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No decision has been taken regarding the demolition of the National Museum, the Centre told Lok Sabha on Monday. He added that the South Block and North Block -- both Grade-1 heritage buildings -- will be adequately renovated and refurbished to serve as the National Museum. Union minister for...
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The lawyers of jailed Russian Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, have not heard from him for around a week and his name is also missing from the list of the prisoners, CNN reported citing the spokesperson of the Putin critic. Navalny, who was imprisoned in a penal colony east of Moscow was...
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The mortuary at a government hospital here handed over the mortal remains of a baby in a cardboard carton much to the shock of the father, who struggled in vain to save his child during the floods last week. The incident drew spontaneous criticism from several quarters prompting the hospital...
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Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan confronts SFI supporters waving black flags at him, in Thiruvananthapuram./ANI
Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Monday lashed out at Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan by accusing the Marxist veteran of 'conspiring' to hurt him physically. Khan's scathing accusation came after his vehicle was allegedly hit by activists of the Students Federation of India, the student...
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N Chandrababu Naidu meets K Chandrashekara Rao in hospital./ANI
Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu visited Yashoda Hospital to enquire about the health of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekara Rao in Hyderabad. KCR underwent a total left hip replacement surgery after he fell in his farmhouse in Erravalli on December 7. The governor...
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Tibetan spiritual leader the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, reached Gangtok on Monday for a three-day visit to Sikkim after a gap of 13 years.He will impart teachings on the Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas during his stay in the Himalayan state.The Dalai Lama landed at the Libing army...
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The Bombay high court on Monday refused to suspend the life sentence and grant bail to artist Chintan Upadhyay, convicted for abetting and conspiring to kill his estranged wife Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Haresh Bhambani in December 2015. Upadhyay had moved the high court in October challenging...
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Protests rocked the Karnataka legislative assembly proceedings on Monday with opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal-Secular staging a day long agitation from the well, demanding the suspension of minister Zameer Ahmed Khan from the House over his alleged 'Muslim Speaker'...
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A court in Delhi on Monday extended till January 10, 2024 the judicial custody of Aam Aadmi Party leader Manish Sisodia in a money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi excise policy scam. Special judge MK Nagpal also sought responses from Sisodia and other accused on an application filed...
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Parliament on Monday passed two bills related to Jammu and Kashmir as Rajya Sabha cleared them with a voice vote, with Home Minister Amit Shah assuring the country that the beginning of a 'new and developed Kashmir' that will be free from terrorism has been made under Prime Minister Narendra...
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Chhattisgarh's chief minister-designate and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vishnu Deo Sai will take oath along with his cabinet colleagues on December 13 at a ceremony in Raipur in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other dignitaries, it was announced on Monday.Besides Sai (59), who...
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The newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs in Rajasthan will meet in Jaipur on Tuesday to formally pick the next chief minister of the state, ending days of suspense after the party won the assembly elections.The meeting of the BJP Legislature Party has been called at 4 pm on Tuesday at the...
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Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan submitted his resignation to Governor Mangubhai Patel after Mohan Yadav was elected as the leader of the state legislative party at a meeting held in Bhopal on Monday.Chouhan reached Raj Bhavan immediately after the meeting of newly-elected MLAs...
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Expelled JD-S national vice president C K Nanu on Monday was declared as the new national president of the party, replacing former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, by the rebel faction being propped up by leaders like C M Ibrahim. At a national plenary meeting convened by Nanu, a former Kerala...
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After Ujjain South MLA Mohan Yadav was chosen as the new chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, he thanked state as well as central leadership while affirming that his government will try to fulfil all responsibilities.I am a small worker of the party. I thank all of you, the state leadership and the...
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BJP's Mohan Yadav to be the new Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. BJP leaders including Shivraj Singh Chauhan, congratulate Yadav after he was named as the new Chief Minister. It has taken over a week for this decision.
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Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference leader, Omar Abdullah, conceded that he could not provide justice to its people but added that his efforts would continue.I concede that we could not provide justice to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, but our efforts...
