At the outset of the hearing, attorney general K Venkataramani told a bench of Chief Justice UU Lalit, Justices S Ravindra Bhat and Bela M Trivedi that the provision pertaining to sedition may change and pleaded that hearing be deferred as the issue was “engaging the attention of the relevant authority”.
Government hospitals in the town treated 56 people, of whom 15 are still to be discharged. Till late afternoon, people were spotted dashing in and out of hospitals with pictures of loved ones in the hope of either finding them alive.
Morbi MLA and minister of state Brijesh Merja confirmed 60-odd deaths as the prospect of finding survivors appeared to dim around 10.30pm, almost four hours after the bridge came down in a cacophony of snapping iron cables and horrified screams. Officials said the tragedy occurred between 6.30 and 7pm.
“We are committed to taking benefits of development equally to all sections and citizens,” PM Modi said, referring to a record increase in the number of tourists visiting J&K, which he attributed to infrastructure development and increased connectivity in recent times.
Sam Santhosh, the brain behind the project, is a US-based Malayali entrepreneur from Thrissur. Since 2016, his team has collected and planted 678 of the 742 plant species (of which three are repetitions) mentioned in the book. The search for the remaining 61 plants might take another two years, he said.
As the minister has said in the past, the ‘three mutuals’ include mutual respect, mutual sensitivity and mutual interest. While disengagement has been achieved at several friction points, India maintains that the process has to be completed in the remaining areas for restoring normalcy in ties.
Warships, submarines, fighters, aircraft and helicopters will be deployed by India, the US, Japan and Australia off Yokosuka in Japan from November 8 to 18 for the top-notch Malabar exercise, with the four 'Quad' countries having firmly declared their intent to deter any "coercion" in the Indo-Pacific with an eye on China's aggressive expansionist policies.
As per intelligence agencies, the slain terrorist was identified as Mohammed Shakur (32) from Pakistan’s Syedpura. For the past three decades, Pakistani youth have been used as cannon fodder with the fruitless aim to constantly disrupt progress towards collective peace, a Srinagar-based defence spokesperson said.
The prime minister is, by convention, an MP who leads the largest party in the House of Commons and has to be chosen by the King. Sunak was asked to form a government by the King on Tuesday and his party has a majority in the House of Commons.
