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There is no proposal to go back to the ballot system of casting votes in elections, the government told the Lok Sabha on Friday. In a written reply, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said the Election Commission has informed that some representations have been received regarding the...
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External affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi
India on Friday once again called upon Germany to ensure early return of Indian baby girl Ariha Shah who has been living in a foster care in Berlin for over 20 months. Ariha was placed in the custody of Germany's Youth Welfare Office (Jugendamt) on September 23, 2021 after the then...
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Mumbai ex-mayor Kishori Pednekar
A sessions court in Mumbai on Friday directed the police not to take any coercive action against former Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar till August 24 in a case pertaining to alleged corruption in the purchase of body bags by the city civic body during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fearing arrest in...
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The Haryana government on Friday extended till Sunday the suspension of mobile internet and SMS services in Nuh where conditions are still critical and tense. A total of 393 people have been arrested and 118 taken into preventive detention in connection with the communal clashes in Haryana...
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Two key aides of Canada-based listed terrorist Arsh Dala were arrested on Friday, soon after their arrival at the Delhi airport from the Philippines, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said. Manpreet Singh alias Peeta and Mandeep Singh were close operatives of Dala and had non-bailable...
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A resident of Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh has confessed to killing Nagpur-based Bharatiya Janata Party functionary Sana alias Heena Khan, who went missing last week, after his arrest on Friday, a police official said. The accused, Amit Sahu alias Pappu, was arrested along with two others by...
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A court in Haryana's Panchkula on Friday sent suspended judge Sudhir Parmar to six days of ED custody in a money laundering case investigation against him linked to charges of bribery, official sources said. Parmar was produced before the Panchkula district court following his arrest under...
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The police in Madhya Pradesh's Indore have arrested a 'hafiz', a person who entirely memorises and recites the Quran, for allegedly making objectionable remarks against sanitary workers, an official said on Friday. Accused Shadab Khan (30) on Thursday apologised through a video message...
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The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a petition seeking to restrain the alliance of 26 political parties from using the word 'I.N.D.I.A.' (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) as the name of their opposition alliance. A bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul refused to...
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A Sudarshan News editor has been arrested by the police in Gurugram over his alleged inflammatory posts on social media related to the communal violence in Nuh and adjoining districts in Haryana, an official said. Mukesh Kumar, the TV channel's managing editor, was arrested by the Gurugram...
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Twenty-four students of a municipal school in Delhi's Naraina area were taken ill and hospitalised on Friday following an alleged gas leak incident nearby, officials said. The Aam Aadmi Party's MCD in-charge Durgesh Pathak said 15 students were admitted to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and they...
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RPF constable Chetan Singh
A court in Mumbai on Friday remanded Railway Protection Force constable Chetan Singh in 14-day judicial custody for allegedly shooting dead his senior colleague and three passengers on a moving train in Maharashtra recently. Singh was produced before a magistrate court in suburban Borivali...
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BSP chief Mayawati
The Bahujan Samaj Party has released its first list of candidates for the year-end assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, fielding nominees in seven constituencies, including one reserved for Dalits, a party leader said on Friday. With this, the Mayawati-led outfit has become the first party in...
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India on Friday advised its citizens residing in Niger to leave that country in view of widespread violence there. The Indians whose stay in Niger is not required, should leave that country as soon as possible, the ministry of external affairs said in an advisory. -- PTI
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Khichdi 2, the next film in the much-loved comedy franchise, is set to arrive in cinema halls on Diwali this year, the makers announced Friday. HatsOff Productions shared the release date and teaser of the film, which marks the return of the popular Parekh family, on its social media...
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The Election Commission on Friday published its final report on the delimitation of assembly and parliamentary constituencies in Assam, keeping their total numbers unchanged at 126 and 14 respectively. In its final order, the poll panel has revised the nomenclature of one parliamentary and...
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MLA Gopal Meena
An FIR has been registered against Congress MLA Gopal Meena and five police officers after the politician allegedly forced a Dalit man to lick his shoe and an officer urinated on him, police said on Friday. The FIR was lodged on a court's direction after the victim accused the police...
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The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to former Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik for two months on medical condition in a money laundering case. A bench of Justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela M Trivedi said that bail is being granted to Nawab only on medical grounds and...
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In a 140-minute speech in Parliament, PM Modi spoke for less than 10 minutes on Manipur. Opposition leaders, who had urged Modi to address the three-month-long violence in the state during the entire parliamentary session, staged a walkout when, after 1 hour and 40 minutes of the speech, there...
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The body of a minor girl who was studying in Class12 and had gone missing earlier this week, was found inside a well near her home in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district, police said on Friday. According to officials, a teacher at the school where the girl was studying has been...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday launched a strong attack on the Central government over Manipur, saying that the northeastern state has been torn apart into two states and that the Indian Army can stop this nonsense within two days. The Wayanad MP also slammed Prime Minister Narendra...
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi holds a press conference. Yesterday the PM spoke in Parliament for about 2 hours 13 minutes. In the end, he spoke on Manipur for 2 minutes. Manipur has been burning for months, people are being killed, rapes are happening but the PM was laughing, cracking jokes....
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The Manipur unit of the Congress on Friday questioned why Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke for only three minutes on the strife-torn northeastern state out of the over two-hour long speech he delivered during the no-confidence motion in Parliament.Posing three questions before the prime...
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AAP's Raghav Chadha suspended from Rajya Sabha over forgery allegations.Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha yesterday hit out at the BJP for accusing him of forging signatures of five MPs in a motion related to the Delhi services bill and said it was trying to suppress his voice.In...
