Valentine’s day.

The Congress on Monday asked its leaders to refrain from exchanges of opinion in public and to avoid commenting on the matters of other states. The party also advised its leaders to introspect about their roles in the party.

In the latest episode of Yeh Jaadu Hai Jinn Ka, Aman gets angry and frustrated. He gets in his jinn form and destroys his own car.

The BJP welcomed the Supreme Court's order on Monday to grant permanent commission to all women officers in the Army, and attacked the Congress by saying that the denial of the posts was its legacy. "Mr Rahul Gandhi please click the refresh memory button. It was Congress govt that argued vociferously against permanent commissioning of women in the Army back in 2010 before the Delhi HC," said BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi.

Television actor Karan Patel and Kamya Panjabi's romance was once a hot topic and grabbed headlines. The two suddenly parted ways and never looked back.

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