Rumita Patel
SILCHAR: A special team of Kashmir CRPF commandos will be deployed along the Assam-Mizoram interstate border in Cachar, district police sources said. The decision to deploy the task force comes in the wake of the killing of six Assam policemen in Lailapur, near the border, on Monday. An official from the Cachar district administration said…
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear from PILs seeking a court-supervised investigation into the Union government’s alleged illegal use of military-grade spyware Pegasus to snoop on the cell phones of politicians, journalists , lawyers and activists on the ground. that the events violated the right to privacy. After PIL serial trial…
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GUWAHATI / AIZAWL: Mizoram Prime Minister Zoramthanga has assured that there will be “no restrictions” and “no harm” to non-Mizo entering the state. However, the CM guarantee on Friday, a day after the Assam government issued a travel warning to its residents against traveling to Mizoram, along with its reiteration from its Twitter account that…
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NEW DELHI: Only 31% of poor residents of the national capital received 10-kilogram rations during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, while 54% still do not have ration cards, a survey by the CPM showed in New Delhi. Releasing the poll on Friday, CPM leader and political bureau member Brinda Karat said the poll…
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GUWAHATI: Amid ongoing border tension with Assam, the Mizoram Boundary Committee ruled on Friday that it intends to protect “our land as it was occupied by our ancestors to its fullest capacity” and called on the people of Mizoram your solidarity and support. The committee said it was committed to continuing its position that the…
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NEW DELHI: On Friday, Congress held the government responsible for disrupting proceedings in Parliament, saying this was happening as it is avoiding a discussion on the Pegasus spying issue. The leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said that it is not the opposition but the government that is avoiding Parliament in this…
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NEW DELHI: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Friday urged Lok Sabha chairman to “initiate urgent action and remove” Congress leader Shashi Tharoor from the permanent parliamentary committee on the presidency of information technology , saying that otherwise it will continue to raise “irrelevant questions.” Dubey is a member of the panel. The lawsuit for Tharoor’s…
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NEW DELHI: India and China will hold their next round of high-level military talks on the continuing clash of troops in eastern Ladakh on Saturday, amid signs that the two sides will move towards ending the stalled disengagement in Gogra and Hot springs. But it is unlikely that there will be any progress on the…
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GUWAHATI: On Friday, Mizoram Prime Minister Zoramthanga reiterated once again from his Twitter account that ‘Northeast India will always be one’ and shared an official order ensuring there will be no ‘restrictions’ and’ no harm ‘to non-Mizos traveling through the border district. Zoramthanga’s announcement on Twitter came a day after the Assam government issued an…
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NEW DELHI: More than 9,000 applications for accreditation were received from the Press Information Office between 2018-20, of which 7,831 were granted, the Center told Parliament on Friday. In written response in Lok Sabha, the Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Anurag Thakur, also reported that so far this year, 2,514 media people residing in…
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