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The Allahabad High court on Thursday stayed the execution of the sentence awarded by the MP-MLA court of Sultanpur to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh in a 2001 street-protest case.The special court had, on January 11 last year, sentenced Singh to three months of...
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A case was registered against a 21-year-old woman with more than five lakh Instagram followers on Thursday for allegedly spreading rumors about the two kindergarten girls who were sexually abused at a school in Badlapur, officials said in Thane.Some misleading messages regarding the health of the...
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A Delhi court directed the city police on Thursday to immediately reinstate the security of a female wrestler who has accused former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh of sexual harassment.Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Priyanka Rajpoot passed the interim...
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In a setback to the Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar, its national general secretary Shyam Rajak resigned on Thursday, claiming that he felt 'cheated' in the party he had joined four years ago.Rajak, a former state minister and one of the most prominent Dalit leaders in the RJD, wrote a terse letter...
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Written words, either through email or on social media, that could lower the dignity of a woman constitutes an offence, the Bombay high court said while refusing to quash a case against a man.A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Neela Gokhale dismissed the petition filed by a man seeking...
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The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday rolled out its 'Kejriwal Aayenge' campaign in the run up to the assembly polls in Delhi next year as it seeks to form the government in the national capital for a third consecutive term. Hoardings bearing the 'Kejriwal Aayenge' slogan have also been put up across...
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The rupee traded in a narrow range and settled lower by 4 paise at 83.94 (provisional) against the American currency on Thursday, as relentless dollar demand from importers and relentless foreign fund outflows dampened investor sentiments.However, a positive trend in domestic equities and lower...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday sought a polygraph test on former RG Kar Medical College principal Sandip Ghosh and four other doctors in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee at the hospital, officials said.The CBI took Ghosh and four other...
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A court in Pune on Thursday rejected the bail applications of six persons including the teen driver's parents in connection with alleged blood-swapping in the Kalyani Nagar Porsche car crash case.Additional Sessions Judge U M Mudholkar refused bail to the 17-year-old's parents Vishal and...
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A family court in Indore has rejected the claim of a 28-year-old woman for alimony from her estranged husband on the ground that she did not furnish clear details of her bank account and income to the court.In her plea, the woman sought Rs 50,000 per month as maintenance from her husband, a...
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The Calcutta high court on Thursday asked the West Bengal government why a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed a year after allegations of financial irregularities at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital first emerged.Former deputy superintendent of the state-run medical college hospital...
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Hours after meeting the parents of the woman doctor who was allegedly raped and murdered, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose sent a confidential letter to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee but it was not received by the Chief Minister's Office, an official in the Raj Bhavan claimed on...
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A bomb threat message in the washroom of an AI flight from Mumbai that resulted in a full emergency being declared at the Thiruvananthapuram airport on Thursday turned out to be a hoax, according to the policeA senior officer of the Thiruvananthapuram city police said the threat was a hoax.The...
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Equity benchmark index Sensex ticked higher on Thursday to settle at 81,000 level while Nifty closed above 24,800 following buying in commodity, telecom and consumer stocks amid a firm trend in global markets. Rising for the third straight day, the 30-share BSE Sensex rose 147.89 points or 0.18...
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After Supreme Court's appeal, health professionals at All India Institutes of Medical Sciences, Delhi called off their 11-day-long strike and are back on their duties as of Thursday.In a statement, the Resident Doctors Association made the announcement and said, In the interest of the nation and...
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NC chief Farooq Abdullah's daughter Safia Abdullah Khan tweets this throwback image writing, On a day when Rahul Gandhi is visiting Kashmir I can't help but remember a visit many moons ago.So from left to right are Farooq Abdullah, the Gandhis: Priyanka, Rahul, Sonia, Rajiv, and the Abdullahs....
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An absconding gangrape accused died in neighbouring Odisha after coming in contact with a live wire laid by farmers to protect their crops from wild animals, Chhattisgarh police said on Thursday. Sanjay Yadav (18) was wanted in a case registered in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district. Local police...
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The Congress-NC meet at the Abdullah's residence
An alliance with the Congress is final on all 90 assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah said on Thursday. The announcement came after Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge called on the National...
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The IMA on Thursday decided it will file an interlocutory application to intervene in the Supreme Court's suo motu case on the alleged rape and murder of a junior doctor in a state-run hospital in Kolkata. The Indian Medical Association (IMA) headquarters is also preparing the documents to...
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Omar Abdullah, Rahul Gandhi, Farooq Abdullah and Mallikarjun Kharge
Alliance is on track and will run smoothly, says National Conference president Farooq Abdullah after meeting Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge. Alliance with Congress final on all 90 Assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir. It's a common programme for NC-Congress in Jammu and...
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Singaporean low-cost carrier Scoot is reviewing new opportunities and is keen on expanding network in India, which is one of its top markets, according to a senior executive. Scoot, the low-cost arm of Singapore Airlines, currently has direct flights connecting Singapore with six Indian cities...
