Thursday, March 30, 2023

Will soon appear before world, says Amritpal Singh in new video

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A day after daring the Punjab police to arrest him, radical preacher Amritpal Singh surfaced in a fresh video on Thursday, asserting he was not a fugitive and would soon appear before the world. The purported video surfaced hours after his audio clip came out on social media in which he debunked speculation he was negotiating his surrender. “Those who feel that I have turned fugitive and I have left my associates, they should not keep this illusion in their mind. I do not fear death,” he said in the video in Punjabi.

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Sunday, March 26, 2023

Savarkar our idol, won't tolerate his insult: Uddhav tells Rahul; urges him to fight unitedly for democracy

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He said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance of three parties - Sena (UBT), Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) - was formed to protect democracy and it was necessary to work unitedly for it. Addressing a rally in the Muslim-dominated textile town of Malegaon in Nashik district of north Maharashtra, Thackeray also said that deliberate attempts were on to provoke Rahul Gandhi.

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Saturday, March 25, 2023

Disqualify only if crime is heinous, says PIL in Supreme Court

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Even before Rahul Gandhi could challenge his conviction and two-year sentence in a criminal defamation case as well as the resultant disqualification as member of Parliament, a social activist from Kerala moved Supreme Court, seeking to restrict disqualification of MPs and MLAs to conviction in serious and heinous offences.

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Language politics denied quality higher education to poor: PM Modi in Karnataka

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PM Narendra Modi hit out at political opponents on Saturday for "playing games over languages" that had consequently deprived rural and poor children of quality higher education over the past years, while asserting that kids can now learn in their mother tongue because of his government's policy push for native languages in schools and colleges.

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Steep fines not enough to cut road deaths, government data shows

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While the fines collected through e-challans by the traffic and transport rule enforcement agencies across states have increased 450% in the past three-and-a-half years since the penalties were hiked, there has been barely 3% decline in road deaths during this period. Experts said better and scientific enforcement of rules is key to reducing road crashes and fatalities rather than focusing on slapping challans and fines.

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Friday, March 24, 2023

14 Opposition parties move Supreme Court against ‘misuse’ of probe agencies

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Congress and 13 other parties jointly filed a petition in the Supreme Court on Friday accusing the NDA government of misusing CBI and ED to raid, harass and arrest political opponents to stifle dissent, and requested the court to lay down pre- and post-arrest guidelines for the probe agencies.

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Rahul Gandhi disqualified as MP, can’t contest polls for 8 years if conviction not stayed

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Rahul Gandhi was on Friday disqualified as an MP from the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat in compliance with the Surat trial court order, which had on Thursday convicted him in a criminal defamation case and sentenced him to two years, in a development which escalated BJP's confronation with Congress and widened its arc with many others in the opposition rallying for the Congress leader.

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Govt finding new techniques to 'gag' Rahul Gandhi, will launch 'Jan Andolan': Congress

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The Congress on Friday accused the government of acting with "lightning speed" in disqualifying Rahul Gandhi, saying it amounts to "strangulation of democracy" and alleging that the ruling dispensation is coming out with new techniques to "gag" him.The party leadership got into a huddle soon after the disqualification was announced by the Lok Sabha Secretariat and decided to fight it legally and politically and launch a countrywide "Jan Andolan" starting Monday.

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Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Don’t withhold, overlook picks for judges: Supreme Court collegium to government

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Amid the face-off between the judiciary and the Centre on the collegium system of appointment of judges and on names recommended for judgeship, the Supreme Court collegium has told the Centre that names sent by it earlier “ought not to be withheld or overlooked” while recommendations later are acted upon, indicating that the government should not pick and choose names from the list.

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India needs capabilities to tackle 'grey zone' warfare from China, Pakistan: Army chief

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India needs capabilities to not just negate or mitigate the 'grey zone' warfare being pursued by China and Pakistan but also to keep them on the backfoot, General Manoj Pande said on Wednesday, while also underlining the criticality of “strategic deterrence instruments” to ward off full-blown wars.

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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Supreme Court slams trial courts for seeking needless custody

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed shock over some trial courts not complying with its July 2022 order to be liberal and grant bail to accused in cases when custody is not needed. Asking the courts not to pass detention orders in a routine and mechanical way and thus deny liberty to the accused, the SC said such judges needed to be sent to academies for “upgrading their knowledge”.

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