Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:31:11
Samajwadi Party MP Shafiqur Rehman Barq has been booked for sedition following his recent remarks allegedly defending the Taliban''s takeover of Afghanistan and equating it with India''s own freedom struggle, police said on Wednesday.
He was charged under Indian Penal Code section 124A (sedition) following a complaint from BJP leader Rajesh Singhal on Tuesday, Superintendent of Police Chakresh
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Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:29:07
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said the institutions that were meant for protecting rights of the people and upholding the Constitution of the country have been "Talibanised".
She was answering reporters' queries after her mother, Gulshan Nazir, was questioned for nearly three hours by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case.
"Unfortunately, the inst
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Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:24:35
India added 35,178 new coronavirus infections, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,22,85,857, while the national recovery rate improved to 97.52 per cent, the highest since March 2020, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.
The death toll climbed to 4,32,519 with 440 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.
The active cases declined to 3,
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Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:14:25
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought responses from the Centre and the West Bengal government on a plea challenging the setting up of a Commission of Inquiry by the state to probe into the Pegasus snooping allegations
A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana issued notices to the Centre and the West Bengal government on the plea and posted it for hearing on August 25
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Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:12:39
A court here has sentenced a woman and her boyfriend to life imprisonment for murdering her husband in 2016.
The third additional district and sessions court Judge Basappa Balappa Jakati held the woman, Ashwini and her paramour Ananda Mera guilty of the crime and awarded the punishment in the verdict pronounced on Tuesday.
The two were also directed to pay a fine of Rs 5,000 each. Besides th
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Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:03:30
A total of 7,320 children, below 15 years, including 1,824 children below five years, were infected with Covid-19 during second wave in Dakshina Kannada district from March 1 till August 14.
According to the statistics of department of health and family welfare, 5,155 children in the age group of 16 to 20 years were infected during the same period.
While in the first wave from March 21, 2020
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Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:01:01
Karwar, DHNS
Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer M Priyanga directed all the taluk health officers to deploy drivers for the ambulances given to all the taluks under the MLA Local Area Development Funds at least on a temporary basis.
She noted this while speaking during a meeting on Covid-19 and Pneumococcal Conjugate district-level vaccination drive held in the Zilla Panchayat office in
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Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:57:59
The Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) has cautioned the general public against falling prey to unscrupulous elements who are offering employment in the company by charging money. In a statement here, MRPL said some unscrupulous elements are found to be cheating members of general public by taking money for employment and contract employment in the refinery premises. I
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Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:54:19
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar discussed the situation in Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in Kabul in his bilateral meetings here, including with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
Jaishankar arrived in New York Monday as the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on the situation in Afghanistan, the second time in just over the 10 days that the powerful UN body me
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