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The Vishva Hindu Parishad on Monday hailed the Supreme Court for upholding the Centre's decision to scrap Article 370 of the Constitution and said the only unfinished agenda for J-K is the liberation of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The apex court unanimously upheld the Centre's 2019 decision to...
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The BJP on Monday hailed as historic the Supreme Court upholding the Centre's decision to scrap Article 370 and said with its abrogation in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave new strength to the unity and integrity of India. The apex court unanimously upheld the Centre's decision to...
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People's Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said the Supreme Court's decision to uphold Article 370 abrogation is nothing less than a death sentence, adding that it marked the defeat of the idea of India with which the Muslim-majority state had acceded in 1947. Today an...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi exuded confidence on Monday that India will take a quantum jump during the current period and said the young generation has to be prepared in such a way that it provides leadership to the country and prioritises national interest over everything else. Launching...
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Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, the Centre's key counsel in defending the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, on Monday said the Supreme Court verdict upholding the government's August 5, 2019 decision will go down in the history of the country. As the only lawyer involved in the...
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Senior Congress leader and son of Jammu and Kashmir's erstwhile Maharaja Hari Singh, Karan Singh, welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court upholding the abrogation of Article 370 and urged everyone to accept the inevitable. The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the Union Government's decision...
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CJI Dhananjay Chandrachud wrote the judgement for himself and Justices B R Gavai and Surya Kant. Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sanjiv Khanna penned separate and concurring verdicts on the issue. Pronouncing his verdict, Justice Kaul said the purpose of Article 370 was to slowly bring J&K at...
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Another term for Mr Chouhan?
Three central observers of the BJP, including Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, reached Bhopal on Monday to take part in a meeting of the newly-elected party MLAs and decide on the next chief minister of the state. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retained power in MP following the...
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The government expects onion prices to fall below Rs 40 per kilogram by January from the current average price of Rs 57.02 per kilogram, Consumer Affairs Secretary Rohit Kumar Singh said on Monday.Last week, the government banned onion exports till March next year after the retail sales price of...
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PM Narendra Modi tweets on the Supreme Court judgement upholding the abrogation of Article 350: Today's Supreme Court verdict on the abrogation of Article 370 is historic and constitutionally upholds the decision taken by the Parliament of India on 5th August 2019; it is a resounding declaration...
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National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah on Monday said he is disappointed but not disheartened with the Supreme Court's verdict on pleas challenging the abrogation of the provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution. Disappointed but not disheartened. The struggle will continue,...
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Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday termed the Supreme Court's verdict on pleas challenging the abrogation of the provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution sad and unfortunate, but said we have to accept it. It (the court verdict) is sad and...
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Summed up, this is what the five-judge bench said in its order on Article 370.1. J&K does not retain any element of sovereignty after instrument of accession was signed 2. There is NO internal sovereignty for Jammu and Kashmir 3. Challenge to the proclamation of presidential rule is not...
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Omar Abdullah tweets, Dear Mr LG these chains that have been put on my gate have not been put by me so why are you denying what your police force has done. It's also possible you don't even know what your police is doing? Which one is it? Are you being dishonest or is your police acting...
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CJI: Now on Jammu and Kashmir reorganisation validity: SG submits that statehood will be restored to Jammu and Kashmir.. We do not find it necessary to determine whether the Jammu and Kashmir reorganisation act 2019 was invalid. This court is alive to security concerns.,.We direct that steps...
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CJI: We have held modification by CO 272 to article 370 amended 370 and is thus ultra vires to article 370. from precedent including sajjan singh, kihoto hollohan, it emerges that following aspects are essential to see if there is a change to a provision of the constitution. An assessment...
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CJI: We have held all provisions of the Constitution can be applied to Jammu and Kashmir to 370(1)(D) and non application of mind cannot be claimed. We hold that president seeking concurrence of the union and not the state is not invalid. Thus all provisions of the constitution can be applied to...
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CJI: Article 370(3) was introduced for constitutional integration and not for constitutional disintegration. Holding that 370(3) cannot be used after constituent assembly was dissolved cannot be accepted since it was freeze the provision for constitutional integration. Court cannot sit in appeal...