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Chetan Singh
A court in Mumbai on Friday remanded Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable Chetan Singh in 14-day judicial custody for allegedly shooting dead his senior colleague and three passengers on a moving train in Maharashtra recently. Singh was produced before a magistrate court in suburban...
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said in Lok Sabha that the new bill on the Indian Penal Code (IPC) will completely repeal the offence of sedition. Shah introduced three bills in the Lok Sabha to replace the IPC, Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), and the Indian Evidence Act.Speaking on...
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Lok Sabha adjourned sine die. Today was the last day of the monsoon session which began on July 20.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said in Lok Sabha that the new bill on the Indian Penal Code (IPC) will completely repeal the offence of sedition. Shah introduced three bills in the Lok Sabha to replace the IPC, Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), and the Indian Evidence Act. Speaking...
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Home Minister Amit Shah introduces 3 bills in Lok Sabha to replace Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and Indian Evidence Act. Shah, speaking on the Bharatiya Sanhita Suraksha Bill, 2023 in the Lok Sabha says, From 1860 to 2023, the country's criminal justice system functioned as...
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Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is likely to hold a news conference on Friday afternoon days after launching a scathing attack on the government over the situation in Manipur during the debate on the no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha.Rahul Gandhi, who was earlier reinstated as MP after the...
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A peace rally in July
Meira Paibis, a collective of Meitei women, on Friday staged sit-in demonstrations across five districts of Imphal Valley in protest against the alleged gang-rape of a 37-year-old woman in Churachandpur on May 3, when the ongoing ethnic violence started. The survivor alleged she was...
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has classified EG.5.1 or Eris a variant of interest. The variant has been increasingly reported across the globe, particularly in Asia. On August 9, it was upgraded to a variant of interest. This follows the rise of the variant, EG.5.1, known as...
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As the years passed, Muralidhar J quietly acquired the reputation of being the gold standard for propriety and hard work. Read the column here.
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Reactions from MPs on Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's suspension from the Lok Sabha.BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri says, It is not good to make an indecent comment on the leaders of the higher position in the Parliament and doing it continuously after warnings without apologising is not fine....
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Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned till noon today amid opposition protests over the suspension of Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from the House. As soon as the House met, Congress deputy leader Gaurav Gogoi raised the issue of Chowdhury's suspension from the House on...
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Leader of Opposition in the in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, raises the issue of the suspension of Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. Kharge says, ...He has been suspended on a flimsy ground. He just said 'Nirav Modi'. Nirav means calm, silent. You suspend him over...
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The Congress on Friday alleged that the Modi government wants to ensure control over the Election Commission in a poll year. Sharing a letter written in June 2012 by veteran BJP leader L K Advani to then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said even he had...
10:43
Minister Tom Tugendhat with Dr S Jaishankar
UK's Security Minister Tom Tugendhat announces Pound 95,000 funding to enhance Britain's capability to tackle pro-Khalistan extremism.Tom Tugendhat, is in India for a three-day visit to bolster bilateral cooperation on security initiatives and attend the G20 Anti-Corruption Ministerial...
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Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on the PM's dig at the INDIA alliance during his speech in the Lok Sabha: There are no dot signs in between. The dots are in his mind. How rattled is he with the Opposition coming together and actually holding him accountable, whether it is in the Rajya...
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Growing a beard is deemed to be a safety risk
The Indian Embassy in Washington has taken up the issue of a Sikh New York State Trooper being barred from growing a beard with senior levels of the administration, as lawmakers voiced concern over the incident and termed it religious discrimination. New York State trooper Charanjot...
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Union Minister Anurag Thakur on the Opposition staging a walkout in Parliament while the PM was speaking. When Congress saw its black history in the northeast, it ran away. It ran away when it saw PM Modi's resolve and love for the northeast, for Manipur... This shows that the 'Ghamandia'...
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A Pakistani intruder was shot dead along the international border in Punjab's Tarn Taran district on Friday, a Border Security Force (BSF) official said on Friday.He said troops of the border guarding force noticed suspicious movement by a person near Thekalan village in the morning, said the...
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Allahabad high court
The Allahabad high court has directed Chhata tehsildar in Mathura district to explain as to how the ownership of the Banke Bihari Ji Maharaj temple land was changed in revenue records in 2004 in the name of a graveyard.Justice Saurabh Srivastava passed the order on a petition filed by Shri Bihari...
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After the transfer of more than a dozen of Shri Krishna Janambhumi-Shahi Masjid Idgah dispute suits to the Allahabad high court, a plea to declare that the entire Srikrishna Janmabhumi premises belongs to petitioner deities has been filed in a court in Mathura.'It has been prayed to pass the...
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Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi has called a meeting of party Lok Sabha MPs on Friday morning to discuss the suspension of the leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. According to sources, the meeting is scheduled to be held at the...
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The website of a prominent private school in Noida was purportedly hacked on Thursday by an unknown group identifying itself as Muslim hackers from Bangladesh. When liberty is at risk, expect us, read a line from a message visible on the homepage of the website. The matter came to light...
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Punjab BJP chief Sunil Jakhar on Thursday evening felt uneasiness while addressing party workers and supporters in Abohar in Fazilka district but his condition was fine now, a close aide said. The 68-year-old felt dizzy because of muggy and hot weather, the aide said. Jakhar was taken...
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A man from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh was booked on Thursday for alleged involvement in the kidnapping of Nagpur Bharatiya Janata Party's minority cell functionary Sana alias Heena Khan, a police official said. Khan (34) went missing on August 1 after leaving for Jabalpur in a private bus,...
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