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A team of UN experts is set to arrive in Dhaka on Thursday to set a framework for the fact-finding mission that will investigate the killings of at least 650 protesters ahead of and in the aftermath of Sheikh Hasina's resignation as the prime minister earlier this month. This is the primary UN...
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Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said those who feel there is politics behind Tuesday's Badlapur protest over the alleged sexual assault on two kindergarten girls are either abnormal or protectors of the culprits. He said there is no political motive behind the bandh called by...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday termed extremely disturbing the Kolkata Police's delay in registering the unnatural death of the woman doctor who was raped and murdered at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. It also asked protesting doctors to resume work and assured them that no adverse...
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The body of the trainee pilot who was on board the two-seater aircraft that went missing after taking off from Jharkhand's Jamshedpur was found in the Chandil dam on Thursday, officials said. The trainer aircraft, a Cessna 152 owned by a private flying school, went missing after taking off from...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would soon constitute a multi-member committee to amicably resolve the grievances of farmers for all times. A bench of Justice Surya Kant, Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, which posted the matter for further hearing on September 2, asked the...
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The parents of the accused in the Badlapur sexual assault case on Thursday claimed that their son was innocent and he had been framed. Speaking to a Marathi news channel, the parents said there is no truth in the allegations against their son. The accused, who worked as an attendant, has been...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday asked doctors protesting over the rape and murder case of a postgraduate medic at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College to resume work, and assured them that no adverse action will be taken once they rejoin. A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud was told by the...
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The Supreme Court on Thursday commenced hearing a suo motu case related to the rape and murder of a postgraduate medic at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra is hearing the matter. The top...
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Healthcare services remained affected at state-run hospitals in West Bengal on Thursday, as junior doctors continued their ceasework for the 14th consecutive day to protest against the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee at the Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH).The agitating...
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As day three of the Democratic National Convention kicked off on Wednesday (local time) in Chicago, Hindu prayers were held on the stage, in a beautiful display at the convention. The Democratic National Convention (DNC) kicked off in Chicago on Monday, one month after Republicans held their...
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The majority of the Fed members, in the latest monetary policy meeting, indicated a policy rate cut in the September meeting, stated the Fed minutes released on Wednesday. In the latest meeting held on July 30-31, 2024, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decided to maintain the target...
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Americans in 2024 have a clear choice between for the people versus me, myself, and I, former president Bill Clinton has said, as he rooted for Kamala Harris in the race for the White House and said she will be the president of joy. Clinton on Wednesday took the crowd at the National Democratic...
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The Thane police have registered a case against four persons for molesting a woman and assaulting her two friends after a minor road accident, an official said on Thursday. The incident took place around 12.30 am on Wednesday when the complainant was travelling in a car with her two male...
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The indefinite protest by resident doctors here against the alleged rape and murder of a trainee medic in a Kolkata hospital entered the 11th day on Thursday despite the Supreme Court requesting protesters to resume work. Patient services in hospitals across Delhi have been severely affected...
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Priyanka Chaturvedi, the Rajya Sabha MP from the Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray party, wrote to President Droupadi Murmu on August 19 to expedite her assent to the Shakti Bill [Shakti Criminal Laws (Maharashtra Amendment) Bill, 2020 and the Special Court & Machinery for Implementation of...
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Celebrity Celina Jaitley shares this image alongside and writes this post on X in the backdrop of the Kolkata doctor's brutal rape and murder. She writes: THE VICTIM IS ALWAYS AT FAULT: In this pic I was in 6th grade only when boys from a nearby university started to wait outside my school. They...
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72 people were arrested in connection with the violence in Badlapur
The Bombay High Court has taken suo motu (on its own) cognisance of the alleged sexual assault of two four-year-old girls at a school in Badlapur town of Maharashtra's Thane district. A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Prithviraj Chavan will take up the matter for hearing on...
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Strict instructions have been issued for the safety of girl students
Cabinet Minister and Guardian Minister of Mumbai Suburban District, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, has issued important instructions to the District Collector of Mumbai Suburban regarding the safety of women and children. In a letter, he emphasised the need for all necessary measures to be taken for the...
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A full emergency was declared at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on Thursday following a bomb threat on an Air India flight from Mumbai, airport sources said. The flight landed at the airport around 8 am and was moved to an isolation bay, they said.Passengers are being evacuated...
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An FIR was registered in Pune against Hindu religious leader Ramgiri Maharaj over his alleged objectionable remarks against Prophet Mohammad and Islam, the police said on Wednesday. The case was registered at Khadak police station under the relevant section of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita on a...
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The Akhal Takht, the highest temporal seat of the Sikhs, and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee have demanded an immediate ban on the film Emergency, claiming it tries to character assassinate Sikhs. SGPC chief Harjinder Singh Dhami, addressing a press conference, also sought the...
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The West Bengal government on Wednesday removed three senior officials of the RG Kar Hospital, bowing to the demand of junior doctors who have been protesting against the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee in the state-run health facility. As per their demand, RG Kar hospital's...
