Rumita Patel
NEW DELHI: Chandel in Manipur topped the list of aspirational districts with the most improved performance in June, followed by Sahibganj in Jharkhand and Firozpur in Punjab. Chandel, which is situated in the easternmost part of the country and shares more than 100 kilometers of open and porous international border with Myanmar, saw a strong…
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NAINITAL: The Supreme Court removed “offensive comments” by a Uttarakhand high court judge against a four-court lawyer, saying the comments were “unnecessary”, showed that they “lacked restraint and sobriety” and appeared to be based in “personal perception” of the judge. “While it is of fundamental importance in the field of the administration of justice to…
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CHENNAI: In a rare display of political bonhomia, AIADMK allies, including the BJP, participated in an event, chaired by President Ram Nath Kovind, to unveil a portrait of former Prime Minister M Karunanidhi in the Tamil Nadu assembly hall on Monday. It coincided with the centennial celebrations of the state legislature. Although AIADMK boycotted the…
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CHENNAI: In a rare display of political bonhomia, AIADMK allies, including the BJP, participated in an event, chaired by President Ram Nath Kovind, to unveil a portrait of former Prime Minister M Karunanidhi in the Tamil Nadu assembly hall on Monday. It coincided with the centennial celebrations of the state legislature. Although AIADMK boycotted the…
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NEW DELHI: 348 people died and 1,189 were tortured in police custody between 2018-19 and 2020-21, the Interior Ministry told Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Interior Minister Nityanand Rai said that, according to information received from the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), 100 deaths were reported in police custody and 236 cases of torture during detention…
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NEW DELHI: Renewing his attack on the opposition over the protests and Parliament’s disruption over the Pegasus controversy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday that acts such as tearing up papers and making “derogatory” comments on how they have been passed the bills are an insult to the Legislature and Constitution. Addressing the weekly meeting…
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NEW DELHI: Alleging that the Center is “deliberately avoiding public debate” and providing “confusing answers” about the Pegasus spy scandal, the Publishers Guild of India has turned to the Supreme Court for a designated SIT investigation and overseen by the court over the controversy, claiming that spying on citizens and journalists is a mortal blow…
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MUMBAI: In extensive arguments seeking 30 more days to present the charge sheet against the arrested defendant, including the fired police officer Sachin Waze, the NIA told the special court on Tuesday that one of the defendants had paid 45 lakh rupees for eliminate businessman Mansukh Hiran. On February 25, an explosives-laden Scorpio was found…
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SRINAGAR: Up to 90 terrorists, more than half of them belonging to the outlaw Lashkar-e-Taiba team, have been killed in different counterterrorism operations at J&K this year so far, IGP (Kashmir range) Vijay Kumar said on Tuesday. At least 73 young men took up arms during this period, he added. Among those killed, 51 were…
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NEW DELHI: Protesting the government’s alleged use of Pegasus spyware to spy on political rivals, opposition parties displayed specially designed posters in seven different languages in both houses of Parliament on Tuesday, demanding a discussion on the issue. . Conceptualized by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and carried out by different parties, the posters asked Prime…
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