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CJI: Now challenge to constitutional order 273: To answer this we have to decide if 370 is a temporary provision: WE HOLD THAT ARTICLE 370 IS A TEMPORARY PROVISION. IT WAS INTRODUCED TO SERVE TRANSITIONAL PURPOSE TO SERVE AN INTERIM PROCESS.It was for a temporary purpose because of war...
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CJI: All states in the country have legislative and executive powers.. articles 371 a to j are examples of special arrangements of different states and is an example of asymmetric federalism and thus Jammu and Kashmir does not have internal sovereignty and thus like all states and union...
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On whether Jammu and Kashmir retained an element of internal sovereignty after it acceded to India? CJI says, We hold Jammu and Kashmir does not hold any internal sovereignty after accession to Union of India.By issuance of proclamation, the para 8 of instrument of accession ceases to exist....
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Art370 in SC: CJI in court: This court need not adjudicate on validity of proclamations because main challenge was to abrogation and if it can be done during president rule and even if its held proclamation could not be done, no material to say president rule cannot be invoked. These challenges...
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The judges led by CJI DY Chandrachud arrive at courtroom 1, the CJI's chamber, to decide the validity of the Presidential Orders of 2019 repealing the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. The verdict will be given by a 5-judge bench. CJI : There are 3 judgments, one by the CJI for himself,...
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Jammu and Kashmir Awami National Conference vice president Muzaffar Shah, one among the many petitioners in the Supreme Court challenging the abrogation of Article 370, on Monday said that as per the arguments in the apex court, we have already won the case. A five-judge Constitution bench...
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As the Supreme Court is scheduled to pronounce its verdict on Article 370 on Monday, authorities strengthened security arrangements in sensitive parts of Jammu and Kashmir, especially in summer capital Srinagar and adjoining areas, officials said. Leaders of the People's Democratic Party (PDP)...
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The Supreme Court bench comprising CJI DY Chandrachud, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Sanjiv Khanna, BR Gavai and Surya Kant will assemble shortly to pronounce the judgment in the Article 370 case. Was the decision taken by the Centre on August 5, 2019 to abrogate the provisions of Article 370...
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People's Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti was put under house arrest on Monday ahead of the Supreme Court's verdict on a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution that conferred a special status on Jammu and Kashmir, her party said. Even...
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We are hopeful that the Supreme Court will decide and do justice with the people of J&K. We are hopeful that the SC will decide in our favour, says Advocate Muzaffar Iqbal, advocate of one of the petitioners. The Supreme Court will pronounce judgement on a batch of petitions challenging the...
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Kapil Sibal tweets ahead of the SC verdict on Article 370: Courts Some battles are fought to be lostFor history must record the uncomfortable facts for generations to know The right and wrong of institutional actions will be debated for years to come History alone is the final arbiter of the...
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Benchmark Sensex surged past the 70,000-level for the first time in early trade on Monday and the broader Nifty crossed the 21,000-mark as equity market continued with its bullish momentum. The key indices had touched their new lifetime highs on Friday after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)...
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Tennis legend Chris Evert tweets this image with her bestie Martina Navratilova: We're in this together! Thanks for the delicious food @Martina.For a backgrounder read the Post on their deep friendship amid harrowing circumstances: After 50 years, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova understand...
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As the country waits for the Supreme Court's historic decision on Article 370, Sunil Dimple, leader of the Jammu and Kashmir People's Conference has said that the decision which will come today will be written in golden letters while Amit Raina, of the NGO Roots in Kashmir has expressed his...
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A day after seven wagons of a goods train derailed between Kasara and TGR-3 station near Mumbai on the Central Railway network, the derailed wagons were removed from the accident site, officials said on Monday.Restoration work on the route was underway, Central Railway's chief public relations...
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The workers of Kerala Students' Union (KSU), the student wing of the Congress party, on Sunday allegedly threw shoes at the convoy of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, while it was was on its way to Kothamangalam from Perumbavoor. Soon after the incident, television channels showed the...
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India on Sunday night described as fake and completely fabricated a media report which claimed that a secret memo was issued by New Delhi in April to take concrete measures against certain Sikh separatists including Hardeep Singh Nijjar. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi...
